I loved my Korean Christmas

Hello family and friends! I hope you all had a great Christmas!

We didn't have a white Christmas in Korea, but it was a cold Christmas nonetheless.

We started off the day by going caroling with the adult men in our ward. We visited all of the grandmas in our ward and wore Santa hats and sang Christmas songs to them, it was such a blast. And the funniest part was watching the grandmas argue with the men, because they tried to feed us at every house we went to. So after lots of compromises, we ended up with a belly full of hot chocolate, and a bag full of muffins and tangerines. Then, we went and got 짜장면 all together, you can't get a better Christmas meal than that. Right after, my companion and I skyped our families in the church building, which was an amazing Christmas present. The highlight of the call was my 7-year-old brother asking if I was going to turn Korean while I was here, I guess We'll have to wait to find out though..

Jesus Christmas tree and gifts #KoreanChristmas

Then, we made some cookies for our ward party. We're one of the only people with an oven in our ward, so we got selected for the task. So we struggled with our 30-year-old oven for a while and produced something resembling cookies, and they all got eaten, which has to be a good sign. 

That night, we had a party at the church. We watched the worldwide church Christmas Devotional, then had a meal and lots of games. The people hear are so fun, I didn't even know how to play the games but I still had a blast. Then, the bishop had me and my companion dress up like Santa and come through the back door with a bag full of gifts for every one. 

Super Santa Selfie

It was the highlight of the night for sure. I loved my Korean Christmas, I'm so glad I get to spend 1 more here!

The rest of the week, we were just working hard to visit everyone and invite them to the party, but we did have some fun experiences as well. We also went caroling on Christmas eve with about 12 missionaries, we sang some Christmas songs on the street and handed out our "Savior is Born" video cards.

Also this week I met several Russians, believe it or not. There is a musician in our ward that is Russian, so we visited them this week. It was a little strange at first because I think it might be Russian culture to not eat in the same room as your guest, so we were just left alone to eat our food. But after, we read the Book of Mormon in English and Russian, something I never thought I would do in Korea.

Korea is so cool, they get double the Santas

We also met a Russian man that sells clams by our house. He spoke Korean very well, so we wanted to ask him how he learned. He also spoke English very well, but he has been selling clams in Korea for 10 years, it's impressive.

I've mentioned how many tangerines we eat here during the winter, but this week we took tangerine eating to a whole new level. We visited someone that likes to wash their tangerines in vinegar and then eat them whole, peel and all. they don't like to miss out on any nutrition, so we gave it a try as well. It was strange, but didn't taste half bad. I would recommend all of my American friends give it a try!

I hope you all have a great New Year's this week! I love serving here, and I can't wait to see what miracles 2016 will bring. Best wishes!

-Elder Bigelow

Your face bloomed

Hello friends and family, I hope you are all having a great Christmas season!

This week, we got to go to mission headquarters for a special Christmas treat. We started off with a training for the first half of the day, then did a special christmas program with President Morrise and his wife. Some people performed, and we ate lots of food and sang lots of Christmas songs, it was a blast. And some of the mission president's relatives made little Christmas bags for all of the missionaries, which was very sweet, just like the candy inside.

Then the next day, we got to go the temple in Seoul, which is the only time we're allowed to cross the river. After that, we went to a giant mall and underground market to do some shopping, my companion is going home soon so he is trying to find some normal clothes. But I did find a solid pair of slippers, and they have drastically improved the 4 hours of study in the morning.

Brother Hong, the 90-year-old living legend of Korea

In the Mokdong ward, there are about 5 grandmas, and they are all really close. They kind of have their own club, complete with their own name. It translates to "more than flower Grandmas", and they are all the nicest people you will ever meet. One of them has giant shipments of fruit sent to the missionaries on major holidays. So this week, we received a 10 kg box of tangerines, along with a large case of strawberries. So we are trying to eat them all before they go bad, which definitely requires that we give some to other people.

​(just in case you didn't believe me)

This Sunday was the primary program in our ward, which is a day when the young children get to speak and sing songs in front of the congregation. Our ward only has about 5 children that are that age, and the kids got excited when we sang with them the day before, so somehow we became a part of the primary program. So yesterday, Elder Johnson and I really "became as a little child" and sat among the kids and sang right along with them. It was so fun, and all the kids are adorable. They also asked both of us to give a short talk, which was pretty scary but the topic was about how Jesus loves all of us so it wasn't too hard.

Once church was over, we of course had a meal all together. When we were there, one of the members said that my "올굴 폈어요" which directly translates to my "face bloomed" but they use it to mean that basically I smile more and look less nervous than when I first got here. Which is a good thing, I think..

We get to start our Christmas caroling to the Grandmas in our ward in the morning, then we will probably skype our families. Then Christmas night, our ward is having a party, and I'm pretty sure one of the missionaries will be Santa so I will keep you posted. Christmas here isn't nearly as big of a holiday as it is in America, but it is still celebrated fairly commonly.

I hope you all have a great week! Please don't forget to take some time to remember the real source of the joy of Christmas, our Savior Jesus Christ. He is the reason we can repent and come to know true happiness as we draw closer to our Heavenly Father. Be sure to visit christmas.lds.org this week, and may you all have a happy holiday!

-Elder Bigelow

Being a missionary is the greatest!

Hello Everyone!

I don't know about the weather over in America, but this week was pretty moderate here. It's still a little chilly, but no snow this week.

This week was really great, I've been really excited to tell everyone about it.

First, Wednesday was transfers. I'm staying in MokDong for the next 6 weeks at least with Elder Johnson, but we did get a new sister in our district. Her name is Sister Robinson, and she started her mission 6 weeks before I did so she's also pretty new. Both of the sisters are awesome, and we're looking forward to some normality in the missionaries serving in MokDong. I think I mentioned this before, but our bishop speaks extremely fast. So seeing a new missionary come to the ward and not understand anything he says was somewhat comforting, because it means I'm not the only one..

New Mokdong district (Thanks for the turkey glasses mom)

We met lots of interesting people this week, starting with Brother Hong, the 90 year old man that I think I mentioned before. He's running for President soon, and he promised me any political position I want once he's elected (besides chief of police, because another missionary already called that one). So I might just become the next Secretary of the Treasury of Korea, I'll keep you posted though.

We also met a semi-professional rapper here who met with the missionaries a really long time ago. He has music available to buy and sings at clubs and everything, so he is the real deal. We met him in his studio, it was really cool and he is a great guy. So we're going to try to keep meeting with him.

We had an amazing experience yesterday that I wanted to share as well:

One of the families in MokDong ward has three kids, and one of the daughters doesn't get along well with her parents. So we found out that on Thursday, she never came home, and by Sunday afternoon they still had not seen her. So the family was very worried, and so were we. So after church, we were doing our studies, and planned to visit people later that night. My companion and I talked, and we decided that we should visit the family with the missing daughter and give them the card that someone wrote for them, instead of doing our studies then. And I was thinking about their missing daughter, and how devastating that would be to the parents, especially in a city of more than 10 million people. But some part of me, I don't know if it was a feeling or a prayer in my heart, but some part of me knew we were going to find her. So my companion and I waited to get on the bus that would take us to the family's house, and sure enough, in a city of 10 million people, the family's missing daughter walked right up to the same bus stop. So we talked to her, gave her the cards, and helped convince her to go home to her family. And she did, she got on the bus bound for her home. It was such an amazing experience, and it taught an amazing lesson about following feelings that we have, even if we do not immediately recognize them as a prompting from the Holy Ghost.

I also wanted to share a scripture this week, because it is one I have truly come to understand as a missionary.

Matthew 6: 25-34

 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life,what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat,and the body than raiment?

 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field,which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

This scripture talks about how we shouldn't worry too much about the mundane things of life, because God will take care of those. And serving as a missionary this week, I truly understood what it meant. We worked hard this week, and never worried about what we would eat or how we would be clothed. But those things still came. We haven't bought anything at the grocery store in at least 2 weeks. Both members and nonmembers alike gave us fruit, meat, and tons of full meals. And someone that we used to teach even gave us socks as a Christmas present. This week, this passage of scripture was fulfilled exactly as we did the Lord's work.

Being a missionary is the greatest, and I get to be a missionary!

Have a great week!

19,000 steps

Hello everyone, I hope your week was as great as mine! I get to be a missionary though, which is pretty hard to beat.

Anyways, we got a lot more snow here than last week, which is still pretty new. I haven't slipped on any ice yet though, so I'm doing alright.

One milestone I had this week was breaking my previous steps per day record. Our phone has a pedometer, so this week we got 19000 steps on one of the days. It's a great time though, I love being able to walk the streets of Korea.

One good thing about the cold is that most of the mosquitoes are gone now. But I seem to have developed some kind of special mosquito sense, because now my eyes just automatically lock on to anything tiny in my range of vision, whether it be an actual mosquito or (usually) a particle of dust.

We are still teaching seminary every weekday, last week was our first full week, and I definitely want to give a big thank you to all of my seminary teachers from the past. One of the students in the class falls asleep every day, and can't really stay awake longer than 5 minutes. So one time, the bishop made him stand up so he wouldn't fall asleep. But he still managed to fall asleep standing up, which I had previously thought only horses  could do. But hey, I learn something new every day here.

As missionaries, we also teach a free English class twice a week. Our student class has pretty small numbers, but our adult class has gotten really big lately. The hard part about teaching English right now is that I don't know most of the Korean translations of the word, so I usually end up helping with the advanced class, that doesn't need as much help with translation. Almost everyone here wants to get better at English, so being able to serve others just by speaking English is a great blessing.

Another service that we still do is the lunch deliveries, where we bring lunches to people in an assisted-living type apartment. So if I learn nothing else, at least my lunchbox delivery vocab will be really good when I finish. One of the ladies in the building always waits outside for us and tries to give us yogurt and kisses when we come, so we hurry to the elevator. And she waves to us through the window of the elevator until we leave the floor, it's adorable.

We also got transfer calls this weekend, which tell you whether you're staying there or going to a different area. I'm staying in Mokdong to finish my training, which is expected but great news nonetheless, I love it here. Visiting other areas reminds me how small our ward is, but I've never seen more devoted members, even if they don't have the support of their friends and family.

Being a missionary is definitely teaching me to rely on Heavenly Father much more, this is not a work that can be done successfully alone, no matter who you are. I'm beginning to realize the strength that comes from realizing your weakness and asking the Lord to make you strong. Being a missionary is amazing, it's definitely worth the cold fingers and toes!

Have a great week everyone!

50 cheese sticks

Hello everyone, and a happy Thanksgiving! I trust you all ate plenty of turkey for my sake. Korea has its own Thanksgiving-type holiday in September, so they don't celebrate American thanksgiving here. But my companion and I decided to get pizza on the night of Thanksgiving to celebrate. Korean pizza is completely different from American pizza, I can tell you that. Common Korean pizza toppings include: corn, mustard, sweet potatoes, shrimp, etc. So they do taste very different, but pizza is pizza and a sweet potato pizza is almost like eating mashed potatoes I think..

One of the neighboring wards actually had a Thanksgiving party on Saturday, so we helped them with that and had a loosely American-based feast. Nobody really eats turkey here, so ham was substituted instead. It was a fun night, full of making paper pilgrim hats and pretend turkey hunting.

The weather here has definitely changed, and I'm not sure I'm going to make it through the winter. Being from central California, I'm used to much more mild winters. This week, however, it got down to about -5 degrees Celsius, which is somewhere in the 20's in Fahrenheit. It evened snowed here twice this week, not a lot but definitely a new experience for me.

And when it gets cold, the members tend to worry about the missionaries. Somebody from our ward actually bought my companion a sweater (I already had some so she gave me 50 cheese sticks instead) and all during church yesterday, the members kept checking my suit coat to make sure it was made out of warm material.

The Mokdong ward is very small, so they have a hard time filling positions. There was somebody in our ward that had 5 callings. However, he left for his mandatory military service, so there was lots of assignments left unfilled. One of them was the seminary teacher, so the bishop asked us to teach seminary a couple weeks ago, and we started last week. So here I am, teaching seminary less than 6 months after I finished it myself. We wake up at 5 am now, which is 1.5 hours earlier than normal, and our class has 2 students on a normal day. I don't know how long we're going to be teaching it, but it is definitely an added challenge to missionary work. Also, the teaching manual is all in Korean so I have to rely on my companion to do most of the preparation. But it is a good chance to know the scriptures better and to practice teaching in Korean, so I'm excited.

I didn't eat many new foods this week, but I did eat a lot of squid. I am getting used to it, but seeing the suction cups on the tentacles right before you take a bite still catches me off guard a little bit. 

One good dessert here is 설빙(seor-bing), which is a little bit like a snowcone but much fancier and better tasting.

The teaching is going very well, we're working with a couple great people that I sincerely hope will decide to come unto Christ. Spending all of your time working to help others definitely makes you more tired, but the happiness that you feel far outweighs anything else. A month has passed since I've been in country and I was worried that time was passing too quickly, but I thought yesterday, "it's only been one month here, I still have 21 more. That's awesome!" I love the people here and I love sharing this message of eternal happiness with them, and I still get 21 more months to do it.

Have a great week! If my fingers don't freeze off, you should hear from me next week..

soon-dey-gook (pig intestine)

Hello everyone! 

Time passes so quickly here, I've already been here for almost a month. Korea is such a great place though, I already can tell I'm not going to want to go home.

We traveled kind of all around Seoul this week, so I got to see lots of the city. It started off on Thursday, which was our "once every 6 weeks" temple day. The temple days become your Preparation Day, so on that Monday you just email and then get back to work. Anyways, I don't know if any of you have seen the youtube videos of the super crowded Asian trains, but I definitely got to be a part of that this week. The Seoul temple is actually in the Seoul mission, so we had to get on a train that crossed the Han river. It was about 9 am, so it was packed. When the doors open, everyone just uses their body to force their way into the subway. I barely got on, and the doors were about to close, but then a woman jumped in behind me. The worker there had to help push her into the train so the doors could close, but she got in. However, she was completely squished against the door, and I'm almost certain I could hear her gasping for breath behind me. Then the train went on a slight curve and pushed everyone in the train towards our side, and I legitimately thought this lady was going to suffocate because of me. But the curve eventually ended, and sure enough she could breath again, so all was well. I got to ride another "sardine" train again later in the week, my companion and I just end up laughing the whole ride because of how crammed everyone is.

The temple was amazing though, and they have a bookstore there so I got to get some compact Korean scriptures.

Later that day, we went all the way to Gangnam to work with someone that my companion used to teach. 

The next morning, we had our interviews with our mission president in Songpa, so our travel expenses were definitely above average this week. Our mission President is so great, and I love the office couple there. 

Also this week, I did my first exchanges. The zone leaders actually decided that I would stay in my area and that my companion would go somewhere else, which was initially terrifying because I still don't know my way around very well. But we went over the routes I would take the night before, then I had a great exchange with Elder Barton, one of our zone leaders. The address system in Seoul is crazy, but most missionaries seem to get a hang of it by the end so I still have some hope.

I didn't eat many new foods this week, but I did eat 순대국 (soon-dey-gook), which is pig intestines (and whatever other part of the pig they decide to throw in) in a soup. The texture was definitely new and took some getting used to, but it tasted pretty good. I also ate a bacon cheeseburger this week, but the ingredients probably don't need much explaining.

This week, a member of the Area Quorum of the Seventy came to our ward and spoke, I wasn't exactly sure what he was talking about but I'm taking my companion's word for it that it was a great talk. There was a ward meal after church, which is one of the benefits of being in a small ward. Everyone just brings whichever food they want, and everyone in the ward eats together and has a good time.

Korean is still as hard as it was last week, but I know a little bit more than I did last week, which is what matters. I've begun to realize the importance of setting goals, because it is so much easier to work hard and focus when you have a goal in mind. So I try to focus on how well I want to be able to communicate with the Korean people by the end of my mission, and it helps to keep me studying hard.

And even more important than that, I've learned the importance of missionary goals. Always being conscious of how well I want to be able to know the scriptures, how many people I have reached out to, how unshakable my conversion is, is so helpful when you're tired or discouraged. Missionary work is so rewarding, I definitely recommend it!

I hope you all have a great week!

As happy as we could be

Hello everyone! My dropbox should be functional from the link at the end of my email, but it's still in its beta version so I'll organize it and add comments when I have more time.

This week has been great! It rained a couple of the days, but that doesn't stop missionary work. When it rains here, it just kind of sprinkles/drizzles for about 48 hours, so nothing too heavy.

There are not many investigators right now, but there is always lots of less active members, and my companion is really good about visiting them. So we keep pretty busy, and walk a lot. Our phone has a pedometer on it, so on some days we'll walk 13,000+ steps even if we're only walking for 2-3 hours. It's kind of the Korean way of transport, so everyone here has killer calves. We do take buses and subways when we are in a hurry or it is too far to walk, and the public transport system here is extremely simple and efficient. All forms of public transport, even taxis, use "T-money" cards, so you just refill it in subway stations or at 7/11, and then you swipe it every time you get on and off the bus or subway. So, we can get pretty much anywhere in our mission for about $1.20.

I ate lots of new foods this week, beginning with noodles that were stuffed into animal intestines. My companion didn't tell me they were intestines until after we ate it, of course. It wasn't bad though, I can can say that. I also ate:

삼계탕 (sam-gyey-tang): This is basically just a whole chicken thrown into a broth with rice, ginger and other spices. So you just go at it until the chicken is gone, then you can drink the broth

짜짱면 (jja-jjang-myeon): These are the Korean "black noodles." They were actually closer to brown in my opinion, but they were delicious nonetheless. 

부침개 (bu-chim-gey): I tried this in America, and really liked it. It is some kind of batter with vegetables in it, which they then fry and it looks a little like a pancake. In Korea, there is of course also bits of squid mixed in, but it was still very good.

fruit: the average Korean eats way more fruit than the average American I think, but the Koreans have 3 main fruits that they eat:

-배: this is an asian pair, which tastes a lot like an apple, but they eat lots of it

-감: persimmons, which they eat frozen, firm, or squishy

-whichever fruit is in season at the time. Right now, it's 귤(tangerines), so they eat tons of them. 

I think yesterday was the first time that I ate all 3 in one day, it was quite the milestone.

In our area, amidst the apartments and tall buildings, there's a random mountain. It's pretty big, and it's just right in the middle of the city. It has bike trails and parks and exercise equipment, and even a soccer field on top. So my companion and I went there this week so he could show me this mountain, and we talked to lots of people while we were up there. People that spend their free time on a mountain are a lot nicer than the average person, so we like our mountain.

The Korean is coming, it's hard not to when everything around you is in Korean. But I'm starting to understand people, at least the ones that talk at a normal speed. There's so many things that I want to say to people on the street and while we're teaching but can't yet, so that's my motivation to work as hard as I can. I do get a little bit of lesson practice in English though, since the people here that speak English well love speaking with us in English. There's a 90 year old man that is less active, mainly because he attends like 5 different churches. He was a translator during the Korean war, and he's very nice, but he loves to talk. He started yelling during church yesterday which was pretty stressful on our part, but it's just because he has big expectations of this world, and he thinks that Korea needs more God in their lives. He's running for president though, so I wish him the best of luck.

A sister in our mission had to go home temporarily for medical reasons, so the American sister from our ward is with her companion now, since there were 3 sisters. But now, one of the Korean sister missionaries in our ward leaves for her mission in temple square, so we're not sure what is going to happen to our sister missionaries but they'll figure it out. Everyone at the MTC, say hi to 김민지 자매님 for me!

I wish I could say I was just still tired from the plane ride, but I think that's just the life of a missionary. We go to bed exhausted every night, but as happy as we could be. I love being here and serving the people of Korea, preaching the gospel is our greatest and most important calling. Have a great week everyone!

You formed well

Hello Everyone! 

There wasn't as many major changes this week, so hopefully I can fit everything in this week.

After emailing last week, we spent some time with some missionaries from a nearby area, it was a great time to unwind and get ready to face the next week. My first week was harder than I probably made it out to be, but I am much more comfortable in Korea now, and I am slowly but surely getting better at understanding people. Our bishop is from a different part of Korea where they speak extremely fast, so that is still a big challenge. The great thing about Korea is that everyone knows at least a little bit of English, so they can't all form sentences well but they can usually help me with a vocabulary word or two. My favorite is when the little kids try to teach me words by just pointing out 14 different things and saying the Korean word for it, like I can remember all of them. I ususally pick up a few though, and my non-MTC vocabulary has grown a lot. Korean people are so nice though. Even if they're not interested, everyone either tells you that you speak Korean well or that you are handsome(the direct translation of the phrase they use is "you formed well"). I love it

In addition to teaching English class, me and my companion do two other service activities each week. The first one we do is lunch deliveries to people in an assisted living-type apartment. Most of the people there can't walk, but when we knock on the door, they try to crawl to the door to get their lunch instead of letting us bring it to them. Most of the Korean people are fiercely independent..

The second service we do is helping kids with special needs play basketball. A guy has basketball practice every week that these kids come to, and we help them run drills and practice passing, etc. It was so fun and a lot of them were super good at basketball, they focus really well.

We actually got to teach a few lessons this week. Speaking Korean to a Korean is a lot more intimidating than speaking Korean in the MTC, I can tell you that much. We do practice lessons with members of our ward while they pretend to be investigators though, so it is great practice because I practice giving most of the lesson. We don't teach many lessons to investigators, but I'm surprised how full our days still are. We're trying to visit all the less actives in our ward ove rthe next 11 weeks, so we went clear down to the south end of our area last night to try to find some of them. We found out that they didn't live there anymore, but we did talk to a guy who was very drunk for a little bit. We'll see how interested he is when he is sober, but we did have a good conversation.

We also had a zone meeting this week where they talked about a talk that President Whiting (president of this mission area) gave a couple weeks before I got here. They talked about having the faith to baptize every month, which is what his training was about. So as a mission, we are working to develop that faith, even when baptizing every month in Korea is a challenge. I'm excited  to strive to work with that kind of faith, and I love missionary work even though I go to bed exhausted every night. It's definitely not a walk in the park, but doing this work makes me so happy.

This weekend was stake conference at the stake center in Incheon, which is about an hour subway ride from our apartment. I can't understand most of it yet, but working to pick out words despite how fast they speak is helping my listening skills.

The members still give us food all the time, The only groceries I've bought here are milk and butter one time.

Sunday, before stake conference, the member who was giving us a ride invited us to breakfast. The wife is Korean and the husband is American, and they're a really great family. She made us eggs and french toast and bacon, then invited us back to her house for lunch where she serves us tacos with kim chi and rice on the side, it was definitely an interesting meal. Then we went to the church and of course were fed again, and then we made 빼빼로(beh-beh-ro) with the primary children and youth. 빼빼로 is a candy that consists of a skinny sesame stick covered in chocolate and whatever else you want to put on it. But because the name has so many vertical lines, the company declared that November 11th (11/11) is national 빼빼로 day. Now it's a widely accepted holiday, and the company makes a fortune off of it. So a member of our ward helped everyone make it. Then everyone got a few, and they gave the rest to us to give to our investigators.

And speaking of food, I ate squid for the first time this week. It was covered in lots of spices, but the fishy taste was definitely still there and it was pretty chewy. I really love all the noodles and rice in the Korean diet, but I'm still working to get a handle on all the fermented vegetables they eat. The thing about Korean meals that has been the hardest for me though is that they rarely drink any liquids with their meals. And if they do have liquids, they come in very tiny cups. You really cannot find a cup over 12 oz. in Korea. Meals used to be when I drank the most water, so I'm still adjusting to that. 

After my first full week in Korea, I've realized that I love doing missionary work and that I love the Korean people (even the old lady that we found crouched by our trash can popping bubble wrap). Korean people are so diligent and kind, I'm so excited to serve them. The church is 100% true, even in Korea, I can promise that. I can't understand everyone yet, but I know that they are God's children and that I'm here to do the Lord's work.

I hope everyone has a good week! I'm working on making a Dropbox so that everyone can view my pictures instead of me just sending them to my mom. I don't think It will be ready this week, but I will try to include the link in next week's email.