I ate Dog Soup!

Dog Soup!  It was nasty...

And it was nasty. Sister Stradling and I had a really hard time downing it. But at least now I can say that I ate it!

It was another slow week here in Jeon Ju but we were able to meet with Sister Oh! We taught her all the commandments. It took us an hour and a half which was really long but it was good :) and she was familiar with them so that was good :) We also set another baptismal date with her for May 25 but she didn't come to church yesterday so we might have to push it back even more :( but we still have hope. :)

We also met with Jani again and her sister who we gave the English name Mary to. They are adorable. We just went over the restoration again with them and they really seem interested so that's exciting. :) They said they would come to the fireside the missionaries put on yesterday but they didn’t show up. :( People just don’t like keeping commitments lately. But we are still praying really hard for them and hoping that their parents’ hearts will be softened as well. When we were teaching them English we got talking about the new Spiderman movie which they spoiled a big part of it for us but they had thought we had seen it. Sister Stradling and I tried to hide our disappointment. But we love them. :) They are adorable.

I got kisses from a little girl in our ward this week too! She’s so cute. She’s like 2 American age and we visited her parents and afterwards her mom told her to give us kisses and she did. I thought I was going to die. Asian babies are so freaking cute.

We also had our big fireside yesterday! We ended up doing it on the first lesson instead of pioneers (but I still appreciate the stories :) ) and it went so well! Minus the fact that pretty much no one’s investigators showed up. We had two promise us they would go and they didn’t :( but sister Stradling and I sang a duet to “Savior Redeemer of My Soul.” That was terrifying but i thought we did pretty well :) the spirit was really strong :) and all of our hard work paid off! No one in the two districts that participated could really sing except for Elder Smith who is AMAZING. And he kind of put it all together and made us sound pretty good :) Go Elder Smith.

Anyways that’s all I have for this week :) I love you all and hope you have an amazing week! 

- Sister Collyer 콜리여 자매 (kol-lee-yeo ja-mae)

Happy Mother's Day!

Judy and Me

Happy Mother’s day everyone! It was so great to Skype with you all this morning :)

This week things picked up a little bit. We finally met with Sister Oh! We taught her the third lesson and she took it really well. Our relief society president was there and it was great :) We asked her about her baptismal date and she said that she wanted to come to church first which was good. And she came to church on Sunday! She came in late so Sister Stradling and I were devastated at first but then half way through sacrament someone tapped my back and it was her! She said she really enjoyed church and loved everyone’s testimonies. I will keep you updated on what happens with her. We are meeting with her On Friday or Thursday this week I can’t remember.

We also met with the second oldest daughter of the family we met last week. Her name is Sister Moon but we gave her the English name Jani so I will use that. She’s so great. We taught her English, then when we said we needed to share a message she was totally welcoming to it. We talked more about the Book of Mormon and she told us she had read the first page and that it was hard but she enjoyed it. She said she wanted to come to church but she didn’t show up yesterday. Hopefully she comes next week! We are meeting with her again on Saturday.

Me and Judy in front of ice cream with beans in it and it was DELICIOUS! So Good

Then I got to see Judy this week!! It was so great. Slightly strange that even when we are around the world from out home town we get to see each other. But she’s doing great and it was so nice to just catch up and such. She went to church yesterday and the members were blown away at her Korean. She SO good. So much better than me. But that was fun :)

Anyways that’s it for this week. Sorry it’s only been a few days since my last email so I don’t have very much to update you on. I hope you all enjoy the rest of your mother’s day and your week!

I love you all! 사랑해요!

- Sister Collyer 콜리여 자매 (kol-lee-yeo ja-mae)

Holidays are hard...

It randomly started raining on night so we went
to get umbrellas and came out with these

This week was really really slow. We had one appointment that followed through. The rest of the time we just spend proselyting and finding less actives. Which means a TON of walking. Good thing I have good shoes or else I would be dying.

Our appointment was with Amanda. It went well but we don’t think she is going to want to change religions anytime soon. We talked about the importance of keeping the Sabbath day holy. She takes her Toeic English tests on Sundays so we asked her how she could keep the Sabbath day holy after her test. The she went to English class after and really liked it. She said she wanted to go again this week.

This is a burger place at the university nearby.
Korea doesn't mess around with burgers

Then the other exciting thing that happened didn’t happen until Monday. Holidays are really slow here with regards to missionary work. People aren’t home and they don’t want to talk to you so it’s a bit discouraging. But on Monday morning when sister Stradling was in the shower Sister Marsden called us and told us a member of her ward had someone she wanted to refer to us and she wanted to talk to us immediately. So I called her and started talking to her in broken Korean then she asked me how long I had been here for and when I told her about 4 months she broke into perfect English. It was a huge relief. She was in Jeon Ju for the weekend because of the holiday and she wanted to meet us with her cousin and her family to refer her to us. We were SO excited. So we made an appointment for that night. We met them. They are a family of five. Mom, dad, two daughters and a son. The only one that seemed interested in the gospel message we shared was the second oldest daughter. The rest of the family just seemed interested in English but we are meeting with them again on Saturday so we’ll see what happens.

 

We ran out of oil so we tried to make a pancake
in the microwave. It worked!

That was pretty much the only exciting thing that happened this week. Holidays are really painfully slow. There are a TON more people and traffic is insane but people aren’t as willing to listen. I also got a nasty cold this week so we stayed inside one day so that I could relax. When Elder Smith found out I wasn’t feeling well he gave me a TON of natural medicine. It was hilarious. Shows what kinda dad he will be. I guess my body just doesn’t like Korea in the spring time. But I have been feeling better recently so were good :)

Here is the medication Elder Smith gave me.
I don’t know if I feel more loved or drugged

Anyways I hope you all have a great week! I’m excited to talk to you on Mother’s day!

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- Sister Collyer 콜리여 자매 (kol-lee-yeo ja-mae)

I almost forgot! our relief society president went to America this week so we couldn’t meet with Sister Oh and didn’t come to church so we will most likely have to push back her baptismal date but we have an appointment with her on Friday so well know more then