The beach, baptisms, and punching Satan in the head.

Hi!

We went to the beach today as a zone. We went out to Gangneong (I don't actually know how to spell that in English. We went to 강릉). It was awesome! I found a lot of really super awesomely cool stuff. Like a puffer fish. Yep. I own a puffer fish now. Elder Cameron owns a starfish. Mines cooler, because he almost stepped on it. I got a lot of really funny pictures of the zone, so I'll be sure and send those off next time.

Anyway, as for this past week... Mr. Beh, the wonderfully cool guy that we've been meeting with for the past while, got baptised this past Sunday! Congratulations to him. I was so happy. His sister got to witness the baptism as well - although she says she doesn't want to get baptised yet... she will. She was crying the whole time during the service - we talked to Mr. Beh about it yesterday and he said something to the effect of "I think she was crying because in my past I've made a lot of mistakes. Now, I don't have any more mistakes". He also keeps telling us "I will must not drink! I will must not smoke! I will must not drink tomorrow, and I will must not smoke tomorrow, and the day after, and the next day!" He's a riot. I got the privilege to perform the baptismal service - I think I almost took him swimming (not really. Just had to dunk him twice. :D).

On Saturday our wonderfully cool Helena and Seo took us out to lunch at Outback Steakhouse, too. They won't be able to meet with us for a while, but they wanted to say thank you for the message that we shared with them and how nice it was to meet with us. It was really great of them. I kind of realized at that time that, even though we may not get to meet with people all the time, for very long, very often, or even at all after the first visit, the impression was still made. Especially in Korea, because it seems like everyone remembers when they see a foreigner. But anyway, I hope to meet with them again soon - or at least ensure they meet with missionaries later. They know that we are transfering, but we told them that the phone number stays the same so be sure to call it anyway.

Other than that, though, I've personally discovered something over this past week, as well. Maybe rediscovered. Good thing life is a constantly learning experience, otherwise I don't think I"d survive! First of all, Korean is really hard. The second thing is that the gift of tongues is really apparent - for some reason over the past weekend, I've been able to speak pretty well. At least, say kind of what I wanted. Some of the time, anyway. Also that sometimes it's easy to get distracted, but that's only when I need to start pushing a little bit harder! So that's what I've been working on.

Sorry for the short letter - I often can't remember what has been happening over the past week! I don't get enough time. I've been keeping a pretty good journal, though.

Oh! But one thing for sure - thanks everyone for the birthday wishes! That was really nice. The other Elders in my apartment gave me a cake - made from choco-pies. With Q-Tip candles. Some of them didn't taste very good, but I got it all on video, so it was really funny. I'll send that out next time, too.

But hey! Other than that... I don't remember a lot. Things are still going great - we're still doing our best to spread this gospel to those Koreans! And yes, I'm pretty sure I'm still alive.

Anyway, that's it for this week! Pictures probably next week. Stay happy! Stay healthy!

Love,
Elder Webster