BEDNAR!!!!

This week was super exciting and we had Elder Bednar come to our mission to do a mission tour!!! Ahhhh I was so excited.  Since my new area is so far away, we got to go sleep over at one of the other missionaries house the night before and then we woke up at 4 and traveled to Busan so we could meet President Bednar!!

It was super fun and I learned so much from his talk he gave to us.  The biggest thing that I learned though it that we need to act on our prayers.  We can pray as much as we want, but if we don't act and do our very best to fulfill our prayers Heavenly Father isn't going to help us.  So I have learned that I need to do as much as I can, and then Heavenly Father will help me with what I can't do on my own.

We also started decorating for a Halloween party that we are going to do with the branch so I am super excited about that and you will hear all about it next week!!

See if you can find me!!

My new companion and I

 Eating Gim dack

Our Elders

TRANSFERS!!!

This week has been an exciting week first off I got TRANSFERRED out of 밀양(miryang) :( I am so sad.  It was so hard for me to leave, but I am following the Lord right now and great things are going to happen.  I got transferred to 안동 (andong).  I am super excited about this, apparently it is 1/3 of the mission... it's huge and it's all country!!!  So that means I will be harvesting a lot this transfer for the members so I am super excited about this!!!  My new companion is Korean and she doesn't speak much English ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so excited because hopefully my Korean will improve so much this transfer!!

Last week I went on exchanges with Sis. Thornly and it was so much fun.  I went to mason with her. And we did a lot of proselyting and I was able to go to her English class with her.  Which was super fun.  There was so many people there and I ended up just teaching the cutest girl (she was so cute) the alphabet and then I taught her head shoulders knees and toes.  It was so much fun!

I also found Dr. Pepper here in Korea and I was so excited because it's in KOREA!!!  So my week was made!

So for our last day in 밀양 we went over to our branch presidents house and had dinner.  And they are some of my favorite people in Korea.  They had this grill and they just kept cooking meat for us... like 10 packages of meat and then they also made a chicken casserole and they kept feeding it to us because it's American food.  It was super good, but every time I finished a piece another one came on, and if I didn't eat I was told to eat.  It was so funny one of the other elders and I that were leaving ended up eating 8 piece of casserole each.  I really don't think I have ever been that full in my life.  I was about to throw up.  But because it was them I would do that any day.  So before we left the elder and me that were leaving shared Joseph Smith's first vision and then our testimonies of Joseph Smith and we had the kids do the same, the spirit in that house was amazing.  Such a good family!!!
BYE have a good week
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Miryang branch and church my favorite young women! 

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!! 

DEAD things

This week has been a busy week.  We started off the week going and visiting one of our less active members.  She is in her 90's and she lives alone in the middle of nowhere.  And the only reason she is less active is because she lives so far away.  So we took an hour long bus ride and then walked 2 hours to her house.  The entire walk to her house it was pouring and we were finding dead frogs on the road. They were everywhere.  And my companion and one of the elders were freaking out, because they have never seen frogs in their life or dead animals.  Ahh so funny.  They are both from Seoul and apparently they don't have animals there at all.  Once we got to her house she didn't answer the door or her phone. And we all started to worry because we tried to visit her last week and she didn't answer then either.  So we were all thinking she was dead!  We decided we better go and check and make sure she wasn't dead because we are the only ones that ever visit her.

So after searching for a while we found a door that was unlock and we made the elders go inside because we didn't want to find a dead person.  And it turns out she is NOT DEAD!!!!  We were so happy!  They house was empty.  So after a lot of phone calls we found out she was in Busan visiting family for a month!

On Sunday we also went on a Guitar and Banana bread tour!  So we had a lot of members not show up to church on Sunday so we decided to go and do a quick visit to them giving them banana bread and my companion singing you are my sunshine to them.  And it was so funny because we found out that old Korean people do not like you are my sunshine.  Every member that we sang it to them, told us they didn't like it and that we should come back next week with a better song.  So we are going to go again next week with a different song!!  But because of our guitar and banana bread tour we got two member referrals from them!  And we haven't gotten a member referral here in over a year so we are super excited for that!!

Love you all and hope you enjoyed conference!! I get to watch it this week in English and I am so excited about that, it is like Christmas for me!!!
love you!!

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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

안녕하세요!!!‏

Ahhh this week has been so much fun!!  Can I just say that I love Koreans!!  I think they are all just super cute and funny!  I survived week 1 with my new companion!!  her name is 김혜령 (kim- hey-rong) and she is just super cute.  And guess what she can speak English super well!!  She went to BYU before coming on her mission.  She is from Seoul and I just love her!!!!
This week has been super fun and interesting.  My companion lost her voice so I have had to do most of the speaking. So it's crazy and pretty funny, but I hope I am getting better with Korean.  I found out that my like tone and how I have been speaking Korean sounds funny when I ask them.  So she has been working with me to improve it.  And it is so funny, we will be walking down a road and I will just keep saying the same sentence over and over until I get it right.  I am pretty sure I am going to start driving her crazy! but hey I am learning Korean!!
We had a YM and YW activity this week.  And we decided to play ninja with them.  And I don't think I have ever played such a weird game of ninja in my life.  They were super slow when they would go to try and hit some one, like so slow.  And most of the time they were just trying to get away from everyone, so no one could reach them.  My companion and I were chasing after them to try and play the game with them.  Let's just say that Koreans are not competitive at all!
We also had our investigator come to church again!  And it is so crazy to see her progress with the missionaries!!  She actually will talk to us now and joke and she now gets involved in what we are doing.  It's an amazing thing to see.  So we're super excited to see her progressing.  The church is true!!!

Here is some picture of Miryang.. so pretty!
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