Jan 28 2019
Hello!! I wasnt really sure what to do for a subject line for my email(1 Nephi 13:22) , but
the scripture explains itself of why I chose it, so you can have a look at it!
What a week though! I feel like so much has happened, but I'm
not totally sure what! I'll just try to start from the beginning.
Last day in 금정 (Geum Jeong) a member just took us our to
get some Natuúr ice cream- hey man, it was ice cream, so no complaints! It was great!
Then I'm now in 신정 (Shin jeong) and it is so
awesome! Surprisingly like half the members speak english super well, like I'd
be having a conversation in Korean, then they'd just switch into English and I was like "what the?" And it happened multiple times. But the members
here work super hard with the missionaries and are super nice. And I gave my
introduction talk in the Branch, and the whole mission presidency was there! So
that was surprising, but fun!
Church name of the week: this one really confused me. But
found a church that the first words directly translates to
"vulgarity" and the second word is "church" so I thought
the church was called the "vulgarity church" which is a really odd
name, especially for a church. So I took the space out from in between the 2
words and the translation changed to "the catholic church". Haha, so
korean is sometimes more confusing to me.
Deep cleaning: so I got to Shin Jeong and was looking around
at the apartment like you do when you move somewhere, and I looked in the
fridge and just shut immediately it was horrifying haha! I mean just imagine
like your nightmare of a fridge, and that's what it was. There was some mystery
sauce dripping from somewhere, old kimchi that just looked like it turned into
salsa, and some vegetables that were, I guess so old they literally had some
sort of white hair growing on them! Haha, so it was bad, so I just spent a
solid 2 hours just cleaning it out, probably threw away the majority of the
fridge, and now we can actually use it! So it was a "fun" experience,
and I'll probably just go into the fridge cleaning business in the future, who
knows!
My new companion is Joe Dong Jin, and hes awesome. Just like
your stereotypical funny asian friend everyone wishes they had, so its gonna be
really fun these next few weeks here! And the sisters in our area are
disappearing (which is like the worst cause sisters make everything easier) but
we are taking over their people being taught, so I'm really hoping to get some
good things sometime soon!
Much Love for you all!
Elder Hanks
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| Our District |
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| Fridge Before... |
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| Fridge after! |
안녕하세요!!
It's been a good week over here! And I'm finally leaving my
first area ,금정 (GeumJeong)! But no I'm not changing missions,
sorry, haha, but just having an exciting subject like that usually gets people
to actually open the email, haha. BUT I am getting emergency transferred! SO
apparently there was an Elder up in 신정 (Shin Jeong) who got injured
and has to go home on Tuesday, so I'll be going up to take his place tomorrow!
Which is really weird cause now I will have had 4 companions in just 3
transfers, so just pretty exciting!
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| To the bath house |
We are close to getting a baptismal date with our friend E...... so that's exciting! We finished almost everything we need to
teach him, we are just working on getting him a date, but I won't be here
unfortunately for it, but I'm gonna try to come
back. We also have another person being taught who has been taught everything
and I guess is just waiting a year in the church to try and learn everything he
can and feel right about him, but we're gonna try and meet with him tonight and
see if he just wants to get baptized this week! So it'll be hard, but you gotta
"Be Bold!"
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| New toaster oven! |
Update: We got a new toaster oven! And to prove that I can
actually bake, I made some bomb blueberry muffins. And they were super good,
and nothing went wrong! But I'm still afraid to try the cornbread batter we
still have, haha,
Church of the Week: I like this one cause we were with a
person we were teaching, and I asked him what it meant, and he said "The
Sheep Door Church". But I didn't see any sheep greeting people at the
door, or frankly any sheep at all, so it was a little confusing, but I liked
it!
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| Yes I can cook once in a while |
Being in Geum Jeong has been great though! It's been
about 4 months here, and the ward has growing so much with missionary work,
and we've been able to get multiple people to church and seen many miracles
here! So it's been a blast serving the people in this area.
If you want to read some really good scriptures to help
strengthen your testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr., read Doctrine and
Covenants 135. It's awesome!
This gospel is so true! You can just feel the truthfulness
of it when you think about it! I'm so comforted to know that Heavenly Father
has everything in control and all is well in the Kingdom of Heaven!
Love you all,
Elder Hanks
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| Chicago style pizza! |
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| Found a fun "Chiness".....restaurant? |
