July 19, 2013
So, I don't actually keep track of how long I've been here. Just since it's closer to the end than to the beginning, that there are about 10 days 'til I leave. Wait, what?!?
So, I don't actually keep track of how long I've been here. Just since it's closer to the end than to the beginning, that there are about 10 days 'til I leave. Wait, what?!?
We got travel plans this morning
while doing laundry at 4 in the morning - I'll be off to Dallas, then to SEOUL
on the 29th. Crazy talk.
Also, today we got to clean the
temple - I helped with one of the chandeliers. They're amazing - we took them
apart crystal by crystal, and polished them. I was there for 3 hours, and
we didn't finish one. 156 chandeliers in the temple. Amazing, huh! And really,
it was just nice to go to the temple again, even if we didn't do a session or
anything. The temple has been closed for the last few weeks, and I've really
missed the peace in the temple. So it was nice :)
I was wondering what to talk about
this week, since it's been mostly the same as other weeks - and then I realized
I didn't say much about what we do day to day. SO! Here's a quick run-down of
the Missionary Training Center:
Everyday, we have 6 hours of class,
which includes Korean, teaching skills, and progressing investigator. We
finished the Korean book like, 3 weeks ago, so we've just been learning other
random grammar and expressions, and practicing LOTS on the basics. Really, you
don't need fancy words to share the message of the gospel. Which is nice.
Because I don't know fancy words, or always how to put them together. Korean
makes a lots of sense, but is different in most ways from English. Subject,
Object, Verb. Etc, etc. Crazy :) But it's really amazing how much and how fast
we all learn here, assisted by the Spirit. The romantic language speakers sound
just about fluent (in gospel vocab, anyway) when they leave. I'm a long way
from that, but for studying Korean for only 2 months, it's amazing. (Though I
still feel like I don't know much - Korea is going to be an adventure :)) We
teach a progressing investigator in Korean all the time - right now we're
teaching commandments like tithing and the word of wisdom - which is nice,
because it's a situation where you can mess up horribly and it's okay. A lot of
the teaching skills we go over are in Preach My Gospel - which is a wonderful,
wonderful book. (sweet. My chair just broke :P) Sundays are the best - we have
devotionals, which are always a pick me up, and sacrament meeting in Korean.
Aaaand I'm just about out of time.
that's only a little bit of the MTC. But it's what I do :)
BYeeee!
Sister Thomas
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