This week was incredibly busy, but not a lot to report. Here it goes.
We
got up early on Wednesday, went to transfers, and I got to trainers'
meeting. My new companion is Elder Bybee, from Clearfield UT. He's
pretty awesome. He loves taekwondo, anime, and he studied Chinese for 3
years. He's excited to be here. They gave us our brand new phone from
the 80's, it's an old phone, but it'll work. They said, well, we think this
is how you get to your new area. We are opening an area, so we're all
going to be new. So we, with two other elders we're going to live with,
started off on the trek. After climbing stairs after stairs, subway to
subway transfers, and going from apartment to apartment trying to find
it, we did. It's a brand new apartment, which is nice, but the only
downside, is that there isn't much inside. We have the necessary, like
cups and plates, but no toilet paper, extra food left by the old
missionaries, and cleaning supplies. So we had to go out and get all of
that good stuff. Stocking up the new apartment. Elder Bybee and I serve
in 신당, but we are living in 신촌, a little away from the temple, and the
two elders we live with, Elder 박종일 and Elder Bell (also a new
missionary), serve in 신촌, where we're living. They're all really cool,
I'm really excited to be here. Even though we've only been here for 4
days, we already have a whole list of phone numbers we got from just
walking around and talking to people. We also have 2 new investigators
and they're really nice! One seems to be really accepting the message,
but we've only met twice, so we can't be sure yet. The ward is great,
it's really big. They were really happy that even though we're new, we
were able to bring something to them to show we've been working.
Saturday night they had their Christmas party, which was fun, I got to
know some of the members well, then I gave a short introductory talk in
church the next day. The members are really nice. I miss my old ward,
but I think I'll like it here too.
I didn't do much to celebrate my birthday, I opened my presents
(THANK YOU!!), and went to my old ward member's wedding. I've only been
out of the area for a few days, but I already missed the members, so it
was good to see them. The wedding was actually held only a stop or two
away from where our house is now! Fancy that.
Today we are going to go to the bathhouses, then out shopping for
my birthday/Christmas, and also to show our greenies the wonders of
Korea, one p day at a time. I love this work! It's cold, my nose is
stuffy, but something keeps pulling me out to talk to people on the
street and give them books of Mormon! I don't know how he does it, but
my greenie gave away about 6 or 7 books since he got here. Just in a few
days. He's great.
I love this work, and I don't have much longer left
(well, 10 months is a while, but it'll go fast), but I love every second
of it. I love Korea. It's so much fun here. I just want to take all of
you our here and introduce you to the people here and show you around.
Hopefully one day all of you that read this will be able to come out
here :)
Thank you for everything, especially the birthday
wishes and such, it's nice to know you're thinking of me even though I'm
far away.
Elder Franchina
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