Week Fifty-Nine:Elder Oaks and Ballard are really cute

​Just a random kid on a bus. His hairstyle is really handsome according to Korean beauty standards right now.

Dear People,

The face to face with Elder Oaks and Ballard was so so encouraging. Please please please watch if you didn't. At one point an investigator sent in a question asking what she should do to know if the church is true. Elder Ballard's excited response will change the way I teach from now on. His advice was study the life of Jesus Christ. Find out everything he did and increase your faith in him and then you will naturally come to desire to know where the covenants and ordinances are today. 

Who can say too much of Jesus Christ?

I fall into this mode of trying to persuade others that because the restoration and the Book of Mormon makes sense you need to join the church. There is never power in that. That doesn't incite desire to change. That knowledge never incited me to change, it just made me proud that I knew about it and others didn't. 

Studying the life of Jesus Christ is drawing me to change with irresistible force.

Our fearless President and Sister Madsen came to our branch conference this Sunday to speak and give training to all the branch leaders in our district. It wasn't the words he spoke but the Spirit he brought that made a difference in the Gwangyang branch. The training after church was awesome as well. He had all the presidents and auxiliary leaders learn and sing the "Smile Song" (If you chance to meet a frown...) Elder Jackson and I got to stand in front of everyone and do the exaggerated facial expressions. Sometimes there is so much emphasis on trying to convert people to the church and not enough on making the church a place people want to be. Members of the church of Jesus Christ in whatever country they are in should be the most joyful people in that country with little exception. Otherwise there is no point in missionary work. Why would we want to take people from their happy fulfilled lifestyle and tie them to a group of discouraged depraved people.

Life is so good. Do the little things. 

​​If you aren't sweating by the end of it, it doesn't count.

Also we are looking for service projects to do for the light the world campaign. So if you can please think of and send ideas for service projects we could do here. The campaign officially starts on the 24th I dare you to be more excited that I am about it. 

-Elder Brown​