안녕하세요!
Thank you all for your birthday wishes :) I am officially 20! (still 21 in Korean age).
I had a pretty eventful birthday . . .
Mostly because my birthday was between a missionary
leadership council meeting and a zone training which we had to do in Korean (yay).
Needless to say, I was a bit stressed so I decided to
celebrate my birthday today after all the craziness :)
How am I celebrating? I am going to eat delicious food and
sleep :) The best present to myself.
However, on Wednesday night, English class, the elders
surprised me with a beautiful chocolate cake and I got to blow out candles and
everything. I was definitely shocked! I am serving with such an amazing
district :)
So, onto more details about this last week:
Tuesday was the afore-mentioned MLC where we receive
training from President for 7 hours and then plan with the Zone Leaders on what
to train the missionaries in our zone.
Our focus this Zone training was Preach My Gospel. During
the training we split everyone up into districts and had each of them study 1 (or
2) chapters from PMG and then train everyone on how we can us that specific
chapter to become better missionaries.
It was really successful. Even though PMG is a missionary
tool every home should have a copy. We have been stressing the importance of
studying PMG daily along with the scriptures. If you haven't read through PMG
yet, you should! It's really amazing and can apply to wherever you are in life.
Every Member is a Missionary!
As Sister Moyer and I have been trying to become
"Preach My Gospel Missionaries" we have seen lots of miracles.
This week we taught a lot about prayer to our investigators.
We asked one of our newest investigators if she could pray out loud for us. She
seemed confused, "I usually only pray in my heart" She said. While we
said that that was good, we also said that praying out loud is good when we
meet with people like this. So she prayed out-loud for the first time.
Afterwards, she had tears in her eyes, "It's a different feeling than I
have ever felt."
#thespirit
Apart from teaching lots of lessons, we spend most of our
time working with our English class and meetings. We aren't having a lot of
time to go out and spend time talking with people.
Every Friday, we also have weekly planning where we plan for
3 hours for the rest of the week.
It's kind of hard to stay awake sometimes....
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| Yeah...we've all been kind of tired lately ^^ (Sorry Sister Moyer) |
Each week, we also schedule out exchanges with other Sisters
in our zone. This week we got to go with some awesome Korean sisters! The
sister I went with got me some Krispy Kreme for my birthday:
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| I didn't know how much I actually missed donuts! This whole set cost around $11 so it was definitely a treat! |
On Sunday, we went to church. 3 hours of church in a foreign
language can be hard but as I'm understanding more and more I'm able to get a
lot more out of it.
There is a girl in our ward who is deaf but she diligently
comes to church every week even though she doesn't understand at all. I should
never complain about not understanding Korean!
Sister Moyer and I are trying to learn Korean Sign Language
so that we can teach her the gospel in a way she understands. I thought
learning KSL on top of Korean would be hard but it's actually been really
helpful.
I'm sorry for how long this one is and for the lack of
pictures this week! I'll try harder this next week ^^
화이팅!!!
- Sister Holdaway
* Korean-ization of Krispy Kreme
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