Called to Serve

Wayne and I have been called to serve in the Seoul Korea Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to be assigned to work with the branch at Camp Casey. We hadn’t anticipated being called to Korea so we are busy learning the language and more about the country and the area where we will be serving.

We know that we will be teaching institute to the soldiers and their “battle buddies” and will provide support for family home evenings and probably addiction recovery. We may also be teaching English to Koreans. There is a temple in Seoul so we may be able to serve there some. We will offer help to the soldiers in doing their own family history work and extraction service. There will be other opportunities for us to serve as we settle into a routine and find needs we are able to fill.

This language has its own alphabet and a very different sound and structure, but we are having a great time tackling the challenge of learning to converse with the Korean people. We already have a few phrases we have memorized that we can repeat, but our speech is still very slow.

We enter the Mission Training Center on June 6th and will be there about eleven days prior to leaving for Korea. We will speak in our ward on May 29th at 9 am at 2168 S 140 W, Orem.

My daughter, Mary, will post our weekly letters here and also post the link to Facebook if you are interested in following our adventures. We will serve for 18 months so we anticipate returning in early December of 2017.

We are going because we know that Jesus Christ is our Redeemer and Savior, that Joseph Smith is the prophet through which all priesthood keys were restored, and that the Book of Mormon is another testimony of the divinity of Jesus Christ. We know that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Is Christ’s church on the earth today and that he continues to speak to us through President Thomas S. Monson, the Lord’s prophet today. This knowledge brings us such joy that we want to share our joy through service.