Korea Seoul South Mission: Week 63

Ah yeah! We are seeing the greenie miracles here in 청라 (Cheongra)!

My new companion is Sister Hill from Sandy, Utah. She is just a little ball of sunshine so we are doing great. She is such a trooper. Her first night here in Korea after getting back from the mission home was teaching a new investigator that we found last week. We got home and settled for about 10 minutes before leaving again to go to our appointment. We got a little lost because I had never been to her house before so we wandered a bit, but eventually found it after she ran out to get us. In my defense her directions weren't the best so we walked the wrong way for about 5 minutes. That appointment went really well and her oldest daughter was home so we were able to pick her up as an investigator too! We'll be going to their house every Wednesday to do our 30/30 English program. We're super stoked!

The weather this past week has been beautiful! It was been in the 60s at the beginning of the week and has slowly gotten a little warmer. It freaked us out at first because when we went out in the morning it was colder outside than in our apartment. It took a few minutes to adjust. I also had to break out my cardigans so I wouldn't freeze. Sister Cuary wrapped herself up in her blanket like a burrito one day because it was so cold.

Also our water heater stopped working... that was a fun morning of ice cold showers. It was Sister Hill's first day in our area. I felt super bad. I tried to figure out how to fix it, but the instructions were super confusing. We ended up calling our landlord and he fixed it for us. Such a nice cute old man :)

We had a few visits with some members. We have definitely felt a lot of their love over the past week. They have really reached out to help Sister Hill feel welcome. We met with one to teach her daughter who will get baptized next month and had lunch together. We met with another at her home for dinner. I absolutely love this ward!

Last p-day was a bit crazy. Sister Cuary just moved an area over so we just took all her bags to the new house. The other sisters weren't home so we ate all their chocolate hehe Just kidding... of course we got their permission first. Sister Davis had some really good homemade cookies that her grandma sent her so we swiped some of those :D Korean sweets just aren't very good.

Our biggest miracles was meeting with Brother Na GwangSu. He is the less-active that I found with Sister Cuary last transfer when we randomly went to visit his house with the wrong name and number, but found him. We keep in contact with him, but over the past weeks we were to busy to go and visit. His daughter is in the hospital right now because she had surgery. Yesterday we were able to go with our Bishop and Ward Mission Leader to visit. It was such a last minute miracle! We were able to get her phone number and will hopefully meet her in the next few weeks once she is healed. She has English interest, but her dad really wants her to get baptized. We'll see what she thinks though.

Life is crazy wonderful. I'm trying to soak in this dream that is being a missionary in Korea. I can't believe that the time that I have left is so short. I don't know where time has gone! I absolutely love life right now! I hope that you are all loving it as well. Don't forget to count your blessings :)

"Whatever the world throws at your throw back a smile" -Elder Lam (our new AZL)

Love you guys!

-Sister Rindlisbacher