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Korea week 11

First email from Korea.

Well. I am in Korea. Now what? I'll tell you what. Serving the Lord my God with all my heart might mind and strength that i may stand blameless before Him at the last day. This is such an amazing country I love it so much here. The food is wonderful and the people are so interesting. I am glad that I am serving a mission. it will make me a much better man when i return. and i will return. Return with Honor. Sob many thing have happened since being here things that have never happened to my trainer in his entire time in the mission field( 1.2 years) are happening to me and him it is just so surreal. i have so much work to do here and i hope i am up to the task.

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Elder Eads and Carson in Bucheon. 

MTC last week

Well everyone guess what i leave on Monday the 23rd of May. i am sending a picture of my itinerary to show the exact things i will be doing to leave. this has been a really trying time for me. i have struggled in ways both great and small, and learned so much. i just hope that what i have learned here i can take and apply it in the mission field. i want you to know that i love you all for supporting me and being there for me. I will do my best to make you all proud. if you have any questions just ask. and if you need any encouragement just ask. i dont really know what else to say other than i will be sure to not start a war with North Korea while i am gone. fingers crossed.󾓮 lastly i have also done lots of thinking concerning what i am going to do after my mission. Idk. military sound like best option right now but i will think about it. and Korea is still looking like a nice place for after. so ill think about it. I will be praying for you all.

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MTC week 8

hello everyone. 1 and 3/4 weeks left. wow. this has been such a roller coaster and i still have 22 months to go on my mission. it is so insane that i am serving the Lord. he who was the greatest of all of God's children has called me a person of many flaws to continue his work on the Earth and to be his representative among the people of Korea. There is no greater calling i could have accepted at this time in my life. I know that Korea will be very important to my family and i just hope that i will be able to fill my role as a disciple of Christ and to be an example to those around me. I am so glad to have all of you to be there to support me. when i get to Korea i will get my mailing address emailed to all of you. i hope i return home a better man than what i was when i left. if there was any point where i let any of you down i truly am sorry. i will get in touch with you all in a week. oh and i got my new tags. and i get my flight plans on Sunday i think. so... yeah... lotta stuff to do. ttyl. will send pics

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MTC week 7

hello everyone its your favorite Elder. i am almost there. just 2 and 3/4 weeks left and i will be going into the field. so much has happened since i have been here. i really care about you all and i have grown to understand things both spiritually and temporally more deeply. i just wish i had understood these things before i had left. but being here has also allowed for so much growth and i know that if i am obedient that i will be able to be a wise and strong man when i return. i will also have a sense of purpose for the next couple of years of my life and then as i fulfill my purpose during that time i will gain insight on my future purpose. but only if i am obedient to the covenants i have made in the house of the Lord. and this week i have found a verse that strengthened my resolve to be here. its in Romans 1:16. Please read it. it is my solemn testimony to you all that i am not ashamed of this Church and Gospel. if i ever was before i no longer am now. the senior districts left on monday and i miss the so much. below are pictures of me with the Korean Elders and Sisters. we get the new branch members today. im so excited to meet them. its going to be a great mission. i have become great friends with so many people. especially the Koreans. i miss them so much. almost as much as my family. and i will be able to see several of the Sisters when their missions end before mine and they come into my mission area. its where most of them live. so thats going to make my last months fun and powerful. i am so glad to serve the Korean people. and i cannot wait to some home and use korean. and i am actually considering maybe i should live in Korea afterwards. Who knows? only God. I'll leave it to him. God be with you all till we meet again.

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MTC week 6

Hello everyone. Elder Pettijohn here. So this week is just great. We had Dallen H. Oaks come speak to us on Tuesday for our devotional. He spoke mostly concerning missionary work and ways to better effectively conduct missionary work. but to our surprise these were the exact same things that our teachers had been telling us since we had been here. i testified to me that we had the best teachers we could possibly get. I underwent more grief this week. i was teaching an investigator again and we had for 4 weeks and he wasn't understanding what the Holy Ghost was. so i tried to expound onto him what i know and feel through the Holy Ghost but i did not know the words. it filled me with so much grief that i could not tell this man, this living soul in the way i desired that we know how to save him and bring him unto Christ. but i couldn't. i sobbed from this grief and understood through it that maybe i should strive harder in my learning and studies to become more wise and learned in the language and ways of the Lord. i hope and pray that each of you are safe and blessed where you are. God has a plan for each of you. even though you may not see or understand it now, it is there, and He is there to help you if you only come to him with a broken heart and a contrite spirit and real intent having faith in Christ that your prayer will be answered the Lord shall shew unto you what he wilt that thou to have. Thank you. All.

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