Seoul Chaser: Dongdaemun Week 8

Dear Family and Friends,

This week started with a great training with President about the Easter initiative and how we're going to apply it. We saw the wonderful new Easter video made by the church and learned a lot about the importance of the Resurrection. (Here's a link if you want to watch it - it's 2 minutes long): #Hallelujah Video—Find New Life



				#Hallelujah Video—Find New Life Though Jesus Christ was crucified, He rose from the dead. This Easter, find out how, through Jesus Christ, we too can find new life. Watch this video to learn more.

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After our monthly Zone Training meeting on Wednesday, I started exchanges with a younger Korean missionary named Elder Ryu who is serving in Hwayang. They just white-washed that area (both missionaries are new to and opening the area so there are no previous contacts) so they currently don't have a lot going on right now, so we were able to spend a lot of time talking about finding new investigators! During the exchange, we also helped the Relief Society President basically rearrange everything in her house. That was super fun, but a lot more than we expected. We ended up bringing desks and big wardrobes down the staircase from the second story. Also this week, we attended soccer with our investigators and youth in another area in our stake. We had a blast again, and when we finished we headed right to the Elder's house in that area to shower before we left for a baptism in ShinChon. Well we couldn't find the other Elder's house and they didn't pick up their phone, so we ended up changing in the subway station bathroom before we hopped on the subway for ShinChon. We searched for this place for ever and by the time we took the bus to the Subway station and hopped on the train, we were projected to arrive about 20 or 30 minutes late. Two of Elder Ashby's investigators were getting baptized, so we had to be there, and we ended up arriving right before the actual performance of the baptism. That was definitely one experience that I will never forget because we got there on time miraculously for the baptism.

This week for our investigators, unfortunately, no one showed up to church, but we found a super sweet new investigator. He is about 30 years old and is a couple inches taller than me. He asked some amazing questions about our church and right now is finishing graduate school in the field of cryptography. Both of his parents were divorced when he was a kid, and he seems to really be looking for something more in his life. As for our other investigators, most of them were too busy to meet this week with Korean school starting up and all. However our investigator who is a senior in high school is doing well and we have an appointment with him tonight.

This past P-Day was also probably one of the most fun P-days ever. We went to the wax museum and back which was thoroughly enjoyable. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to work with so many great members in this ward too. This past Sunday we visited another less active member with the first counselor and he agreed to come out this next Sunday to church. We ended Sunday night by eating dinner with the Bishop and his family who are amazing.

Thanks so much for all the love and support.

Your Favorite Missionary,

Elder Wheeler

Chase ran into all sorts of famous people this week!