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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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

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

Forty-Second Week Email

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   So.... this has been a long 3 days haha. It's been so much fun
though. Church was a pretty fun experience. I had to do my first
missionary counsel meeting and that was pretty fun. I talked about
most of our Investigator's and it was so fun to speak that long in
Korean. I helped translate for
some of the foreign members in our ward. We have a Korean member who
is going to start a job as translating so she was doing  most of it
but she had to ask me a lot of questions throughout the entire
sacrament meeting. I also translated for Elder Pobst's introducing
talk so that was pretty fun. After that we went to our gospel
doctrines class where our bishop pulled us out and introduced us to a
less active part member family. And now we set up times to eat at our
bishop's house with them this week. I pretty much have no idea how
Elder Meigs did it but I think after some time I'll get use to
constantly planning all of the time. But Elder Pobst and I are doing
great together. We thought this companionship would either ruin our
relationship or make us best friends. I guess we have 6 weeks to see
what happens haha.

Well we had our halloween party last saturday night and it was
awesome. I sat behind a white board and attached candy to the end of a
fishing line for 2 hours straight and helped set up for the party for
3 hours before that. So it was a pretty long night but it turned out
pretty well and the stake is really happy with the missionaries right
now. Sister Kim even helped us out alot with our fishing game that we
set up so it was great to see her there. Her kids had such a great
time so it has just been a great week. Another great thing that I saw
this week was when we were sitting in our gospel doctrines class I saw
our teacher treat Sister Kim just like a member and it was such a
great feeling. I also saw one of our member's daughters pray for the
first time out loud in a very long time. Our Member's family wasn't
coming to church a lot but after Elder Meigs they come out every week
and participate so much. I've also seen the relationship between the
Mom and her daughter's grow so much. I just love my area right now and
everything that is going on.

Well I have to get going but I love all of you. Sorry my e-mail is all
over the place but it's probably going to be like that for a while.
Have a great week ^^

Elder Jensen

Forty-First Week Email

hey there everyone....

So craziest week of my life. But don't worry crazy in a completely
amazing way. Yesterday was just amazing. Our Ward did amazing when it
came to Sister Kim's and Junesoo's baptism. It was a day that I
honestly hope I will never forget. I'll be sure to send some pictures
to Tawn's as soon as possible. Sister Kim was meeting with
missionarie's before Elder Meigs and I both came to Suwon so the ward
was so ready to welcome her.

But right now I'm a little distracted. Probably because I just
received my transfer call and I'm going Co-senior with Elder Pobst (He
came to Korea with me) and he's one of my super good friends in the
mission. So I'm really excited and a little nervous because I can
count how many transfers I have had in Korea on one hand. Elder Meigs
has helped me out so much though. I have had the phone for the past 3
weeks and I have had to speak in church so often now it almost feels
normal to speak to a big crowd. But I have a ton of work to do this
next transfer and it's going to be interesting to see how this works
out.

Elder Meigs and I have been having so much fun lately. Our President
Furniss always tells us that if we aren't having fun we aren't doing
missionary work right. And I have learned so much the last transfer.
It's going to be a little sad to see Elder Meigs leave but he's going
to have a blast in California. Make sure that some of you make fun of
him on facebook or something for me.

Well I have to get out of here but I love all of you and I hope you
have an amazing week. I know I will.

Elder Jensen

Fortieth Week Email

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Well first of all thankyou everyone for the awesome birthday wishes
and packages. I had the best birthday ever. I wear my winnie the pooh
beanie all around the house and the mini golf cart doesn't make me
want to golf at all..........

Well I'll tell you some quick stories because I don't have a ton of
time today. So on my birthday we went had our weekly planning session
until lunch and our study times after lunch so we just wanted to get
out of the house super bad. After our study times we went to our
favorite member's english academy and had 3 lessons back to back with
the people that she reffered to us. And all of those people just love
us so much, and Sister Kim the one that we have been working with a
lot lately showed up with her son and a birthday cake for me. I had
showed her my family picture book one time and the title page has my
birthday on it. Well she remembered that and just randomly showed up
and we had a small party with our member, her family, and my
investigators and it was the best. And our Member brought a ton of
meat and they apologized for the strange meal but I told them if they
fed any american cake and beef they would be so happy.

Well I love all of you and I hope all of you have an amazing week. And
congratulations to all of the newly engaged people. I just started
laughing out loud in this government office when I read about the
announcements.

Well church is true, Book of Mormon is blue (Missionary editions), and
I love you.

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p.s. Thanks for telling me how great conference was and this huge news
about missionary work rules..... I'm in this really far away country
where I won't be able to watch conference until this weekend so I have
no idea what is going on haha.

Elder Meigs hanging out with his best friends at the Korean folk village.

Sister Gee (our member) Sister Kim (our investigator),  Junesoo (Sister Kim's son), and me making the worst face EVER!

HyunSo, Junesoo, Elder Meigs and I with some hair issues going on...

Thirty-Ninth Week Email

Well hey there,

   So this week has been a complete wreck haha. Last Saturday, Sunday, and Monday was Korea's thanksgiving called chu-suck. So everything has been closed for a few days so I can finally e-mail all of you today.

Well another crazy fun week in Korea. We had an amazing few days with Investigators and english class. It started off on monday when we went to a Korean folk village with our friend Brother Kim. He's Korean but speaks fluent english with an english accent haha. We saw all of so many amazing things about how the Korean people use to live and it was such a great time. I'll see if I can get some pictures off next week.

We also met with our Investigator Sister Kim who has been going to more church events than we have lately haha. We would show up to our Bishop's house and she would be there, or to our friend's house for chu-suck dinner and there she was again with her two kids haha. That always makes for a great time. But we had an amazing  lesson with her this last week and it really cleared up a lot. So we'll see how well that goes this week. But they are such an amazing family and our relationship with them is built on the gospel and it is so different from the normal relationship that we are just foreigners and speak english.

And at the end of the week on Sunday we went to our member's house who we love and had our chu-suck dinner. When we showed up there was Sister Kim and her son and daughter so we were so happy. And I think my favorite part about the week was we just sat and talked with all of them and they treated us like family. That might be one of the best feelings is to be treated normal when we are completely different from about 99% of the people in this country haha.

Another super funny thing that happened this week was at about 1 am one morning somebody just started pounding on our door really loud. I was so tired and woke up to it but just went straight back to sleep and it happened again. Elder Meigs hopped out of bed and as he hopped out of bed we heard the voice of our Zone Leader Elder Decker. Turns out  that Elder Decker and Elder Pobst (He came to Korea with me) hopped on a bus and missed the stop they should have gotten off at and the bus went straight to the freeway and up to Soul and to the richest part of Soul which I'm sure all of you have heard constantly. It's called Gangnam, which yes I have been hearing that song constantly for a few months now. Every Cell phone store and coffee shop blast that song out on the street. So we spent that night with 4 of us in our tiny apartment and we only have 2 foam pads and a couple blankets so I pretty much did not sleep after they got there.

Well I have to get going now but I love all of you and Happy birthday to Isla just barely, what is she like 6 or 7 by now? And thank you for all of the birthday wishes I love all of you. Have a great week.

Elder Jensen

p.s. I'm with Elder Bricco on a split right now. He is the Grandson of the Bishop that sent me on my Mission.