Sorry it's been a bit since I've written one of these. But to start this email off, I'd like to tell you the biggest miracle I've seen this week (maybe this entire transfer): I finished my college application! That thing has been weighing me down for two transfers now and it got submitted this morning. I'd like to thank my angel mother and my baller cross country coach and high school physics teacher who came in at the last second to finish up those recommendations for me. There is hope yet for me to gain an education. We'll find out the results in February~
ANYWHO, it's been an eventful two weeks! Or at least it feels like that. One sec, let me check my planner... Yup! A lot of stuff happened. Let me tell you about them:
- We met a deaf less active who fed us some darn tasty 김치찌개 (kimchi stew). My man Elder Lee is a Korean sign language wizard because both of his parents are deaf and we're trying to work with our less active friend here to start getting him to church and bringing some of his deaf friends who are interested. We'll see how that turns out later.
- THE KOREA BUSAN MISSION CHOIR is not something I am apart of (because there are too many people already and my singing skills are lacking). BUT, I have become the helper for the performances, which really just consists of me sitting in the pews, flipping the lights when needed, turning on some videos, and making awkward eye contact with the missionaries who aren't smiling so they can light their faces up (Sister Kim, our mission mom, has told us that the smile is absolutely the most important part of the performance). I catch myself smiling a lot too trying to "smile-coach" and my face kinda hurts by the end of it all haha We spent a day practicing and then we had a performance in Busan Stake two weeks ago, and a performance in Changwon Stake yesterday. I'm excited for the Daegu Stake performance two weeks from now because I'll be seeing SO MANY members that I miss from my old areas. The music is beautiful and the members are loving it.
- ZONE CONFERENCES, they're all behind us now. This transfer's focus was the Gift of the Holy Ghost and we learned a lot about how to prepare ourselves to receive that gift. We also heard a lot of good testimonies from the nine missionaries who are leaving this transfer, the majority of them being the sister missionaries I met in the MTC. I realized I'm a really old missionary now and slowly all of the missionaries I know I sliding back home... We won't think about the fact that I don't have much time left either but instead we'll focus on the awesome spirit we felt hearing some testomies from missionaries who have served faithfully for a year and a half or two years~
- We moved a house this week for our area's sisters. Their new building wouldn't let us use the elevator so we had to use a little more muscle than expected but it all got done and no one was hurt.
- Elder Lee has a driver's license but he has little to no experience, so when we need to go somewhere relatively easily we ask him to drive. Why am I mentioning this? Because I now know what my mom felt like when I was first learning how to drive and I'm reconsidering letting my future children drive later in life... But don't worry, he's doing great and he's going to be a natural here soon.
- We got our last week of financial training and information from Elder Colton this week. They be leaving tomorrow to go back to America. We're going to miss them a ton and we're thankful for all the things they taught us, both through their words and actions. I hope I can be as spiritually ripped as the Coltons are by the time I'm their age. And we're also said to see them leave because now Elder Lee and I are really on our own for mission finances haha It's intimidating but we'll survive.
Elder Colton is an amazing financial secretary trainer for a number of reasons but one of them is the way he connects God's plan to us handling the finances. Many times he's told us that we were put here in the office at this specific time to handle the changes in the office. He's told us that it's a sign of trust from our mission president to ask us to do such a thing, but that trust first came from God himself, and we have nothing to worry about. This is just our situation but I know that everyone is in the place that God is expecting them to be and that he is continuing to lead our individual paths day by day. We have work that only we are meant to do and when trials or hard times come along, it is a sig of His pure love and trust for us. We got this and so do you (with whatever you're doing).
That's all I got! Love ya, bye~~~
PICS
1) It's choop outside now (춥다 = "choopda"; to be cold) and President's coat is toasty; he let us all try it on (it's SUPER long) 2) Elder Reiley is not too excited about the choop. 3-4) We ate some exotic seafood leftovers at Pres. Jeog's house after some fancy meeting with all the stake presidents in our mission (it looks like a brain)
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1) Lunch at the house we just moved (the housing supervisor for our mission bought it for us) 2-3) We went to the bathhouse last P-day with Pres. and another team of Elders in our district happened to be there too; we had breakfast altogether after bathing ourselves in bathhouse Disneyland (it's an A+ public bathhouse)
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