Week One

WEEK ONE

I feel like I have been here for awhile now. I have learned so much within the past five six days I have been here. I know my Korean Alphabet, can read and write korean, can pray in Korean and can bear my testimony in Korea! Crazy! But it is so cool how the lord blesses you. I see that so much in my studies. In the morning I am all depressed about not understanding the Korean much, but at the end of the day I understand perfectly. The Lord is TRULY helping me learn this language.

My favortie times at the MTC is gym time. So much fun. Me and some of the Korean sisters play volleyball with some of the elders. Sadly, I hurt my thumb really bad yesterday. Blocked a spike and it pretty much took off my thumb. It's pretty swollen and still hurts. But I am hoping it will get better. Because if I go to the nurse, then I'd be put out from gym time until my thumb was healed. So I won't say anything unless it never gets better and I will lay off the volleyball for awhile. I also made my knees bleed. I get a litter intense and dive for the ball. It's fun though. Just not good becasue we kneel everytime when we pray, so it stings a little :).

Our Elders in the zone are awesome. They stand up for us at breakfeast, lunch and dinner when we sit down. They also take our trays for us when we are done! In fact this morning was the first time I had to pick up my own tray. The Korean sisters are spolied here :) It really is the best mission :)

The missionaries in my district are hilarious. I love the Elders. Its fun we are all getting to know each other. We were all really chatty yesterday, which was not very good during our MTD time. Not sure what MTD stands for. But its our personal time to do compantion and language study. Out teachers are really good too. So fun and great at explaining Korean grammar and things like that. We have such good spiritual discussions here. My favorite thing about the MTC is being able to hear all these testimonies on a daily basis, espeacially the Elders. They are so young, but steadfast in their beliefs. You can see how they will be amazing missionaries.

President Shin is great. Him and his wife are so nice. Luv it. President Shin smiles so much you can barely see his eyes. I can barely understand Sister Shin though, she has a heavy Korean accent. I can't wait to go to Korea! It's a long ways away, but it will get here fast.