April 6, 2015

This week... well. I don't really have much to say about it. It was just okay. It probably wasn't the best I've ever had... maybe it was because of the rain? :P haha. Not really. The weather has actually been pretty nice lately, though the past few days has been raining. Sooooo. We really need to find new investigators, we really only have two, but one of them fell and hurt herself and is going to go to a hospital in Seoul.. So. We have been finding ways to fill our time. 

 

Tuesday was eventful in that I ate a bug!!! It was nasty.. There's this Korean food called (spelling is probably way off) Bondegi, which is a silkworm larva... You can eat it just straight up or cook it. We had an appointment with a member who thought it would be fun to feed us some things we have never eaten before, in addition to her other good cooking. So, I managed to get away with just eating one. It was about the size of a jelly bean, but not nearly as appetizing. The flavor was okaaaaaaaay, I suppose, but what made it so nasty was when I bit into it, it kind of exploded with bug juice. :P Nasty nasty nasty. 

 

Wednesday we had District meeting, and well... we have some interesting Elders in our district... one had the talk part for the meeting, and for April Fools, he decided to.. Hm. well. He wrote on the board while singing/humming really random tunes and then suddenly turned around and threw a plastic cockroach at someone, and then continued... We were all really confused. :P

 

 

Anyways. I went on an exchange this week with the sister training leaders, so I went to Kyongju, which was pretty fun. We took a train. On Thursday, when we were headed back to the train station so I could go back to Shinjeong, we passed through a street market, and saw a WHOLE cow head just sitting by the side of the street. So we took pictures, of course. :P I'm debating sending the pic because it was kind of gross. :P Haha. 

 

 

And then at the station while waiting, a woman came up to us and said "Helloo, Jesus Christ loves you" and handed us this little pamphlet and weird candy things. The pamphlet was kind of depressing, actually, about how because man is sinful they can't feel God's love..? What? And the candy was legit weird. Sis Nielson tried to get me to eat it, but I refused. We opened it to just look at it, and it smelled like normal candy, but it looked like a butterfly cacoon. Weeeird. And a train station worker passed by, so we asked her what it was, and she told us to throw it away because it came from China :P Haha. SOoo, we tossed it. That, my friends, is why you don't accept candy from strangers. 

Chinese Dragon Beard Candy

Friday was kind of depressing. We met with two less actives, and one said she doesn't intend to come to church anymore (she had been occasionally. she has depression though, and it looked like she was having a really bad day), and the other only seems to let us meet with her 'cuz she is nice, but doesn't really want to act. Then we did a district proselyting activity and absolutely no one was interested :( But we got ice cream, so that made everything better :P On Saturday, our branch had a picnic, which was pretty fun, and luckily it wasn't raining in the morning. Soon after the picnic ended though, it started to pour :P 

 

Other than that, we met with a part member family, and I really love them. We had a pretty good lesson with them about finding answers to questions, and basically set up to meet them more consistently. So I hope that turns out well :)

 

Today it has been raining, but we went shopping with other missionaries, so that was pretty fun. We haven't seen General Conference yet (or the Women's Broadcast) because of the time difference, but have plans to do that this coming week. I really look forward to it! It should be really great! :)

That's about it. It is crazy how fast time flies, but I'm really glad to be here (no matter how weird it gets :P) 

On an exchange with Sister Nielson

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