Called to Korea: Baby It's Cold Outside

Sister Missionaries in Christmas Hats, Scarves, And Socks

Girls in my District in Christmas Stuff

Merry Christmas week family!

Okay so lets start at the beginning of the week. on Sunday we went on a temple walk and it was snowing pretty bad so it was way slippery and scary but then we build a snow man! It was great.

Then Christmas happened! the day started off with a missionary talent show. It was really fun. There was a Elder that did magic tricks that were so good! definitely had the whole audience involved. And this other elder played pirates of the Caribbean on the piano. I didn't realize how much I missed not church music until he started playing it and when my district broke into Be a Man from Mulan while we were back in our classroom in between events. We have fun together. But anyways, we had that show then we ate lunch then we had the general authority come. It was (drum roll......) Elder Bednar! He gave such a good and unique talk. He handed out 200 phones to the congregation and we could all anonymously text his iPad and he would answer our question. so yes now I have Elder Bednars phone number! At least for his iPad. but anyways, people asked some really good questions. One was asking if it was bad that they felt so inadequate. Bednar answered this by saying " Feeling inadequate means that you know what the Lord has asked you to do. If you felt totally confident in what you were about to do that's when I would start to worry." Then he talked about how we are inadequate but with the Lords help we can be an instrument in his hands. SO TRUE! Can't do anything without the Lord on your side. He also talked about the traits of some of the best missionaries he has known. He said the two biggest ones were "selflessness and to not get in the way." He emphasized making sure nothing you do is for yourself and never get in the way of an investigators progress. His talk was amazing. Really cool to see general authorities here so much recently :) After Bednar's talk we had a renowned jazz player come play for us. His Christmas music was beautiful and it was such a good concert. Then we watched a movie of Mo Tab preforming and they handed out popcorn to everyone. then they gave us the best Christmas present ever! they let us go back to the residence hall at 8:20 instead of 9:30! IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE! Sister Jenson and I had big plans to get to bed early but then we started taking pictures with everyone and the whole early thing was a lost cause. I'll send some of the wonderful pictures from that night.

There was a lot less homesickness from the girls than I expected. We all did really well. I will admit it was the hardest day in the MTC by far but the presidency did a good job at trying to keep us occupied and making sure we had fun :)

Yesterday our teacher challenged us to find three people every day and give them a short message about a different message everyday in Korean with our companion translating. He says it will help us perfect our street contacting. Our topic today is Pray. Sister Jenson and I haven't done it yet and were slightly intimidated but it will be good.

Well that was pretty much my week in a nutshell. I hope you all had a very merry Christmas and it was a good day for everyone. have a happy New year has well! then I'm off to Korea! THAT'S CRAZY! I love you all!

사랑해요!

Sister Collyer