Elder Jung No Young actually trained Elder Suter in his
second transfer, so yeah, pretty early. He goes home at the beginning of
March.
The pig intestines weren't too bad, there was just way too
much cartilage to be able to enjoy it. And they look really gross, so that
interfered as well. The kind we had didn't have anything in them, but the
kind I told you about before, Sunde, is stuffed with noodles cooked in
blood. Yeah, I know, delicious.
We order chicken every once in a while, which is so good I'm
surprised it's not against the rules. Seriously, if someone opened up a
Korean chicken restaurant that delivers to people's houses like they do in
Korea, they would be rich in a matter of weeks. For reals. The
members feed us every once in a while. It's not like those spoiled Utah
missionaries that pass around a sign-up sheet in Relief Society to have the
missionaries over. We just take turns with the three families in our branch.
Dad should definitely grow out his beard until I get
back. I don't know why he didn't think of that sooner, that's an amazing
idea.
President Barrow doesn't really memorize poems, but he seems
to have a lot of scriptures and quotes memorized. What I meant by that is
that he always seems to be able to give good advice, and he cares about other
people a lot.
As far as members here being more engaged, I have a story
about that. We got invited over by a lady in our branch for dinner. The
branch president and his wife also came, which I would guess is because the
lady didn't want to have to sit all dinner with two boys and actually have to
talk to them. But anyway, they were talking, and all by themselves,
without any prompting from us, started talking about missionary work, and what
they can do to help find more people. This lady and the branch president's
wife talked about coming to English class to try and fellowship the people who
come. And then they were talking about who they knew that they could refer
to us. It was amazing, we just sat back and just let it happen.
Members of the branch who actually come to church is 15-20,
we have had 17 the past two weeks. There are just the three main families,
and then a few other families who are sporadic in coming. I'm not sure
about the total membership in Gimcheon.
We always teach English twice a week. Elder Payne is
really good at Korean, as far as I can tell. He is super funny, we have a
lot of fun together. Transfer day is next Monday, but I'm pretty sure we
won't get transferred since we both just barely got here. But anything
could happen.
We met the lady from Andong for the second time last
week. I'm not sure what to think about here, because she is pretty good at
English, and so always talks to us in English. But if we ask a question in
Korean, she always responds in English. From my experience, when this
happens it means they just want to practice English and don't have real gospel
interest. But she seems pretty sincere, so we'll see how it goes. The
sisters have come to Gimcheon both times we have met her, but we are going to
try and get someone from the branch to come so they don't have to.
I love you, have a great week!
Love,
Elder Hines
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