This week has been pretty good, although (hopefully) one of the hottest and most humid weeks of the summer. The past few days have cooled off though, even rain for most of the weekend. I feel like Americans are a lot more nonchalant about than rain than Koreans are though. I think it's because there's pollution in the air so it creates acid rain. So the story is that if you let your hair get wet, it will fall out. I'm not 100% sure of that validity but I'm choosing to carry an umbrella just in case.
One other thing you have to watch out for in Korea is the fans. Since most of the houses don't have air conditioning, we use electric fans to keep cool, especially at night. But all Koreans mkae sure to put their fans on the "rotate" setting so the fan moves back and forth while you sleep, as opposed to the fan blowing constantly in one direction. Why? Because if you have the cold air blowing over you constantly, it can lower your body temperature and you could die in the night. That's the story, and a lot of Americans laugh when they hear it. But again, I'm going to do as the locals do, you can never be too careful with electric fans~
This week was really good! We had some training's which helped me get even more excited to be a missionary again. One of the major themes that we discussed was what being a missionary really means. We are promised that we can find more joy and satisfaction than we ever have as we serve as full-time missionaries, so I was able to really tell everyone during the training that we gave that it was true. I said that while I was in America, I did lots of fun things that missionaries don't do (eat my mom's delicious cooking, hang out with my family, watch movies (people have been trying to make me tell them about the new movies nonstop)), but that at the end of every day I went to bed wishing that I was a missionary again. Because even though I have to wake up early every day again, or settle for my own mediocre cooking again, or try and talk to lots of people that don't really have any interest in talking to me, life is better this way. I know that missionary work really is the work of our Heavenly Father and I realize that again every single day. And no matter how hard it can be at times, being engaged in the Lord's work really is the greatest.
One other cool thing that happened this week was that a man named 한인산 (han-in-san) visited our church. This man was the first full-time Korean missionary ever from our church. He served in the late 50s and helped translate the Book of Mormon from English to Korean after his mission was over. He gave a great talk about what going to church really means, and it was such a blessing to learn from one of the pioneers of the church here in Korea.
Have a great week everyone!
PS here is a picture of me and Elder Christensen (we're still learning how to take selfies)
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