February 24, 2014 Another Transfer in 천안

 

 

February 24, 2014

Another Transfer in 천안

Hey Family!!

Another week come and gone and next week is a new transfer, this transfer has really flone by.  Just got transfer calls and my companion and I are staying along with most of our district which is a super great thing.  I think this next transfer has lots of things in store:)  This week was my "I can't speak korean" week which is never a good thing.  I had an embarrasing moment where our ward mission leader called but I only saw his wife's name which is almost identical to a member I had called to visit the day before.  Well I answered and he waited forever to talk so I went right ahead and asked to visit that night and they agreed and after almost ending the phone call he explained what he actually called for.  My companion told me who it really was afterwards and I felt so stupid cause we had visited only a couple days before!!  Well, that was my stupid language moment of the week:)

So in korean apartments, every month or so the gas lady comes around and comes in and measures the gas used on the stove.  Well we had a lady come this week and she said she was the gas lady, but when she came in she was a little too friendly.  She saw our stove vent and said it had to be replaced and said she could do it but we had to pay her $30 right then.  The korean sisters almost did but we decided to call sister shin first and the lady got really weird.  We didn't get in touch with sister shin so the lady said she would just go but refused to give us a number or anything.  Later on the apartment security guy came over the intercom and told everyone she was a fake.  Good thing we didn't give her any money or we would be really upset!!

One of the elder's investigators wanted  us to do a children's english class so he could bring his five year old to it.  They haven't been able to come the past few weeks but he keeps telling his daughter that the teacher looks like rapunzel.  They finally were able to come this week and I think I may have been a let down since I am far from rapunzel but the little girl was the cutest thing ever!!  We played uno and sang let it go together, way more fun than teaching english to adults:)  No one told me before my mission I was going to be teaching english, but that is actually how we are able to find most of our investigators.  My favorite people are the ones that are fluent so that we can just have a conversation.  But surprisingly my english is getting worse as I learn more and more Korean.

Nothing too epic from this week since we kept getting punked.  But this week we are meeting lots of potential investigators and I think things are starting to move for us:)  Love you all and hope you have a great week!!

Love,

Sister Jacklin

Picture:  This is for Esther and Phoebe:)  Got forced to eat this by the Elders this week. Never want to experience that again...too squishy and tasted like the sea!!  It wasn’t raw but, was dead and cooked on the little grill thing, but still just this explosion of nastiness in your mouth!!