July 20, 2014

July 20, 2014

 

Hey Family!!

 

This week's email will be really short cause we are in Gwangju, a big city about an hour from my area.  It was a really hard week where I woke up every morning stressed because I don't know what to do with our day.  I am just praying faithfully that we will start to find new investigators and get this area moving.  Picking up an area is not easy but so rewarding in the end and that is what I keep reminding myself.  We also had non-stop rain almost the whole week.  But just so you all know, rain does not make the weather cool.  It means hot weather with a lot of humidity!!  Me and my hair don't handle it very well^^

We had zone conference this week and it was a super great meeting.  Our mission is starting a new way of doing weekly planning and daily planning.  We have already started and it is already helping us plan and prepare so much better.  One thing I have learned on my mission is that if you don't plan well nothing works out.  I was also able to go on a split with Sister Matsen, we were in the MTC together and came on our missions together but have been at opposite ends so I hardly ever see her.  We talked non-stop and had a great time teaching together.  It is always a much different experience when I am with another American.  People walk up to us all the time and tell us how pretty we are and we get a million more stares.  I still get it when I am with a Korean but so much more when with an American.  We were making cookies to take to a member and let’s just say the box instructions were not right so they turned out to be a bit hard and brown on the bottom.  We spent about half an hour scraping the bottom of the cookies with a knife, but then when we woke up the next morning the rock hard cookies had become completely soft!!  The power of humidity, haha! Hopefully the members waited a day to eat them!!

 

Yesterday at church we had a miracle.  A member brought his parents to church and we are now teaching them to help prepare them for Baptism.  His parents are originally Buddhist but they are now living with their son's family and have decided to attend church and have the same religion as their family.  I think they are literally 90 years old and I don't understand a thing they say but they are super sweet.  We are teaching them in order for them to be Baptized but I don't think they remember or understand a thing we say.  As long as they want to be Baptized and be with their family nothing else matters:)

Love you all and am so grateful for my amazing family and friends.  You are all in my prayers!! Have a great week:)

Love,

Sister Jacklin