My Mission to Korea

A CRAZY TRANSFER CALL

Monday night me and my companion, Sister Park,  are sitting in a Dunkin Donuts with our investigator when we got a call. If Mission President calls you know someone is leaving. If APs call, it means both of you are staying. Well, the phone caller I.D. said Mission President. Sister Park answers and has complete shock on her face then she hands the phone to me. Sister Park got assignded to open up a new sister mission area with an American from her MTC group. President told me that I would be training in BooDang. Honestly, I thought I would be leaving this transfer, but no I am here for five transfers. I will never leave my greenie area! 어떻께?

Then next day President called us again and told Sister Park that she instead would be whitewashing a different area. A sister is sick so President wants her closer to him in the newly opened area. Then he informed my greeine wouldn't be here till Saturday and until then I would stay with Hong Jay sisters, with Sister Ellis and her new greenie Sister Rovelsky. Wednesday was transfer day, I love transfers days, you get to everyone who you haven't seen in a long time. So much fun. We all meet at one place in the subway. At least 80 - 100 missionaries. Everyone stays for at least an hour. After switching companions off we were to President's house to meet the newbies.

We received traning from President then the greenies came in. We all then got matched up with our new companions, except me because she had not come yet. I felt left out when we did Proseltying practice. LOL. I had no one to do it with. We ate lunch cooked by our beloved Mission President's wife. She is awesome and cooks American style for us. So delicous. I miss American food. Then we recieved more training and off we went to our areas.

I stayed in a threesome wiht Sister Ellis and Sister Rovelsky, so much fun. I love threesomes, never a dull moment. Sister Ellis is an amazing mission and I was so grateful to be able to learn from her for a couple days. Her area is really small so we walked everywhere, which I am not use to. My are is HUGE so we always have to take a bus to do anything. Needless to say I was always like 10ft. behind them when we walked and going up this one hill about killed me. I am so out of shape. Sister Ellis and Rovelsky felt bad for me, because I just could not keep up, so SAD. The next day after climbing in this hill we climbed up a hill as steep as a mountain. When we turn to go up it I stop and say to Sister Ellis "You got to be kidding me". I feel bad for the people who live up this hill, its so steep there is a railing for you to hang on to. I don't know what those people do when there is snow and ice on the ground. So we got up to the top of the hill and Sister Ellis ask me if I have the paper with the scripture references written down. "No" I reply. We all just start laughing. Then headed back down the hill. I had left the scriptures references in my bag that I had left at the house thinking all I need is my Book of Mormon. Lame. The house I stayed at is so tiny. I slept diagonally in the dressing room. Sister Ellis says she wants to ask President for a bigger apartment because whenever a sister needs a place to stay its always at her house because she is so close to the Mission Office.

On Saturday morning we went the Mission Office so I could meet my greenie. 20 mintues after we arrived she drove up with her mom and older brother. I was so nervous. My missionary is a temporary missionary. She has never been to the MTC and is waiting for visa to come. In Febuary she wil leave to go serve in Temple Square. Knowing this made me so nervous. The MTC teaches you the rules, how to teach the lessons and how to be a successful missionary. But with her I would have to do all that and help her adjust to the mission field. I feel so much responsibility right now, because our APs said that our greenies are images of us. So I want to be a great example to her, so she too will become a great example to others and be an obedient missionary. Aah!

So far so good. She had an awesome first day. After her parents dropped her off the Office Elders drove us to our area. Such a blessing, it would have killed us moving all that luggae on the subway. When they found out we had to transfer three times President told them to take us. Yes! It was a fun ride. One of the office Elders, Elder Fowers, loves to talk and even though he was driving, cutting-off people and making random U-turns, he talked the whole way and kept us alive. After dropping us off, we went straight to English class and then had to leave early to head to a dinner appointment 45minutes away in Suji area. We went and ate Karbi with a family and Suji Elders. So much fun and the food was absolutely delicious! Karbi is expensive steak stuff that you grill. First time I had it. I have been wanting to try it for a long time now, but could not afford it. Then after eating the mom gave us leather gloves lined with sheep fur for the winter. They spent so much money on us and told us it was an early Christmas present. So nice of them. This area is has a lot of wealthy people. So my greenie had an awesome first day of being a missionary. We got home planned and did some more things before going to bed. My greenie is so cute and stayed up studying some things. Her head was drooping and I told her, you don't have to stay up till 10:30, you can go to bed. Immediatly she stops what she is doing, changes and is dead asleep by the time I get out of the shower. It will be a good transfer, I can already tell my new greenie is a hard worker.