Anyways. So I'm a week into my second transfer! What the what?!
It's crazy how fast time is flying... and also how fast it's not flying
:P Haha. Soo... what happened this week... I got force fed some more.
Though not too bad :P ;)
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| More yummy food |
Hm. Once a week we do a discussion thingy with the Fairhursts, and
this last week I led the discussion. I enjoyed doing it and hearing
others ideas and thoughts. I chose to base it off of the big lessons I
have learned this last transfer, which is that we need to be content in
doing what we can, as best we can, and focusing on making sure that what
we are doing is the Lord's will. As we do and pray for that, He will
help us do more and more every day. It's just very important that we
seek His will with all our hearts.
This week we have done a lot of preparation for the Luau, because
it's coming up this Saturday. It should be pretty fun, provided I don't
smack myself in the face with the Poi or look like an idiot doing the
Hula :P Haha.
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| Daegu countryside |
As far as appointments go, this week has been pretty uneventful. We
started meeting a lady who has been going to church with one of the
American ward members, so that was cool, but she had a bad experience
with an unkind priest, and has since been very against churches. We'll
meet with her again this week. I'm coming to see that some people just
meet with us because they like missionaries, which isn't exactly a good
thing :P It's good that they like us, but it's bad if they join the
church for that reason alone. That's probably why there are a lot of
less active members in Korea. Sometimes they join without really
believing in God and Christ, etc., but they just really liked the
missionaries. We just have to be careful that people really have the
right intentions and really understand the Gospel.
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| My cute companion... |
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| Addicted to ice cream |
OH! So, last Monday was interesting. After emailing home, we left
to go do stuff, and near the church (where we email) is the home of a
less active woman, who is probably in her 70s. We stopped by to say
hello, and she invited us in; she was so sweet! However, like every
Korean woman, she wanted to feed us. So she proceeded to feed us 4
peaches (big), and then a bowl of rice, and seaweed soup. The whole
time, she was talking about the missionaries she had first met with, who
were SO good at eating. Because being good at eating is a big deal
here.
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| Yup, we ate it all! |
If you can eat a lot, they love you. So we felt obligated to eat a
lot, especially just to show we appreciated her kindness. That soup,
however, was hard to eat. The seaweed itself wasn't all that bad, and
the liquid wasn't too bad either... but there were chunks of dried fish
in it, which was really gross. I seriously had to choke those down. I
got a second bowl of it.. yay. Sis Sung, like a very good, obedient
Korean girl, got 3 bowls, even though she also didn't really like it. So
the next day we both felt kind of...strange. You see, seaweed is very
good for your stomach, I guess. Because it kind of clears out your
stomach. I'm trying not to think about it :P
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| Some Random Buddhist Temple |
Anyways. I think the biggest other eventful thing was yesterday
during church. That morning, I had been stretching, and somehow like...
pulled a muscle in my upper back, or something, because it really hurt
to turn my head or tilt it. Throughout the day and sitting through
church, it started to really hurt and feel very achy and stiff. I wasn't
happy about it :P And I didn't want to try stretching or massaging it,
because I didn't want to make it worse. After church, people usually
stick around for a while (like yesterday, we all ate bibimbab (?)
together, and there were meetings and choir rehearsals), and after a
youth choir rehearsal, Sis Sung mentioned it to a member who we know
fairly well, she is super friendly. Anyways, this woman proceeds to start ferociously massaging my back. It
felt pretty good, I think, but it was also a little hard. And then she
started pulling my arms behind my back while pushing her knee into my
back. And then she had me stand up back to back with her, linked arms,
and she leaned forward, lifting me into the air on her back, and told me
to relax while she jumped/bounced a little. I had no idea what was
going on because I couldn't really understand her, and it as SO
unexpected, I just started laaaaughing so much. It was seriously
hilarious. But hey, my back felt better afterwards :P Today it's just a
little sore, but I think it'll go away soon. Man. Good times.
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| Shell-shocked Sisters I met before at the MTC |
On the first P-Day of a transfer, the Fairhursts hold a breakfast
for the whole zone and feed us pancakes, so that was this morning. It
was pretty fun :) When I was about to leave the MTC, a new group of
missionaries came in, so I knew some of the people who just came to
Korea for this transfer, and I was excited to see who was going to be in
my zone. One of them is a girl that I knew from BYU-Idaho; we had the
same mission prep class. That was fun to find out at the MTC, haha. So
it was good to see her again and see how they are enjoying their first
few days in Korea. Seeing them made me realize how shell-shocked I
looked on my first few days in Korea. Hahah :P
Today was fun! Even
though it has been raining a TON (the river is so flooded), we went
thrift shopping :) You can find such cheap clothes in Korea! And they
are modest! And cute! It's crazy...and so unfair! I got two skirts that
are modest and nice for $9. TWO! I'm so jealous that we don't have this
in America. The market place was fun. Unfortunately they don't allow
pictures there (i'm not sure why), but imagine something like a European
market with tons of little shops all next to each other
selling all sorts of things, and then Asian-ize it, and add a bunch of
fish (dead or alive, with or without skins and heads, etc.) and you
probably have it pictured :P It was fun to look around :) Though there
are food items that I would definitely NEVER be buying from there :P
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| Cool looking bell |
Fun stuff. Not much going on, I think.
Just trying to plug along (is that even a phrase?) and keep going. I'm
trying to learn as much as I can, and teach as well as I can, which is
hard in Korean :P But I'm slowly getting better. I think. I just have a
lot to learn. :P
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