Annyeonghaseyo!
So this weekend was Korean Thanksgiving, Chuseok! Koreans take three days off from work to have the holiday with all their family. Usually people take the first day to travel out to their hometown, spend the second, main day with their family, and the third day traveling back to where they live. They do 차래 (charae), which is kind of a ceremony to honor their ancestors,and just hang out together. It's a really good time for them, and we had a good time too. A bunch of us got together and played games, and then we went down to the big palace in Gwanghwamun Square that's in front of the Korean President's house, where they had traditional Korean games and other activities going on. That was really fun. Here's a part of my journal about when we went to visit the office senior couple on the first day of 추석: "After that we went to the Ellis’ house to give them a message card and have a meal, and President and Sister Christensen were there too. That was really fun, especially when President and Elder Ellis got talking about the old days, like having a bunch of parasites and missionaries seeing who could get the longest tapeworm and a bunch of other random stuff. It was pretty funny. :D" I'm glad we live in slightly more modern times!
Also our mission had a "change day," where we switched the locations of all the furniture in the house and cleaned under them and stuff. The space under the bunk beds in our room was pretty scary, it had some really big dust bunnies and other assorted junk. Now our bedroom feels so much bigger and cleaner! Missionary houses are often pretty scary because we're supposed to use all our time for missionary work except on Preparation day, and cleaning usually takes lower priority to most people than going out and doing fun stuff with other missionaries. :D In honor of Change Day, me and Elder Olsen (one of the office elders) went in and changed around a bunch of the chairs and President Christensen's desk in his office (we know where the spare key is),and put a little sign up that said "Happy Change Day! (We'll put it back on Monday morning)" They found it and thought it was pretty funny. Then we came back later that night and they had come in to the office and messed a bunch of stuff up. the trash cans were on the desks, the chairs were mixed around and piled on top of one another, and all the things on our desks were switched around. They even left our sign on the floor in front of the door. :D It was a fun day.
So life is good. Serving in the office is hard for a lot of reasons, but lately I'm working on finding joy in every moment and on choosing to have a good attitude. It's a better way to live than just being annoyed or frustrated all the time, even if it takes more effort. Life is never easy, but it's always good if you look for the good in it. Thanks for all you've done to help me see the good and to be a good influence in my life; hope you have a great week! Love you all!
Elder Dean
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