Well, I'm here! This week has been such a change from the life I am used to. Let me clear the air on one thing before I get going. If any of you saw a picture of me with another missionary on Facebook, that is not my companion. That was a friend from high school that I happened to see on my first day here. He is assigned to the Referral Center where he is on computers all day and has access to Facebook, so that's why that picture got posted. So yeah, that's not him. My real companion's name is Elder Smurthwaite. He is about 2' shorter than me and about 75-100 lbs. heavier. I don't want to point out negatives or positives, but basically, we are the opposite of each other. I'm going to have to find a way to really make this companionship mesh, because I know it's probably my own pride and stubbornness that is causing any issues there may be. Ah well, I love him anyways :)
I'm absolutely loving life here. It's so nice walking around smiling at everyone and not having to worry about people swearing or talking about vulgar things. It's a much needed vacation from the outside world :) We have been busy this past week. Even though I was probably the laziest person on the planet the last 3 or 4 weeks before I left, it hasn't been hard at all to keep my schedule here. Everything is organized in such a perfect manner that if you are obedient, you don't exhaust yourself past your means.
As for the Korean. Oh boy. That has been a rollercoaster all by itself. We were expected to teach an investigator completely in Korean on our 3rd day here. I don't think it would surprise anyone if I told them it didn't go all that well. It's been getting exponentially better every day though. With the exception of P-day (Tuesday for me) and Sundays, we teach an investigator every day at the MTC. That means every day my companion and I have to prepare a lesson completely in Korean that's different from the lesson we taught the day before. At first it frustrated me because I felt I was wasting my time preparing these lessons when I could have been studying the language. It wasn't until Sunday that I realized how off track I was. Sunday is like a concentrated beam of Spiritual enlightenment in the MTC. We had a fireside on the atonement that night, and it really hit me hard. I'm not here to learn Korean for myself. I'm not even here to learn the gospel for myself. I am here to learn how I can best help the people of Korea come closer to Christ. That totally changed my attitude about everything. Ah! I wish I could write more, but I'm still learning how to manage my time best and I don't think I did a very good job today. I'll post again next week! The Church is true!
Elder Jakob Tyler Fund
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