Wow! It's been a whole week! It was one of those month-weeks, where
I can hardly believe that I was serving in a different area a week ago.
It started out on a Monday. Sad story - Sister H___ has decided not to come to church; she only wants to
be "foreigner friends," and anything we mention about church or trying
to find out what happened is pressureful... So. We've made lots of
mistakes, but we don't know how to show her love that she'll accept. She
got pretty mad. So prayers are appreciated.
Tuesday was a day of good-byes; G___ doesn't want to meet with us
anymore, and we met with Sister W___ and had a great lesson about the
plan of salvation. We said goodbye to the Ulvestads, the senior couple
we've worked with by the army base, and I packed up and transferred on
Wednesday morning.
And now I'm in DongDuCheon! And Uijeongbu City! (fun fact - I guess
if you watch the show MASH, it takes place on the army base I'm
assigned to work with right now :) Not that I know my TV shows or
anything...
AND IT'S AWESOME!
Things are
finally normal again. They've been more and more normal, and now they're
normal, and fun, and chill, and getting work done- we're still on the
learning curve, but it's good :) My companion is Sister F___
from Cottonwood Heights, and we figured out that we both took flute
lessons from Karen Perkins! Look at that :)
We will work with both the Korean ward in the city and the Army
base which is about 45 minutes north (lots of travel time!), but it
sounds like most of the people who are willing to meet are associated
with the Northern Military Branch (NMB). There is also a short service
on the base for soldiers who can't leave the base on Sundays, which is
where those pictures came from.
Success
is a sister from Liberia who was baptized about a month ago. She has
the most solid faith! I wish you could hear her bear her testimony and
teach in her amazing accent - she is so powerful and strong. She's been
through a lot -- she told us a little about her family, a very large
family in Liberia, and she hasn't seen her father since she left with a
soldier for Nigeria, and then ended up here with her daughter, M___,
who was also baptized recently (she's a fun one!) One of my favorite
things to testify of is that Christ understands perfectly all that we've
been through, and because he has descended below all things, He can lift
us. (it was one of those days that personal study in the morning went
about word for word what we needed to say).
AND! C___, a sister from America, is here doing her family
history, and met her family that gave her up for adoption yeeeears ago.
We taught her family a little bit and have helped her with some
translation in finding her ancestry, and the ward is all excited about
helping with their family!
Hope
you have a beautiful time on trek and in Tuscon! (Also, Lauren! Where are you
serving? Do you know the Lenords? Because they're related to the
Linders, and we had dinner with them. Anyway :))
Sister Thomas the Elder(Sister? hehe)
Sister Thomas the Elder(Sister? hehe)
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