This week has been pretty good, mostly because of one of my
investigators, EYH. So when we met with him on Wednesday, he
asked us what our biggest problems right now are. Elder Suter said not
having very many people to teach, and I said not understanding Korean. He
told us he would think about it. On Saturday after English class, he drew
out an outline for a flier, and told us he would tell all his friends about
English class. He kept telling us that he will be the "Korean
missionary." So on Sunday, he typed up the flier after church and
made a bunch of copies. At the bottom of the flier, he put "Korean
missionary phone number" in English with his number below it. Then he
drove us in his car to a bunch of different schools and put up the fliers with
us. And every time someone passed on the street, he told them about us
and gave them a flier. Then he took us out to lunch after that. He
kept telling me that he would help me with Korean, and that he is sure I will
be fluent in the future. He said by the time I am fluent in Korean, he
will be fluent in English, and then we can communicate in both languages.
It was so nice of him to not only ask about our problems, but actually follow
up and do something about it.
We only got to teach JJ once this week, but it was an
amazing teaching experience. We taught the Restoration, and I have no
idea what was different, but I was able to say everything that I wanted to, and
for the most part didn't even stumble over the words. I just somehow knew
exactly what I needed to say, and was able to say it. It was the best
I've ever taught, and I hope that somehow I will be able to continue to teach
like that.
I got to give a talk in Sacrament meeting yesterday on
charity. It actually turned out pretty well; I think I went for a full 15
minutes, which was really surprising. It was probably just because I was
talking so slow though. :)
I know I already told you how lame it is that people were saying
that "mandu myul mang" is so delicious, but I thought of a good
comparison to help you understand what it would be like. It is basically
the Korean equivalent of what Dad used to feed me and Colton for lunch when we
were little sometimes--white bread with American cheese in the middle,
microwaved on high for 30 seconds, and served with a side of goldfish
crackers. If people really said that it is delicious and a missionary
staple, they must have had an interesting diet.
Yeah, as far as making pizza and hamburgers, that would be super
expensive for all the ingredients. Elder Suter and I are at a major loss
as to what to eat. Elder Suter was an office Elder before training me,
and so he always got fed by the president, and he said he doesn't remember it
being this hard to figure out what to eat before that.
No, we never work with the less-actives. Any who we have
tried to meet with have just been really opposed to talking with us. That's just how Korea is though, tons of people go inactive, and then just get
annoyed when the missionaries bug them.
We always take a bus when we go to mission headquarters; it
actually isn't as hard as it looks to get there. It would be super
expensive to take a boat, buses are fairly cheap. As to the route, we go
north from Tongyeong through Masan, and then east to Busan. I don't know
how much that helps, but that's as descriptive as I know how to explain
it.
We have a washing machine in our apartment, so we can just do it
whenever we need to. And dryers don't exist in Korea, so everything just
has to air dry. We email at the church in the clerk's office (is that
what it's called? I can't remember the English names for some things anymore).
That's all I got for this week, we're going with the sisters in
our area to an island today, I'll send you pictures next week. Hopefully
it's pretty cool :)
Love,
Elder Hines
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