June 12 - Hey! Check us out!

Something I am learning is that not only does ones faith get tried, but so does patience, which gives us the opportunity to show God that we do have faith, that we trust Him. 

I love my companions so much. Something we were talking about just yesterday was how important it is that companions get along, because if they don't, you are miserable and you hate it, and your investigators also suffer from that lack of unity. We are very different people, and we easily could have not got along and ended up not liking each other, but because we have always been focused on making sure we are unified, we are great friends. I love them, and am going to miss them when we have to leave. Even when sometimes they try my patience :P But it's all good, we have so much fun together.

Sister Hill asked Sister Stratton to bleach her roots today... I didn't participate because I didn't want to be responsible for the destruction of Sis Hill's hair :P So I just sat and took pictures.

We were in the bookstore getting a few things, and the cashier was talking with these two sisters and holding things up, and Sister Hill, without realizing how funny it sounds said "That cashier needs to stop flirting with those Sisters and check us out!" I started cracking up, and then she realized what she said. We had a good laugh over it. 

 

This week has been pretty good, though it has been dawning on us how little time we have left!!!!! AAAAHhHH!! We are trying hard to absorb as much information as we can before we go to Korea, but it's hard, because there's so much to learn! It's making me a little nervous, I feel like I'll get to Korea and try to talk to someone and have no idea what they said, and I'll just respond with something like "Through the Book of Mormon, you can be happy" when they really asked something else :P It'll happen, but that's okay. I am really excited to get going, even though I know it will be hard. It's crazy! I leave June 23rd!! Next week starting Sunday is our last weeeeek!!! aaah!! It feels like we have been here for FOREVER, so in that sense I am ready to be gone NOW, but also at the same time, I'm thinking "wait, what?! I just got here! I can't speak Korean yet!" Haha, but it'll be fine. I'll just have to study my brains out and trust that God will help me, because I am going to NEED it :P haha. 

I love our teachers so much, they are so great, we always have so much fun learning and practicing. Yesterday, 24 new missionaries going to Korea came in, so we are super excited about that. I even recognized one of the sisters from my mission prep class from BYUI! So that was cool. We are excited, and it is kind of fun to be the "top dogs" here, because the group above us just left on Monday. It makes us realize how much we HAVE actually learned. 

Sooo, last Tuesday's devotional was cool because Quentin L Cook came, so that makes 7 Apostles that we have seen. 

The prophet better come before we leave, but it looks like we'll just barely miss him; it's rumors, of course, but there's a big conference coming up soon for all the Mission presidents, and there's a special devotional, but we are leaving TWO DAYS before that. So blah. but I still can't complain. We have learned a lot and have been so blessed to hear so many good things from the Apostles. What I really learned from Elder Cook was that we should not worry about not being good enough or feeling inadequate, because this is the Lord's work, and He will help us achieve all that He wants us to. That really helped me, because I had been really freaking out that day about the language and not being able to say/understand anything. It'll be fine, I know that. It's just a little scary :P ETERNAL SALVATION IS ON THE LINE!! Hahaha, so I'll do my best.

^^   <---   that's an Asian happy face.


 Me with some of the sisters who just left on Monday, I miss them so much! They were awesome.

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June 5 - "When we die, we will go to England"

Things here this week have overall been going well. I had a pretty annoying cold the beginning of the week, and I'm almost over it now. I still feel tired and a little congested, but much better than before. I actually went to the health clinic that the MTC has because we at first were worried it might be strep. It wasn't, but they did take a good sized plug of wax out of my ear :P  I didn't even know it was there. :P As far as things happening this past week, there hasn't been too much, though we have had a few interesting language mess-ups. Both were in role-playing during class, not a lesson with our "investigators"/teachers. Both involved Sister Hill, haha, she has a gift for saying things wrong that still make sense in Korean. She was role-playing, and her investigator asked how to feel the Spirit, so she wanted to use Doctrine & Covenants 9:8. Her companion was a Korean, so Sis Hill had her flip to that scripture, but somehow Sis Hill ended up flipping it to Moroni 9:8. Um. That verse is talking about a war and terrible atrocities, and says
"And the husbands and fathers of those women and children they have slain; 
and they feed the women upon the flesh of their husbands, 
and the children upon the flesh of their fathers; 
and no water, save a little, do they give unto them." 

So the teacher who was playing the investigator just starts to kind of laugh, and Sis Hill's companion is like, what did you just give him to read, that doesn't sound right! And Sis Hill hadn't caught on yet, and was just like, (nodding) "yeah." Hahhahaha. It was pretty great.  

 

The other was I was practicing teaching with Sis Hill, so she was my investigator, and I asked her where she thought people go after death, or what happens after death, and she wanted to say "We will go to heaven" but she ended up saying "we will go to England." It was pretty good stuff. 

 

Honestly, not too much has been happening beyond the usual. It's crazy that we have so little time left at the MTC! We are kind of freaking out about it. We really need to step it up and try hard to use our time wisely here, accomplish our goals, push ourselves, etc. so that we are ready to go to Korea. It's kind of scary :P I am excited though. It'll be great. I know I have a lot to work on, but I'm glad for this opportunity to learn and grow. I have already learned so much, but I have a looong ways to go! One of my favorite verses this week is Ether 12:27. 

 

27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.

 

I know Christ will help me overcome my weaknesses as I come unto Him.