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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