PICS of the WEEK

Some funny Nike cars in Gangnam. 

Me and 오준형!!! He's the best. :)

Thing from district meeting

Me and Elder Wiseman after we gave out the Book of Mormon haha. 

PICS of the WEEK:)

P-Day

 Super super fun p-day. Haha i loved it. After we emailed you guys we went to gangnam and rode bikes on the river.

We went to the graffiti tunnel which was super awesome! There's this tunnel that's like okay for people to graffiti in so it is way cool.

MARCH 29, 2015

Yeah last week was good. :) My shoes? They're actually like fine. I switch out like pretty frequently between them all so i think that might have helped. Like yeah. Tons of walking on em and they're fine. They'll definitely make it to the end without a problem. I just think i'm easy on my shoes somehow...but yeah. They went to a new place this week, i was on exchanges, and had a crazy guy yell at em for like 20 minutes apparently haha. oh no i haven't done anything. he just gave me a letter and said translate it and bring it to em! But i can't cuz it's in seoul mission in the northern part of seoul where all the government buildings are. so nothing happened there. and no we didn't meet jason this week...that was super lame. But we did meet a new guy! So that's good! Mom i love all the emotion you put into your emails with the exclamation marks!!!!!!! haha but yeah. Um no we are told the same thing. like that we should extend it on the first visit. I typically try to just tell em that this is where we see it going. So yeah. It goes well usually. Helps em to see that our purpose is baptism. So heck yeah. :) Oh about struggling with the language. Of course! Like no one no matter what understands like anything when they first come. But then with time you get used to how they speak and the right pronunciation and stuff so like it gets a lot easier with time. No big deal. Didn't get to see kim bojoon either. :( so that was sad. Why did kenah quit the piano?! I was gonna have her teach me when i got home! Haha i want to get better. i'm so gonna practice a lot. don't worry. I'll explain why to you some other time haha. but yeah. Haven't gotten the package yet...but we have transfers this week so i'm gonna get it then. 

Monday - Bike Riding & Graffiti Tunnel.

 Super super fun p-day. Haha i loved it. After we emailed you guys we went to gangnam and rode bikes on the river. the pictures are up so enjoy those. :) Also we went to the graffiti tunnel which was super awesome! There's this tunnel that's like okay for people to graffiti in so it is way cool. you'll see those pictures too. it was way windy while we were biking so it was a super good workout. holy cow. haha i loved it though. funnest thing i've done in a long time. :) Then we went and got dinner with everyone and then we came home and did some PMG TIP and made calls! 

Tuesday - Exchanges With Elder Kelson

So we went on exchanges with the zone leaders on tuesday. that was fun of course. :) I was with elder kelson. he's from sandy. So we met them and then I went over to youngdeungpo cuz that's their area. then we went out and talked to people and visited one guy who wasn't there. :( But that's okay. then we went and visited 오준형 Oh Joonhyung. he's the best. his english name is Sean. He's so cool. haha i've sent pics home with him before, but ther'll be more today. :) We taught him about revelation and how it comes so that was way good. then we ate dinner with him which was fun. haha funny thing for the day. Elder kelson went up to a vending machine that was like pretty old. And he saw that they had juice for 50 cents and he's like ah i want that! I was like no i wouldn't trust that if i was you! And then he's like oh well it's 50 cents, and then it gave him coffee. haha classic. it was cool. kinda a had to be there thing. but yeah. after all of that we went and met a guy named Yong. He's from China. He's super cool. haha i like him a lot. he's a recent convert just like sean if i didn't tell you that. but yeah!

Wednesday - District Meeting and English Class

Wednesday was the same ol same old. We ahd our studies then we went and ate and then we headed over to 서초 Seocho for district meeting. That was really good! We talked all about christlike attributes and bore our testimonies on the savior. I thought it was really good. I learned a lto about what i need to do better. then we went and visited a member and brought her some cake. that was good. :) then we went to visit a investigator but he wasn't there...sad. then we had english class which was good! Same as always haha

Thursday - Jewel Heaven 

So much walking today. haha anyway. We got up and studied of course. then we went to the chinese restaraunt for lunch which was wawesome. i love it. then we went to a park in our area and did PMG TIP. THat was super awesome because as we were doing it a bunch of people came up and sat near us so we started talking to them and they were like really interested! I think one of them was a less active member. cuz he knew just a little too much about our church to not at least be a former investigator. but anyway, we were able to give one guy a book of mormon! So that was awesome! Then we left and walked around talking to people and visiting a bunch of less active members. always a party. :) We stopped in a convenience store cuz it seemed like a good idea to get a drink. i was way thirsty so we stopped in there and this guy comes in after us and sits down next to us as i drink my milk and it was just like a normal conversation. i asked him if he'd ever been to america and he's like no....but i have been to heaven! I was like wait what? At first I thought I heard him wrong and he said china cuz they are somewhat close in korean...so i was like alright and kept listening and nope he definitely meant heaven. let me tell you about the heaven this guy "went" to. haha it was crazy. He's like well first of all the food there is precious gems. Like diamonds and rubies. things like that. they eat them. And the clothes? They're also made out of things like that. it's really beautiful. wow. and also the roads are lined with flowers. And at the center of all the flowers is a gem and if you are like man this flower is super beautiful and really like it you can like bring it into your chest and it becomes part of you! It's amazing. And then you also get a house this house is however you want! You get to create it. But the size is determined by how well you follow the commandments and do good in this life. So you guys doing this is getting you a bigger house. and that's heaven! I was just like hmm. sounds awesome! I wanna go to jewel heaven! haha it was super funny. I'm glad i could understand that in korean it made me feel good. but it was also really interesting haha i was like um what? SO that was the fun thing that happened. THen we went and found less actives for the rest of the day too. 

Friday - Weekly Planning and Easun

So today was interesting haha we had our studies and weekly planning which was fun. Always good. After weekly planning we had to go to youngdeungpo cuz i had to do a PMGTIP evaluation with our lovely awesome zone leaders. they're the best. but it was really good! I taught the restoration so yeah it was pretty good. then we came back and went and met Easun or 김민동 Kim Mindong. he's way cool. he struggles with depression though...so that's sad. But its okay. his friend was there too. his name is 차성우 Cha sungwoo. he's way cool too. he asked a lot of questions and showed a lot of interest so we might be pickin him up as well. but anyway, back to easun and the night. we met them and then we went to a cafe and jsut talked for a while then we got dinner with them and then we came home! He has lots of stuff to talk about haha but i think we're gonna be able to meet him pretty frequently so i'm excited for it. we'll see what happns. :) 

Saturday - Pizza!

So today was way good. Super fun! Haha i loved it. we got up and had part of our studies. then we headed over to good ol' 조남성 감독님의 집 bishop's house. haha he's the coolest. we had an activity with the young men and women where we made pizza together and like showed em how it's done. Way good. Elder Meeks knows a recipe and he made it really good! And we have cheese leftover and since that's the only expensive thing we've been makin pizza like crazy! haha but really we made pizza with them, white sauce pizza that was way good and just combination and all other things haha it was way good. :) Then we came home adn went to english class that was fun. haha then we came home and finished studies and then we went to the park and did some tip and then we had dinner! Super fun!

Sunday - Transfer Calls

So we woke up and got our transfer calls! Elder Wiseman will be going to 목동 Mokdong and his companion will be elder pruner! I love elder pruner. he's gonna have a ton of fun. And my new and probably last companion will be Elder Coleman. Should be a great time! haha but yeah that happened. then we had church. Elder Wiseman gave his like last words or something goodbye talk in church and that was cute. he's the best. haha also the primary kids sang so that was adorable. then we had our weekly coordination meeting which was way fun. i love 최영규 our ward missionleader so much. he's the best. :) haha then we came home and had our studies which was good. then we had dinner, pizza, then we made lots of acalls! and that was our week! pretty slow as far as numbers go, but as far as the feeling, it was really good. :) 

Thought - Easter Video

So I don't have anyhting to profound this week. but the church came out with a new easter video that we are trying to get everyone to watch so you should watch it. here's the site. :) helives.mormon.org! Should be awesome! have fun. :)

Love,

elder breinholt

PICS of the Week:)

Streetboarding하면서

최영규 Choi Younggyu our Ward Mission Leader

A thing from District Meeting

MARCH 22,2015

I'm so good this week. :) 

Monday - P Day

Well after email not too much exciting happened because I found out i got that scholarship so really nothing made me excited after that haha. but yeah we went to get some pizza and that was good. then we went to gangnam to party. i love it there haha it's so busy and like just way cool...Anyway then we came home and for the rest of the night we did PMGTIP and made calls. so that was fun. :) Love that one

Tuesday - Streetboarding and Less actives! 

Pretty good tuesday. we got up and had studies. those were awesome. Then after that i left my bag at the pizza place so we had to go get it cuz it had my journal and other stuff i needed...so we went and got that then we did street boarding which was fun! Haha it was funny like 3 people were like i've already done this before....so we are gonna go somewhere else for sure next time. haha anyway, that was fun. Then we went and got dInner at the chinese place. on the way there a super interesting guy came up to me and was like hey i'm meeting the missionaries down in Busan can you do something for me? He asked me to bring something to one of the ambassadors to korea? It was weird...anyway. then we had dinner as a district and that was super fun. then we went and visited some less actives and a potential investigator in our area but they weren't home...so that was sad. Everyone is so busy in 서초 Seocho. but that's alright. 

Wednesday - District Meeting and English Class as well as Elder Wiseman's "Mom"

Are you sick of hearing about this every wednesday yet? Cuz i think i am sick of typing it. :) haha just kiddin. Anyway, We went to mcdonalds for lunch! That's good! haha i love it so much! classic america. anyway, then we had district meeting which was good. told you we would talk about setting goals and stuff...we also talked about the prodigal son for a little and that was good. then we had like a zonewide PMGTIP conference thing. haha everyone had district meeting in 서초 Seocho this week and after the zone leaders talked to us about how we need to do it and have motivation. it was good! Then we came home and had chicken then we went to 최명숙 Choi Myungsook's house. she's the best. we did a 20 minute lesson with her. she loves elder wiseman so much. haha she was complimenting him like crazy. like oh my elder wiseman your korean has gotten SO much better! Like wow! IT was so cute. she like adjusted his tie and stuff. haha oh i should probably tell you that she is a 50 year old lady who is married but doesn't have kids so she like loves us haha. anyway, she fed us too. just a little. then we went to the church and had english class!

Thursday - 정재승 or Jason

Okay so we did PMG TIP and stuff and then we also worked on the map and member stuff cuz it was lackin a little bit which was all good. then we went and met a guy named 정재승 Jung Jaysung. or Jason. that's his english name. he's so cool. he met the missionaries back in 2008/2009 ish and he really liked it then. he like almost had a baptismal date and stuff but then he moved to australia cuz he hates korean work ethic. he thinks it's way too much haha cuz they work from like 7 in the morning to like 7 or 8 at night. so crazy. anyway, he's so cool. he lives in Australia and has for 5 years but he is back in korea for a little bit. he said that when he came back one of the first things he remembered was the missionaries and how much he liked meeting with them. so we have high hopes for him. we did some just like get to know you stuff, get his background and that was about it. then we went and met 최영규 Choi Younggyu our ward mission leader cuz we needed to go over our member book with him. We have a book that is full of each of the active members with like all their information so we went over it and talked about who could use a visit and who is starting to go less active, that kinda stuff. it was way good. then we came home and had dinner.

Friday - Weekly Planning/Jason again

So friday was good. we went to the donkas place for lunch. It's japanese food. anyway, that was fun. then we went to the church and did part of weekly planning and then we met Jason! He's the best. holy cow. haha he just has to take things really slow. we taught him only prophets and apostasy. he had lots of questions which is awesome! He's so cute. haha he gets it though. and i think that he believes what we teach. and he is really sincere. so it's good. but yeah. then we went and got dinner with one of our english class members. he's the best. haha then we came home and had to finish weekly planning! 

Saturday - Stake Conference

Today we had stake conference! It was good. haha anyway we had our studies first which were great. Then we had lunch and did PMG TIP. Elder Wiseman did a great job teachin me in korean. he's gettin better! Love that guy. he's the cutest. Then we went to 영등포 Youngdeungpo for stake conference and that took the rest of the day. The first was the priesthood session. that was awesome. i got to see everyone from 노량진 noryangjeen so that was super good. love them so much. holy cow. they're the best. One of the area seventy's came. he's cool. haha but yeah. then in the night session we sung! President Morrise gave a talk and he had all the full time missionaries in the stake get up and sing the mission hymn. it was way good. haha we did the 3rd verse in sign language. that was cool. :) 

Sunday - More Stake Conference/Family Home Evening

We had companionship study in the morning then went to stake conference. that was fun. i love stake conference. got to see even more noryangjeen people so that made it way good! The conference was all about Ward Council and the Work of Salvation. So that was interesting haha. but yeah it was good. a bunch of return missionaries gave talks. love that. :) haha it was good. then we came home and had lunch then we had our weekly coorlation meeting with Choi Younggyu. the man. haha i love him to death. Then we came home and had personal study. then we went to 박봉규 Park Bonggyu's house. he used to be the bishop until like december and yesterday was called as the 2nd counselor in the stake presidency. pretty aweosme. haha he's way cool. his family is the best. we did family home evening with them and shared a message on love. so love everyone. :) haha but yeah that was our week! Pretty aweosme! BJ or kim bojoon couldn't meet...he was too busy so that was sad. but we still keep in touch with him. i love him to death. haha and yeah! love you so much!

Thought - Christlike Attributes

This week's district meeting will be on Christlike attributes. Arguably the most important thing we do as missionaries is change ourselves so that we can be as much like christ as possible. PMG actually says that you can know you are being a successful missionary if you are developing Christlike attributes. so i'd invite you to watch the mormon message on it. http://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/mormon-messages-for-youth/christlike-attributes-1. there it is! And then to think about what you can do to be more like Him. :)

Love,

Elder Breinholt

PICS OF THE WEEK

Some pics from the art museum. One of the artists is Vladimir kush or somethin like that. He's way cool. 

Pics of the JW. i'll try to get better ones some other time. it's so nice. 5 stars. Well that's what was outside at least. Holy cow it was nice. haha

 Pic of our bishops house from the outside haha. 

Me and Giltay

Me with the balloons:)

MARCH 15, 2015

Yeah Papa Johns was way good. I want to order it again. Problem is it's like 35 bucks. haha so that's rough. I got the letter kira sent this week. On friday. :) So that made my day. :) I haven't gotten a different package other than the one with the "hugs" in it. :) haha 

Monday - The Art Center

So after email we went and got lunch as a district and that was good. We got 김치찌개 Kimchee Chigae. It was really good. Maybe i can make it for you guys when i get home. I love it. Anyway, then we went to this like famous art center place. It's like the central one in korea and it's right near our church! So that's nice. :) haha anyway, they have like all the famous artist paintings that they bring to korea go there. and that was really cool and big. the only problem is the galleries cost like 15 bucks so we kinda just checked it out and when we decide that we want to pay that to see some paintings then we will go in. But by the way we are so going to the Louvre when we go to france. so then we came home and shopped and relzxed. Then we went and found some less actives but they weren't home...shocker. We passed this giant church which holy cow. it's so big. you should look it up on like google maps. It's right near 서초역 Seocho Subway Station exit like 4 and 3 i think. it's called Church of Love in english. haha but yeah. anyway, that was crazy. great and spacious building. anyway, thenwe came home and did some PMG TIP.

Tuesday - Marriott/Exchange

So I was on exchanges with elder meeks on tuesday. that was way fun. they have an eternal investigator who will take them to supernice restaraunts like the ritz and JW. And this week when we were on exchanges she called and took us to the JW marriott for lunch. the buffet. It was 75 bucks a person. haha but it was sooo good. like beyond. steak, sushi, tons of korean food, and crab legs. ah so good. haha like yeah way worth it. anyway then we shared our conversion stories with her which was really good. then we came back and streetboarded which was fun. thenwe went to the church and had a lesson with 조승환 Jo Seunghwan. He's the other elder's investigator. He's way cute. We met him with a member and they became really good friends. anywaya, he's way cool. we taught him the plan of salvation. so that was really good. The spirit was strong and he was taking notes in church on sunday! So that's a huge improvement! Then we met 김길태 Kim giltay. he's a way cool 16 year old kid who was baptized a year ago. He's way nice. just not like the biggest fan of church cuz he's 16 and gets bored easily. one of those who like always has to be entertained. but it was good! We taught him about baptisms for the dead and then we went and got dinner with him at mcdonalds. 

Wednesday - District Meeting/English Class

So we had district meeting! That was good! We talked about faith and that was super fun. Watched Russell M. Nelson's talk on faith from like 2 conferences ago. Anyway, that was good. :) Then went and talked to people on our way home and worked on our member list thing. then we had english class and that was fun! Haha there was only one person though so that was sad. anyway, that's like all that happened...

Thursday - Lots of PMGTIP/강남Gangnam

So after lunch on thursday we did a lot of PMG TIP cuz elder Wiseman had to finish it before he evaluated with the zone leaders on friday but that didn't end up happening...anyway, after that we went to 김광현 Kim Gwanghyeun's house. he lives in gangnam so we got to see what gangnam style is like. :) haha it's a lot more businessy and busier that seocho. Seocho is mostly just like places for people to live. so it's a lot more chill. but it' way more fun. He was baptized 5 years ago so he still doesn't know too much about the church so we taught him about temples and stuff and that was good. :) THen we came home and had dinner then we went and visited some less actives who neither were home. so that was sad. :( Then we came home

Friday - Interviews/Elder Andersen's birthday

So Friday was elder andersen's birthday so we made a ton of the balloon animals that we learned how to do and put em on his desk as a surprise present. :) haha it was way funny. the picture is on dropbox. Anyway, we started weekly planning but we didn't realy have too much time since we had to go to youngdeungpo for interviews with President Morrise. Those were super good! I love interviews so much. :) Haha they're always good. Then we came home and dropped all the stuff off that we got and then went and met 이재호 Lee Jayho. he's interesting. We aren't gonna meet him again. haha he doesn't let us talk and literally just talked at us for 45 minutes. it was ridiculous. but that's fine. haha so that was fun. then we got outta there and came home. we were able to give him a restoration pamphlet and teach him a little however... so we'll see. 

Saturday - Teaching

Saturday was way good. We met 김보준 Kim Bojoon. Or BJ Kim. :) haha he's so cool. His girlfriend is meeting with the sisters at the same time...that guy. anyway, he's like the best. we taught him english for 30 minutes and then we taught him the first half of the restoration. Speaking of that. I hope you guys are studying PMG like at least once a week cuz it's amazing even if you are just members. :) also, you can know what i'm talking about when i say that we taught him the first half of the restoration. :) So yeah! That went good! And then we committed him to read the intro and witness part of the book of mormon and he's like yeah sure like it's not that much! So we're excited about him. :) Haha then we had english class and that was fun. Mr. So came. He's the same guy that came in noryangjeen. haha way too funny. he's crazy. anyway, that was way cool. kinda stressful. but yeah. then we met Robert or 양태윤 Yang Tayyoon. He's a 18 year old member. We did a practice lesson with him. He's not a fan of the church but he's so funny. Haha he doesn't really have a testimony so we are gonna try to strengthen that/get him one. i'll tell ya though, it springs from not reading the scriptures everyday and not praying. so do those for sure. then we got dinner and then we came home and had to finish weekly planning. but yeah! 

Sunday - Meetings for days. 

So yesterday we had PEC and Ward Council so those took forever. Haha before church we went to PEC, me and elder meeks, and then we had church which was awesome. haha love it of course. Understanding is basically there now. Except for Sacrament is hard because they never take a break and let you catch up. so that's still hard, but like the rest  is decent. then after church we had ward council and then we had our weekly coorelation meeting with Choi Younggyu our ward mission leader. he's the best. :) haha i love him. then we came home adn had our studies then we went to our ward mission leader's house for dinner! That was way fun. and so good. haha his wife made like 3 salads and some like kimchee sweet potatoe thing. that was way good. love it. so yeah! Then that was our week! I'm lovin seocho. that's for sure. 

Message - Using Time Wisely and Reaching Goals

So this week our district meeting is going to be on reaching our goals and making sure our actions are in line with our goals. And so this last conference elder Quentin L. Cook's talk was exactly about. It was so good. Probably my favorite talk from conference. But this is the quote. "I encourage everyone, young and old, to review goals and objectives and strive to exercise greater discipline. Our daily conduct and choices shouldbe consistent with our goals. We need to rise above rationalizations and distractions. It is especially important to make choices consistent with our covenants to serve Jesus Christ in righteousness. We must not take our eyes off or drop that ball for any reason." So just make sure you have goals set. Long term and short term for what you want to do and how you want to progress. then make sure you are doing everything you can to reach those goals. 

Have a great week! We'll see ya next week. :) 

Love,

Elder Breinholt