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This week we had another earthquake!!! SO CRAZY so it happened on Monday night again while we were having FHE.  It's so crazy that the 2 earthquakes we have had have been on Monday nights.  We're looking forward to see if that will be a trend, Earthquake Mondays on in Korea.

We cancelled our first English class and are starting up a new English class because we only had the same people coming so we were wanting to switch it up and try and get new investigators to come that we can invite to church.  So because of this we have been English proselyting and trying to get new people to come to our class.

This week we were proselyting and we saw a group of boys about 16 smoking (super common in Korea everyone and their dog smokes).  And we went up and started talking to them.  The whole time they were trying to hide that they were smoking, but it was pretty obvious.  So finally they got rid of their cigarettes and we started talking to them about english and how they should come to our class.  And then another group of their friends walked by and so they made them talk to us.  And we ended up getting all of their numbers and we're hoping they will show up to our English class.

We also had a crazy experience on Sunday.  We had just had a meeting in the church and the Elders and us were the only ones left in the church.  So we were about to leave and the Elders came running up to us and told us that there was a guy that we all met when we were English proselyting that was here at the church and he wanted us to all teach him.  So we answered his questions, but he kept telling us he wanted physical proof of faith, and of John the Beloved still being on the earth, and kept saying stuff about that.  He wasn't really wanting to listen to what we had to say.  So my companion handed him a Book of Mormon and said if you really want to have proof read the book, all of the book and pray.  And so he said he will read the whole book by our next appointment and so we were shocked, so will see the outcome at our lesson next week.

We also played soccer with our youth on Saturday and I scored two goals on them and they were all super surprised. Yes one of them was it hitting me and going into our own goal, but it still was a goal. But the other one was actually me kicking it into the right goal.  But hey it's still 2 goals!!!

Somehow we got roped into the Elders' service project.  Now I get to play and feed horses and dogs and scoop their poop every week!!!  We are super excited about that, they even have a horse name JAYNE!!!  So that horse and I are best friends now!!

Love you all
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Earthquakes and JAIL‏

This week we had 3 EARTHQUAKES and they were pretty big ones 5.3!!  That is the strongest one I have felt while on my mission!!  We were having FHE at the church all of the sudden out of nowhere the church started shaking and I jumped up and started freaking out and everyone else was just still sitting calm.  You can still tell earthquakes are a new thing for me, but we continued with FHE and then like 30 mins later another one happened when we were leaving and this one was even bigger.  So we all decided to go home.  We weren't very excited to go home because our house is on stilts.  Like there is only 6 little pillars holding our house off the ground.  When we got inside our home the elders came up and told us we weren't allowed to be in our house for a while.  So we grabbed a bunch of stuff and waited outside of our house until we got the clear to go inside.  But let's just say we were praying hard that night that we weren't going to die in out house.  Then the next morning during our studies we had another earthquake!!!  Ahh so crazy, but that was all the earthquakes for this week.

It also was a Korean holiday this week.  So we went to Busan and did a 5k run there and ate lunch.  It was super fun I got to see Kim and Brady (my MTC companion and my favorite Korean ever).
Also because this week was a holiday no one was out.  It was pretty much like Thanksgiving, but in Korea.  So instead we baked cookies for the whole entire ward and made message cards to give them.

It also has been poring raining this week.  So we have been getting super wet.  One day on our way to an activity the elders called us and told us they had forgot their umbrellas at the church.  And so we had to go pick them up.  Well it was raining so bad that day that by the time we got to the church to get them, we were soaked.  There was not one spot that was dry because the rain decided to go horizontal instead of vertical, Korean rain is so weird like that sometimes.  But it makes life fun!!

We also went to JAIL this week.  Our elders have a investigator in jail and we wanted to meet him so we went with them.  And it was the weirdest thing.  I could escape from a Korean jail so easy!!!  They have no barb wire or dogs.  It's just a building, no fences or nothing!!!!  It was so weird.  The guy even came in with no handcuffs, and when the visit was over he left and put himself in jail!!!! I am still shocked by this.  Like completely shocked, Koreans are such nice people even in jail! Wow!

But this week has been a good week. Love you all!!!

Sister Kim my favorite Korean

5k race

EARTHQUAKE!!!

AHH so this week we had an EARTHQUAKE!!!!  I have never been through one before and I was kind of freaking out, but I loved it haha.  It was a small one and I don't think anyone was injured because of it.

During the week we were proselyting and we saw these two Grandmas on the bridge and they were staring at something.  When we got closer we found that a kitten had gotten stuck on a ledge of the bridge and couldn't get off because he was injured and they weren't able to reach him.  So because I am so much taller than most Koreans I just reached through the fence and grabbed the kitten for them.  They were very happy.  I literally felt like a fireman who had saved a cat from a tree for an old lady. hahah

We also went and visited one of our english class members in one of the more country parts of our area.  It took us about a 15 minute bus drive to meet her.  When we went and visited her she had her son come meet us down at the bus station and they were just so excited that we came and visited them.  When we got to their house they kept feeding us food and they even turned on there AC unit for the first time ever.  It was just so fun and we even got to cut wood for her.  But they are some of the most giving people I have ever met and they just made our week.

One of our members found that I play volleyball.  So after one of our activities with the YM and YW he went and bought us a volleyball!!!  We were so excited!  Today we are playing against the elders and whoever loses has to buy ice cream for everyone.  We're super exited about that!!

We also rode bikes this week.  Because our area is so big and so country we have bikes, but we never have ridden them before.  And I was hoping we never would.  But we had an appointment that didn't have a bus that went by there and it was too far to walk so we had to ride bikes........ So we tried to ride them with skirts, but we could tell it wasn't going to work because it was super windy and our skirts were just going everywhere.  So we ended up just taking our skirts off and putting sweats on.  It was a sight to see haha it took us over a hour to bike to there house and it was the hottest day this week when we were biking and so we were super sweaty but now i can say that we have ridden bikes and I don't think we are ever going to do it again because our butts hurt way too much from the bike ride hahaha.

Here are some answers to your questions Mom.

We mostly walk everywhere we go.  And if it is too far away we will take a bus, and if it is even farther we will take a train.  And we do have taxies that we can take sometimes if we have to get somewhere in a hurry, but we are mostly walking.

Our apartment is super nice like I am still surprised how nice it is.  It has two bedrooms and a kitchen area though it is really small. And we just sleep in one room and the other one has our closets and the washer in it.  The bathroom is small and it has a toilet sink, a shower and a normal toilet.  The shower is different, it has no curtain.  It's just like the whole room is tiled so everything just gets sprayed down.

The stores are really small like boutiques everywhere, but they are really run down I don't know how to really explain it.

Our typical meal just depends, sometimes we get takeout and that can just vary.  But if a member is feeding us it's rice and then a meat and then a bunch of different side dishes.  And then you take the meat and rice and put it in a lettuce leaf and shove it in your mouth.

At church we are in Young Womens so we teach one young woman on Sunday.  And then we just have to set up the chairs and clean the church before.

We mostly just go out and walk and talk to people while we are walking and sometimes we go and knock doors.

Korea is fun, i love you all!!!
SISTER LEE

When we went and ate with a member

A view of the city