Oh hey there!

Well, I don't know if I mentioned last week or not, but I went to a Buddhist temple last week. I meant to put pictures up, but I forgot to bring my little thing that allows me to transfer pictures from my camera to the computer. I'm the worst, I know. SORRY!! It was really cool though. Seeing all the crazy architecture and statues really made it sink in that I am in Asia. It's funny how I have been here for a month and a half and I still need convincing :) First and foremost, I have not gotten to watch conference yet. Since we here in Korea are technically existing in the future (16 hours ahead),  we could not watch the sessions of conference this last weekend, so we will go to a stake center this upcoming weekend and have our own session of conference with all the members. I won't get to go to my own building because they are only playing it in Korean there and let's face it, if I had to watch 10 hours of conference in Korean, I would be coo-coo crazy by the end of it :) 

Let's see, let's see. What other news... Oh YEAH!! So I don't know if I have mentioned this before or not, but most cities in Korea have a food that they are famous for. My area, Nonsan, is famous for their strawberries. So, this last week, they had a strawberry festival. This isn't like Strawberry days in PG. This. Was. HUGE!!!!! I will put pictures up soon, I promise, but let me just describe it like this. My companion and I were walking down one aisle of tents that they had lined up with activities and stuff, and I looked down the aisle in a straight line and I LITERALLY could not see the end of the tents. This thing is intense. People from all over Asia and especially from all over Korea come to my little town of Nonsan for this event. We were going to go do a finding activity with my district there one day, but of course THAT was the day it decided to rain, and Koreans are DEATHLY afraid of the rain. They think their hair will fall out or something if they stand in the rain, so NOBODY comes outside and EVERYBODY  has umbrellas. It's pretty intense. Anyway, so we didn't get to spend much time and the festival because we had to do like, missionary stuff or whatever. Pshh :P That was pretty much the highlight of my week. Sorry that I have been so bad at giving y'all details about my life and what not. Oh and one more thing, I used to say that learning Korean was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. Well it's actually second. The hardest thing was learning how to use chopsticks...PROPERLY. I could use them just fine if I did it my way, but it turns out they way I was holding them was about as civil as when people in America grip their forks and spoon like a shovel and cram food into their mouth. So... I decided that was probably not the best thing for a missionary to look like. I will send pictures and instructions on how to properly use chopsticks at a later date. I'll give you a hint though, if you are using the front part of any of your fingers to hold the chopsticks, you're doing it wrong... :D

Have a wonderful week. I love you all!

Elder Jakob Tyler Fund

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