Well, from my little corner of the world, things have been...
interesting. :P Honestly most if it was pretty normal. But I did get
ridiculously stuffed several times this week. We always talk about
enduring to the end at church, and it's starting to have a new meaning
of "enduring to the end of the meal". Sometimes it is seriously so hard
to keep eaaaaaating. aaaaaah. I like food. A lot. But not this much :P
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| Daegu from 20 story apartment building |
We didn't meet with too many people this week because we had to do a lot
of stuff to prepare for the Luau. One day we met with a recent convert,
she's super nice, but she LOVES TO FEED. We ate just the food nonstop
for AN HOUR or more. I was so relieved when that ended. But then came
the fruit (basically Korean's dessert is fruit), which we had to munch
on for about 2 hours. And all the while two middle aged women TALKED AND
TALKED. Sis Sung and I barely could say anything, and could barely get
through our lesson at the end because they would just start chatting.
And the WHOLE appointment, I had no idea what was going on. It was
legitimately awful. Perhaps that sounds silly, but my patience was
REALLY tried. AHHH!.
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| Buddhist Temple |
Anyways. :P haha. The Luau on Saturday went so
well!!! Both the Korean ward and the American ward were invited, and
they invited a lot of friends, so about 100 people were there :D (for
Korea, that's a lot). The gym was packed with people, and the show was
awesome! I took some pictures and videos and it was super fun. There were various kinds of dances
and such. Elder Mangakahia (spelling?) is from Australia, and his family
does a lot of traditional dance performances. The Luau was basically
all his idea, so we like to joke that the Luau was more of an "Elder
Mang Talent Show". It was super cool. We had a lot of fun and we got to
talk with a lot of fun people. A member brought a friend who has
apparently read the Book of Mormon more than 10 times!! But she's afraid
to come to church because her parents are strong Buddhists. But she
wants to meet with us sometime soon. That was exciting :) Along with a
lot of fun people, there was an English teacher there who is notorious
among the missionaries as being CREEPY. He was really strange. Gave me
the creepy-crawlies, honestly. He had absolutely no idea of social
boundaries and such, and he was magnetized to anyone Caucasian. Really
annoying. But I managed to avoid him most of the time, and the Elders
and Sis Sung were looking out for me :P haha.
I think the most interesting day of the week was yesterday, Sunday.
It was nuts! So much happened. After church, there was a baptism for
one of the Elders' investigators, and there will be another one next
week! That was really cool to see. There was a choir practice for the
youth, and it was super fun because we got to see some other sisters
from the zone who we normally don't get to see. And also we ate at the
Fairhursts. :P And we had an appointment with the Elders to teach 3 kids
English. That meeting was fine and normal, but we left there a bit
late, and so we were in a HUGE hurry to get home on time, because it
takes awhile by bus, and we have to be home by 9:30. Hoooowever, when we
got to the bus station, there was a drunk guy there shouting at people.
We could hear him from a little ways off, and when we got there, and he
saw us, he started yelling about Mormons. I'm grateful I couldn't
understand him. All I got was "Mormons" "Book of Mormon" and "America".
According the Sis Sung, he was cussing a lot and saying stupid stuff
about how we come to Korea to steal their money and such. I was glad
that the Elders were with us, because even though I couldn't understand
him, I felt really uncomfortable. And luckily he was so crazy that he
stayed away from us and just shouted. What was ironic was he was drunk,
smoking, and holding a Bible. People, honestly....
However, the
situation made us jump on the first bus that came rather than wait for
the fastest one home, so we ended up getting home after 9:30. It was
QUITE the interesting experience, though.
Today has been good. I love P Day :) This week will be pretty busy,
which is good :) I just hope they don't try to feed us too much. If that
happens in too many consecutive days, I feel like dying. :P
I've
been learning a lot this past week. I might have had a little melt-down
again, but I'm over it now :P A mission is just hard in every way
possible (physically, mentally, spiritually, etc), basically, and I got a
little overwhelmed :P But it's aaaaalll goooood now :D I'm really glad
I'm here. IT'S SO CRAZY THAT I'M ALREADY 4 MONTHS INTO MY MISSION. Like,
seriously. What in the world. 18 months seems so short. and so long.
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