Good afternoon at the end of another beautiful week. Isn't it always! We have continued to see and strive for the hand of the Lord in this work this week, and it has been rewarding.
With limited time, I will briefly outline the past week. Last Monday we visited a large palace in Gwanghwamun, in central Seoul. It was bitterly cold, but breathtaking for a different reason. Countless courtyards, structures, and statues were very, very cool, even after enjoying the Forbidden City a couple of years ago. On a whim I grabbed a Chinese copy of the Book of Mormon before we left, but should have brought dozens. I gave it away before we went in the gate, and probably more than half of the visitors were Chinese nationals stopping through Seoul and seeing how their imperial palaces compare, I suppose.
That night, Sangjo gave us another massive bag of yellow corvina fish, pre beheaded, that we ended up passing on to a sister in our ward {the local congregation}, as it might be a while before we'll get rid of the other bag in the freezer. Tuesday and Wednesday were sad days as everyone prepared for transfers, dividing our district and preparing for new friends and more hard work next transfer. Thursday was transfer day! It's been a solid couple of transfers with Elder Grimshaw, and I'll miss working with him!
After some training, I received my new companion, Elder Jones! He is from Sandy, Utah, and is wonderful! He came ready to jump right into things, and has put up with my at times a-little-too-on-the-go attitude without complaint, even when we had to go on unexpected exchanges with the zone leaders {missionaries who lead the local area of Seoul} or dash madly but with attempted dignity between subway stations. I'm very impressed with his Korean coming out of the MTC {missionary training center in Utah}, and he'll surpass where I'm at in no time at all {umm, the editor doesn't believe that}. His meticulous and careful character is a valuable contrast to my aforementioned haste, and our planning in particular has therein improved. I hope that we can grow and learn as we serve together in the coming weeks! He has taken some Chinese, and offered a great testimony of the Book of Mormon during our first lesson Thursday night, to Paengwen from China. With Sister Deng in our district, we hope to really pick things up. I really feel that this is part of why I am here, and although I am inexperienced, weak in the language, and young, I do have this dream, and the desire to make it happen. Our first Gospel principles class in Chinese was this past Sunday, and it went well- we hope to be able to continue and grow that into something more. Muye, from a town of two thousand in northeastern China, enjoyed church, in spite of me not being able to understand or translate a bit, really, not a bit, of our branch president's talk on the Old Testament, and a mangled Japanese to Korean to Chinese talk by a visiting member. Perhaps the bibimbap after church made up for that.
Anyways, It's been a great few days, and we look forward to the future with hope and smiles. This is definitely a new chapter, and we will do everything we can to make ourselves instruments in the Lord's hands.
Much love,
Elder South 
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