September 1, 2104
Week of Travel
Hey Family!!
We had a good week this week!!
Lots of travel and literally traveled to the bottom of Korea!!
Wednesday all of our plans fell
through so we decided to go visit another town in our area called Haenam.
It is about an hour bus ride out there and it is so pretty. It is famous
because it is the bottom edge of Korea. We first found and visited a less
active and her adorable baby. She is a returned missionary and knows she
needs to come out to church but her husband isn't a member, and with her little
kids it is hard to make the one and a half hour trip to church. We are
working with our mission leader's family who lives there to try and help her
get to church. I think that day we walked through the whole town it was
so small. But I loved the quaint little feeling of the town! It
might take some time adjusting back to America after living in cities for a
year and a half!!
Friday we had interviews with President
Shin so we headed to a different area in a city called Naju. That city is
famous for asian pears! I was in shock at how big they are! I tried
to take a picture but it just didn't do it justice. For lunch we all made
kimbap together which was a first for me. And let’s just say I didn't do
the best job and President and Sister Shin were watching the whole
time!!
Saturday we had a ward activity out
on Wan-Do which is an island about an hour and a half drive from Mokpo.
We went and visited a members home/farm to have a picnic and pick grapes.
It was absolutely beautiful out there!! It may have been the prettiest
place I have visited so far in Korea. Right next to the house there was a
really beautiful mountain and river, and you could see the ocean from the
house. It actually reminded me a lot of Gig Harbor. It was
wonderful to get out of the city and enjoy the peace and beauty of being
outside. Plus the grapes were amazing!! We had one investigator
attend and I think she had such a great time despite riding in a car with six
loud children!!
Right now our ward is focusing a lot
on less-active visits because ward conference is coming up this month. So
after church yesterday we went to visit a less-active sister with the Bishop
and his wife and let’s just say it was quite the adventure. She is
friends with the Bishop's wife so from the time we walked in until the time we
left she didn't stop talking. She talks
insanely fast, even my companion and Bishop could hardly understand. And
I am pretty sure she does not like missionaries because she did not acknowledge
our presence. The entire time, she had her back to us.
Bishop lied for me saying I was allergic to tomatoes so I didn't have to drink
the tomato juice and then there was her crazy whirlwind 2 year old son.
He was all over the place!! First he was eating so many snacks that were
out and running around like crazy and next thing you know he had thrown up all
over the house. But it didn't even phase him, he kept right at it.
Running all over the house, attempting to eat more snacks, and pounding on the
piano with his feet. We tried to stop him but it didn't work. All
in all, it was a very...interesting visit. We were exhausted by the time
we walked out of there. Now we know why Bishop did not want to visit
there, haha!!
It turned out to be a really good
week and hopefully this week will be even better. Korean Thanksgiving is
next Monday so lots of people are heading out of town or busy so we are
going to have to be creative with what to do this week but plan on working just
as hard. At our District Meeting last week President asked who the next
missionary in our district was to go home. It was terrifying when I had
to raise my hand. In my interview President kept repeating it to me that
I need to give it my best these last few transfers. There are hard days
in life and hard days as a missionary but if we don't stop and just keep going
we will see miracles and be able to accomplish all that we want to.
Love you all and hope you have a
wonderful week!!
Sister Jacklin
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