Sunday, November 25, 2012

Forty-Sixth Week Email

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Hey there everyone. So this week.... yeah haha. It's been a good week I would say. We made the trip down to the mission office and I picked up my new companion. His name is Elder.... Jo Gwangjin. Yes he's a Korean. And I feel like I haven't spoken any english since Friday night. And now I'm full senior but Elder Jo speaks perfect Korean so it doesn't really feel like I'm full senior.

But one thing that has happened throughout this entire experience is that President Furniss and my other leaders have really been there to help the entire time. They were really supportive with Elder Pobst and they have helped me out alot. This is one of those spiritual growth times that I'm actually very thankful for and I'm happy I can experience it.

Speaking of being thankful I forgot that this week was Thanksgiving. I'm sure I celebrated it differently than all of you but don't worry Elder Pobst and I still celebrated. With a full chicken from a street vendor and instead of stuffing there was rice inside of the chicken. And for a side dish we had... more rice haha. But we did go around the table and say what we were thankful for. And I did teach our english class about thanksgiving and we did the same thing. And it was so nice when most of them told us that they were grateful for us and teaching them english.

Well I have to get going now but I love all of you. I hope you had an amazing week. I did and I'm sure I'll have an amazing week this week. 사랑해요

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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Forty-Fifth Week Email

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   So this week has been an interesting week. So I guess I will just
start with the news. So we found out last week that Elder Pobst will
be going home this Saturday.He has some things he needs to work out
and he's doing it the right way so I honestly look up to him for the
example he's showing right now. And he has been doing amazing this
last week and has been showing a lot of strength. It has been really
hard to focus but President promised if we just work we would get
through that last week. So if any of you can send some love to Elder
Pobst I would really appreciate it. He has been one of my best friends
in the mission and we have been through a lot together ever since we
came to Korea.

  It was a really good week to meet with our Investigator's though.
Whenever I meet with any of them I just have the best time and we
always have a great time. We were able to meet a lot of new people
this last week too so that's always a great thing. Brother Beh found
our advertisement for free english at our Investigator's University
and called and set up everything. After English class we had a great
discussion with him and our Ward mission leader and he was just so
nice. And him and our ward mission leader hit it off very well so that
made everything so much better. We also met with a lot of our member's
in the past week and I just love all of them.

Well it's been a week to grow and to learn and I couldn't have done it
anywhere else. I'm going to miss Elder Pobst alot but I'm happy that
he's doing it the right way. I love all of you and I hope you have a
great week.

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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Forty-Fourth Week Email

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Hey everyone. So another week of wonderful missionary work. Let's just
say it has been a long week and I had so much fun. And I learned so
much.

I started off my week with a split. I had our district leader Elder
Campbell come to our area and that was super fun. One of our
Investigator's is a english teacher at a university way out in the
country side. Well we went out to his university and spoke in his
class. He let us talk about our english programs and leave all of our
cards and our number up on the board. After that we went around the
university hanging up advertisements for our english program and our
phone has not stopped ringing for the past week. So that will be fun
to see what comes out of that. After that day we had mission tour and
Elder Ringwood who is our area president came to talk to us. It was
such an amazing day to be there and I learned a lot. And it's always
good for our mission to be able to have those kinds of meetings.

We were also able to find a lot of new people this week. We met with a
woman who is from Alabama and her husband on saturday. She chased down
Elder Pobst last transfer to tell them that she had Mormon friends in
high school in the U.S. and they were always the nicest people. So I
guess that shows you how far your example can go. 8 years and on the
other side of the planet.

Well this next week seems like it will be pretty interesting but just
know that I love all of you. Have a great week and I'll talk to you
next week.

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My Halloween costume

Elder Meigs and Elder Jensen

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Forty-Third Week Email

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So that was a long/interesting/tiring/fun week haha. Every spare second we had we spent studying Korean this week haha. But one full week down as co-senior and I had to learn so much in this past week. 

Elder Pobst and I have just been working. That's the best way to describe it haha. We were talking last night and it already feels like we have been together for a month now but it's only been a week. 

So something that was pretty great this week was we met one of our Investigator Families and we had such a wonderful time. And since I have been meeting with them the daughter has improved so much at english. Mainly because the Mom teaches her all of the time. But Sister Park wouldn't stop commenting on how thankful she was. She also told us about how she came to Korea from China and has been so lonely the entire time. And everytime we come over and visit their family they are just so happy. They told us how they met and we just had a great discussion about families and why are church treats families so importantly. We would try to share our message and Sister Park kept on insisting that we try in English and we would say one line and she would go off in Korean and we would teach for 20 minutes and then she would insist that we speak english again haha. It was pretty fun experience and I think she'll stop trying to make us speak english eventually.

We also found out some pretty sad news on sunday. One of our coolest members in our ward who translates is moving to Malaysia this week or next. So there's a few other people who can help with translating but the ward basically said that now we have to split the translating up evenly haha. So Elder Pobst and I are going to have a lot of fun over the next few weeks.

Well sorry my letters are so boring these days. I'll try to make them better for now on. But I love all of you and I'll talk to you next week.

Elder Jensen