be spiritually Prepared
From:
Charles Grant (greg_grant@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 1/13/10 9:37 PM
To:
spunkyseaturtle@msn.com; grantk@byui.edu; argentinawarrior@gmail.com; bearmum2@aol.com; gay-grant@msn.com; gadairrealtor@aol.com; tetonwildflower@msn.com; bballwhiz@q.com; tggran@yahoo.com; joeadairrealtor@aol.com
HELLO,So last week it was the most snow in thirty years and this week is the coldest in a long time! The last two days have been hovering around a balmy 5 degrees Fahrenheit and isn’t looking to get any warmer much soon! Can you say freezing your buns right off? We have been proselyting or street contacting I don’t know what it is called in English just that it is 전도, in Korean, a heck of an awful lot and it is bitter cold!Lol However when you suffer for the work the blessings come pouring in.As you all well know the last transfer and a half we have had basically 0 new investigators to show for the work we put in. Last week that all changed as we found 7 investigators and they are all really good! We got one referral which rarely happens in Korea, we found 4 old investigators from like 6 years ago who just got busy so couldn’t meet anymore and we picked up two others off of the street who seem to be very interested! The ward work here is going amazing and we are just having an absolute blast! This week it looks to be another miracle week as if all goes as planned tonight we will have met the standards three days early which never happens! I LOVE KOREA! Alright so miracle story of the week. SO this last week we were coming back from district meeting and elder mills was sprinting to the house for lunch(about the only time he ever sprints! Lol) and I stopped to talk to one more guy before we went in to the house to eat and our house is maybe 50 feet from the church so I asked him if he had ten minutes in which we could go into our church and talk, the guy said yes, When someone will do that, that is a miracle in and of itself but the better part was as we spoke about the restoration. I taught basically the whole thing as we didn’t have much time but both elder Mills and I felt the spirit in what we thought was the most power either of us had felt in a lesson as we were discussing afterward. So we taught, I saw that this kid had been affected by something and he was feeling the spirit so it was time to commit. “No I don’t have time to meet with you again, no I don’t want your book, no I will not give you my phone number.” I was torn as to how this kid could have felt what I had felt and respond in such a matter. So I asked, “Did you feel something different while we were talking, did you feel warm and at peace?” he responded with “ yes, it was something I have never felt before, it felt amazing.” “What you felt is Gods spirit testifying to you of the truths of what we just taught you.” The kid believed the spirit that bore witness to him but in the end he just excepted a book of mormon and the commitment to read it and call us when he wants to learn more. Never have I felt so spiritually high, and yet never have not understood this thing called the holy ghost more. Why don’t all lessons have that spirit, why don’t people act after feeling that spirit? I asked myself these and many other questions, I didn’t know. I asled president Burton about it in interviews and he responded with a, “You were spiritually prepared and he was prepared but only to a certain extent!” I know we can all feel this spirit but we have to be spiritually ready. I challenge all of you my friends and family to be spiritually ready for when the time comes. When the time comes that you need the lords help, or that the lord needs to make you his means of work here on this earth! I love missionary work, I know this gospel is true, even if it is cold and blizzarding I will Go and do!Love you all, have a great week,Elder Greg Grant
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Short, sweet, and very white!
Short but sweet and vwery white
From:
Charles Grant (greg_grant@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 1/06/10 8:37 PM
To:
tetonwildflower@msn.com; grantk@byui.edu; spunkyseaturtle@msn.com; bballwhiz@q.com; argentinawarrior@gmail.com; gadairrealtor@aol.com; bearmum2@aol.com; gay-grant@msn.com; tggran@yahoo.com; joeadairrealtor@aol.com
So all the old men say that it hasn’t snowed this much in forty years but the news says that it is just thirty, but hey, 8 and a half inches of snow in one night in a country with no snow removal equipment is a ton od snow no matter how you look at it!Lol Hello everyon and welcome from the snowy and rather wet, freezing reaches of Korea! So Sunday night we went to bed and we woke up to 5inches of snow and in the next hour it put down another 2 and never quit snowing the whole day!Lol It made for quite the day as we were scheduled to go on exchanges. We have a 30 minute busride to a big city then we transfer for an hour long busride to where we normally switch companions! However, after 2 and a half hours on the first leg of the trip with the bus starting and stopping and getting stuck we just got off and walked for another hour to get to the bus station, from there it took us another 2, we left at nine and got the exchange done at around 3 o’clock! Crazy stuff huh? It was lots easier going back as we didn’t have to drive through a whole nights worth of snow. Normally Korea gets about an inch 4 or 5 times a year, but it dumped this time!It may have snowed a lot but we got a lot done on that exchange and actually found two new investigators however the one punked us and hasn’t answered his phone yet but hopefully he will in the future! Not much time to write today but now that I love you all and that the work is going great!love,Elder Grant
From:
Charles Grant (greg_grant@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 1/06/10 8:37 PM
To:
tetonwildflower@msn.com; grantk@byui.edu; spunkyseaturtle@msn.com; bballwhiz@q.com; argentinawarrior@gmail.com; gadairrealtor@aol.com; bearmum2@aol.com; gay-grant@msn.com; tggran@yahoo.com; joeadairrealtor@aol.com
So all the old men say that it hasn’t snowed this much in forty years but the news says that it is just thirty, but hey, 8 and a half inches of snow in one night in a country with no snow removal equipment is a ton od snow no matter how you look at it!Lol Hello everyon and welcome from the snowy and rather wet, freezing reaches of Korea! So Sunday night we went to bed and we woke up to 5inches of snow and in the next hour it put down another 2 and never quit snowing the whole day!Lol It made for quite the day as we were scheduled to go on exchanges. We have a 30 minute busride to a big city then we transfer for an hour long busride to where we normally switch companions! However, after 2 and a half hours on the first leg of the trip with the bus starting and stopping and getting stuck we just got off and walked for another hour to get to the bus station, from there it took us another 2, we left at nine and got the exchange done at around 3 o’clock! Crazy stuff huh? It was lots easier going back as we didn’t have to drive through a whole nights worth of snow. Normally Korea gets about an inch 4 or 5 times a year, but it dumped this time!It may have snowed a lot but we got a lot done on that exchange and actually found two new investigators however the one punked us and hasn’t answered his phone yet but hopefully he will in the future! Not much time to write today but now that I love you all and that the work is going great!love,Elder Grant
Happy New Year
새해복많이받아세요Happy new Year
From:
Charles Grant (greg_grant@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 12/30/09 8:44 PM
To:
spunkyseaturtle@msn.com; grantk@byui.edu; argentinawarrior@gmail.com; bearmum2@aol.com; gay-grant@msn.com; gadairrealtor@aol.com; tetonwildflower@msn.com; bballwhiz@q.com; tggran@yahoo.com; joeadairrealtor@aol.com
Hello from the cold reaches of South Korea!When I say cold I mean it is bitter cold here right now and it isn’t supposed to let up any time soon!BRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! So since Christmas day we have gotten what for Korea is an unusual amount of snow- a whole two inches!Lol it snowed just enough Christmas to make everything white and to be qualified as a white Christmas, very fun!So Christmas day was a great day, president just changed our p-day so that it was on Christmas but it was spent all day with our ward anyway!I love our ward! We called our families and had a great talk then went over tot eh ward party. Our ward party was definatley something that you would not find on Christmas day in America! The party started at five and didn’t end until around 5 o’clock, sheesh was that a long day! It was a good one though- I think that the ward members are starting to realize that we truly do love them as people and not just as a means of upping our numbers. This ward is absolutely amazing, I have said it once and I will say it many times again but they have the spirit of Missionary work they just need to be taught how to do it!So in my last letter I wrote I spoke of our baptismal covenants, this week we started teaching a little bit about those to members and about why it is important to keep them, We especially like pointing out that through loving others and through sharing the gospel we can keep our baptismal covenants and also do missionary work! One thing I have also realized this week which is really rather sad is that most people don’t even realize that they have made a covenant when they are baptized, they don’t realize that they have covenanted with God to do something. This week we have taught several members who were surprised to learn that they had promised that. One man imparticular, he was baptized almost ten years ago and we met with him and we were speaking of the covenants we made at baptism and he said, Covenants, what covenants? I have come to realize that people learn their covenants when they are baptized but then forget them just as quick as they are dry. This Christmas and New Years season I urge everyone to remember your covenants and help others fulfill theirs!Hmmm… Any other fun or interesting news? Tomorrow for the new year we get to wake up at five a.m. and go “Mountain” A.K.A. “hill” climbing to see the sunrise with our ward- its apparently a Korean tradition, gotta say I love the hiking and being with the ward part but I think of how cold it is at night and I am having second thoughts about doing it when I could be asleep in a warm YO for another hour and a half! I will let you know how it goes!I love you all!Happy New Year,Elder Greg GRant
Amazing
AMAZING
From:
Charles Grant (greg_grant@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 12/23/09 9:15 PM
Hey family, I just want to let you in on what has been going on in Korea over Christmas and say MERRY Christmas.So here it goes, This Christmas season has been a great one for me here in the mission field. To tell the truth I wouldn’t rather be anywhere but here, even if I miss the fam., I have learned so much and seen so many miracles in the last two weeks that I never would have known otherwise! Yesterday for example, we got home with only 45 minutes left and so we dropped of our packages and grabbed the cookies we had made to deliver to a less actives in our wards mother(We are doing Christmas배달) and we stopped in the shoe pit to do the right start. We had three lessons planned as our goal for the night. We only lnew that one of them would come from this sweet old woman, the others we had no idea where they would come from, but we prayed and went out in faith and full of the spirit of Christmas, we met a 고3 on the street and he listened to us for ten minutes and agreed to come to our Christmas party tomorrow, we then went to this womans house, the son wanted to be there when we did it but because of his work and how our schedules differed he told us to just do it. Keep in mind we have been to his home and visited several times and every time this woman has turned a very cold shoulder to us not wanting to see or even hear about our glorious message. We knocked that door and both of us wondered, “What if she won’t open it?” We hear a gruff, 누구세요? And we respond that its us the missionaries and it goes silent…will she open it???? After about three minutes she came to the door and we broke out in a rather bad chorus of hark the herald angels sing, but as we sang it amazed me to watch the spirit work upon her. It was almost as if I could physically see her heart being warmed to the point of knowing that we came with a special message. She allowed us to share a brief Christmas message and then we left. I don’t believe I will ever forget that feeling walking out of that apartment building or the sight of a womans heart being aoftened before my eyes, all done by one thing, Love, she felt the love we had for her son and the savior and then through that felt the love the savior has for her. Simply put it amazes me!The best part of these last few weeks has been the insight I’ve been gaining into the gospel. I have been focusing on the love of the savior and also upon baptismal covenants and it has been fun to watch as doors have opened up to us just so long as we now take what we have learned and act with it. In studying these two topics I have come to a greater understanding of the saviors love for me and of how I can learn my baptismal covenants and show my love to others by helping them keep theirs. Last week I thought ward missionary work was all about the 소개s but in reality it is about me keeping my baptismal covenants and help the members keep theirs or in other words showing the love of Christ to everyone, becoming everyone of the christlike attributes that are in preach my gospel, together. I want to share the love I have for this work with the ward, I want them to feel the love and spirit of Christ which I felt last night, its hard to put into words what is going through my head but simply put, once I fully keep my covenants by helping them keep theirs the endless circle of love begins and everyone see’s that the love of Christ is what truly changes lives.Now it is just time to act on what I learned right? Haha I encourage all of you this Christmas season to share christs love with others, not simply because it’s a commandment or that you have made a covenant to do so, but because of your love for chrsit and all of our brothers and sisters!Love,Elder Greg GrantP.S. Merry christmas and happy birthday grandpa grant, kendall and joseph smith!
From:
Charles Grant (greg_grant@myldsmail.net)
Sent:
Wed 12/23/09 9:15 PM
Hey family, I just want to let you in on what has been going on in Korea over Christmas and say MERRY Christmas.So here it goes, This Christmas season has been a great one for me here in the mission field. To tell the truth I wouldn’t rather be anywhere but here, even if I miss the fam., I have learned so much and seen so many miracles in the last two weeks that I never would have known otherwise! Yesterday for example, we got home with only 45 minutes left and so we dropped of our packages and grabbed the cookies we had made to deliver to a less actives in our wards mother(We are doing Christmas배달) and we stopped in the shoe pit to do the right start. We had three lessons planned as our goal for the night. We only lnew that one of them would come from this sweet old woman, the others we had no idea where they would come from, but we prayed and went out in faith and full of the spirit of Christmas, we met a 고3 on the street and he listened to us for ten minutes and agreed to come to our Christmas party tomorrow, we then went to this womans house, the son wanted to be there when we did it but because of his work and how our schedules differed he told us to just do it. Keep in mind we have been to his home and visited several times and every time this woman has turned a very cold shoulder to us not wanting to see or even hear about our glorious message. We knocked that door and both of us wondered, “What if she won’t open it?” We hear a gruff, 누구세요? And we respond that its us the missionaries and it goes silent…will she open it???? After about three minutes she came to the door and we broke out in a rather bad chorus of hark the herald angels sing, but as we sang it amazed me to watch the spirit work upon her. It was almost as if I could physically see her heart being warmed to the point of knowing that we came with a special message. She allowed us to share a brief Christmas message and then we left. I don’t believe I will ever forget that feeling walking out of that apartment building or the sight of a womans heart being aoftened before my eyes, all done by one thing, Love, she felt the love we had for her son and the savior and then through that felt the love the savior has for her. Simply put it amazes me!The best part of these last few weeks has been the insight I’ve been gaining into the gospel. I have been focusing on the love of the savior and also upon baptismal covenants and it has been fun to watch as doors have opened up to us just so long as we now take what we have learned and act with it. In studying these two topics I have come to a greater understanding of the saviors love for me and of how I can learn my baptismal covenants and show my love to others by helping them keep theirs. Last week I thought ward missionary work was all about the 소개s but in reality it is about me keeping my baptismal covenants and help the members keep theirs or in other words showing the love of Christ to everyone, becoming everyone of the christlike attributes that are in preach my gospel, together. I want to share the love I have for this work with the ward, I want them to feel the love and spirit of Christ which I felt last night, its hard to put into words what is going through my head but simply put, once I fully keep my covenants by helping them keep theirs the endless circle of love begins and everyone see’s that the love of Christ is what truly changes lives.Now it is just time to act on what I learned right? Haha I encourage all of you this Christmas season to share christs love with others, not simply because it’s a commandment or that you have made a covenant to do so, but because of your love for chrsit and all of our brothers and sisters!Love,Elder Greg GrantP.S. Merry christmas and happy birthday grandpa grant, kendall and joseph smith!
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