This past week wasn't too eventful. One day we had 3
appointments planned, but 2 got cancelled, so that was a bummer, but we
have them rescheduled for this coming week :) Uh. Hm. .... OH! We did
deep cleaning of our apartment this week. It was nasty! Our apartment is
super old; missionaries have been living in it for 20+ years, and I
don't think missionaries have cleaned it properly. When I
arrived, there was a side room for storage, I guess, and it was FULL of
trash! It was nasty! It looked like several transfers worth. So we had
taken that out in waves (because trash you recycle in our apartment is
only taken out once every week), and at the end of a transfer you do
deep cleaning. It took us 3 or 4 hours, and some of our furniture
LITERALLY changed color!!! And we cleaned our floor, also
nasty. I was so tired after, but we both felt so good about our lives
afterwards :P Haha.
There's still some left to do, but it is SO much
better now :) yay. So I guess that was exciting.
Hm. .... I'm getting kind of better at talking with people. Sort of
:P Yesterday during church, I felt like I really understood the first
speaker! Yay! But then the second I understood less. And the third,
hardly anything. Haha, I think it depends on who is speaking and if they
mumble or not or if they have an accent/dialect. Blah.
I've learned a lot this past transfer, but I still have plenty to
learn. I'm painfully aware of that every day :P Haha. I want to smack
myself in the head all the time for being such an idiot sometimes :P But
I have this perfect opportunity to learn, so I'm doing as much as I
can. I hope. :P It's hard to tell if there is more you could be doing,
or if doing more will overwhelm you.
There's a whole chicken in my soup. Thankfully it was yummy! |
Something I forgot to mention last week, but was pretty cool, was
there was a guy who came to our English class; he apparently comes
sporadically and is kind of an "eternal investigator," because Sis. Sung
knew him from before when she was in Suseong at the beginning of her
mission. His English is pretty good, so I was working with him and some
other "advanced" people, and he started asking me about how to find
happiness, and God, and stuff like that. Talking with him was really
interesting for me, because I could really see that he has really deep
questions that he is really wanting answers to, I think he feels like he
is missing something in his life. He came again this week, and this
time Sis Sung was able to talk to him in Korean, and I think that really
helped him. I just really enjoyed the experience because it is not
often that people we talk to are really seeking anything, they just kind
of have a lukewarm interest. And I could really feel the Spirit guiding
me, because honestly, I'm only a 19 year old girl, and he's in his 40s
or 50s and has such a different life, how am I supposed to help someone
like that? Honestly, I can't. But the Lord knows that man's heart, and
that definitely helped me to talk with him.
So Yummy! |
Sisters Hill and Stratton |
Yaaaaay! Sis Stratton is
finally in Korea, she arrived last Wednesday, and she had a great time
in Salt Lake. I think she definitely learned a lot. And it was great to
see Sis Hill, and to be able to talk about our Korean experiences so
far. It's great to be able to talk to someone who is at the same point
in as me in their missions, because usually I'm around people who are
just like "oh, you'll be fine. I remember those days, but you'll get
over it". But we were able to mutually laugh about our Korean skills and
stuff we've seen and done and eaten. We all talked together for awhile,
and it was just wonderful to see them again.
Pictures of Daegu
...and a crane
Korean Food...
Deoni, from the American Ward |
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