It's a Bouncing Baby Boy!

Hello Fam!!!!

I have had a very wonderful week this week!

Meet my brand new, full blooded Mauri bouncing baby boy!!!! Elder Hopi Keil straight from Hastings, New Zealand!!!! I LOVE HIM SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is so funny and the best!!!!

Well first off training is the best! Especially with Elder Keil. I love Elder Keil to death!! He is so much fun to be around! He is helping me a lot!! I am not training him he is training me! He came pre trained. The only thing I am teaching him that he doesn't already know is Korean. He is doing super well! He always tells me how much he loves missionary work even though he is being rejected a lot. My miracle was watching him help teach in English to the lady from Cameroon. He was testifying and telling the story of Joseph Smith all with a HUGE smile on his face!!! I love working with him!!

As far as investigators go Elder Keil and I met our 18 year old investigator this week. We actually got him to be a little more serious and actually talked with him more. He hasn't read, prayed or come to church yet, but he says that he just has a feeling that the Book of Mormon is God's word. That is really cool, but the only thing is that he doesn't really want to act on that. We gave him a chapter to read in the Book of Mormon, invited him to church as well as praying. He works on Sundays so he said it would be hard to come.

Our new investigator this week was actually a referral from the African refugee we have been working with (who is doing really well by the way) She is from Cameroon, Protestant but she is really open to the gospel. We talked about the restoration with her on Sunday with Jerome there. It is really cool that even though Jerome is in a really tight spot that he is still wanting to help the missionaries and help the gospel spread.

My studies this week have been focused a lot on how to prepare a district meeting. I have spent a lot of time in Alma 17 and 18 and we will talk about that a lot in District meeting on Wednesday. I've gotten a lot of cool ideas and impressions about how to give a meeting and how to be able to help everyone grow and be inspired.

But our district is really great! Everyone is getting along really well and the atmosphere compared to last transfer is different in a better way. It is a really great feeling! I feel like everyone here is ready to work hard and to get lots of work done! I know we will see lots of miracles this transfer! I'm super excited to be able to watch it all from the spot that I am in! I really think that every single companionship in our district could, if people's agency permits, baptize a person this transfer. I know it is pretty high "goal" but I really do believe that everyone has enough fire inside of them to get it done!

 Love you and Thanks for all you do!
Love Elder  Miles ​Diede

A goodbye present from 2 sister for the leaving missionaries

Jerome

Elder Diede and Elder Keil

Elder Diede Elder Keil and Elder Buckwalter

Me and Elder Eagar

Transfer News

Hello

Well Transfers calls were stunning.

I am training a brand spankin new missionary(could be american or Korean) and I also am District Leader.

 

Im gonna be honest I am super nervous to train and be a district leader at the same time, but i am ready and up for it! I am actually really excited to train! Teaching an american would be fun, and working with a korean would be equally as fun! I want to serve with an american more. i want to train in my own language first.

im really thankful for the opportunity to serve with Elder Lee. We have had lots of the good and lots of the bad together, but I have definetly learned alot from him. He pushed me pretty hard and I am glad I got that chance.

 

 This week he has been kinda "sick" I guess he has spent alot of time in the bathroom. The only thing is whenever we were at home or with members at the church, he didnt have to go to the bathroom, but the minute we stepped out to go  he had to go to the bathroom and was sick... not quite sure what to do about that one.

Well as far as investigators go because Elder Lee was leaving he called people to meet. One brother I was thinking about dropping but Elder Lee didnt want to, but at this meeting Elder Lee kind of offended him, he acted like another church screaming missionary they guys that say repent or you go to hell that kind of stuff) so he dropped himself.   I think I am going to concentrate alot on finding to build our teaching pool, by dropping all of our investigators because none are progressing.

For studies this week I read alot in Romans and have been trying to look at the teaching styles of the apostles and how i can use them, I also read the story of the Road to Damascus. Great story.

My miracle this week is the refugee we are working with. We got him all moved into a new place and he is all set. The place is tiny it is probobly a 10 foot by 10 foot room. there isnt really anything else we can do for him except teach him Korean, so we have invited him to our korean class. Also he is now finding job openings pretty easily. It was a great chance to serve!

We had a stake YM/YW activity in our ward on Saturday and i ran a relay race basketball game. They all would not get off thier phones....I hope america isnt like that.

anyways.......

LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Elder Diede

July 13, 2014

Hey Yo Whats Up!!

 

This next week is Transfer calls so ill keep ya posted. Eler Lee and I get along fine. he is just insane sometimes.

This week was a pretty good week. We didnt meet with any of our investigators except for a new investigator that Elder Lee and Elder Whitehead taught while I was on exchanges. So we picked up one new investigator this week and all of our other appointments fell through. I really hate not meeting with people its not fun.

Well the New Testament is the Best.

This week for study I was reading in Acts alot. I really like the story in Acts chapter 3 where Peter and John heal the lame man. I especially like the part in all of those type of healings that the person doing the healing always reaches down or says arise. It is a literal raising up from the sickness. I also liked the story of Stephen in chapter 7, I like reading in Acts alot.

Also when i get home....Hayden and Gavin and maybe Shayna We are doing Scripture Study Together Everyday you need it for your missions.

One miracle this week was an exchange with Elder Chisholm, our ZL . I love going on exchanges with older missionaries because they make me feel like a greenie again and give me brand new tips that I have never thought of before. He gave me alot of ways that I could help the ward, my companion and our district and i plan on using them this next week, and thourghout my mission.

Another thing that we had the opportunity to do this week was to visit a man in the hospital with liver cancer. I dont really like being in hospitals very much, unlike you, but when ever I go I always feel like the veil is thinner and I see things. Because there are babies being born and people passing away i feel a little closer to my Heavenly Father.

 

This man also passed away so we attended his funeral, I helped carry the coffin because this man only has his sister and a couple others for family. Kinda sad I will be praying for the family.

I also went on an exchange with Elder Eagar this week. He is doing good. he is struggling a little bit with recognizing weaknesses and being willing to improve. i gave him a couple of scriptures like Ether 12:27 to him and gave him a few of my experiences and pointers. I love Elder Eagar alot. He really works hard and tries to improve. He is an awesome missionary.

J, the refugee has decided he is going to continue to go to the English branch in Seoul, but he still wants to live in our area so he can work at the factories later. We have our members on top of that and we are all under control.

LOVE YA LOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Elder Miles Diede

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June 29

We had a pretty good week this week.

We were able to meet one of our investigators this week. He randomly showed up to the church while the sisters were there and they called us to come. So we came to the church and played a little bit of basketball with him and then sat down and had a lesson with him. We taught him about the restoration, Book of Mormon and prayer. We extended a soft baptismal commitment to him and he accepted but he would not commit to a date. We also invited him to church but he slept in instead of coming to church. Very frustrating.

My study this week has been really focused on the Christ-like attributes and how improve and progress more. I liked humility a lot, because I am still trying to look for ways to help Elder Lee more and more and how to have more with humility.

A miracle for me is seeing how much I have progressed. We had the opportunity to go to a wedding where the groom was from my first area, so i got to meet and talk to the members again. It was cool to see how much I have progressed in the language. I got to talk to slot of my favorite members from my greenie area!!! so much fun!!!

 

Also we had a surprise mission conference this week it was given by a guy named PJ Rogers, you can look him up.; He is a really famous comedian and radio guy in Korea that has lived here for 15 years. He is absolutely fluent at Korean and knows the culture really well..and he is SOOO funny!!

 

He gave us a lot of tips and ideas of how to work on Korea and how to adapt and accept the culture more. Elder Lee didn't like it because PJ was talking about parts of his culture that he didn't realize were actually there. it just happens.

 

I have had a lot of people call me back and want to meet with us and especially play basketball with me because our church has a big basketball court and in our area all the people on the street think i am a pro basketball player.

It is the time of the year again when BBQ chicken literally an entire chicken can be bought for 3 bucks out of the back of a truck​(thats right be jealous Gavin)

Elder Lanford and I have awesome matching animal ties.​

Say hi to the family for me!!!! Take lots of pictures and make it feel like I'm there. When they ask about me that is a good chance to talk about the gospel!!!!!! HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!! LOVE YOU LOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Elder Miles Diede

 

 

Korean Wedding and Rice Fields

HELLO FAM!!!
It was a pretty good week this week.  We only had an opportunity to meet with one of our investigators. I am not exactly sure about why he is meeting with us, he doesnt have much, if any interest. He is one of the investigators I keep hearing about but have never met before. The lesson went alright until Elder Lee shot me in the foot during the lesson, telling the investigator that I cant understand Korean. We taught him about Joseph Smith and commited him to reading and praying.
One of our investigators came to English Class but he didnt have time to have a lesson, but other than that all of our investigators were busy again this week.
This week for studying I read alot in the Book of Mormon, Especially I read King Benjamin's Speech this week. There were a couple of parts that I really liked including the part saying you are not required to run faster than you have strength, but you still need to be dilligent.

We had President interviews This week. He gave me alot of things that I am going to apply. I have been trying a different approach to helping Elder Lee. He has ZERO desire to be happy while he is doing work, his mind set is he just has to suffer for 2 years. I have been helping alot but He still is mad at me alot, I am trying my best to help.We also talked about trying to figure out a way to use all of my talents, like ceramics and art, better in missionary work, and most of all He gave me 2 things about being a concecrated missionary; Trust in Heavenly Father and Dont just Believe in Christ, Believe Christ.SUPER AWESOME!!!

 

I bought a custom Korean soccer jersey for the world cup!!! only 20 dollars has my name on the back!!!!

At Church I translated for an african(see below story) the first hour, a brazilian the 2nd and for a phillipino for the 3rd. INSANE!!!!!!!!!

 

Here is 2 INSANE storys, one is more insane than the other:

 

We went to a wedding of one of our members it was an american geting married to a korean..already weird right. But thats not all....The wedding hall had so many random different colored blinking lights and crystals so much so that i felt like I was in a star wars movie.....see attached pictures... Long story short. Korean weddings are INSANE!!!! It was just so awkward!!!

 

So I got a call from this man from Ghana and he told me he was a member and we set up an appointment to meet at the train station on sunday.

 We met him and He is a SUPER SICK guy. As we were walking to the church we figured out he is a refugee who came to korea because his tribe in Ghana wanted to make him leader, but in order to be leader you have to sacrafice and cut off the head of a person, because he didnt want to do that he fled. Now he is living in another church's building and the members there are trying to convert him and telling him to come to church.

He has no money,no job, no food, and no good housing. He needs my help to be the link between him and the ward because the bishop cannot speak english. I am literally the ringleader of everything. I have already helped him start to transfer his records to our ward, so he can get a temple recommend and asked a Phillipino member to see if there were any vacancy at the factories he is working at. It is a hard, INSANE situation, but we are helping him to the best we can!!!! Good chance to serve, but it is DANG hard!!!

Love YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love Elder Miles Diede

 맛있어요!!!  its not a have to it is I LOVE IT. spicy peppers and anchovies

Better Late then Never June 15

This week was a pretty good week, except for the fact that we didnt get to meet with any investigators this week.(and the spurs won) They were all super busy this week and all of our appointments we had fell through. We only got to meet one man and had lunch with him, but he lives in Illsan and he wants the sisters there to teach his daughter so we reffered him and his daughter to the sisters.

I read quite a few talks this week and one that I read in particular is the 4 minutes talk by Bishop Stevensen from last general conference I always tell my parents and think that time is going by really fast. the first 2 minutes of my mission are over now I just have to improve more and finish the rest strong. I also started studying about how to be a better leader and companion. I found a few scriptures that have helped me. Pretty good study this week.

My miracle this week was seeing elder Lee change this week. He has really opened up a little more and is willing to get help and let me help him. He is doing great.

Elder Jang and Elder Rhodes died and went home. sad. i miss them. Elder Jang said that he would come to my fianal testimony at the temple, i will look forward to seeing him. He emailed me today.

I think I forgot to tell you our ward had 3 baptisms in the past 2 weeks. 2 were the sisters investigators and one was a member. Cool to see. I wasnt involved in any of them though.

Also I ran through a Typhoon this week. I got stuck out in it and we had to get home so I ran home in it. I was soaked from head to toe in 2 seconds. Then our church was flooding so Elder Arrington and I ran to the church to fix it and clean it up. Super fun!!!! SOOOOOO MUCH WATER!!!!!!

Well that is pretty much it!!!!


Love Elder Miles Diede   

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 Elder Lee

me and Elder Chisholm in heat shirts.............싫어

Post typhoon

On Fire with the Language! 보고싶어 ㅠㅠ

Hello Fam!!!!

 

so .....hows life?

 

Transfer call Report: Staying in Geumchon with Elder Lee. Elder lanford is staying too so im happy.

 

This week we really didnt have a sit down lesson with an investigator this week, but we played basketball with our 19 year old investigator for a little bit and we invited him to a ward activity the next day to which he came. 

 

The ward activity was a BBQ at one of the really really rich members house.

 

I think he had alot of fun at the activity and got to know the other young men. One of our members came up to him and starting talking about baptism with him. The investigator said that he was thinking about being baptized. The member was super excited and happy when we told him about it. This same investigator came to church on sunday..... but for only 2 minutes. I turned my back on him for 1 second and he went down the stairs and out of the church. He called me and told me he had to go, and we should be meeting him this saturday.

I had fun studying this week!!! One cool thing I did for study this week was to start my study time with questions and concerns that I am having. I asked Elder Rhodes about how to improve study and he gave me a few suggestions and pointers he has found throughout his mission. I had a pretty good study this week.

 

Well this week Elder Rhodes and Elder Jang are both going home.

I was thinking alot this week about all of the things Elder Rhodes and Elder Jang has taught me over the short time we have been in the same areas together. He has said lots of tips and ideas to me that I will remember and use through the rest of my life, not just missionary work. I really will miss Elder Rhodes  and Elder jang alot. I LOVE THEM SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!

A miracle I can share is at the ward activity I felt like I was on fire with Korean and getting to know people better. I was having fun with all of the young men and built a great relationship with all of them. I talked with all of the other missionaries investigators and got to know them and I only think I missed 5 or 6 other people at the activity that I didnt talk to! It was a great feeling!

 

Life is Great LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Miles Diede