Dear Family,
Today has been probably the
craziest day of my life. I had literally
a minute to stash my stuff in my room and I went straight to a Korean
class. The instructor, Brother Memmott,
doesn't speak any English to us, which is probably a good thing but it's really
frustrating. He tried to teach all kinds
of things, but I can't remember any of it. It made me feel a lot better when we met our zone leaders. They all bore their testimony in Korean, and
two of them have only been here three weeks. I guess it helps to have five to six hours of language instruction a
day.
My companion is Elder
Porcaro, he is way cool and seems really familiar for some reason. It's funny because he told me that I look
familiar too. He is from Spanish Fork
and has been there all his life, so neither of us can figure out how we know
each other. I'll send you a picture and
maybe you can figure it out.
We had an activity where we
had investigators come and we had to figure out what to say and how to deal
with/relate to them. One of them was a
man who was born in Italy
and moved here when he was 17. He was
really fun and had a great sense of humor, despite losing his wife and one of
his children. He said something that was
really cool. You might not think so
since it's not in context, but it went along the lines of, "You know when you’re
driving on a bumpy road? You finally get back on the smooth asphalt and you
have to turn the radio down, because you didn't realize how bumpy it was until
you get off of it." He was relating it to the trials he had experienced
and I thought it was pretty profound.
So p-day is on Thursdays
here, but we don't get a p-day this week, so I won't be able to email you until
next week. I love you so much and I hope
you are doing OK.
Love,
Elder Hines
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| Packed and ready to go! |
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| Family picture at the Provo Temple |
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| Ready or not. . . |
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| A kind Elder who is going to Finland was there to meet us and get Chris where he needed to go. |
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