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| With our good friend Jafar |
Good week. We met with a few people and got punked by a bunch. We spent a lot of time calling old numbers out of the member book. Because it is still super cold, and there is not many people on the gimcheon streets.
I went on exchange with the Andong Elders after district meeting last week. We got back into their area at about 5pm since it is take so long to get there. I went with Elder Vanwart who is in his third transfer. He's from Idaho and played rugby so I got to hear all about his team who is top 25 in the nation LOL. But it was a really good exchange. We also met with their recent convert who is about 13 years old.
Yesterday we met with our friends from Iran again. They are literally my favorite people in this whole area. They brought a new friend this time named Jafar. But Koreans can't make the F-sound so he introduces himself here as Japan. He is 50 and has a wife, kids and grandkids back in Iran that really want him to come back but he has to make money so he has been slaving over here for over a year. Our meeting went really good tho. I taught them Korean, they taught me some more Farsee, and then we talked about Jesus. It will be easier once we get pamphlets in their language.
Tomorrow we will have zone conference down in Hogye, my old area, so im pretty pumped about that. Other than that not too much else goin on. Its cold.
Have a great week.
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| The District and friends in our tradition Korean garb |
Busy week. We had zone conference on tuesday which was combined with Ulsan zone so we had to all the way down to hogye. But it was super fun riding the train down there as a zone. And it was also super cool to be back in me old area.
The conference was ehh but they did tell us we would be getting Facebook and Kakao talk which is pretty chill. Then after we all went to a meat restaurant and almost put the place out of business.
Wednesday morning I went down to Gumi for an exchange with Elder Winter until Thursday morning and then went from there strait to Andong for an exchange with Elder Koo Chanwoo until friday afternoon. While I was in Andong we went to the sister's investigators junior high graduation. So many koreans. It was pretty funny. The students danced to psy's gentleman. One of the sisters from our mission who went home three weeks ago also came. And it was a good thing we all went because the girls parents didnt show up. Apperently the mom ledt years ago and the dad comes home only every couple of days so she basically lives alone.
On Saturday we went and met with a less active that week meet every week. He is about 80 years old and lives by himself in like a junk yard. Its strait up the trap. His house looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book. We just go in, make sure he's still alive, check his food and water, share a message, and then try to teach him how to use his smart phone. But its no use. Its like trying to teach a 4-year-old how to operate a space shuttle. He's still trying to figure out how to get out of an app. Instead of pressing the home button he clicks the lock button on the side and turns it off. Then sits there for a good 30 seconds and then turns it back on. And gets frustrated when he see's that the app is still open. He'll do that five or six times before his pinky finger accidentally hits the home button and gets out of the app. It was funny the first two visits, now I just feel bad.
Yesterday we met witb our Iranian friends Hasan, Saeed, and Jafar again. They are always super fun. They facetimed their families in Iran for us to talk to them so I got to use my limited Pharsi. I have come to realize that Pharsi and English are a thousand times easier than korean.
We are on the train right now on our way to Susung to buy some Hanbok, Korean traditional clothes. We have to wear them on lunar new year this week.
Hope all you little riderz have a great week.
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| Hiking with the Elders for P-Day |
This past week was lunar new year so all the Koreans were celebrae'in. We were too. We all went down to susung last week to buy some HanBok, Korean traditional clothing. They are usually a few hundred dollars. If they are really nice they can be over a thousand. So all the missionaries went down to the market and got second hand ones for ten dollars. They're probably more like fifth or sixth hand but it's chill. Mine smells like an old Korean man even tho I drenched it in febrez. Our whole district wore them to district meeting and then after we went and did district proselyting in them. We stood in the middle of downtown gumi and danced around and played games with people walking past. The we would ask if they wanted to take a picture with us and instead of using their phone we would use our camera, then get their contact info in order to just "send them the picture??."
Then on Thursday I went on exchange with elder Smith from west Jordan. Super cool kid. We met with our friends from Iran and most of the lesson we tried to figure out Saeed's age in Korean age, American age, and Iran age. It was super hard because they use a different calendar in Iran. It's not even 2018 there, it's like 1396. The months are different too.
After we met with them we went to the branch presidents house for dinner along with the sisters. The sisters also made us wear our HanBok to dinner so the branch president and his wife made us do a Korean ritual thingy where we bowed to them and others stuff. I had no idea what was going on.
Then on Friday our whole district went up to Andong wearing our HanBok for another district proslyteing sesh. Andong is two hours away so we went to the andong bus terminal at 7 to get back before 9, but when we got there they said the bus is all sold out and the next one isn't until 8:30. So we took that one and had to sleep over at the Gumi elders house.
We are on the train right now headed down to Susung to go on a zone hike do I cant send pictures right now but I'll do it later today.
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| This is what my suit looks like now - gah! |
his week actually went by pretty fast. On Monday we went down to Susung again to go hiking with all the elders in the zone. I am super out of shape. We went with some american soldiers. The Susung elders cover the korean ward and also the military branch so they invited some of the members to come with us. There was a restaurant at the top of the mountain that we ate at and saw some korean guy almost fall to his death. Luckily he only fell about ten feet and landed on an edge, if he been just a little bit further right he would have missed the edge and splattered in front of all of us. Then some American guy ran up there and started yellin at us cuz he thought we were messin around and made him fall or somethin??....
Tuesday we had interviews with president Jeong which was good. Every transfer when we have interviews we have to prepare what they call certification. We must prepare memorized scriptures and all the bullet points from the PMG and then teach a lesson with them to the mission presidents wife while our companion is in his interview. I basically kill it every time.
Then on Wednesday I went on exchange with Elder Winter from my MTC district. It was pretty lit. Did our service project with father gabiel and washed some dishes for old people. We also ate a ton of pizza school pizza. We had district meeting on thursday and we have to watch a bunch of videos about online missionary work. We are getting facebook and kakao talk soon so they are teaching us how to do proselyting and lessons over facebook. It should be really useful here in korea.
Friday we had english class which is always fun. We found out that one of the korean ladies that comes to our english class is teaching a less active american member in our branch piano. Also sister kang nari came because she was on exchange with our sisters and it was so wierd because we were trainees together in dogye and now she leaves next week. and the sisters in my MTC group left last transfer.
We had a good day at church yesterday. Then the branch presidents family had us over for dinner. He's a super funny guy. He started playing The Script super lound on his speakers, even during the prayer... thats about it. this week is the last week of the transfer so we'll see what happens next week.
Hope you all have the great week
