March 10, 2014 A week of learning

March 10, 2014

A week of learning

Family,

Hope Everyone had a fabulous week.  This week was a week of learning, miracles, and lots of laughs.

Tuesday we had a combined District meeting where we received some awesome training from our District and Zone leader.  Our District leader said something in his training that really stood out to me. He talked about how trust goes two ways, We have to trust God and his plan and then act on it and as we do that, God can trust us.  I loved this and thought about how I want to work so hard and live the gospel so that God can trust me and guide me to find his prepared children and to those who need my help. 

This week we have been focusing a lot on being as obedient as we possibly can be and talking to as many people as we can.  As we have done this I have really seen the blessings.  We have struggled so much to find new investigators but this week we were able to get two new investigators and have a high potential investigator that we will hopefully meet this week.  Three of our investigators are Buddhist and the other one is Roman Catholic so it will be quite interesting.  The Roman Catholic investigator is a woman in her 30's who is fluent in English.  I can already tell I am going to love her.  It will be interesting though since she is super catholic, she even tried being a nun once!!  The other new investigator is a grandma whose husband is a member, we visited them this week and it felt just like being in nana's house:)  Except I couldn't understand a single thing she said because of her accent and the form of Korean she was speaking.  When I have situations like that I just smile and nod!!  With all these investigators we are going to rely on our testimonies and the power of the Book of Mormon a lot as we teach.

Yesterday we had Stake Conference, Cheongju so great!!  I got to see some of the members from Hheungdeok, a few recent converts, and some of the missionaries from my old Zone.  Also Elder Nash, a member of the Seventy, and his wife visited and spoke.  I had a few minutes to talk with Sister Nash after the meeting and it made my day.  It was so nice to just chat with a nice American mom.  We drove with our ward mission leader and his family and had quite the adventure on the way home.  In the middle of the country side he goes off on some side road and they take us to see the home of this girl that led a freedom movement in the 1900's.  We walked around, took pictures, piled back in the car, but only drove a few minutes before stopping at another small museum about this girl.  A few more stops along the way and we made it back to Cheonan just a few hours late, haha!!  We didn't feel too bad though since the Elders ended up doing almost the same thing.  But so fun to get to see some cultural sites and enjoy some time with members.

Something else that has really stuck out to me this week is with the language.  I have been trying a new method to learn words lately and have been studying super hard.  I have noticed that I study the words during language study and then that same day someone uses the new word and I am able to understand what they are saying.  It is just one small way I have been seeing the Lord's hand helping me.  As I put in the effort to study he has helped me know what to study.  I am always so excited as I am better able to understand the language so I can communicate with my companion and with investigators and members.

Fun week with me and Sister Lee running all over town and lots of cookies and teaching ballet to Sister Cho in our house, it was a party!!

Love you all and hope you have a great (rainy) week:)

Loved seth's prom pictures, send some more!!

Love,

Sister Jacklin

 Picture #1:  You know, just fighting for Korea's freedom ㅎㅎㅎ

Picture #2:  Me and Hing are basically Korean