Happy fourth of July! You're probably having the time of your lives up there in Wisconsin or Nauvoo or wherever you are right now.저도 즐거워 하고든요. :D That means I'm having fun too. We had a couple move in to the ward this last week; the husband is a member, but his wife isn't yet. They were taught in the previous ward, and she's basically golden, I think. And they have a 12-year-old kid (Korean age--in American age he's 10), and he's cool. I made friends with him at his parents' request, and he actually looked excited to come to church after that. :D I'm really looking forward to working with them, especially because our finding efforts on the street and whatnot haven't been too effective yet.
Last week was way fun! We went to the area next to ours, and the missionaries there are ones I've known since the MTC, Korean and American. It was actually our whole district, so it was a blast. We kind of ran out of time with the cinammon rolls because the yeast we used at first was dead, so we had to go buy more. But I got to eat a few, and they were really good! What was more valuable to me was the fun we had, though. We quoted Monty Python and the Holy Grail for ten minutes or so, and that was really fun. And our district leader told a really funny story about how he almost blew his hand off with a homemade pipe bomb one time. He's so great. :D The sisters weren't there because they weren't in our district, but maybe someday we can all get together. We did that once at a zone activity where we played indoor soccer, and one of the sisters basically destroyed us. Good times. :D
My translator is pretty good. It has a keyboard and a touch screen, which is way nice. It plays music and stores pictures and has some educational programs on it that I don't really use, because learning by the Spirit is better. :D I got it for a good deal, but I feel like if I'd shopped around a little more I could have gotten something with a few less bells and whistles that was smaller and cheaper. But I heard a quote about marriage one time -- "Choose your love, and love your choice." So that's what I'll do. :D I think it'll be pretty useful for when I study Korean in college.
We had dinner at a member's house, and they invited a few other people too. I'll send you a picture of it. The couple on the far right are Ha Tae Wan, whom I told you about a few times.
I formatted my memory card with no problems, and next week I'll download all my pictures onto my flash drive so I can send the memory card to you. Make sure you send all the pictures to Grandma and Grandpa, or put them on my blog when you get that up and running. Whatever you need for the blog, just let me know.
Ko Gwang Jin, the man I baptized, is doing great. He comes to church most weeks, and I can tell he and his wife are more unified and happy now. He's an amazing man, and I'm glad to know him.
Transfer calls are in two weeks from tonight. If I stay here I'll be surprised, because I think they'll make Elder Kim a senior because he's almost done with pass-off. He's working way hard on it. His family is about average age in the Church for Korea, which means he is the second generation because the church only came like two generations ago. His family actually went less-active (though they still read the scriptures together and stuff), and through the efforts of missionaries, they came back, so that's really good for his testimony. He's great, and we get along really well. I'm learning a lot about communication in a companionship that will help me when I get married, I think.
Well, that's about all. I hope you all have a great fourth of July! Tell Austin to catch some fireflies for me, and take some good pictures. I love you all!
Elder Matt Dean
 |
| Elder Dean and Elder Kim at the dinner he wrote about. |
No comments:
Post a Comment