Hello! Wow, craziness. Just trying to keep my feet on the ground. A whole lot has happened this past week, and there's not a whole lot of time to talk about it, but I'll try to hit some of the main points.
A lot of missionaries that I was close with went home this week, including Elder Mumford and Elder Reynolds, both of whom have been fantastic examples for me throughout my time here. The sisters that went into the MTC with me also have left, which is an odd experience. I saw Sister Partridge from the Seoul South Mission at the airport as well, who also returned with honor this week.
There was lots of rain and even some snow this week. It wasn't overly cold, but we weren't prepared for it. It should be warming up, sometime!
We picked up the new missionaries from the airport this week and proselyted with them on the way back on the subway, which was and will continue to be a fun experience, to see missionaries overcoming their fears and opening their mouths the first time. To see fear and talking and amazement at miracles like someone taking a card or a copy of the Book of Mormon. One of them said that she took a class from you, dad, and that you helped her a lot. Suyeon Lee? It's been a while, I guess. Another one was praying, and as he prayed, he prayed for the honorified veil Christensen, instead of President Christensen- they're pretty close in Korean.^^ We ran around, and planned, and smashed some locks so that missionaries could get into their bags, and got up to prepare for trainers' training the next day... always a whirlwind.
We had a conference of over 200 people that happened this week for the New Year. Lots of planning, set up, and conducting- lots of learning experiences. You can't always plan for the wild cards, though: as two groups were divided up upstairs and downstairs, the fire alarms in the building went off, and we had to call the fire department and have them come fix it. It looks like someone from the street came and pulled them, or something. Adventures.
Brother Yun from Sanggye came to sacrament meeting in Sindang this week, and his son asked me to go up to Sanggye to baptize him later this month. Super exciting!
On Sunday we had some fun adventures knocking doors, and I met a lady that studied feminism in Germany for 10 years. She gave me a framed picture from her studio and invited us to visit her later as we parted ways, so we'll stop by soon!
There's so much more to share, but I do have to go. Know that i love you and pray for you. I'm glad that you had fun in New Haven, Caleb!
All my love,
Elder South
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