Hey
family!!
Weeks
are going by soooo fast!! LIke I feel like I just emailed you! So
let's see what happened this week. Not too much. It is really hard to
find people to teach so just a lot of walking and this weeks we saw a
Korean women with a Georgia accent. It was seriously the coolest
thing I had ever heard because it was like a Korean Southern accent.
Anywho, yeah we meet a lot of people. I love getting to know
people now. Sometimes it is hard but it is fun. And a lot of people
don't "have time to meet" but really in realitly Korean
people really are just sooo busy. The only funny thing is when you
are at a 4-way intersection and we tried to talk to someone and they
say that they "I am busy, don't you know!" and they are
standing waiting for the looong red light to turn green. People just
really don't like 선교사들
(missionaries)
becaue there are sooooooo many here! We have taught like 3 now. You
will see on the streets people bible bashing and it is just not good.
One
good thing that we did this week is we opened a HUGE new Stake Center
in 인천
Incheon.
It is 4 floors with a balcony! Like it is way bigger than my last
building.( Just ask dad how big that is ㅎㅎ)
So we did service, picked up trash around the building and then we
had a big open house for it and did some tours. This building is
super Americanized it is crazy!! It is weird. My building right now
is much smaller and Koreanized and it fits 150 members and now its
going to be about 170 members because our ward just got bigger this
last week. So anyways, moral of the story is the church is true. And
no matter where you are things need to have the same importance and
we live the same gospel. Just remember that.
Uhh...
yeah... So after our Stake Conference we went home and started
planning for the next week. It was about 8:30 and our Bishop calls
and says meet at E-Mart in 15 minutes. So we quickly run over there
because it is our bishop and he has a grocery cart and he says,"
I don't like shopping so lets do this fast. We want to feed you and
we haven't bought you rice in the past 4 weeks." We were so
confused. We did not want anyone to have to pay for us. So we thought
we were just getting rice but then he starts thowing in the cart;
meet, pizza, oranges, apples, snacks, tuna, rice, 고추장,
깅,
and just a whole bunch of stuff. He spent about 163 dollars on us. I
about cried. I was so happy. We were running out of money and we
still have a week left. It just was the nicest thing. And our Bishop
is so busy with his work that he took time to do that. I just
love him. He is the sweetest. Thats one thing I love about
Korean. They all will take care of you. The just have the most
compassionate heart (unless they really just don't like missionaries)
but I haven't met too many unkind people. I think the world should be
more focus on the things that other people need and not always on
ourselves. That is exactly our Savior thinks. I don't think he would
ever take back what he did in Gethsamene because he wasn't thinking
about himself but he thought about everyone that had lived and would
live. We are here to help others and our selves come back unto
Christ. So this week please go out of your way to do something for
someone else. Even just the little bit of grocercies for us would
have made us happy.
17 And
behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may
learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye
are only in the service of your God. -Mosiah 2:17
I
love you all! How was moving? Looks like everyone has been involved
with something lately! I love seeing the pictures. I forget that life
keeps going on for you all back home! Keep me updated. I want to know
ALLL the details!!
I
pray for you all! I love you and miss you all soooooooooooooooooo
much!!!
Love,
Sister
Leavitt
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