A friend of ours, her son (Eric) is doing an internship in Seoul, Korea, and offered to take a package to mail to Jordan while in Korea. Of course, we thought of cookies! We mailed some peanut butter cookies and some chocolate chip cookies.
Here is what Jordan had to say in his letter:
The package was wonderful! Thank you SO much for cookies. I celebrated and bought MILK. Oh my gosh it was so good. Thank you! Elder Ghergori also loves the cookies.
I called Eric and when we go to Seoul, he'll drive over to meet us.
That should be great, we talked for a few minutes. I'm really excited
to see him!
Okay, now for my adventures this week!
We didn't have many, except on Friday, we went to Kangnang for a
sports meeting! There were 12 missionaries, the ones from our zone, some
members, and investigators that the missionaries brought. In all, maybe
about 50 people came. We played soccer, chok-u, which is soccer and
volleyball combined. You play with a shorter net, and you can only kick
or head the ball. It can bounce a few times, but only once between hits.
Koreans get pretty crazy with their kicks! They jump up and spin to
'spike' the soccer ball down to the opposite court. It's definitely a
sport designed for Asians and kung-fu masters. It's super fun.
The only downside to a really fun day was that we were super tired
after, and...I got burned. Everyone did. We didn't know it would be that
hot, but it's not too bad. There's '약 국's every 30 feet in Korea
(Medicine stores). They're everywhere. So we got some aloe-copycat, and
when I go to Costco next week, I'll pick up some good sunscreen and
aloe.
Yesterday we had two visitors in our ward, both missionaries that
served here! One was an American that served here 6 years ago, and he
brought his wife and baby, and the other is a Korean, who's trainer was
trained by the American, funnily enough. They were super awesome to
meet, and both got up and gave a short testimony. I wish it was longer,
because...I had to speak. So the topic was 승영.
What the heck is that?
It's not in the dictionary. Turns out the Korean language doesn't have
the word 'exaltation'. So the church made it up. Just like the words "tracting" and
temple "sealings." So it was hard to find what it actually meant, not to
mention talk about it for 10 minutes. Then our branch president comes up
to me the day before and says, 'oh, by the way, just make it 20
minutes, we only have one other speaker tomorrow.'......crap.
On Sunday,
the other speaker comes up to me and says she wasn't well prepared, and
leaves me with almost 30 minutes to speak, even with the other return
missionaries. So I spoke...and spoke... and spoke. After an eternity of
rambling, I sat down, but it only took about 15-17 minutes. But the
branch president said it was really good. So at least I didn't end after
5 minutes or something. That was a... frightening experience. But when I
got up and told the congregation of 20 that I didn't even know what the
topic meant in English 3 days ago, that made them laugh. Once I learned what
it meant, it was easier to talk about it.
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| Jordan and a friend from his high school days |
Other than that, not too much happened up here in Sokcho, but my MTC companion is in our district, and it's time for exchanges, so I'll be back up with good ole' Elder Smith this week!!! I'm super excited. He's awesome.
Until next week,
-Elder Franchina
뿅!
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