Crunchy vs. Crispy

Hello everyone!

 Here's a picture taken from one of the colleges nearby, 경희대학 (Gyeong Hee College)

This college actually does an exchange program with BYU every year, and the students usually end up coming to the ward that I am serving in. They should be coming this week!

My challenge of the week: Trying to explain to a group of English learners what the difference between crunchy and crispy is. Teaching English has caused me to consider aspects or minute details of the English language that I have neither had to consider nor explain before, I love it. Recently we have been working really hard to get more students out to our English class, both so that we can find more people to teach and so that we can help serve more people, so we plan to stay pretty busy with that.

Other fun things for this week:

-We taught some of the teenagers in our ward how to play the basketball game H-O-R-S-E, they then proceeded to beat us at our own game...

-Korean grapes are in season, but you have to be careful because they are wildly different from most of the grapes I ate in America. Not only is there 3-5 seeds inside, but Koreans also don't eat the skin of the grape. So each grape is a mini process, consisting of squeezing the grape out of its peel into your mouth and then making sure that you spit all of the seeds out before you swallow it. It's really good at preventing you from overeating though, complex food is key..

-This week was transfers, so that means that lots of missionaries moved around and some new missionaries came as well. Elder Christensen and I both stayed here, but we had two new Sisters that came and are now serving in the ward. Sister Killpack and Sister Sannar (who came to Korea last week and is a brand new missionary) came, so now we will have all foreigners serving in this area (pray for us:) )

This week, our church meetings were focused on the temple, a building where sacred ordinances within our church take place. There, we do work for ourselves, and also complete those things necessary for salvation on behalf of those who didn't have an opportunity to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ on Earth. What a blessing it is to know that death is not the end for us, nor is it the end for anyone. Just like Jesus Christ, we will live again.

Have a great week everyone!