I"M SO EXCITED TO LISTEN TO GENERAL CONFERENCE! Really, I need some spiritual food. Is it strange that I
feel less spiritually nourished on my mission than I have at other
points in my life? I don't know, maybe you can ask dad about it, too (All
these emails are open info ,)) And I'm sure it'll get better and all,
but it's just not sticking like it used to. And how on Sundays it used
to be uplifting to go to church, it's just korean for 3 hours, and my
mind short circuIts a little ;)
Things that happened! I think that I just skip over all the stuff
that I assume everyone knows, that there is no reason that anyone would
know. SO!
I'm serving with Sister Sieverts!
She's from Sandy, went to Alta, graduated in '11 too, and has been
in Korea for 5 months. So we're having adventures trying to talk to
everyone :) (Korean is hard! It's awesome, and I love learning it, but
it's tooootally different than English. I don't only have to rewire the
words I say, but the order I think in...but it's coming!) She's served
with 2 Korean companions so far, so I'm her first American!
We're still in good ol' ____, and have a lot of work to do. {Some
people} are impossible to find here - everyone changes numbers and
addresses all the time, and the address system is {hard to understand}. .
I've never
been so thankful for the grid system of Utah, with Mount Olympus on the
East... there is no rhyme or reason here {that I can identify}. And
there are 2 systems of
addresses, one that they have nice signs for on every house, but they
don't use, so the real address is usually written on a brick :) Anyway. I
just say that because we tried to find a couple {of former members}
this week.
There a a lot of them in Korea.
Two sisters in our apartment left this last transfer, Sister
Gardiner went home and Sister Young went to to another area. But we have another
greenie in our house - Sister K____! who is Korean and knows far better
than I what's going on around here ;) She's super cute (as are all
of the Korean sisters, seriously :)) and the sister of someone that I
was in the MTC with!
This week was sort of strange, with the transition and all; we had a
lot of meals with members, which was super fun. They're all so awesome!
It's always an adventure trying to talk to them, too; the language
barrier is a real thing. But it makes things that aren't funny funny,
and things that are funny funnier :) We ate at an American food buffet
with a members (with the cutest little girl!) and then with our Relief
Society president at a meat buffet... So. Full. Delicious, but I was
going to die :) Also, there was a CRAZY spider that we looked at after.
And you know, there are cooler things I could talk about, but I just
feel like sharing this and our Relief Society {president}shared about it
in
testimony meeting, so it's legit, right? :) Anyway, we watched this
spider for a while - it was crazy. We threw some stuff in it's web, and
it would immediately cut out a toothpick and all kinds of other stuff,
and then patch it back together (this was a MASSIVE web) within a
couple minutes. Super diligent, which is what our Relief Society
president talked bout (granted, it was in Korean, so I think she did,
anyway...) And really, I'm learning all about diligence out here. I'm
out here not to play around or have an adventure in Korea or learn a
language or anything, I'm here to "invite others to come unto Christ",
whether that be through service or just being nice or teaching or
talking
to random people on the street...and honestly, it's hard to keep it up
all the time. But it's so much easier to give 100% than 90%. It's easier
to not have to decide again every time if I'm going to talk to that
person. If it's 100%, I just do it. Like that spider just kept working
and working and working...anyway. I'm done :)
And we taught a lot of lessons in a couple days! Granted, one lady
is too busy to meet with us anymore, but she thanked us a ton for helping
her kids to learn English, and has learned through the gospel. And she
said maybe in a month or two things will calm down and we can meet
again. But there was a real difference between teaching in her house,
which was chaotic, and the house of the next investigator, an old woman -
Because we could feel the spirit in the woman's house, our minds were
clearer, the lesson went significantly better, and I could speak and
understand a lot more Korean, and just felt better. Really, if you don't have the Spirit, you shall not teach. It just doesn't work.
Anyway. More, but not more time.
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