This week went by so fast but I feel like we barely did anything to be honest. It always ends up speeding up like that at the last week of the transfer... Anywho, I have some news!
1) I'm not transferring! Which isn't much of a surprise really, since I've only been here for one transfer. Everyone in the mission was unsure about it though because we still don't know what our mission president's pattern of transfers are (or if he even has one). But for the next six weeks I'll be remaining in 경산 (Gyeongsan) with Elder Seely. It's going to be a good transfer here and I'm sure it will be a great one for the entire mission as a whole. Firstly because we have 11 new missionaries coming in (all elders) so it'll be exciting to see some fresh faces. And secondly...
2) WE HAVE SMART PHONES! It's a missionary work miracle. I read just last week that the church was making changes to missionary work in terms of technology and some other aspects and lo and behold, this Friday night that we were getting smart phones in the mail tomorrow morning. Oh boy. It's super exciting. We turned them on and set them up yesterday with our district and now we're going to get them activated for service after emailing today. I don't really know what this means but holy cow it's going to useful. Mainly for Kakao Talk, which is an app that every single Korean uses to communicate (we've lost a lot of contacts over not having the app, that's how popular it is). It'll be nice to have other resources too, I'm sure but we really don't know everything about them yet. We're going to be getting all the information this week about rules and procedures and whatnot.
3) I'm 1/4 done with my mission already. I feel like I got here like 2 weeks ago. I'm sure it's been said time and time again how fast time goes by on your mission but I'm here to tell you my witness that I'm actually rattled that I've experienced such time travel. But looking back at those 6 months that I apparently lived through, I've learned a TON, and there's still so much to learn. I've valued my missionary youth ever since I got to the field but this has really been a wake-up call to maybe start valuing it some more, haha. It makes a little anxious but I try to remind myself that missionary work is missionary work: as long as you're doing it, the Lord is consecrating it.
Other than that, nothing much happened this week. 박상민 is still missing, we're still figuring out what the Lord wants us to do here, and we're working hard and pumped to see what happens the next six weeks. Ahh, but we did have this lit Halloween Party on Friday with our branch in Gyeongsan, our neighboring area in Suseong, and the American military branch of Daegu. Tons of fun. So much stuff going on we didn't even know what to do with ourselves. Also really nice to talk to some fellow military Mormons. Some of them even know where Rock Island is, haha.
That's all I've got for the time being. Thanks for reading/writing~
-Elder Metcalf
1) Smart phone VS ancient flip phone 2) Elder Seely and I went as M&M's for the party; found cute kids that wanted pictures with us 3) Gyeongsan missionaries (Sister Monson is heading to Jeju Island today so we're getting a new sister for the next six weeks)
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