August 12, 2013
Yep! Korea is awesome! The people
are awesome! I love the people we're meeting with - we have the best
investigators, the best ward, and there are lots of really nice people on the
street. Like, really nice and friendly. Koreans love foreigners - though I've
probably been asked what my heritage is here more than anywhere else, and
everyone keeps saying that I look like I'm from the East (Sister Gardiner keeps
having to tell me that they say that, though, I never understand that sentence...)
- especially when they try to learn Korean, and as a general rule, they're just
really awesome, nice people, including the ones who don't want to listen to us,
usually. Funny event of the week - a boy came over and asked for our number,
and said he wanted to be our friend -- like in a college boy sort of way. Ha. I
wasn't always sure what he was saying, and Sister Gardiner said she didn't know
how to handle that... so we ended up telling him about the English class that
we do with the Elders in our ward, and got his number for that. Anyway. It was
funny :)
We're
teaching quite a few investigators actually, which I really enjoy. One is
a 할머니 (grandma) who lives alone, and is so funny. I never quite
know how to read her (possibly because she's speaking Korean :)) we teach her
some English before we teach her about the Gospel. Sometimes I think we're just
there to teach her English, then other times she’s really interested in the Gospel,
then other times I have no idea what's going on, and so on and so forth. We
were teaching about service and the purpose that it gives - Like really, I love
service. It makes me feel like I'm doing things and accomplishing more than
just for myself, which is just one reason why missionary work is GREAT! :) -
and then she started asking about the commandments out of the blue, because
"I'm going to need to know them if I'm going to live them." So
we told her about some of the commandments, then she just wanted to learn
English words about them...And probably a whole lot more is going on that I'm
not picking up on. It's an adventure everyday here :)
We have
another investigator who started as an English interest (I think) and she's
pretty good at English, which is nice for me, because when I really can't
figure out how to say something in Korean, I can say a bit in English. Side
note - I'm learning (continuing to learn) a lot through learning Korean. More
than just Korean. Patience, and patterns of progression, and that the
Spirit is more important than Korean (which is hard to remember sometimes, when
everyone is speaking Korean...) but I'm not in Korea to learn Korean, I'm here
to bring people unto Christ at every point of my mission. Anyway - she's
awesome, too. I really like the way she thinks, maybe because it's kind of
similar to how I think. And we brought a member to meet her this last week, and
they talked for quite a while, which was GReAT - members are really crucially
crucial in missionary work. People need to not only learn about the Gospel, but
also have friends in the church; and there is a potential to fill all those
needs. I love friendly people :) Anyway, we talked a lot about Ether 12:6 and
12:27; about being made strong in Christ, about how sometimes you don't always
know before you do. An interaction of faith and action. Yep :)
Well, I'm going to send this email
off. Maybe more stories if I remember them :)
Love!
Sister Thomas
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