Dear Family,
Actually,
I feel less adventurous now than when I first came to Korea. When I first came,
I was basically willing to try any food, but now that I've tried a lot of
Korean food, I don't really branch out as much. But I had to try dog meat,
because you can't live in Asia and not eat it, right? :) So I don't think
Koreans totally look down on eating dog meat, but a lot of people think that
it's weird. I asked Sister Park about it, and it's mostly just older people who
eat it because they think that it's healthy. A long time ago people ate it
when there was nothing else to eat, but now that part of their culture is
starting to die off in the younger generation. No, they don't just kill stray
dogs :) They actually have dog markets where they raise and sell them.
They're not very common, but I think there are a couple in Busan. Lots of
Koreans have dogs for pets, but I haven't seen too many Koreans with cats for
pets. Mostly just stray cats.
Sister
Park's companion is pretty fun, but they never do anything with us. They are
always studying since Sister Cooper is a trainee and thinks she needs to be
studying all the time. Elder Mitchell and I and the two sisters are all
assigned to Jungni Ward, and that's it. Normally Elders only have one ward to
worry about, but it's fairly common for Sisters to be assigned to two wards or
branches.
The
weather here has actually been pretty weird. In Jungni area, it hasn't
rained for over a month now, but in Suseong (which is the next area over and
part of the same city) there was a major downpour. My companion was on
exchanges there at the time, and said it felt like he was just walking through
a swimming pool because there was so much water coming down. Luckily our
apartment has AC, we would literally die if there wasn't. It's
interesting, because for some reason when you use the AC and the temperature of
the room goes down, the humidity almost completely goes away. Maybe it's
just not noticeable when it's cool. Yeah, Koreans don't use deodorant, and deodorant
is basically impossible to find here. But Koreans actually have a reason
for not using it. For some reason, they just don't have body odor. It's
really weird, because I haven't really smelled body odor since I was in the
MTC. Koreans also don't sweat as easily, so maybe that's why they don't have
body odor. They sweat when they eat though, which is kind of weird, but
that's besides the point. So no bad BO smells, just kimchi and sewage :)
Not
much happened this week, we weren't able to meet very many people. On
Wednesday, our mission leader took us out to lunch, and after that we were
planning with the sisters when another member came to the church and wanted to
play ping-pong with us. So that day was shot. Thursday we had Zone Conference
all day. And on Saturday we had a ward picnic all day. It was really fun,
I'll send you a few pictures. We went up in the mountains and hung out by this
river and just ate and talked and stuff for most of the day. We got quite a few
non-members to come, so it wasn't a total waste of time :) So like half
our week was taken up with other stuff, and the people who we had time to meet
cancelled on us, so that was kind of depressing. We don't really do much
together with our district or zone, so I don't really have anything to say
about that. Today we had a zone p-day though, we just hung out and had
lunch together. Nothing much, but it was pretty fun.
I
think I got off on a lot of tangents there, hopefully I answered your
questions. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder
Hines
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