As a young missionary in the Korea Seoul Mission, Michael Tally Ringwood walked the streets of a country where everything felt foreign and tried to pull himself out of discouragement. He struggled with the language.

Secretly, he wished he would be one of a few elders from his mission to be sent stateside to teach Korean Americans.

It wasn't until he was a mission president years later that he could explain to people how hard those early days were.

Today, he looks back and thinks it was something as simple as singing hymns that got him through.

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