Scooping rice

Hello Everyone!

It's taken a few weeks, but here is the photo from our Zone Training this month! I hope I never leave this place, it's the best  

Some of the missionaries in our area serve at a soical welfare center once a month, we help serve meals to Elderly people, it's super fun. As these people go through the line, they get their rice, their meat, then the side dish, followed by the kimchi, and then grab a bowl of some kind of soup and then enjoy their meal. So as missionaries, we put on our caps and our breath guards and gloves, and put the food on their plate for them. My first time there, I was in charge of the meat, the easiest task. I did that for a few times, and then last time I was upgraded to scooping soup, a much more difficult task. The tofu sinks to the bottom, and if there's not a good ratio, people aren't happy. I did okay though, no huge mistakes. As of this last week though, I have been doing this service project the longest, I was assigned to scoop the rice, the most difficult of all the tasks in the kitchen. The rice must be stirred once it finishes cooking, but it's also extremely hot. I suffered some first degree burns on my hands, but I only got yelled at once for not stirring the rice well enough, so I'm counting that one as a success. I love serving here~

As far as missionary work goes, we have still been working with 김대현 and he came to church for the first time yesterday! We will have to postpone his baptism because he hasn't been able to come to church for a few weeks, but he is progressing really well. We gave him a Book of Mormon Stories book and he carries it around whenever he meets with us, he's my favorite.

Looking forward to this week, we will have the opportunity to hear from Elder David A. Bednar, an apostle of the Lord. We have been preparing for this for quite a while now, and I know that this week is going to be life-changing.

Talk to you next week!

-Elder Bigelow