Dear everybody,
The last couple weeks have been awesome! I'll start from Thanksgiving. There is an English branch of our church in Seoul which is pretty big, and families from the branch volunteered to have all the missionaries inour zone over for Thanksgiving. We went to the Hildebrands' house, along with another family from the English branch. It was so fun. They had four kids, and the other family brought about five, from 2 to 12 or 13 or so. We came in and sat on the couch for a minute, and it was pretty weird at first, but then the kids started showing us their toys, and next thing I knew I was on the floor playing with all of them! It was nice to be around American kids who aren't afraid of me. :D We were quoting the movie "A Christmas Story," the classic, and telling each other about funny videos we'd seen on America's Funniest Home videos. I just had a blast with them. Then we had the dinner, and it was delicious. The turkey was huge, and they had pies and everything. The whole shebang. It was a really good thanksgiving, and I really appreciated their generosity.
Next thing...My companion is a greenie this transfer! He came in a couple weeks ago, and he is awesome. He's super obedient, super fly at Korean, and he studies and works really hard. I'm learning things myself as I train him. We're doing pretty well out here in Bong Cheon, and we're seeing lots of miracles. For example, we were walking on the street to go to a member's house, and this guy who was parking his van said hi to us. We said hi and kept walking, but we both got this feeling that we should go talk to the guy. My first thought was, "no, that's weird, he's in the middle of parking his van," but we really felt like we should go back, so we did. It turned out that he was pretty good at English, and we talked about religion for about ten minutes and then set a return appointment. He drives a van for a daycare, and he has breaks at certain times of the day, but he can't drive the van on breaks, so we had to go and meet him the next week in his van. We talked for a while and built some 정, and then we taught him a lesson about the church right there in his van because it was raining. :D That was one of the most unique lessons ever for me. I also taught one in an elevator, but that was just a practice one at the MTC. Anyway, he is a really good investigator, and we're looking forward to meeting him more. He had a lot of questions about whether God really exists, and if so, how he can get to him. We have the answers, so it went great. :D That was a really good miracle in my eyes--that we were prompted to go back and talk to him when it would have been just as easy to keep walking.
Another miracle: I now have a trumpet in my possession!!!!!! Woo! It's only temporary, though. One of the sisters in our church found out that I play the trumpet, and since she's organizing our ward Christmas concert, she was able to get me a way old tester trumpet from a music store that they use for practice. From the looks of it they might use it to clean chimneys out too, but it still plays pretty well. :D I'm playing along with a choir, and I might play a solo too. I'm so happy to be playing again, it's so great! I used to think it was really annoying back in America, but I found out how much I missed it when I came here. And now, for this short time, I can play again. I'm so happy!
So, I'm doing really well right now. I'm still not the best missionary that baptizes someone every month, but I'm learning and hanging in there. And I'm learning so much that applies to my life, too. Life is pretty good right now!
You know you're in Korea when...
There are zillions of red neon crosses on top of buildings for all the churches here. There are really more churches than I ever thought possible in one country.
When you don't order chicken nuggets at McDonalds, you order puppy nuggets. Ok , just kidding, that might only be in North Korea. :D
When you can buy fish-shaped fried bread with beans in it on the street that tastes super good!
When sales tax is already factored into the price on the tag at all stores. So nice.
When forklifters drive at 30 mph on the street. It's a little scary. :D
When all your tupperware at the house smells like kimchi.
When lots of people wear surgical masks on the street because they think the air is bad. I don't believe it.
Thank you all for being so great. Love you!
Elder Matt Dean
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