chuseok

This week we really haven't done anything productive to be honest.  It was chuseok this week (the Korean version of Thanksgiving) and when that happens missionary work stops in Korea for about a week.  There is no one on the roads it's kinda weird, and everyone goes to visit their grandparents for a whole week.  It's super hard to do missionary work because you can't call people, visit people, or members so we had no idea what to do.  But we had a super fun week!!

The first thing we did was we went and did Korean archery with a couple of companionships in our zone and it was super fun!  We got pretty good at it until some old grandpas came over and told us we were doing it wrong and had us shooting the arrows up in the sky, but it was super fun. 

We also went on a couple of exchanges and it was super fun getting to know the sisters better.  I got to go back to Hogue and see some of the members again, which was super fun.  They were all super confused why I was there again, but it was a good time.  It was really weird going on exchanges with missionaries who just came into the field a couple of weeks ago.  It really has shown me that I have progressed in the language and I haven't even realized it.

We also had a culture day this week were we went to a historical site and did a tour of them.  Our mission president also gave us a mission where we had to take pictures with all these random people. It was super funny watching all these foreigners going up and asking people if we could take pictures with them, and half the time it ended up them talking pictures of us and not getting in the pictures with us which was super funny.

We also had SPORTS day this week!!  And let me tell you Korean sports are a lot different then in America.  We ended up having a race in who could make a house of cards faster.  We also played balloon volleyball, and dodge ball.  It was super fun and all the sisters had matching grandma pants and so it was super fun!!

We also watched General Conference this week!!!!!  It was so good!!  I really have come to know that General Conference answers all your questions.  It amazes me every single time how you get personal revelation from it.  It was super good and I can't wait to be able to reread the talks.

Now on one of my exchanges we went and visited a member and she fed us so much food to the point where me and the girl who I was on an exchange with were going to die.  But the girl I was on a exchange with was Korean and she kept telling the member that she was going to give her a massage because she worked so hard on the food for us.  And so after we ate this grandma laid on the ground and she stared to massage her....and then she made me join.  I don't think I ever would of thought that I would be in Korea massaging a grandmas butt...but it happened.
love ya all!
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Pictures!!

This week has been full of rain and wind and they do not mix.  It has been super fun, we have gone through a couple of umbrellas and have had a lot of laughs.  This transfer is going to be super fun.  My new companion is (김민수 kim minsu).  And she is the cutest Korean!  We are STL's on our island, so that means we will be taking a lot of airplane flights this transfer!  We were suppose to take a flight this week for a meeting in Busan, but because of the fog our flight got delayed for a couple of hours.  So we were trying to find a new flight and it ended up that the Elders and us were running around the airport for a couple of hours and on the phone with our AP's trying to find a flight.  The Elders were able to get a flight, but.... we weren't able to get one.  So we ended up just Skyping into the meeting which was also eventful.  We couldn't hear what anyone was saying so we had to call them and have them hold the phone up to their mouth so we could hear.  It was really funny meeting, but we are glad that we got to attend the meeting!  This week we were finally able to watch General Conference with our ward.  Because my companion right now is Korean we did a split with the members.  So while my companion was watching General Conference with the members, I watched it with all of our English Elders in a different room.  Which was super fun!  I learned a lot this General Conference and I learned that General Conference is so personal for everyone.  No matter who you are or where you are, it applies to you.  You can always learn from it and progress in the gospel.  For p-day we went to a optical illusion museum and a Greek museum and it was super fun.  So I hope you all enjoy a ton of pictures!  I love you all!! ​

TYPHOON

This week has been super exciting!  The biggest thing that happened this week was we had a TYPHOON on Wednesday!!  So because the typhoon was so big we were not allowed to leave our house in the morning!  It was crazy we really didn't know what to do because we had to cancel all of our plans for the day!!  Once we were able to leave the house, we were told that had to go pick up trash the whole entire in p-day clothes!  We were super excited!

Also this week I wore my glasses one day instead of putting contacts in and nobody recognized me!! It was so funny.  We went to a restaurant by our house for kim-bob and they lady who knows us asked me if I was a new person.  And then she freaked out when I took my glasses off.  Even one of the members in the ward didn't recognize me!!  So just like in the movies I found out that if you put glasses on it really is a good disguise!!!!

We also watched General Conference this week which was super fun!!!! Because one of the elders and I listen to it in English they put us in a different room then everyone else (don't worry we could still see our companions haha) and we listened to it while our branch listened to General Conference in Korean.  And it was so funny I am pretty sure we had everyone in the branch come in and talk to us because they were bored.  We also kept getting food from them so Conference was like a party. But it was also a spiritual party.  I learned so much and I have so much I need to work on so that I can become a better missionary.  I hope you all have a chance to listen to it.  Have a good week!!
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We went bowling today and this is how I bowl in Korea!! I got 94!!!!! hahahah love you!!