130 copies of the Book of Mormon

Hello everyone!

As promised, here is a picture of our district~

There are 4 missionaries in Cheongna and the 6 of us missionaries in Gimpo~ We have 5 Americans, one Filipino, one Filipino/Canadian, 2 Koreans, and 1 sister from Hong Kong, and they're all great~

Recently in our mission we have been focusing on the story of Enos from the Book of Mormon and how we can be closer to God and receive answers to our prayers, as well as caring for the welfare of our brethren. So we have studied and discussed it quite a bit in Companionship studies and in District meeting, and we will actually have a special Zone conference tomorrow to discuss it. Tonight we will sleep in our mission headquarters, then in the morning tomorrow we will hike a mountain with our mission President and conduct Zone conference there, we're super excited!

Other things this week:

-Our apartment is right next to a really big sports stadium(this is a picture from our apartment window)

In this sports complex, the Gimpo soccer team plays games most weekends, so every once in a while, we hear a roar of applause and we silently cheer for our Gimpo team that just scored a goal~

-Snickerdoodles: One thing that I've done for the larger part of my mission is make lots of cookies at once and give them to those we visit, teach, or have helped us in some way, just so that we can show our appreciation in some small way. Our ward mission leader bought us some eggs last week (which is really special because there is some chicken disease going around so they're killing all the chickens and eggs are really expensive now), so we gave him some cookies after church on Sunday, to which he said "thank you so much. You know, if the sister missionaries make some cookies it's pretty normal so you just say thank you and move on, but the fact that the elders made cookies.. this is no small occasion.. thank you so much"  One thing I was told to do when I came to this area was to try and improve the ward relationship, and so far things are going very well! In priesthood meeting during church this week, we spent a good amount of time discussing how we can focus ward missionary efforts on the youth, the ward here is starting to take a new interest in missionary work, it's exciting!

-BuPyeong: This week we had a combined missionary activity on top of the largest underground market in Korea where we shared over 130 copies of the Book of Mormon!

That's it for this week I think!  We are still working to find people to teach, we've been really good so far at finding people who cancel :) We'll keep looking~ Have a great week everyone!

Love,

Elder Bigelow