Hello!
Nope, still not sick, although all I ate last
week was ramen... there was a slight mix-up with when we received money
for food. It's all better now, and we look forward to vegetables again.
:) Korean's going well. I still have a long way to go on comprehension,
but that will come in time. I feel for Brian down in Mexico on not being
able to understand a full sentence... Of course I'm 7 months further
along, so I'm not sure how I feel about that. ;)
The
weather recently has gotten quite comfortable during the day. Elder Ahn
is wearing 3 layers at night under his blanket, but the days are nice
(In my opinion the nights are comfortable, too, but don't ask Elder
Ahn.) The house has recently had a bit of a run in with bugs. I think
the cooler weather is getting to them. It's all right, though. We just
keep moving the honey and they disappear again. I'm still grateful we
haven't had any problems with cockroaches. I suppose being on the 12th
floor has some perks. ;)
This week we got to
teach a lot more. It is test time again, but I suppose high school
students are a bit less busy than college students. We get to teach
quite a few high school students. We originally wanted to go find some
less-actives and visit part-member families this week, but time wouldn't
allow for both, unfortunately.
We are going to try to visit more this
week. Preach My Gospel really emphasizes member work, and I got to read a
quote by Elder Holland this week that says, "No missionary or
missionaries can ultimately succeed without the loving
participation and spiritual support of the local members working with
them in a balanced effort." That's especially true here where the entire
social structure is built upon relationships. There is literally nothing
that happens among the Koreans that does not have to do with some
relationship. It is incredible to see the difference from America: the
society of individuals. In many ways I look forward to that freedom
again, but there is such a universal care for each others welfare here
that I will be sad to lose. It is definitely not universal, though. A
homeless old man in Army fatigues caught up to us yesterday and made us
pray to God and say we belonged to Jesus (I wanted to say, "We are just
coming from doing that. It's called the sacrament and was overseen by
those with God's power on the earth today." He was drunk, though, so I
didn't). He had us give him an apple, and Elder Ahn is still bummed
about losing the only clean fruit we would've had in our house. It was a
funny experience.
All in all, though, this are
great. I am going to push this week, to try some other parts of our
area for finding people because we never go there. Elder Ahn said there
are never people, but we went to one, and there were some. The bishop
called us out of the blue yesterday and asked us to do some member
visits with him. We got to go visit an old Chinese man who speaks fluent
Korean, identical to a Korean grandpa. He has terrible eyesight (It was
like watching a diamond cutter at work when he read the bible with his 2
pairs of coke bottle glasses on at once.) and bad hearing, but he likes
the church, he just lives a long way away and doesn't like the subway.
Basically, he's a fun old man. :) I look forward to him coming next
week.
Thank you for all your prayers and
support. It is felt. We pray for you every day. I am always so happy to
hear everyone is doing well. I hope you keep up the good work. Thank you
for everything. :)
