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| A beautiful village |
Hello!!
So it hasn't been a super eventful week, but sometimes
that's just how the weeks go. it's still missionary work though, so it's always
exciting!
This week started with a lot of tracting around the city and
trying to just talk to everyone. Lot's of the Koreans are just content with the
church or belief they have though. But we did a lot of walking,
we ended up walking around a mountain literally, haha. Even though it isn't
like a Utah mountain, it was still pretty big. We found a sweet little korean
village in the valley too, so we got to talk to some people there. We also got
one of the people we're teaching, ............., to come to church, and the
members here are so great and welcomed him so warmly! I feel bad because I
literally have no idea what he says when he talks to me, haha. So we have been
relying on members to help teach him, haha.
Fun church name I saw this week: we saw some other
missionaries from a church called the "Good Fruit Church". So you can
tell there are all sorts of churches here, haha. Unfortunately they weren't
giving our fruit samples though.
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| one of the many churches here |
Kind of funny story: So first off, in korean culture, they
don't really drink during the meal. I don't know why, but they just don't. Also
when they eat, they usually have a soup as part of the meal, that tends to be
very hot. So we went to a members home for a meal one night, and they brought
the food out, and I even knew it was hot! haha, I could see the steam coming
off the soup. But being the guy who built his house upon the sand, I ate a
mouthful of very hot soup and other stuff in it. haha, so I tried to compose
myself, especially since there was no water to give me relief, and just ended
up pushing the food to the top of my mouth while some silent tears came out of
my eyes, haha. It finally cooled enough just for me to quickly swallow it, and
luckily no one saw my little tears, haha. But I guess that the food was so hot
I burned the inside of my mouth, and ended up getting a 물집, or
a blister in my mouth. In korean, blister literally just translates to
"Water House". So it was a very interesting and not very pleasant
experience, but I think it's funny now, so hopefully one of you finds it
enjoyable.
That was my week! The gospel is true! the works move
forward! I encourage all of you to continue to go through this past general
conference's talks and receive even further revelation from our prophets!
Much Love,
Elder Hanks