Change Comes Slowly -- October 5, 2014

Internet photos from Children's Grand Park: Dancing Elephants

Good morning on a beautiful fall day! We are going today to Children's Grand Park, which is a beautiful place just unlike anything I've seen in America. If we can just find a soccer ball, we'll be in business. Due to an unfortunate train of events, we're also out of a football, so we'll have to look around. I hope that all are doing well, right in the midst of work and teaching and studying and midterms and applications and all. Life is a lot more simple out here in Seoul, for us anyway. We're doing our best to work as hard as we can in every way that we can.

 

Last week was packed with meetings and exchanges and stake sports activities, and a couple of dinner appointments on top of everything left us with less time for everything that we wanted to do, meaning that we were able to far meet less people this week than we would have hoped and ending up teaching 15 less discussions than last week.

And Dancing People. Quite the Merry-Go-Round

In spite of being busy, though, we saw some people take some big strides with cutting down smoking and alcohol, accepting baptismal date commitments, solidifying friendships among church members, coming to church, and setting up regular meetings. We had a fun week, the stake activity was long but fun for us and friends and the ward, and we are looking forward very much to next week.

 

It's been a rewarding week, and we're very grateful for the chance to be serving together and serving here. Elder Harrison is as strong as ever, and always a wonderful example. We had the opportunity to attend the temple last week as well, which is always a great privilege.

 

Well, we do need to leave early today once more, but I find myself with more time than I thought. Rather than draw on with other details or anything, I do want to say how much this experience has and is coming to mean to me. It's really hard to see change when you live with yourself everyday and you're never where you want to be, but I hope that change is coming and will come, that's really what I hope for for this time. It's quite a privilege to be doing this, here, with those that I am surrounded by. Life is just meaningful, and that's a blessing. I really do hope and pray for you all that challenges may be overcome and blessings may come. See miracles! Thanks for being good people. Keep being good.

 

I love you!

Elder South

 

Sorry for a distinct lack of pictures over the past months. It's not that I don't have them, so I'll need to look around for a cord somewhere.