My Mission to Korea

GIFT OF TONGUES

So wednesday and thursday we did exchanges. My trainer had to go to a two-day training meeting. Sister Manley (my MTC companion) came on exchanges with me and Sister Jeung. It was fun. Sister Manley is a master at 전더 (street contacting). She just goes off by herself and starts talking, even though she can't understand or say much. She was such a wonderful example to me. I struggle with street contacting when it comes to doing it by myself. But I am slowly but surley getting over those fear. I love doing street contacting and now feel comfortable with it, just not by myself yet...soon though...I hope.

During the second day of exchanges we taught 박문자 (bak-moon-jaw). We were teaching her for the second time the Plan of Slavation. We quickly went over it the previous week and decided to go into more detail this week. There is a lot to the Plan of Salvation, it is hard to teach simply. I got to teach about the Atonement. I had prepared and practiced for it during companionship and language study. But during the lesson I was able to say all that I practiced and more. I said it so fuildly. At that moment the Lord truly did bless me with the gift of tongues. It was AWESOME. You could just feel the spirit. It was a really great lesson and she asked about how to repent and things like unto that. Such a fabulous lesson.

This past week has been filled with some funny experiences. We were at an investigators home and she was tyring to get her boys out of their rooms to say "hi" and talk for a little while, but they clearly did not want to. They are teenagers. But one of them, who we've taught before came out of his room half-asleep in bright yellow boxers. When he realized we were there he quickly went back into his room. All three of us died laughing. I had tears in my eys and was tyring not to pee my skirt. It was hard to maintian control when the mom came back and sat down. I had to excuse myself to the bathroom or I was gonna loose it.

Then the next day in English Class we played a game, it was bascially Catch Phrase. And one of our students (he's about 50 years old) got so excited when he was describing his word "bus". You can tell he is competive. He was describing it, but no one understood him. LOL. Then he was like "really", in Korean, you don't know!?! Someone evetually got it, but he was like give me a harder one. So we gave him the work "skyscraper". He used the word to describe the word though, but no one else realized that. After that word he was like give me another one, so we gave him the word "seashell." He started saying words like "king", "fire" and so many other random words. All three of us were laughing so hard. I was under the table laughing. I didn't want him to think I was laughing at his english. So funny.

English class is always amusing. We have another man, Brother Em, he is about 70 years old. No one can understand him when he speaks English or Korean, even for the native Korean speakers. I gave him the word "phone", but he started to describe a person he had a question about. He said he had a "pan on his head" and some other really random things. We were all so confused, then Sister Marchant yelled "Johnny Appleseed"! And he was like "yes"! So funny. Best part thought, Steve, who tends to be the know-it-all in the class, was so impressed. And was like "How do you know this thing?" He wrote down "johnny appleseed" on a piece of paper and you know by next week he will know everything there is to know about Johnny Appleseed. I love all the people in our English Class, they are so much fun!