My Mission to Korea

WEEK 7

The new korean missionaries are here!!! We have 12 new missionaries, 4 girls and 8 boys. So much fun. They are learning the language so fast. It's amazing to see and keeps me on my toes. I feel like I have to be smart now and know my korean becauase they ask me questions. The language for me is coming along great. I speak ok, it just takes me some time to form sentences.

TRC of course was wonderful. Our task was to purchase clothing and then share the gospel with them concerning families. I can't wait to actually get to Korea and barter with people it will be so fun. They told us the price of a skirt and I said a korean word that means "give me a discount"...they all started laughing, we had a fun time. And yes they gave me a discount :)

Afterwards we taught them the first lesson: Restoration of the Gospel. I had a more difficult time thinking up sentences. I didn't say that much. My companion Sister Bennet is really good with Korean and she said this long complicated sentences and I just stared at her with this confused expression of "what did you just say?" The investigators saw my face and just busted up laughing. My face turned red and I could not stop laughing, so embarrassing. But definalty the highlight for me in the lesson was reciting the First Vision in Korean. I am the first person in my Korean Zone to have memorized it. In our lesson the Lord really did bless me in remembering how to say and to be able to say it at a good pace with few pauses. You could feel the spirit. Sharing Joseph Smith's vision is so powerful, the spirit always bears witness. After reciting it the investigators clapped for me, the mom was like "wow!" It was such a good feeling, because before I had tried to recite and froze up and forgot all of it, but this time I just prayed for the Lord's help and he did. As missionaries you truly can not do this work on your own, you have to rely on the Lord.