Story Time!

So this week, we did EXCHANGES! Woot. Usually they only last for a day, but for our area, it's so far away it'd cost too much to do it just for a day, so we met up for district meeting on Wednesday like we usually do, then I went with elder Annen, our district leader, to WonJu (원주), and his comp went with mine back to SokCho. It was great! I worked on passing off some lessons and vocab that new missionaries have to do, and we worked on his English flyer, and passed some of those out. We spent a lot of time just talking about ideas of how to talk to people, designs for English class flyers, and stuff like that.

We cut out hearts in 5 colors and taped them all over his branch president's door with a little note. Usually they leave treats but our cookies weren't that good. We call that a 'heart attack', and people here love it. So we'll be doing that in SokCho soon ^_^ It's a good way to let the member know you're thinking of them, build some 정, and have some fun while you're out on your mission!

We then had a kind of 'stake conference', which was 5 branches meeting in Kangnan for two days. So on Saturday we all went there for our first meeting, I got my comp. back, and it was fun! We had two meetings that day, we slept in TongHae that night, then went back to Kangnan for the Sunday meeting.

Sleeping in TongHae was... unusual. The AP's were there, as well as me and my comp, and the threesome in TongHae. So we lined up the yohs (futon for you Japanese speakers) edge to edge and had a spare mattress all in one room to sleep in, but there was a small area of floor, about 2 and a half feet wide and 6 feet long where it was just bare floor. So I slept there. No blanket, mattress, nothing. It wasn't bad though, the floors are kind of heated. But it was pretty uncomfortable. But I slept good on the hour long bus ride back to SokCho Sunday night. ^_^

Today is our branch president's birthday, the Senior missionary here, Elder An (안). He's super nice, and SO funny! Holy cow. Love this guy. So we're going out to celebrate in a few minutes, we're going back to ASHLEYS!!  ^_^  I'll take some pics for y'all.

Missions are awesome, Korea is super cool, and Korean is the best language evah.

Love you all and talk to you in a week!