Transfers?

Oh my goodness, homemade cookies are so nice. We visited with a member and I brought a few over. She has a handicapped kid in his teens, and he really liked them too. But I hoarded the cookies to myself, mainly. :)

So English class is going good, we have a few new people attending, but still, it's a class full of girls. But they're all over 30, some reaching up to 60 or 70 years old. We have usually 6 or 7 people attend. It's really fun! And they enjoy the spiritual message at the end and usually end up asking questions and stuff.

We have picked up some more 30.30 investigators, which is a program we do: 30 minutes of English teaching, and 30 minutes of gospel. One lady is a member of the Unification church, with Reverend XXXXX. I've never heard much about them, but people say they're really weird. But she's pretty normal. She's Japanese, speaks really good English and perfect Korean; married a Korean, has a cute 3 year old daughter and one on the way! So we practice English with her, and teach her 3 year old English too. She's so cute.

Beware of Dog...Cute Bulldog?

The cookie guy is doing well, he really appreciates all we do for him, and he really loves us. He thinks a lot, and he really wants to believe, but he is always 'thinking about it'. But if he comes to church I know he'll find his answer. It's just hard, because he's trying to make enough money to scrape by and move back with his family down south, and if he closes his shop for even an hour on Sunday, he might not make any money that day. Not a lot of people buy cookies these days.. 

Someone we're teaching is really close to baptism. They went on vacation to China, but they get back today so we'll meet with him tomorrow. This is the person we've been looking for - someone searching for the truth. And I think he realizes he's found it. We'll extend a date for the end of June for him tomorrow.

The Simpsons are popular here.  Sign says to be quiet; baby is sleeping.

Transfers are on the 12th of June, so our calls will come the Saturday before that. I've been here for 4 transfers, so that usually means I'm outta here after this, but there's a missionary here that's been here for 5, and since the mission is splitting, I may stay. I don't know. But I'm super excited to find out what's going to happen!

Korean is the same, the accents and dialects vary on area, but the Seoul Mission is basically the same. Some people say that the area I'm in, is where people speak super fast, but it's not that different than Seoul. Down south in the other two missions is where they have the really funky speech that's really different.

The weather is good, but today it's pouring...No bikes.. Dang. Oh well, but I still love it out here!

Okay, now for my report on the week:

Tuesday was a funny day. We were walking down the street and saw some foreigners, and we decided to pretend not to speak much English, just for fun. Elder Ghergori suggested we do a German accent, so we walked up and just said a normal 'hello', but they replied in a nice, thick, German accent. Whoo. Glad we didn't follow through with our plan. All I know is Haagen Das, Voltswagen, Bratworst, and Saurkraut. That was funny. They were really nice people though.

Wednesday was fun. It was Elder Ghergori's first time teaching district meeting, and then I got to go home to Sokcho with my MTC COMPANION! He's so awesome. He's really good at Korean, but also a really, really good teacher. So I learned a lot from him. He's also really good at talking to people on the street. He'll give high fives to all of the high school kids, then just start talking. One of them is drinking a soda, and he just says, 'Oh, can I have some?' and it kind of breaks the ice or gets them laughing. I guess he calls it 'food proselyting'. He gets free licks of ice cream, chips, or drinks out of it, and the kids always think it's funny.

On Friday, we did our service thing at the Women's Center where we help a less-active teach his English class. They loved meeting with Elder Smith. He's so funny. They told us that they would take us to Ashley's, which is a really nice buffet, and so Elder Smith told them about his experiences with buffets. One day he had four meal appointments within 5 hours of each other, and two of them were buffets. And the missionary rule is at a buffet, you have to eat at least 5 plates, or else you're not grateful. So, naturally, Elder Smith threw up after. So they all started calling him 되지, which is pig. They were just joking around, we laughed the whole time. It was great. Then we went to Ashley's, ate well, and got pictures on the beach! I love it there. 

A kid in our branch, 정 문영 leaves for a mission next week, so he'll give his farewell next week. That'll be cool. Too bad he's going to Busan, if he was going to Seoul Nam, there's a possibility I could get put with him later on! He'll do great.

Well, aside from that, not much to report on last week. But this week is really exciting. On Wednesday we'll go to Seoul, grab some cheap ties, go look around, go to the temple, do a session, sleep at the temple, then have a big mission meeting on Thursday. It's at a huge park in Seoul, and we'll be playing games and have a nice spiritual meeting. I'm super excited!

Love you all and hope to hear from you soon!

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