Week 78: So You Say It's Your Birthday

Discover Roots

Split and Spread

Simple beginnings but Deep connections

Stop the Problem

How?

Unscramble the Language 

The Proof is Wild

Roots

Sooooo I'm old. It's so sad. All my 친구 are going to military. It's so sad. But we keep plugging along. There was a district meeting on the voice of the Spirit. I got to talk about "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," the NPR news quiz. It's always a good time out here in Gangneung.

Also Thursday. Thursday was a good day. We had us a good English class. We showed them Family History and boy howdy, were they all over it. It was great. We're going to try to do some work with them this week. 

Then we went to the port city north of us. We have a new member who moved from somewhere out in Korea. He used to be stake president and also is my MTC zone leader's grandpa (no joke). He has a real nice place. Also I kept on seeing Sister Jo. She was going to have us take some side dishes up to our grandpa friend, but we went up early to study sign language at the library. So she just showed up with Sister Park's daughter. 

Then we saw Sister Jo again on Friday when we had our big Olympic meeting. I had to do the translation and that was a hoot and a holler. Meetings out here are the weirdest mix of languages. But anywhoooooooooooooooooo

Looks pretty fancy.

Saturday was the Birthday! We had to clean the church and the sisters were off in Jumunjin and the other elders had to leave early so we were left alone to finish up for a second. And right as we finished, Sisters Jo and Kim and the sister missionaries showed up from Jumunjin with a cake! It was a good meme. I think we have a few pics. 

Elder Alban's birthday was a week before Elder Newton's.

Then we went up to the HoengGye. It was good. We helped an Indian get a ticket to a bus, then we met a Korean who wanted to talk with us on Facebook, studied at a cafe that has a nice view of the Olympic place, and then met a Japanese man I thought was Korean until halfway through our conversation when he forgot a Korean word. He was so nice. 

Oh and also we had other memes. That night the other elders also bought me a cake and it was a nice time. Birthdays are fun. 

Then yesterday we had church and of course we saw Sister Jo yet again. It was a good time. So the memes are continuing out here. Thanks for all the love! I saw some notifications of birthday greetings on Facebook. I don't know if I get to reply to them tbh, but thanks for them! Have good memes!

Best Wishes,

Elder Newton