Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Some are football players, some are artists

One of my Assistants, Elder Braden Hansen, recently completed his two years of missionary service and returned home. He is already enrolled at BYU where he has a football scholarship. He is an offensive lineman. Elder Hansen is a very, very big man with a heart of equal proportion.

Elder Hae Joon Lee just completed his first year of missionary service. His parents were born in Korea and now live in the Los Angeles area. Elder Lee is more fluent in English than he is in his parent's native tongue. But his Korean is improving because he's been assigned to work with a group of Korean-speaking members in the Broomall 2nd Ward in the Valley Forge Stake. These Korean members are using "duck" philosophy regarding their expectation for Elder Lee: "He looks like a duck, he walks like a duck....he IS a duck!" In addition to being Korean, Elder Lee is also a very good sketch artist. Here is a recent sketch of the Prophet Joseph Smith:

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