How's the past? Just wait until you see the sun today it looks so crazy... not really I just want to be that cool kid who lives in the future haha.
So South Korea..... haha it's just different that's the only way I
can explain it. That's a bad explanation but at the end of the day they
are people just like us but I can't understand a single word they say.
So I'll just get right into it. My new companion is Elder Allred
from Ogen, Utah. He's a big kid who is probably the nicest person I
have ever met. We weren't allowed to go shopping until today so he has
just been feeding me. I'm serving in the Gwangju east zone and I'm
serving in the the poong hyang ward. Gwangju is a huge city and it's
about 2 hours south of Daejeon. I introduced myself and shared my
Testimony at church yesterday. I love that ward they are super nice and
they love greenies. Elder Allred told me on saturday that they never put
stuff in the missionary box by the front door at church and when we
left church yesterday the box was stuffed with a bunch of treats and he
said that's because of me. It's so strange I can travel to the other
side of the earth and I can sit in church and feel the same love that I
do back in those chapels and classrooms in Utah.
So in Korea they have the huge churches everywhere and they can
be 7 stories tall and have giant crosses that stand really tall. Our
churches are just like ours back at home. They are older but they have
all the classrooms and they are kept super clean at all times.
There's so much going on I don't know what to talk about. We
have two Sisters we share our area with. Sister Lee (Korean) and Sister
Terry (she's from vegas). Sister Lee calls me her son and she made me a
planner that has a bunch of decorations on the outside and a picture
with four bears on the inside. I'm the baby bear, I have an older Sister
(Sister Lee) and my mom and dad (Sister Lee and Elder Allred) haha it's
great. You'll see it in some pictures when I send my card home.
So as soon as I got down to my area we were put to work. We had
two appointments and our meeting with our Ward Mission Leader. Our first
lesson was with an Grandpa who wants to learn english. English is huge
here! Pretty much everything has an English word on it and all of the
parents want their kids to learn it. So We offer a free class on
Saturdays to teach english and if they show interest we can teach them
one on one with a half hour of english and a half hour of Gospel. We
have 7 people coming to the Saturday Class and 5 people who are taking
lessons. Our second lesson was with a group of Three college students
(노에란, 오혜미, 김진영) (no-eh-rahn, oh-hyeh-mee, kim-jeen-young) and they
started attending church a couple weeks ago. We are also teaching a ten
year old boy named 정호윤 (Jeong-ho-yoon) who has recieved all of the
lessons and had a baptismal date but his mom didn't feel like he was
ready. So now we're trying to meet with her because 정호윤 loves showing up
to church and all of the activities and he has such an amazing
Testimony of the Gospel for being so young.
Well other than all of that it's just been an amazing time. I'm
trying to get use to the food and that can be hard sometimes. Everything
has a fish taste. So I stick with ham and rice for breakfast, lunch,
and Dinner. I'm a little scared because I have FHE tonight with the
second counselors family and I'm not sure what they will feed me. Elder
Allred said that they love to feed greenies the wierdest things they can
find... So yeah I'm a little worried about that haha.
I guess if you can get anything from this e-mail just know that I
love it here and It's such a crazy experience. I'm still getting used
to sleeping on a really thin hard mattress and I love chopsticks
already. I love all of the study time in the morning with Elder Allred
because his Korean is amazing and he's the most patient person ever. He
teaches me so much and he has me do a lot during the lessons and
translates them for me. I like walking up to people and trying to talk
to them in Korean and they are so patient with me because I'm a
foreigner. I'm sorry this e-mail was all over the place but I'm just all
over the place. So much has happened and I want to tell all of you
everything but I'm pretty much out of time. Well as always I love you
and I hope everything is going great at home.
Elder Jensen
(Address on the right side of the blog, towards the bottom).
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