October 11, 2022 - Namwon

 Wow! What a fast week! We started off the week with interviews with the Mission president, which, as usual, was a great injection of inspiration. Some of our more promising friends are proving more difficult to teach than we had originally realized, and many of our potential friends cancelled on us, but I am increasingly confident saying that the best method of finding new people to teach is not tracting as may be believed, but rather plain flat miracles from God. When you seek, ye shall, and boy have we been finding.

I got to go on an exchange with Elder Monson this week in Jeonju. While I was there we put one of their pure hearted friends on baptismal date! I'm glad I got to be a part of it and I hope I can see more of them in the future. Elder Monson is a fantastic missionary and we had a great time.

Yesterday we went to a small city called Imshil and participated in their Cheese festival! Our stake president invited the whole zone to participate in a service project there, but when we arrived not only was he not there, but his idea of service mostly just involved participation in the festivities, which was very odd, but very fun. I had known about this place before as we see the big cheese wheel shaped building everytime we drive between Jeonju and Namwon, but I had never visited the notorious cheese theme park. See the pictures below! The service was fun albeit a strange experience.

Conference was fantastic! Here in Korea we enjoy General Conference one week later due to the time difference and translation requirements. I still haven't seen one and a half of the sessions yet, but we had a blast watching it with members and friends. I particularly enjoyed Elder Rasband's invitation to flood the world with copies of the book of mormon! I am in a unique position to to that as a missionary, but nothing is more effective than the mass of saints across the world. I would like to reiterate Elder Rasband's words and invite you to look for someone you can give a copy of the Book of Mormon and a heartfelt invitation of your own. And I hope you all have a fantastic week!

Elder Wardle

Pictures: The live octopuses that Elder Idiart and I got to eat, and a bunch of pictures from the Cheese theme park










Location: Namwon-si, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea

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