Elder Newton emailed a day later than usual this week because he served at the Helping Hands Center in Gangneung on Monday.
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| We took pictures for people in front of this thing for a long time doing service yesterday |
Discover Game
Roll and Race
Little bracket but Long Match
Stop the problem
How?
Take the coffee*
The proof is competition
Game
I
don't know if I'll ever get to spend a full week in 태백. There always
seem to be meetings in Gangneung that pop up. Like after P-day last
week, we had a one-day break before we had to go back for a technology
training with the APs. It was a fun training. I had to translate for it,
which was pretty intense. It was like three hours long, and let me tell
you, Elder Gilmore speaks really fast.†
But yeah, the rest of the week was pretty fun. On Thursday we had a ping pong tournament, and the two youth dominated. The last match between them was the craziest thing of my life.
Oh yeah, we also spent Thursday
going to the hometown of Arirang. There was a free bus because they do
Alpine skiing up there, and it's usually like 7 dollars one way, so we
had to do it. It was like our beloved HoengSeong. Nice small town with
lots of nice people to talk to. There were even mouthwash dispensers in
the bathrooms. It was the best. We talked to a lot of nice people, and
one of them had the same last name as me, if we translate my Chinese
name. Also his name works out to have the word for space in it.
Basically he's the best. He's fun to text, but going back up there to
meet him is going to be rather hard. Probably just start with a face
call.
And ummmmm, for Friday
English class two new people came, which was super fun. One even came to
church, so he doubled the size of our Young Men class. We taught the
lesson on "The Purpose of Life" and used Elder Stevenson's talk about "Your 4 Minutes." We had a clock and asked what everyone thought about
what it had to do with the plan of salvation. My favorite was Brother
Go, who said that just like the hands of a clock go around back to where
we came, we also go back to Heavenly Father.
Speaking of Sunday,
I had to lead the sustaining of our new members who moved in. They live
like an hour and a half away, but we love them. (One of the sisters was
so excited she screamed a little when I announced it.) They're really
nice. A member of the mission presidency also came and spoke. He's super
nice.
Oh also we had had a meal with a member on Saturday, and during the meal she told us her favorite hymn. Then for the closing hymn on Sunday,
Sister Petry chose to do that one. ("Truth Reflects Upon Our Senses"?)
And this sister usually sits in the back, but since I conduct, I got to
see her smile when I announced the closing hymn. It just kind of
reminded me of some of the special things missionaries can do to serve
the members in a branch.
Best Wishes,
Elder Newton
* Apparently the missionaries often get asked to take visitors' pictures
with Soohorang and Bandabi outside the ice arena in Gangneung, and
sometimes these visitors want pix with the missionaries as well. So
yesterday when Elder Newton and Elder O'Brien were serving, a lady gave
them coffee because they looked cold, and then they gave it to the next
lady in exchange for hand warmers.
† Apparently these training meetings usually are conducted in English,
except when the speaker is Korean, because almost everyone speaks
English and many people are more comfortable in English than in Korean.
So Elder Gilmore (Elder Newton's childhood friend who is now an
assistant to the mission president, in case you've forgotten who he is)
was speaking English, and Elder Newton was translating for the
missionaries who are more comfortable in Korean.
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