The DMZ!!!!

Oct 5

this is being written from an ipad today so please forgive the lack of capitalization. it takes too long

this has been such an incredible week, and i will try to describe it from this awful keyboard. (seriously, touch screens are the worst. real keyboards and flip phones are where its at!) so this week for pday we went to....THE DMZ!!!! oh my goodness so cool! pictures will come next week hopefully. but holy cow. we went on a bus tour so we were able to go into this tunnel north korea had dug to invade seoul. it was only found because a north korean defector informed south korea. they have found three other tunnels before as well, and there are probably lots more undiscovered. super crazy!! we were 200-250 meters from the north korean border. i cant believe they were able to big it so big and so solid without south korea ever realizing it. we went until they blocked it off. thats the one place we werent able to take pictures so you will just have to imagine. it was about 5 feet high ish, and could fit probably like 4 or 5 people across. we also went to a look out where we could use binoculars and look into north korea!! it looks so normal from that view, but they are such a lost people!! 

while looking over at their country from the wonderful, prosperous, free south korean side, i got kind of emotional. i couldnt help thinking about the book of mormon, the nephites and lamanites. they came from the same family, they were the same people with the same anscestors. but over time they became so different. and through the traditions of their fathers the lamanites became a bloodthirsty ferocious people, and they didnt know anything different. thats exactly what has happened here!! its literally that story being played out in real life!! i felt a little like the sons of mosiah, loving those lost brothren and wanting so desperately to share the gospel with them in hopes of saving whoever they could. there are talks of reuniting korea again, having it be one peaceful country and one people again. but only the gospel is going to make this possible. oh man i want to be a part of it soo badly! they need the gospel, they need christ so much, they need that hope. and its so close!! literally a few hundred meters away. i am so excited to see what the lord has in store to make this possible. you can guarantee i will be first in line, these korean people are just too precious to let them slip away. its coming. i dont know when, but oh man, it will and it will be incredible!! 

also, this week we really tried to focus on making our prayers more specific. we prayed to find someone interested in learning more about the gospel, and met the coolest woman ever! she couldnt believe she hadnt seen missionaries before, she said she had heard about us for years but hadnt actually met a missionary before, she was in a hurry, but took a book of mormon out of my hands, took our phone to give us her number and insisted that we call her again. um.. yes ma'am! then we prayed to find someone sincerely interested in learning about the gospel, not because we are foreign but because they honestly want to learn. today we met this awesome american soldier at the travel office. she was muslim, but was really curious how we were different. we offered her a book of mormon, and she said "its fine, thats what im getting on my phone right now." she spent the next hour reading all about our church in the internet, it was incredible, the lord is placing prepared people in our path. and we find them even better when we actually ask for them specifically. who knew. the lord is just too good to us, 

i love being a missionary so much. this is the most incredible work in the world. im so blessed to be here, surrounded by such an incredible people. this is truly gods true church on earth, we are so lucky to have it, and also have a great responsibility to share it. aah i love it, i love all of you. have a great week! 

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