tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2628199908635284582024-03-05T02:24:54.703-08:00More Glorious and BrightJust a California blonde preaching the gospel and love of Christ in Seoul.Sister Lauren Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821117633967636344noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-262819990863528458.post-37384732125412481412015-12-21T18:11:00.000-08:002015-12-21T18:11:34.401-08:00Just hear those Korean grandmas selling corn ring ting tinglin too<div style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px;">
Another crazy Christmas-y week! I think a quote from one of the AP's sums it up pretty well. Our investigator 문서현 is progressing very well. She's accepted everything! The law of chastity, word of wisdom, tithing, fasting -- all the things that are roadblocks for a lot of people. She did relapse once and drink coffee though, so we texted Elder Miller about what protocol is for that -- if her baptism would be delayed or what. His reply was 'there's no rule really, if they have a broken heart, they're good'. It was such an interesting way to phrase it. A broken heart and a contrite spirit. Nothing more, nothing less, because in those two gifts is encompassed anything we could ever give of ourselves. If we have a broken heart, we're good. </div>
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I've been thinking a lot about why the Lord requires a broken heart. In the words of a returned missionary, we are the only church that believes in a God that mourns with us. I don't think God likes seeing us sad. In my head it makes sense I guess -- He gives us hard things so that we can grow, and learn how to be happy. All the stuff I learned in Primary but hasn't sunk into my heart until my mission. The same as any other person, I have been sad and mourned. It was on my mission that I think I really saw and experienced broken hearts. Why would God require that of anyone? </div>
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For one, it forced me to realize that I truly do need him every hour. Every breath, every step -- if He is not there I just fall. With this investigator I've realized of how little importance I am in the conversion process. If I do things right, my words are not my words, my thoughts are hopefully not my thoughts. It's so interesting to realize that God can do His own work and just chooses to involve us so we can learn. </div>
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<br />For another, it has helped me realize that God really does want me to be happy. It's kind of counterintuitive, and it's something we study almost every day as missionaries so that we can teach it -- but because of broken hearts we can feel a lot more easily. I have been so happy this past month. I didn't even know that I could feel that level of joy over that amount of time! God is so merciful. </div>
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sat in the audience during rehearsal and was so grateful I did, because when I was in the choir I couldn't see it as clearly -- but missionary faces are SO BRIGHT ! They shine so brightly. It's amazing to watch these tired, hardworking, but nonetheless brave and testifying missionaries put their all into a simple song. </div>
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One funny bit cause it was just so funny: We went over to President's house for a zone meeting for Christmas and it was really amazing, we sang carols and ate Christmas food and watched parts of the Christmas broadcast, and it was great. At the end my companion and I made a joke to Sister Sonksen about staying overnight....and she said yes. So we slept at the mission home and ate breakfast with the Sonksens. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sister Rowberry and I had this idea to make advent calendars for the members and put scriptures and ideas for sharing the gospel in it. The zone leaders loved it so much they had us come to church early so they could help :) Took some time but it was worth it!</span></div>
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That's how our stern and serious Korean AP decided to open up our transfer calls. "Sister Bell... you are transferring." Bear in mind I have gotten a new companion EVERY SINGLE TRANSFER. And that I love Sanggye almost more than my home ward. And that really, I had forgotten about transfer calls because the likelihood of me transferring seemed very, very low given the tiny number of sisters remaining in our mission. So I dropped the phone and kind of just put my head in my hands. </div>
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"....to the elders' house." And that was how I found out our stern and serious Korean AP has a sense of humor.</div>
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My companion and I are (together) leaving our huge gorgeous mansion house with a waterfall view for a two man elder house but it's still Sanggye so I'm happy! Sanggye is like a dream some days. I can't believe I'm lucky enough to serve here.</div>
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This week was our first big Christmas concert! We're touring 6 wards in Korea (sounds fancy huh). Honestly when I first heard about the program I thought it might just be ward choir on steroids. But it's actually super well put together. We have some genius violinists that do this arrangement of Carol of the Bells. And a cellist that does O Come O Come Emmanuel. And three concert pianists. But my favorite one is this violin/piano duet. It's this gangly, goofy elder who looks like he's never touched a violin in his life. But he picks it up and it just turns into magic. It's gorgeous. So many people were crying.</div>
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I've fallen in love with Christmas all over again this year. It's so wonderful. Even in Korea where it's not really a big deal you can still feel a special Christmas spirit. People are just kinder. And there's a sense of anticipation -- not for presents, 'cause I know I'm not getting anything too special this year -- just a sense of something amazing coming. </div>
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So I don't know how many times I've mentioned our gorgeous investigator. She's so miraculous that I'm afraid that if I talk about her too much I'll jinx it. She's a member referral who was so inspired by how she saw members live that she wanted to know more. She's come to church every week. And she now has a baptismal date for January the first! What a way to start off the year! She chose it herself. One of my favorite moments from that lesson was when we were explaining the sacrament and how it relates to baptism and she said 'oh that's what it means! I didn't know, but every time I've taken it I've just had the most special feeling.' She also wants to feel the Holy Ghost all the time because she can tell something is different about our members. She's a great example to me!</div>
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Today we're going to talk about some of my favorite people in the world: English class members. Because I really think they embody everything you could say about humanity. They are so wonderful, and funny, and kind and sometimes a little rude. They are my favorite.</div>
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I've taken for a title today an actual sentence someone who calls himself Dandelion said to me. Dandelion is amazing. He found out I'm an English major and now he always reads me poetry. We've gone from Robert Frost to haikus.</div>
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Then there's Sister Kim. She is so long and thin. Clothes hang on her like they do on a hanger. She always looks hungry in class. Not because she's thin and needs food, but because she really wants to learn English. She's hungry for knowledge. And she is SO kind. Last week she brought us tangerines from Jeju! And then ran away before we could even thank her.</div>
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There's Sally, who stuffs us so full of food we can't even move, and makes the best kimchi chigye I've ever eaten, and puts on music for us and teaches us the names of the weird rare shellfish she spent a whole weekend looking for. </div>
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And then there's Brother Lee. This is actually one of my favorite English class moments. We were studying vocab and one of the words was 'to bundle up'. He thought it sounded a lot like the word 'buttock'. He repeated that word a couple times and then sat silently. Then he said "I have two buttocks". And laughed like a hyena for two minutes straight. (He's like seventy.) Then the man next to him looked at him solemnly and said "No, you have THREE buttocks." I had to leave for a minute. Old Korean men saying the word buttock just is too much.</div>
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There are so many beautiful people in this world. I got to see that a lot this week. The first snow came (yay!!!!!!) and it was gorgeous and cold. Twelve people texted us to be careful and stay warm. A recent convert gave me her warmest winter clothes. People invite us in for meals all the time. I felt everyone's love so warmly this week! It was amazing.</div>
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I exchanged with one of my favorite STL's of all time, Sister Evans, and learned a lot from her. She is wonderful, and is always finding opportunities to serve. She has a way of talking to people that just opens them right up. I love seeing the world through her eyes.</div>
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Also, our district is full of some of the most hardworking people I've ever met! First off there's my gorgeous Virginian companion who has gotten really good lately about wresting heavy bags off of grandmas so she can carry them up the hill. Then there's our zone leaders. One of them, Elder Kim, is the most consecrated missionary I have ever met in my life. He had all the member names memorized in 3 days, and is the person who calls us the most (besides my beloved mtc companion) and talks about investigators, less actives, etc. Our district leader always tells us how hard we work. He and his companion have the best relationship I've ever seen. They just love each other and care about each other. This one time two drunk guys followed us into a convenience store (nothing happened and it was nice that they thought we were beautiful after a long hard day of proselyting in freezing cold) and so we called our district leader and they ran all the way there to help us! I think they also gave the guys a Word of Wisdom pamphlet. Good job elders.</div>
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People keep asking about Korean and honestly it's just hard and I can get my way around a supermarket and I finally am understanding the toothless grandmas, and that's really all I can measure it by anyways. </div>
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CHRISTMAS IS HERE AND NO ONE REALLY CARES BUT IT'S GLORIOUS AND I CARE. But really this is the time it's hit me the hardest that Korea isn't a Christian nation. There are no lights, no Santas on the curb, no Christmas tree smell (although still lots of Christmas sales. No one escapes consumerism) and I miss it a bit. But it's helping me to focus on what Christmas really means. </div>
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One of my favorite moments this week was -- well, number one, seeing our mission president's wife, who is the classiest lady I've ever met. Number two was bearing my testimony to someone who didn't care. Because it was the first time that I cared more about what I felt, and what I know they felt too, than the fact that they were not interested. I've proselyted a lot but that lesson was the first time I said the First Vision with no other reason than because I wanted to, and I knew God wanted me to, and I knew she needed to hear it, rather than because it felt like 'this is what missionaries do'. Maybe it's a bit late at seven months here in Korea but no matter when that genuine feeling comes, it feels so special. Missionary work is irreplaceable.</div>
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Sister Lauren Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821117633967636344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-262819990863528458.post-61671267146039672322015-11-22T16:07:00.000-08:002015-11-29T20:35:42.210-08:00A day in the life of a missionary...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We had temple day this week, which was really nice. I really missed that in Donghae. We hung out with Sister Phillips and Sister Murdock who are my two favorite people in the world :) They are SO funny. Sister Murdock chipped her tooth and she says all the old korean ladies like her now cause they're similar. She's in a branch with like ten people in it. I can't even imagine that! I really like my large, supportive Sanggye ward. It's the best. This is the first area I've been in where elders don't help pass the sacrament. </div>
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Also got to meet Eunmi Bak, Kim. She is so beautiful and kind! A super member missionary.</div>
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Korea has a lot of less active members; it's a cultural thing. Many Koreans prefer going to Buddhist temple twice a year. Or if that's too hard they just believe in their hearts. But here in Sanggye the members are so strong! They come out every week and they fellowship our investigators like crazy. </div>
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Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever get someone to baptism, and then I tell myself I need more faith and that that doesn't matter anyways. But it's kind of heartbreaking to talk to people all day and finally find that one golden person and then it turns out they weren't golden after all. People told me a Korean mission would be hard but I never thought it would be hard in that way. I thought it wouldn't really matter if I baptized someone or not. But now I've been out almost eight months and it's starting to matter a little bit. </div>
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The language is going decently. I can understand people okay and can get my points across. One elder explained the story of the Good Samaritan in detailed Korean last Sunday. I doubt I'll ever get to that point but that's okay. I've gotten good at texting. People think of Korea as a third world country for some reason - when the Korean sisters go to the MTC I think they get free clothes? But it's the most technological country in the world. It outdoes America in almost every category technology/production related. So everyone texts. Texting language is like a whole different language! We are calling and texting people from about 7 in the morning to 10:29 at night! We are super crazy busy. Not sure what we're doing. But we're busy. </div>
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Honestly planning has become one of my favorite things. Just seeing everything lined up and in order makes me so happy. </div>
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We are LOVING Christmas choir. So fun. I'm singing a duet with the sweetest little elder....he sings higher than I do! And the pianist is hilarious. He learned English from watching Harry Potter. And we get to see President and Sister Sonksen a lot. We don't get to see the mission very often but choir is a fun opportunity to look outside our own little unit.</div>
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We have this one crazy miracle investigator who has come to church twice. I'm not kidding, she looks like a supermodel. Dresses so fashionably too. I think she might get baptized. Our bishop's wife is fellowshipping her. Fellowshippers are SO important! Teaching in Korean is so interesting. If you ask a Korean a question like "have you ever thought about God" they say no. or if you ask, what do you think about "_______" they say "never have". Thinking is not really encouraged here. The teaching style that really works is the dictatorial one, because that is the style Koreans have been taught in. So interesting. They don't ask questions, most of the time -- just listen and nod. The bishop's wife was really good at being polite while still being forceful. So funny.</div>
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Think of you every day -- I'm a really different person, not sure how but I am -- sometimes I think about how I'll be in 9 more months and then when I go home, if it will feel like meeting everyone for the first time. It's a weird feeling.</div>
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Hey dad! Thanks for the great email. So proud of Joe, every week!</div>
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Here are the answers to your questions:</div>
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We get up at 6:30am</div>
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Every morning we clean and eat breakfast, and call and text people and review our daily plans, and exercise. We also do studies - one hour of personal companion and language study each</div>
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We pray ALL THE TIME!!!!! Not even counting personal prayers. I've started going into another room so I can pray out loud. It's changed my prayers a LOT.</div>
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We are usually going to and from appointments and members' houses, or missionary meetings. </div>
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Just us two in the house! I always wanted to be in a 4 man house but there are not enough sisters anymore, so all the houses are 2 man houses :( it sounds so fun!</div>
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We sleep on the floor. I've slept in a bed once in Korea and it was really uncomfortable. I love sitting on the floor. And sleeping on the floor. They have heated floors here and it's great!</div>
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PDay's are usually crazy busy. We just shop and clean. There is not a ton of sightseeing in Korea. But I love the mountains and leaves and nature.</div>
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Sister Rowberry cooks for us. She does a weird fusion kind of thing. I need to help her out more! But her food is so good I don't want to ruin it....we eat rice, kimchi, seaweed and tuna every single day.</div>
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I love the food honestly. And Sanggye ward. It's amazing. And the grandmas that wander the streets at all hours. They're amazing and when I'm sad I just talk to them because they tell me I'm pretty, my Korean's good, I'm doing good work, and I need to get married. It's the best.</div>
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Love you all!</div>
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Another beautiful week in Sanggye. This place is paradise. The mornings are so misty and the mountains are doing that thing where they're covered by clouds but you can see the tops, so they look like they're floating. I love this place!</div>
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This week we saw so many miracles. I will just share my favorite :) We had stake conference Saturday night. My companion and I have been really good about planning. We get to all our appointments at the exact right time! We go over every plan with a fine tooth comb. But somehow we ended up getting to stake conference a half hour early and we didn't know how! When we planned somehow we missed it -- and when we went over our plans the next 3 times, we missed it. It was so weird. But...because we got there early some important things happened: My companion had her first street lesson! She taught the Restoration and was so excited. It's been on her mind for weeks and it was a total miracle in itself.</div>
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We met a lady who asked us to get HER phone number! She was super awesome. We did call time and ended up making an appointment with someone very important...I'll get to that in a second.</div>
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We got to have conversations with an ordained servant of the Lord, President Whiting! He's a spiritual giant and it was a really cool blessing to meet him. (Elder Scott D. Whiting is Area President of the Asia North area.)</div>
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The next day (Sunday) was stake conference, and a wild card came to church! We waited and waited -- she's a referral and we had never met her before, so we weren't even sure what she looked like, and were so worried she wouldn't come! But she did and she actually looks like a supermodel. </div>
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Right after church we went to our next appointment and tried to teach the lady the Restoration. She kept saying she had no interest, which was confusing because she had made the appointment! Turns out she wants us to teach her granddaughter. It was so funny. </div>
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Next we ran to another appointment with a lady I met on the street -- the lady we called Saturday night. She is PERFECT! Loves the Bible and wants to study it with us but when we introduced the Book of Mormon she was so interested!</div>
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Birthday wishes to Lauren's mom...</div>
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You know, it's funny how God works. He really does have a sense of humor. I learned that this week in a lot of different ways. More than a sense of humor, he has a sense of greater purpose. In the words of Sister Ami, "He makes me laugh every day."</div>
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Some excerpts: we got a referral for a woman who lives about 2 hours away who was going to move to our area. She actually came to church and it was really cool! We visited her and gave her a baptismal date....then found out she actually isn't moving to our area. Take it away, Nokbeon sisters! All in all we traveled about 5 hours! </div>
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We made best friends with our local 호떡 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotteok" target="_blank">hotteok</a>) guy. 호떡 is this cinnamon and nut-filled pancake thing. So good! Whenever we pass his stand he is so stoked to see us. He said his sales have gone way up since we started coming because we're blonde American girls. I'm never dyeing my hair.</div>
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Speaking of hair, it got cut again. <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_844458560" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> at church our bishop's wife came up to me and asked if we could spend PDay together because she had a surprise for us. She's actually the coolest person ever. We went to a meat buffet...and then she told me she had made me an appointment at the hair salon. So now I've had 3 haircuts in about 2 weeks. And winter is here. My neck is so cold.</div>
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Sister Rowberry is super funny. She's really good at cooking. Her method is to take random things out of the fridge, taste them, make a face, shrug, and throw it in the skillet. It's always a masterpiece. </div>
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We had some interesting mixups this week. We were trying to call elders from another district. This was the conversation. </div>
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"Wait, where's Jangwi? What mission are you from?"</div>
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"Um, Seoul...why, what mission are you from?"</div>
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Then we panicked, hung up and called President, who just laughed and laughed. Glad we could make his day. </div>
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We're having good luck finding new investigators as well. We met with a new one last week who really opened up about her life. In fact, she started crying so uncontrollably that me and Sister Rowberry were actually worried. It was cool to see how much she trusted us after meeting us just twice. </div>
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Sanggye is a miraculous place and it has changed my mission in so many different ways. More than wanting to talk to everyone, I want to have a conversation with everyone. This feels like a comfortable place to get uncomfortable and work on becoming a better missionary. One thing Sister Ami taught me is to teach everyone everywhere at all times. It's been really fun getting street lessons. The key is good questions!</div>
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I love my companion, love our district, love our zone -- everyone is so hardworking~! It's SUPER inspiring.<br />
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I know more than ever that this gospel changes and blesses lives. I've seen God in wonderful action. When we do our best and look around for miracles, I promise they're there.</div>
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This week was really cool! Korea is the best. I I heard this week that kimchi pizza is actually a thing but I have yet to find it....</div>
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This week I think I'll just share one experience. It's short but it changed my mission. </div>
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We had district meeting. Honestly I love district meetings in Sanggye. We have a good district leader and everyone is really good at contributing. Then our district leader said the words that struck fear into everyone's hearts. "So we're gonna do some roleplays in front of everyone..."</div>
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It's not always fun to speak Korean in front of other people. It's less fun to show everyone how you teach the gospel. Missionaries are analytical folk. The elder who went before me had been in country a year and I think angels sing when he opens his mouth -- just a general aura of super-holy. I was a little freaked out to follow him. </div>
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But I did and just simply testified. I don't know how good the Korean was. I don't know how well I taught. But I know that I felt the Spirit so strongly. All I did was talk simply about Joseph Smith and how I know he was a prophet, and all of a sudden it felt like the sun was burning in my heart. It was the strongest, yet most peaceful feeling ever.</div>
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I know anyone can experience that feeling. All you need to do is ask God with a sincere heart and I know that He will express His love to you. </div>
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I went on exchange with Sister Turley, who is in her second transfer, because my STL companion went to trainings. We were going to exchange back at 2, which turned into 4, then 7 then finally 9. I was a little nervous because we were going to teach our investigator with a baptismal date (the one who cut my hair. Sacrifices pay off) which I had never done without Sister Ami. We were going to walk all the way from Kirum (Sister Turley's area) to this investigator's house, and I was pretty sure we were going to get super lost. But we had so many miracles happen!!!! Our investigator was ready with questions about baptism and Moroni 10, and we got to her house no problem. She is SO cute!!!!!!!</div>
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Next we had zone training. I seriously LOVE zone training. Except for the part where my companion goes off into interviews and such and I'm alone in the corridors. I ended up building a super cool tower out of proselyting cards. The training was on teaching the first lesson, which I'm super stoked about because it's actually something I've been wanting to practice. Talk about revelation.</div>
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Our investigator came to General Conference! So excited. The bishop's wife sat with her and kind of explained everything. We love both of them. </div>
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Sooooooo excited for this week! Thanks everyone.</div>
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The weeks with Sister Ami are blowing by like trash in the streets of Korea (that's not me criticizing Korea, it's just that they actually don't have trashcans here. Like at all. I've checked) but it's the best thing ever! </div>
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We were able to give our miracle investigator a baptismal date last week. She is SO sweet. She's maybe 50 and she's actually going to be baptized in Australia in February! So Sister Ami will be there! (she promised she'd skype me in...) It was so funny having that lesson. It went like this. We had planned on teaching more about the plan of salvation but we got there and she was like "I'm cutting your hair today right" (she's a professional hairdresser in Gangnam) and we were like what. And somehow I have no hair left and Sister Ami looks the exact same. We also ate a HUGE meal with her and then went to another HUGE meal with this cute member family. Really, we have it so hard here in Korea.</div>
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Actually the member family was so funny I'm going to spend a moment on them. The mom was telling how they met - she told everyone they were going to be married and he had no idea who she was, then she was like "and now we have six children so he never had a choice anyways" and the husband just sat there with the funniest expression. We shared a message about prophets, but maybe we should have shared about longsuffering....(they really love each other, they just have a really funny relationship). </div>
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And now the saddest moment of the week. I have been serving in Sanggye for about 3 weeks now. One of the elders has apparently been under the impression that my name is Bear. That is my name with a Korean accent. We were playing a game for FHE where you have to call the person's name to get them out and he kept calling "Sister Bear, Sister Bear" and Sister Ami was like 'hey....so what is my companion's name?' and he was just silent for a moment and then said '....Sister Bear?' So that happened. Poor guy. He felt so bad.</div>
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Sister Ami and I tried so hard, but we are weak people and so we went back to our favorite chicken place, hoping no one saw us...and we came out and there are two teams of guilty elders holding huge cups of chicken. Then two hours later we came back, and there was the other team of elders, looking guilty and holding huge cups of chicken. We're glad we can have such unity. </div>
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We also had an interesting experience yesterday in which one of Sister Ami's old investigators came to our ward. She had a suitcase and a little blue bowler hat, and was dressed all in green. And she talked to us for 3 hours. I almost died. </div>
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One of the other elders shared the most beautiful testimony at fast and testimony meeting that I want to share a little bit. He did so good! He got up and said "in my home ward whenever the children got up to speak I thought 'oh here we go...they always share the same thing.'. But on my mission I've realized that childrens' testimonies are perfect. So I want to testify like a child. I know this church is true. I know Joseph Smith was a prophet. I know God loves us." And then he sat down. I have rarely felt the Spirit so strongly. The Spirit comes when we testify of simple truths. I know that this gospel is beautiful in its simplicity.<br />
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Sister Lauren Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821117633967636344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-262819990863528458.post-88670034914279065072015-09-28T04:26:00.001-07:002015-09-28T04:26:39.385-07:001 Lauren 1:1<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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1. And behold, the time had come for the Sangay sisters to make ready their houses.</div>
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2. For behold, Chuseok had come to pass. And now Chuseok is a tradition, peculiar to the Koreanites, in the which the people feast upon food constructed of various forms of rice.</div>
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3. And behold, the sisters were both foreignites, one in the service of their God but separate in culture (the one being from the promised land, the other being from the outer darkness of Australia) and thus had not been versed in the ways of the Koreanites.</div>
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4. Notwithstanding, they still ate a ridiculous amount.</div>
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5. And it came to pass that their hour of reckoning had come. The time of the yearly cleaning was again upon them.</div>
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6. Yet all was well, for they had hearkened unto the words of the Lord's anointed and stored up cleaning supplies for days.</div>
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7. And it came to pass that in the ninth hour of the sixth day they began their labors.</div>
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8. And it came to pass that in the thirteenth hour of the sixth day they still had not moved from the square foot of space near the sink. And thus it was for a day and a night and a day, and they saw no sun during the space of that time. And the space beginneth to stink unto them; a stink like chemicals that no one should ever come in contact with began to make itself known into them. </div>
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9. And it came to pass that the sisters gave up and ate Koreanite snacks. </div>
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10. And it came to pass that many miracles occurred. The Americanite was given power from on high to conquer her fear of fashionable Koreanite students and cry repentance unto them. The Australianite was given power to teach a grandma the Word of Wisdom. </div>
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11. (Behold this was hypocrisy in the Australianite, for in the very moment that she cried repentance unto this grandmother the Americanite sinned in her heart and thought about that amazing chocolate monstrosity they had devoured that morning, disregarding completely any law of health they had received from heaven.)</div>
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12. And it came to pass that they taught a really prepared investigator.</div>
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13. And behold, this investigator inquired unto the Lord concerning His will and ways.</div>
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14. And behold, the sisters experienced much rejoicing because of the righteousness of this Koreanite woman. She was so righteous. So very, very righteous and God loves her so much.</div>
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15. And behold, President Sonksen made a grave error.</div>
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16. President Sonksen, though walking in the ways of the Lord, allowed those under his stewardship to go bowling in honor of Chuseok.</div>
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17. And behold, Korean missionaries couldn't bowl if the pins were painted neon orange and running straight at them, and the bowling ball was programmed to hit them. </div>
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18. But despite their shortcomings, the Korean missionaries found great joy in finding each other strong in Christ (if not strong in bowling). </div>
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Anyways, it was a great week. I learned a lot about finding joy in the journey! If you have joy in your mission, you want to work. You want to work harder. And the harder you work, with the more joy you have, the less hard it feels until it doesn't feel like work. Missionary work is funny that way.</div>
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Love you all!</div>
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To quote a classic movie, "If at first you don't succeed, pack your bags" . </div>
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I don't have any special reason for opening with this. It's not like I made some huge mistake. (I did make several small/medium ones that are not going in this letter because they're vaguely embarrassing.) I've just been thinking about success a lot recently. How dependent it is on you. How dependent it is on others. My old STL (Sister Training Leader) said success was something you had to define personally. For some people, success is defined by the numbers. For others, it's fluency in the language. For me and where I am in my mission right now, it's defined by agency. </div>
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See, when you define success by agency, you're able to cut out the numbers. Baptisms and copies of the Book of Mormon accepted are defined mainly by others' agency. It's my agency to talk to them. That's success, when I share the message I came to share. When you define success by agency, language fluency or lack thereof becomes more about how hard you're trying. The Lord rewards trying! (Not as much as you want sometimes, but He does.) When I study and listen and speak Korean, I'm using my agency. That's success. </div>
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I'm not saying that I exist totally independently of worries about language or people accepting this gospel -- I'm just saying that that is the standard of success I want to strive for. Simply put, our purpose is to 'talk with everyone,' and some days that's simple, and some days that's complicated. But no matter what, the happiest I feel is when I'm confidently sharing about the restored gospel of Christ.</div>
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But they're awesome! Sister Ami is the one staying with me in Sangay and she's just fantastic. I really want to just listen in on her thought processes because she has so many great ideas. I have sooooooo much to learn from her and sometimes I just sit and listen to her wisdom. Another very wise missionary once told me, "I figured it out, Sister Bell. Literally <em>no one knows</em> what to do, and we all make it up as we go along and hope it turns out." But Sister Ami seems to know pretty well -- and it's because she relies on the Spirit. That's what I most want to learn from her.</div>
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<li>during exercise I was trying to say I felt like a whale, but I mixed up the words for whale and ancient and the girl I was with thought I was saying I needed to go to the hospital because my joints were worn out. Classic Sister Bell, causing a panic because she hates exercise.</li>
<li>the North Korean couple we met....we visited them and the man thought Sister Ee's nametag was a camera. Then he asked if we were a cult. We didn't drink the tea they gave us and he asked if we were a cult. The man called our card and asked my companion to come over alone when his wife and child weren't around. She was like 'no' and then he called us a cult. A lot of people have been telling us we're a cult recently. In Korea the qualification for a cult is anyone who isn't Buddhist, Presbyterian, or Methodist. And anyone who doesn't drink tea or go over to strange mens' houses, apparently. </li>
<li>Met a Bible Basher. He was a very confused person. I had no idea what was going on -- he kept talking about calculating the date for Christ's second coming. Interesting thing -- he never once talked about Christ or God or how good they are. Just that we needed to start preparing for the Apocalypse. Then he called us a cult. </li>
<li>We traveled to this area meeting with our branch. It took an hour and a half to get there. We listened to someone talk for forty minutes. Then we ate for four hours. Then drove home. It was amazing! And the speakers were really, really good. The house was gorgeous too. It was like wonderland. </li>
<li>I ate bugs. Finally. I can finally call myself a real Korean missionary. They were actually super delicious....sorry, mom. I got weird in Korea. </li>
<li>I'm also transferring. Super big shock and really sad! I've only spent 2 transfers in Donghae and I loved the quiet ocean. And of course, I loved the people. The branch here is amazing -- I almost cried in church. I will really miss them. And I will miss my companion! She was my fourth in four transfers but she was so unique and an incredible missionary. My next companionship is a threesome apparently. So that's seven companions in 5 transfers, counting the MTC (and of course I do because my MTC companion is manna to my soul). Speaking of....she's in my zone next transfer!!!!!!! So we get to do exchanges. Hehe. I'm headed for Sangyay. </li>
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So much has happened it would be crazy to try to cram it all into one email. Also, about 50% of the time I'm not sure what's happening which has made for some interesting adventures. To hit the highlights:</div>
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- we picked up an investigator who won't stop talking about New Jerusalem and Noah's ark and regularly references the Book of Revelation (an automatic red flag). On the other hand I've learned some interesting vocabulary, both from the lesson and from my companion as she walks out of the lesson. (Nothing bad just really funny)</div>
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- we met a couple from North Korea who thought our nametags were cameras and the guy kind of freaked for a minute. They escaped over 8 years ago. Also, they took a picture with me. At the time I had no idea why because I couldn't understand them very well, but apparently me visiting their house was a huge 'glory', which was flattering. </div>
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- we went to Seoul for a mission conference and literally it's so huge and terrifying and we almost hopped right back on the bus to Donghae! But the food was good....we went to this one buffet and waited in line for 45 minutes because it was so popular.</div>
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- At the mission conference, I sang a medley of <i>Come Thou Fount</i> and <i>Savior Redeemeer of my Soul--</i>they go together pretty well :) </div>
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-We also got to go to the temple! I've missed it soooooo much. It was kind of stressful because my companion forgot her recommend and since we live 5 hours away, going back wasn't really an option...we tried calling our President and he didn't pick up! They kind of herded me away from Sister Ee. It felt like that moment in Titanic where Jack is slowly drifting away in the ice cold Atlantic (they had the air conditioning on). But the temple workers pulled me out of the English session a moment later and I got to do the Korean session with her! I had this little translator, which was really a cool experience. Also....huge miracle....a ton of members from my last area were in the same session! I got to see a less active I worked with in the Celestial Room. It was really so special to me. If things hadn't gone wrong, they wouldn't have gone right. </div>
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This is actually the lamest email I've ever written but I wanted to get something out there :) Love you all and feel your prayers lifting me up! And helping me swallow that last bit of mystery soup. Next transfer is this Saturday actually! Whoa, so fast.</div>
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Missionary story of the week: my Choongrang zone leader lived in Taebaek (think the moon but less people) for 9 months and I recently heard a story about when he kind of lost it and started deep frying Nutella. If that's not a quintessential missionary story I don't know what is.</div>
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This week for instance. We were at a member's house eating an AMAZING meal when our Zone Leader called. We ignored it as the member was telling us this story (and also our mouths were full of delicious food) but he called again so I took it out in the hallway. </div>
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"We're at a member's house eating, why?"</div>
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"Can you please head home? Nothing is wrong, just everyone needs to go home right now and stay there."</div>
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Yes, that's believable.</div>
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Add that to the fact that I could hear our mission president's voice in the background saying things like "If we have to evacuate we'll be ready" and "of course they warned us first" and I slowly started to panic. I headed back to the table and my sweet Korean companion was like "What???" She said I was scaring her because my eyes were so huge. I was like "I DON'T KNOW BUT WE HAVE TO GO!" So after making a fumbled apology to the poor sweet member we skedaddled right out of there.</div>
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It turns out that the myth about every missionary house having an emergency backpack is TRUE. It was the first time I've seen it. We were told to make sure it had everything we would need for 72 hours. Meanwhile I was like "SISTER EE IT'S NORTH KOREA" and, bearing in mind that I was trying to explain what had happened in Korean, she started laughing and I was like "SISTER EE THIS IS LIFE AND DEATH! WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING"</div>
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In English, she responded "Bell Chamenim. Calm down." Apparently North Korea does a lot of this kind of stuff. Anyways, at least our 72 hour kit is finally updated. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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As long as we're talking about funny/seriously sad stuff. There was this guy that came to English class the other day. We all went around and introduced ourselves and when it was his turn he stood up and said in flawless English: "My name is Kim Seong Seok and I am very, very drunk." And then sat down. I could <em>feel</em> the elders just dying a little inside.</div>
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Having a Korean companion is interesting because sometimes I'm not sure what's happening. For example, we visited our branch president's mom, who's not a member, and talked about the youth of today and then somehow we ended up in this room just filled to the brim with CORN. You could not see the floor because there was so much corn in this room. She sat us down and we started shucking it. I still have blisters. I'm not sure what happened but it got us through the door!</div>
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I finally acheived my mission-long goal of throwing up at a member meal. It happens to every foreign missionary in Korea. It's a mark of bravery and longsuffering. I think it was the octopus that pushed me over the edge. I looked at Sister Ee and was like 'bathroom', her eyes went wide and we hustled right over there. And then after that I went right back and ate more octopus because it would have been rude not to. </div>
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A little piece of very exciting news: a sweet investigator that Sister Olsen and I taught in Choongrang-gu was baptized on Saturday! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks for the birthday wishes and letters and prayers! Love you all!</div>
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My mind is drowning in a deluge of Korean as I now find myself totally and completely immersed in the swirling currents of all-Korean, all-the-time. The most recent gift and challenge to my language skills comes in the form of my new amazing, beautiful, four foot eleven Korean companion. </div>
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Her name is Sister Ee So Yeun and we actually met before! We did an exchange when I served in Choongrang. We were both greenies then so Sister Olson just kind of herded us like ducklings. I'm in my fourth transfer now and she's in her third, so I'm senior. (I don't really know who made that decision but it seems ill-advised.) Sister Ee doesn't speak English. She knows some random words (she actually let loose with a swearword she learned from a movie that she didn't know was a swearword. She's the purest person I've ever met literally so it was really an experience hearing that) but we've spoken Korean only the last week. She was a little concerned about not being able to understand district meetings and such. She's the only Korean missionary in Donghae, and her last district leader was Korean, as was her trainer, so this is completely new for her. I promised her that even when we were around the other foreign missionaries I would just speak Korean. So my head is kind of exploding right now. </div>
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We've had surprisingly few misunderstandings considering. There was one time I was trying to explain 'shoulder' and somehow she got 'tattoo' but really all things considered it's gone amazingly well. She's REALLY capable.</div>
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An aside about Korean missionary culture. Korean missionaries have it rough. When we proselyte, the people only talk to them -- not the foreign companion. The ward pressures them a lot. American missionaries are interesting and therefore get a tiny bit of respect on the street. Korean missionaries get rejected fairly harshly, fairly often. Also, the ward has given us more referrals in one day than they did in 2 transfers. The perks.</div>
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Anyway, I was really nervous about being senior since I can't really do anything. Literally anything. So when the first person we talked to together didn't understand me I died a little inside. But then it turned out she was completely deaf and couldn't understand a single word Sister Ee said either. So that was hilarious. Sister Ee cupped her hands around this poor woman's ear and put her mouth right up to it and just YELLED. "HELLO. HOW. ARE. YOU. TODAY." And the lady still didn't understand. </div>
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One of my favorite parts this week -- we stayed at the temple for transfers. They have dorms. All the Kangwondo (country) sisters got to stay there overnight. It was really special because I have really missed the temple; Donghae is too far away to ever go. So I went out into the hall and just read my scriptures and prayed. I was really nervous for transfers but it all kind of melted away right then. I'll never forget that night.<br />
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Sister Lauren Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821117633967636344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-262819990863528458.post-24848352628574541692015-08-02T22:23:00.000-07:002015-08-02T22:54:43.905-07:00Farewell to Sister Murdock (작별 내 친구)...<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Missionary Quote of the Week: (while hiking through the forest) "Hey, look. A field. It's white. It's ready to harvest. AND IT'S ALL THE WAY OVER THERE SEPARATED BY A DITCH. Isn't that a lovely metaphor."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well another week has come and gone, and so has another companion. That's right. Sister Murdock and I were nervously awaiting transfer calls. We loved serving together and we thought we might have one more transfer as a companionship. Every time the phone went off we jumped. Then finally our AP (assistant to the president) called. He's so nice and always makes small talk. (We know you don't care how our day went, Elder Miller, and we just want you to do it like you're ripping off a Bandaid. But thanks.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sister Murdock is going to TAEBAEK. We screamed a lot. Let me put it this way. If Donghae is like the Sahara in terms of no one living here, Taebaek is like the moon. The Sahara at least has obscure tribes of people with strange customs. Donghae has small tribes of people living in hills. TAEBAEK HAS NOTHING. I don't know who my new companion is -- we have a new rule about that, probably because people will dig up anything they can on their next companion -- but I get to stay in Donghae. It really is the Garden of Eden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know Sister Murdock will do great anywhere she is planted. We saw a bunch of super cool miracles and talked with so many people! She is so kind and great at Korean and it was awesome coming out of greenie time with her as my companion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking of greenie time I got to talk to my trainer, Sister Gil!!!!! I was at a funeral and she's at school in Hawaii so it was a little different than we were used to haha. But it was so wonderful to hear her voice <3 Honestly, missionaries are one of my favorite parts of being a missionary. So many people to look up to and be inspired by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This week we did an English camp. It was really fun! I fell in love with all the kids that came. We made hot dogs and burned them slightly so we told them it was American style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We did also go to a funeral, which was a really intense experience. There were a lot of rituals involved. None of us were quite sure what to do but it turned out okay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, kind of a lame email so I'm sorry but I'm going to leave you all with this spiritual thought:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Go ye out of Babylon; gather ye out from among the nations, from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other” (<span style="color: #0066cc;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/133?lang=eng" target="_blank">D&C 133:7</a></span>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There's an awesome talk by D Todd Christofferson entitled <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/come-to-zion?lang=eng" target="_blank"><i>Come to Zion</i></a>. In it he describes the difference between Zion and Babylon. Paraphrased, Babylon is all the worldly things we get distracted by. Zion is the things that really matter. In Korea -- and this is something I could talk about for hours -- technology is everything. I think I'll send an email about it next week. I never realized how insidious it could be. But it's something that's been on my mind. Go ye out of Babylon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyways, love you all! Thanks so much <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sister Bell</span></div>
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I ate SO MUCH MEAT this week. So much I think I broke that one Word of Wisdom stipulation that everyone living in Idaho seems to forget about. I definitely did not eat it sparingly. There are meat buffets here. I am not kidding. Meat BUFFETS. Incidentally the word for missionary is really close to the word for fatty pig meat, so when we tell people we're seongyosa's they get really excited because they think we said samgyeopsar's. Then they realize what we're saying and they aren't as excited. </div>
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Monday: PDAY~ We finally made it to the beach! We went to 망상 which is a huge tourist destination. It was so weird feeling sand between my toes. It was really cloudy and everyone was wearing weird clothes but it still felt a little like California. It's so strange to think that my family sees the same ocean I do! We took some pictures, and then this lifeguard came over and was really excited to meet Americans. Then we told him we were missionaries and he suddenly remembered some responsibilities he had to do.</div>
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But then something strange happened in front of us. There was this strange old man with a strange old coat holding strange packages. He booted a younger college guy right out of his seat and tumbled into it himself. He fussed around and got situated. Then he tapped the man in front of him and thrust a package into his hands, gesturing for him to untie the plastic strings. The man did so with some sideways glances, obviously not sure why he was doing so. He finally unknotted it and handed it back. In return the man pulled out a loaf of bread and handed it to him. The other man was so delighted!</div>
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I realized we don't always know why God sends us to people or places, or why he asks us to do weird things. But when we do them it inevitably brings blessings we don't expect. So I talked to the lady and we had an amazing discussion, and I gave her a Book of Mormon. She was so interested in modern prophets. I had no idea she would have this interest when I started talking to her, but when I untied the package there was something amazing inside.</div>
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<span data-term="goog_1923946999" tabindex="0">Friday</span> we did an exchange and had some amazing things happen. I went with Sister Evans, our STL, to Wonju. We had just started 전도 with a woman crossing the street when I heard this big, deep voice say "Hello, Sisters!" I looked behind us...and then looked up. There was a six foot six white man standing behind us. He was SO TALL. Normally I would have been a little unsettled but he had said “sisters", which is a term most people obviously don't use. I talked to him while Sister Evans kept 전도 ing and learned his name is Joseph, and that he's stationed here with the army. He's a member of the church with a cute little family living in Idaho that he hasn't seen for 15 months. He hasn't been able to find a church building since that time. So when he saw us walk past he immediately did a double take. In his words..."White girls? Wearing SKIRTS? Must be the sister missionaries". So we took him to the church building and introduced him to the elders. The miracle was that our bus had been late. Buses in Korea are NEVER late! But because it was we were able to walk past right when he looked up. The next day he was able to go to a music concert with us and he was so happy to hear church music!</div>
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<span data-term="goog_1923947000" tabindex="0">Saturday</span>: We ate MORE meat. And went to this really awesome opera concert! The guy was amazing! He had a huge voice and range and I died a little inside because it was SO BEAUTIFUL and I never thought I would MISS opera that MUCH. His cute daughters played violin too. It was really special. Then I got back with Sister Murdock and we complained about how much we had eaten. </div>
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<span data-term="goog_1923947001" tabindex="0">Sunday</span> was really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hot. We walked to church at 9 and then spent ten minutes just standing in front of the air conditioner. We do streetboarding on Sundays and no one really wanted to, I think, but we did it anyways. I said a silent prayer as we prepared for it that somehow we would be able to withstand the heat. The moment we walked out there was this gentle breeze. Strange shadows were conveniently everywhere. We got to our streetboarding site only to find that a huge tent had been erected there, casting a huge shadow we were able to streetboard under. God answers prayers. He really does.</div>
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This was a really long letter...sorry! If I can't answer everyone's individual emails please know I love you all and would if I could! </div>
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Another week has come and gone. I still don't know Korean but like that's okay. You don't really learn how to speak Korean in Korea anyways. You learn like a weird form of sign language. I'm really good at expressing that I really, really want to buy that weird food. </div>
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So we were on our way to an appointment and these four guys start yelling and coming after us. Normally we would get freaked out but since we only have 1 progressing investigator it was like, "okay, we'll do anything"—maybe they had a referral. We were in a pretty crowded place so it wasn't dangerous anyways (love you mom). They caught up to us and then asked us to rank them in order of the most fashionable. One of them had these rad tattoo sleeves and we ranked him third, and he high fived us then pulled us in for a bro hug. Almost. We did like a limbo lean and got out of it. We ALMOST gave 4 referrals to the elders! But unfortunately they didn't come to church like they'd promised:( <br />
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We went to this area called Mukho to do some kakahoho (door to door) and let me tell ya, I've seen things. We got invited into like 4 houses because it was so hot! Technically right now it's the hottest time of summer, but it's also a typhoon so it's kind of raining too. The weather is a little confused. Anyway, people gave us tons of food and drinks, which was cool, then didn't listen to our message, which was sad. There was this guy with a really bad hangover hanging out his window so we gave him a Book of Mormon and talked about the Word of Wisdom. There was one house I knocked on and the gate was a little open, so I peeked inside...and there was a 90 year old woman going to the bathroom right in front of her screen door. She saw me and stood up (yep) and started yelling. I ran and Sister Murdock, who hadn't see it, was like "Sister Bell you have to finish!" Bless her.</div>
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This one Sister, Sister Kim, came and stayed with us for a couple days. She was really funny! She wrote us super cute notes and made us food. We ate a TON during those couple days, including something called poppingsu that's made of ice and bean powder. It was SO good! She also told me that the Korean name my Korean trainer gave me actually also means Silver Gun as well as Great Blessing, so that's kind of cool. She also told Sister Murdock to stop waving her drumsticks. We're still not sure what that means but it's probably good to keep in mind.</div>
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We had a scripture battle with our elders as well. We were a little late getting in and we apologized to the district leader. He sent us this:</div>
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Lamentations 4:<span id="chunk170000">18 </span><i><span id="chunk170001">They </span><span id="chunk170002">hunt </span><span id="chunk170003">our </span><span id="chunk170004">steps, </span><span id="chunk170005">that </span><span id="chunk170006">we </span><span id="chunk170007">cannot </span><span id="chunk170008">go </span><span id="chunk170009">in </span><span id="chunk170010">our </span><span id="chunk170011">streets: </span><span id="chunk170012">our </span><span id="chunk170013">end </span><span id="chunk170014">is </span><span id="chunk170015">near, </span><span id="chunk170016">our </span><span id="chunk170017">days </span><span id="chunk170018">are </span><span id="chunk170019">fulfilled; </span><span id="chunk170020">for </span><span id="chunk170021">our </span><span id="chunk170022">end</span><span id="chunk170023"> is </span><span id="chunk170024">come.</span></i></div>
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1 Timothy 2:11 <i>Let the woman learn in silence with all subjugation</i> (because we're sister missionaries and we were dying over this verse).</div>
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And then we won. See, everybody. Missionaries can have fun. </div>
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Okay! Spiritual time!</div>
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I read Exodus 14 the other day and it's all about the children of Israel escaping Egypt. In verse 10 it says they were sore afraid. Fear is the enemy of faith, and without faith -- a firm belief that God will be with us the whole way even if we can't see in front of us -- we can't move forward. The Israelites were confronted by a huge ocean, it's true, but they couldn't move forward because they were paralyzed by fear. </div>
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In Exodus 14:13 Moses tells them to fear not. When they let go of their fear, they were able to move forward despite impossible odds. I know the same is true for us. If we can forget the things holding us back, and remember that the Lord is on our side -- and that in fact He has gone through all the hard things for us so that He can know how to help us -- then we can go farther than we think possible.</div>
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I love missionary work. No matter how hard it is I love it! I love this gospel and I love sharing it and seeing the difference it makes in peoples' lives. Our investigator the other night accepted a baptismal date and, since she moved, is still meeting with the missionaries. Our other investigator has accepted Joseph Smith as a prophet. I know this gospel can bless the lives of everyone who accepts it.</div>
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(Post date: 12 July 2015)</div>
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It's been another crazy week! Donghae is literally paradise. Our branch is amazing. I LOVE my companion!</div>
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So I'm sorry all my stories are so weird...next time it will be really spiritual I promise! But so many weird things happened this week! </div>
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1. Last week I forgot to include this: so we met this old homeless lady at a bus stop. She's SO old and SO cute...she offered us this weird drink and we couldn't just say no. She kept telling us it wasn't alcohol. It wasn't...but we're not sure what it was. Sister Murdock pretended to drink it but then the lady wanted her paper cups back, so we had to drink it all. I actually drank it. Sister Murdock threw it up in a sewer. </div>
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2.Our power went out momentarily. When the ceiling light flickered back on there was a pause, then Sister Murdock started reciting the first vision. When the light rested upon me...I still laugh about it.</div>
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3. Members here -- I love them unconditionally -- are so interesting. </div>
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4. Yesterday (Sunday) the gospel doctrine teacher was speaking rapid fire Korean. She shot a question at an elder. He thought she said "What's the first thing that pops into your head?" He panicked and said monkey in Korean. She actually asked "What's the most important thing in your life?" The members were all really confused. It was amazing.</div>
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5. The members commented on how much I ate. When I finished they asked why I wasn't eating very much. </div>
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6.Our zone commitment this week is to give the baptismal commitment at least once a day. It's yielded some incredible miracles. After zone conference, we 전도'ed like mad but everyone was too busy to talk. It was raining, we had no umbrellas, we were drenched and cold. But there's something about enduring rain with a smile that makes the miracles pour like the sky. We had ten minutes left before daily planning and still had not found anyone to extend the commitment to. So we said a prayer in the middle of the downtown. Then, without saying a word, we both started walking the same direction, towards an out of the way bus stop. We found a woman there - the first thing she rather angrily said was "I attend church" but we were able to have an amazing conversation about baptism. It was a total miracle!<br />
The second miracle was that we found four new investigators! They're four middle school students. We taught them the whole first lesson...they paid really good attention! </div>
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7. I got to go on an exchange with my favorite missionary in the world, Sister Seo Jueun. She saved my mission first transfer and now she's my STL!! She's also one of the funniest people on the planet. A brief quote: "He went to gundae (army) and now he looks like burned potato." We had a lesson where the investigator just completely opened up and told us why she felt like she couldn't get baptized and it was so amazing. She started crying. She also told me my Korean was perfect so I also started crying. But before we had spiritual time we had English time, where we taught her English. It's a lot of weird grammar words so I had no idea what was going on. But Sister Seo would talk rapid fire Korean with her. Occasionally there would be some English thrown in. </div>
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"네. Evergreen."</div>
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"Ah. Piano store."</div>
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"Freelancer."</div>
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I kid you not, those are the actual random English words she said. I wrote them down. I love Korea.</div>
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She taught me a TON during exchange. One of my favorite things she said was how if your faith is at a level five, your actions should be at level ten, and then your faith can grow to level ten.</div>
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Sister Lauren Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821117633967636344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-262819990863528458.post-14172288933189226442015-07-05T21:44:00.000-07:002015-07-06T05:41:25.497-07:00Beautiful coastal Donghae...<div style="font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">
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It has been quite a week in Donghae! Basically I never want to leave. In Seoul you can actually see the air because it is so tainted. Here everything smells wonderful (except for the sketchy grandma we sat next to...more on that later…)</div>
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First off, my companion is SO darling. Sister Murdock</div>
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from Bountiful, Utah. She has an amazing sense of humor and a really strong dedication to missionary work. Donghae is a hard place to serve because not a lot of people accept the gospel here. Even the elders are having kind of a rough go. But we've already seen a lot of miracles. Donghae is crazytown when it comes to miracles. (Also it's just kind of crazy town.)</div>
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Monday: We had family home evening. Only one person came....but he definitely was enough. His name is Kim Young Min and he is crazy in the best way. Put it this way...when you go knee to knee with an old Korean man who is half Mormon, half Buddhist, a former monk with Word of Wisdom problems, and has a mysterious tumor on the back of his neck he can't explain, you know you're headed for an adventure. He's an amateur art therapist so he had me draw a volcano, a house, and a tree. From that he discerned that I like mysterious men, cloudy days, and suffer from an overactive imagination and possibly hallucinations, and that I have a great deal of inner wrath. (He told the humblest elder I know that he's a megalomaniac so I don't know how accurate it is.)</div>
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Tuesday: Probably the highlight was meeting this one girl. We're not sure what her name is but she has our number and calls ALL the time. Like 5 am. She keeps telling me I look like <a href="https://teainateacup.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/anne.jpg" target="_blank">Anne of Green Gables</a>. Then she tells me I look like a supermodel. (But she told my companion she was more wonderful than me. Talk about mixed signals.) She keeps asking us to vacation to Japan with her. She also has tried to give us a lot of gifts: pens, papers, receipts, and enough medication to kill a full grown bull elephant. We're not sure what it treats but I don't think she's taking it.</div>
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Wednesday: We were all settled in to have our favorite meal for lunch...but then we got this prompting to go to Samcheok. We didn't really want to go, but we did. We ended up meeting these awesome people on a bus, including a grandma that literally proselyted for us and gave us candy. She told everyone who we were and what we were doing and that they should listen to us. Bless her. </div>
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Thursday: We met our new mission presidents!!!!!! They are super cool. <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865624066/New-mission-presidents.html?pg=all" target="_blank">President and Sister Sonksen</a> are from Ohio and are SO awesome. <br />
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Sister Sonksen is working really hard to learn Korean. They gave us a really good training. One of the things he said that I liked was 'Carry the love of the Savior in your eyes'. I just thought that was really beautifully phrased. </div>
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Friday: We met a lot of grandmas that told us we were pretty then got on us for being single, and tried to set us up with their sons. </div>
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Saturday: Our BIG miracle! We set up a TON of appointments this week. SO many. But every single one fell through. I haven't met any of our investigators yet. We've been proselyting like crazy and have gotten a lot of numbers and given a lot of Books of Mormon out, but no dice. But Saturday we were proselyting and we were like...okay, one more person. So we talked to this nice high school student. It turns out she has already met the missionaries and really likes them! We asked when she had time and she was like "Right now". So we taught the whole Restoration on the street! It was a much needed miracle.</div>
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Sunday: we cried in the kitchen when we heard <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865631936/President-Boyd-K-Packer-passes-away-at-age-90.html" target="_blank">President Packer died</a>. His <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/the-plan-of-happiness?lang=eng" target="_blank">talk from general conference</a> gave me a lot of strength and happiness, and I would read all of his Ensign talks over and over in personal study. He really was an amazing man. He will be missed :( </div>
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We also met this lady who runs a 'massage shop'. Yes, we're concerned too. But she is SO nice! She was abused by her husband and the missionaries visited her every other day in the hospital. She still remembers the cookies they made her. She referred her daughter to us too and gave us earrings and a lot of food. Then she got in a strange car with a strange man and zoomed off. Yes. We are a little concerned. She REALLY needs the gospel.</div>
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It's been a fantastic week, and after email we're going to something called a 'meat party' and there is no way that could be bad so I'm super excited. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">Me and Sister Seo, who basically changed my mission first transfer. She's SO cute!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">With sisters Murdock (my companion) and Gwak. Love them SO much!</span></td></tr>
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Sister Lauren Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821117633967636344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-262819990863528458.post-59696558478705682202015-06-28T21:30:00.000-07:002015-06-29T12:21:11.384-07:00A Tale of Two Cities...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the hottest of days and the rainiest of days. It was the days of people giving us a lot of free food and then walking away when we tried to teach the gospel. (Which honestly could be worse.)</div>
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I'm just going to put it out there: I'm a terrible person. Why do I even go outside? I should just go live in a cupboard under the stairs or something. Speaking of which....I met my new companion.</div>
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This is my fourth companion, counting my MTC companion. I really loved serving with Sister Olson and I was pretty sad to leave, and nervous to meet my new companion, Sister Murdock. We were walking up the hill to transfers and Sister Olson goes "There's Sister Murdock!" So I tried my best to look psyched and confident and walked up to her and said "Hey Sister Olson!". Yes. I called her by my last companion's name. It really could have been the beginning of the end. Thankfully, Sister Murdock is really cool. She's basically me with brown hair. We both LOVE reading and Harry Potter and traveling! This is going to be the best transfer ever!!!</div>
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Anyways, Donghae (my new area) is SO gorgeous. It's got a bustling little downtown, spreading houses, and a huge seaside. There are lots of farmers and old grandmas doing weird exercises. There are trees everywhere. Honestly, when I was in the big city I wondered if trees were still a thing. They are. They are everywhere. I keep thinking I'm in Mexico. The weather changes every day and there's all these misty mountainy landscapes and ramshackle little houses painted bright colors. It was a 3 hour bus ride from Seoul to Donghae and every bit of it was wonderful! The world outside gradually changed from smoky, grimy city to greeny paradise. Sister Murdock and I got to know each other and essentially we are both huge nerds. I'm so happy. </div>
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That night we went to a member meal. It was super simple but so good. TONS of kimchi that the mom had made herself. Somehow it tasted a little minty. It was SO GOOD! What am I gonna eat after my mission?? After the meal we visited this enormous rose garden by the river. I felt like we were in a fairytale or something.<br />
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The next day all our appointments cancelled so we proselyted for seven hours. We just got to explore and stuff. Our area is like Middle Earth sized. (Rivendell is Baskin Robbins. Mordor is the red light district.) There was this windy, cramped-road hill with tons of slanted little houses where we met a grandma with a serious hangover. She was really cute but she REALLY didn't want to talk. We felt so bad!</div>
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The next day was an actual monsoon I think. We got soaked. I got this monsoon-proof umbrella in the states and I had a hard time holding onto it. It was super miserable. But we got to meet with our new investigator. We met her riding home from the member's house. She told us during the lesson that it was a miracle we had sat by her because she had prayed for a sign and that kind of thing. She asked for a Book of Mormon and was pretty psyched about tithing. She's basically golden. Except she lives inside a different mission boundary so that's kind of sad. Dang it Seoul South. We still love her though. We looked like drowned rats and she didn't judge us.</div>
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And yes, people are giving us TONS of free food. I need to start keeping a list. We've gotten cherries and mangoes and donuts and coffee and rice and a peach energy drink, and a lot more. People tend to give us these things because they want us to eat them, which will make our mouths stop moving for a little bit. Also, people in Donghae are just super nice. All these Korean moms keep trying to set me up with their sons. The high school students keep complimenting my nose. This one girl in the branch covered my nametag with stickers.<br />
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So we were in this kind of sketchy part of town. There was no one there and the sky was super gray and kind of creepy. We rounded the corner and saw this tall thin girl just standing there. You know the scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when they see Bathilda Bagshot? It was a lot like that. She had this huge crazy perm. She raised one arm and beckoned us really slowly. It was so creepy. We went over and she took us to her house. It was disgusting. I don't know what smell it was but it was not a smell I want to smell again. There was trash all over and the roof was caving in, and the wallpaper looked like it had been scratched off with fingernails. My companion went "Oh no, I know who this is...we're in trouble...." which was not a huge comfort.</div>
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She talked to us sometimes, but mostly to herself, and she didn't remember her own name. We did our best to teach her the gospel but no go. She took us to her mom's house too and the mom said "God sent her a friend! She's your older sister now" and that kind of stuff. We finally left after doing our utmost.</div>
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It turns out she's a former investigator. The elders called her Africa because she used to wear white stripes of makeup on her face. She's a FORMER investigator because she stripped everytime she saw the elders. She was really nice and I feel bad but it seems likely we won't visit again...</div>
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Even so, I love Donghae!</div>
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All my love,</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">Our investigator from Jungnang! She has a baptismal date :) Isn't she cute??</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">I got to eat quail eggs. They were SO GOOD!!!!!!!!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">More kimchi :) My favorite Jungnang ward member gave us a meal my last night. It was HUGE! SO good!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">김치!! 너무 마시서요!!!!!!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">My old companion and my new companion, both of whom I called Sister Olson</span></td></tr>
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Sister Lauren Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821117633967636344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-262819990863528458.post-25568686264152773352015-06-21T21:03:00.003-07:002015-06-21T23:36:47.009-07:00Transfer to the Eastern Front...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aaaaaaaaaand off we go again. Transfer calls rolled right around again. I'm headed to 동해! It was really unexpected. I thought that after my first trainer left I'd get a little more stability! But that's exactly the opposite of how missions work. I'm going to a place that's about as far east as our mission gets. It's right on the beach, and it's four hours away from the mission home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When the AP said I was transferring, I actually started crying. I really love 중랑 and I love Sister Olson. Right before transfer calls we talked about how we still have so much to do together and how neither of us would be leaving. That night was kind of hard. I don't want to leave! But I know in 동해 there are some amazing opportunities just waiting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My transfer goal is to read the whole Book of Mormon in one transfer. Today I read 1 Nephi 3. Nephi and his family have headed out into the wilderness, leaving behind home, possession, and friends. It must have been a hard choice. Then Nephi and his brothers are told they have to go back. Nephi seems to struggle a little bit with this commandment. It was hard enough to leave home in the first place, and to even leave the unfamiliar wilderness they've struggled through must have been heartbreaking, thinking of all the steps it took to get there. Nephi's father tells him this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Basically I read this and decided to stop being so sad about transfers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyways, transfer drama aside… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our stats from our 100 hour week were crazy! We had a conference and President told us all about it. As a companionship our stats were 5 times higher than usual, which is crazy. Usually missionwide the stats are about 13000 people contacted a week. During the 100 hour week, it was almost 30000! Super cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I also finished LPP, which is the Language Study Program type thing our mission has. I get ice cream from our zone leader because I beat Elder Megargle doing it, and I also got a bracelet I'm never gonna wear (but it sure does feel nice having it). </span></div>
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This week we again saw a ton of miracles. One of my favorites was the hardest day of the week. It was blazing hot. We had had 3 appointments and they had all cancelled! We went to visit a member who was always home...and she wasn't home. Nothing seemed to be going our way. But we had a lot of fun just walking around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the end of the night we were walking down this street. Sister Olson said 'I think we should turn this way', so we did....and nothing happened. That's okay, that happens a lot in missionary work. It was time to go home so we turned around and walked right back down the same street. Then all of a sudden we heard someone shouting our names. We turned around and there was this woman running after us. We had met her before, but she had been in a huge hurry to get to work so we had just given her our cards. But she had looked us up and everything! She invited us into her restaurant and gave us literally the most delicious mango smoothies I have ever tried. It was super cool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have a couple new investigators and everyone is progressing pretty well. I'm really going to miss them, especially 재지은. She was the coolest. Hopefully we can stay in touch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking forward to my last PDay in Chungnang! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks for the love and prayers everyone :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">xoxo,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sister Bell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">PS Here are a few tips:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Space bags. Space bags space bags space bags. They will save your life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Come with a gift for your trainer :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Know the section in PMG about inspired questions pretty well. It's really helpful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. Bring facemask stuff! It's so great to have at the end of the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. HAVE GOOD FAMILY PICTURES.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">My FAVORITE Korean food! </span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">Bap burgers (two clumps of rice with spicy chicken and cheese in between) and Yogerpresso! It's this strawberry cheesecake thing with real cheesecake.</span></span></td></tr>
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Sister Lauren Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14821117633967636344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-262819990863528458.post-32692457158412089922015-06-15T06:27:00.000-07:002015-06-15T09:55:21.734-07:00Of mountains and molehills...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHN-pmzeQYKhoxNCDr4nT97cYWLWO_YyEZWMi_Kk_wFA_zcWtcZHJsmo8rFUoR7bqAodGzPnHUQB65clx-lBJNqWjsvXzcBUqMHRIUGD-gjeA6ry3TDtJwv8paJrJwe-rLubVRcylksOQ/s1600/IMG_0109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHN-pmzeQYKhoxNCDr4nT97cYWLWO_YyEZWMi_Kk_wFA_zcWtcZHJsmo8rFUoR7bqAodGzPnHUQB65clx-lBJNqWjsvXzcBUqMHRIUGD-gjeA6ry3TDtJwv8paJrJwe-rLubVRcylksOQ/s320/IMG_0109.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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It feels like YEARS since I've emailed. This last week we did a hundred hour week! Sister Olson and I got up every morning at 5 and left at 5:30. We didn't have study time, exercise time, or mealtimes -- if we were hungry we ate on the road! I have never been so sore in my life. But at the same time it was the greatest thing ever. I exceeded all my personal goals! There was one day I felt scared to ask for numbers, so the next day I resolved to ask for 3. I ended up getting over twenty! It was insane!<br />
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One of my favorite days this week was Sunday night. The day before had been pretty hard. I got rejected like ten times in a row when I tried to talk to people, and a couple people told me they hated the gospel. We're trying to film this music video thing, because the Church is starting this big new website in Korea. This elder came all the way from another zone to film....but we couldn't figure out where to do it. We ended up going to this random apartment rooftop, and it was awesome, but before we could do anything the clouds came out. (Also, there was a naked man bathing on the next roof over. We named him Bathsheba.)<br />
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But the next day, Sunday, literally everything I was worried about got fixed. I had some awesome conversations with people, and the video ended up working out too. I don't know exactly what's happening with it but there were tons of really amazing things that happened. We found this gorgeous park with a waterfall and a huge pool and an observatory thing that overlooks tons of trees. It was magical. (Except the waterfall was turned <em>off</em>. I know. Welcome to Korea.) We started singing and playing guitar and pretty soon all these cute little Korean kids gathered around us, totally unprompted. We sang some Korean kids songs with them. They stared at us with their mouths open. It was like a movie. It hopefully will be a movie! Fingers crossed! If anything else happens I'll let you all know.</div>
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My saving grace this week was Sister Olson! It would have been ten times harder without her. But she wrote me some really nice notes and we commiserated about our sore feet. We actually did 108 and a half hours this week. It felt amazing to just give my all to everything. It also felt like I might die. But Sister Olson is a machine! We just kept going even when we thought we couldn't. </div>
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I've noticed one particular quality that all missionaries seem to share. They NEVER complain about the big stuff. Some missionaries will murmur all day about a tiny blister on their foot, or that their muffin was a little stale that morning, or that the taxi they took smelled like smoke, or that that darn dog peed in front of their apartment again. But you will NEVER hear them complain about how hard missionary work is. About the heartache over an investigator that doesn't want to meet anymore. About how really, they don't understand what anyone is saying to them. About how a family member passed away and they decided to stay in Korea because if they went home they might not come back. I never hear about that stuff. So if you hear a missionary talking about how they didn't realize one sock was navy blue when they put it on, it means "I'm having a hard time, but I love what I'm doing and so I'm going to complain about the molehills instead of the mountains."</div>
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This letter is crazy short for how much happened, but I think I'll end there. Most of what happened can't be really put into words anyways. No matter how hard it gets, I would never choose anything besides a mission. </div>
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Yay! P-Day! The closest next to exchanges we get to vacation. Today we went to Costco and bought hot dogs. The weather is GORGEOUS! Summer is coming and I’m really enjoying this in-between hot and cold. It feels really nice.<br />
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I passed off a lesson today! I’m really happy about it. It’s really hard and stressful. We have about 100 vocal words per lesson and we have to teach the whole thing by ourselves. Today was my 2nd time doing lesson 2 with my trainer. I do it 3x total with her and 1x with the district leader. Today she said I did really good! Which I really needed to hear. I’ve been working like crazy on it.<br />
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Speaking of my companion, she’s been really sick the last couple of days. I took Max Putnam’s advice and have been serving her as much as possible, doing housework and pretty much anything I can think of. She mentioned today that when I get stressed I react with more stress. I know she’s right and that I need to be better about it—although I’ve been LOADS better recently since I’m 100% all the time stressed but still always happy!</div>
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Okay, time for a little self boasting time. It just made me feel so good and changed my day! Yesterday I did MCM (missionary coordination meeting) and said the prayer and both my zone leaders said how good it was and how, by the end of my mission, I’d be fluent because I spoke so much as a green. With LPP I’ve been struggling a lot with feeling inadequate with Korean and yesterday morning was especially hard. I was so nervous about MCM. Hearing that was so helpful.<br />
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President Ringwood said a lot of really good stuff during the mission tour. One thing he said that I loved was “Don’t just focus on the end goal—focus on how to get there.”<br />
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With Korean especially, progress is so slow and incremental. Tiny bit by tiny, tiny bit. Same with testimony. Every day the hard things make it easier to bear tomorrow and easier to appreciate the todays.<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A funny thing happened on exchanges—we were riding the train to switch back. A woman approached us, which was weird because people NEVER approach us. We started talking, then she interrupted and started teaching us about <u>her</u> church. She was a missionary too. She REALLY didn’t like our Book of Mormon. Just a funny encounter.<br />
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I didn’t have time to say this before, but something pretty cool happened. The elders referred us to this woman. She’s a tall, scary police officer. We met her at the station. It turns out we’re going to teach the whole police station 30 minutes of English, 30 minutes of gospel. Really cool.<br />
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Thanks for your prayers, emails, and support! It’s so important to me and really sustains me. I can’t imagine doing it without you. Let me know the little details in your lives! I love hearing about choir & youth conference & Naval Academy. It makes me so happy. The big & small, I love to hear it all.</div>
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I’ll close with a quote: “All that is not eternal is too short, and all that is not infinite is too small.” (Stanford University Memorial) It helps me remember my priorities. I love the church!</div>
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