Dear
Family,
Normally,
we just work individually as companionships, but sometimes we'll do stuff
together. We have an area meeting each week to plan things that we do
together.
We
haven't been able to meet any of the foreigners we met the other day, but
speaking of foreigners, yesterday some Chinese people stopped by the church
after our meeting was over. They didn't know English or Korean, so we
couldn't communicate with them, but one of the young women called a friend she
has who knows Chinese, so we were able to translate over the phone that
way. They came to Korea a few weeks ago, and are looking for a church to
go to. We got their contact information, so now we just have to find
someone who speaks Chinese :)
I've
never seen a bird like that before. My guess is that it is from a
different part of the world that someone smuggled there, got lost in a storm
and ended up in Utah, or it's some kind of mutant. My bet is on the
latter. If you asked Jonah he would know, no doubt about it.
Sounds
like everyone is pretty busy. That sounds weird to think of shoveling
snow, I think I forgot what snow looks like until I saw that picture you sent.
We
don't have a regular service project that we do in Gimhae, like we usually have
in other areas. I heard that the missionaries used to work at a rest
home, like cleaning or something, but because of the MERS epidemic last summer
(did you ever hear about that? I think it was only big news in Korea)
they had to stop. So we're actually in the process of finding a service
project right now, but haven't had much luck so far. Our mission
leader suggested we go to old apartments and ask if we can repaint the walls
for them...we'll see what happens.
As
far as I know, missionary-run English classes are always at the church.
In other areas we normally have all the students in one class, but since we
have three teams here we divide into a beginning and intermediate class, and
the sisters teach a kids class. Elder Yoon and I teach the basic class.
Lately
it's been a struggle to figure out what to eat. None of us, including
Elder Yoon, know how to make very many different Korean foods, and if you want
to eat American food it's kind of expensive. So we've been living off of
four or five different meals for the past transfer and a half--bokkeumbap (the
fried rice stuff that's really easy to make), dongaseu (Japanese, they call it
a "pork cutlet" but it's just like a patty of ground pork that we
make sandwiches out of), curry, or ramyun (Korean Ramen). And then cereal
for breakfast usually, which is really expensive in Korea btw.
"Cheap cereal" is like 5 bucks here for a normal box size, or you can
get a big bag for 12. Koreans normally eat soups for breakfast, which
none of us know how to make, or want to eat, so we live off cereal.
Sorry, I probably shouldn't have told you what we eat, now you're probably
going to worry about our health. You don't need to worry, I think that
missionaries have a special blessing that they can eat whatever they want and
it doesn't affect them very much :)
Yesterday
after church, we did a proselyting activity with the ward to advertise our
English class. We invited everyone, and about 20 people came, mostly
young men (which is a lot more than I expected). We had some boards
that said "free English" and passed out fliers to people who walked
by. It was really fun to see all of the YM helping us and trying to talk
to everyone who passed. The weird thing was seeing how much the YM and
primary kids look up to the missionaries and watch every little thing they
do. I remember being in their place, and I never imagined what it would
be like to be where I am now, as a missionary. And now that I am a
missionary, it's so weird to see them and know exactly what that feels like.
But anyway, we had a really fun time :)
Today
for p day we are back in Nampo (if you remember, that's in Daeshin area where
all the shopping places are) because a member that Elder Aurich knows keeps
bugging us to come visit her, so we decided to just hang out in Nampo while
we're at it. It's so exciting to show my old area to Elder Yoon, it's
like I'm a dad or something...weird.
Anyway,
that was the gist of my week. Thank you for all your support!
Love,
Elder
Hines
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