Wow, that looks refreshing

Hello everyone!

This week was definitely the busiest of my mission, and it was full of adventure~

This past week consisted of saying good bye to a lot of the people I've met living in suwon, I have a bunch of pictures but they don't all fit in one email so you can refer to the link to my Dropbox. 

This is 장경식(jang gyeong shik) and his family. They started coming to English class about 4 months ago and I have been teaching them in the basic English class since then, and they have become my family here in Korea. They're all so funny, and they told me that they would take me on a tour of Korea once my mission is over. They're the best!

And this is 김대현(Kim Dae Hyeon), the 11 year old that we have been meeting with. We always played Uno with him for 30 minutes, then taught a lesson. He is planning to get baptized later this month. We showed him a picture of baptism and he said "wow, that looks refreshing" He's also the best.

Then at the end of the week, I moved to Suji수지, an area in the city northeast of Suwon. Since both ELder Case and I moved there, we just took 2 trips by bus and carried all of our belongings. Then on Saturday we went to the mission home to meet our greenies(brand new missionaries)!

My new companion that I will be training is Elder Curtis:

He's from Woods Cross, Utah and is 19 and is the most easygoing person you'll ever meet. He is studying to be a nurse. I'm super excited to work with him, I think we're going to have a lot of fun.

All four missionaries here in suji are new to the ward, and the Suji ward actually has about 200 members, one of the biggest around here. So it was strange to meet 200 people all in 3 hours and frankly a little bit overwhelming, but I love the challenge. I'm excited to be here, I'm excited to teach Elder Curtis all the Korean I know, I'm excited to work here in SUji, and I'm excited to be a missionary.

Fun story of the week: I have been saving all my coins in a piggy bank since I started my mission. And this piggy bank doesn't have a hole big enough to take coins out, only to put them in, you have to physically make the hole bigger to get them out (a really good method for saving money). Anyways, I never took money out, just put all my coins in for a year. But it weighed about 10 pounds and I didn't want to have to add that to the weight as I moved, so I decided to cash the coins in at the bank for paper bills. I was hoping that it would be at least 30 or 40 dollars after that long of saving coins. But when all the coins were totaled, it turns out that it was a few coins short of 100 dollars(in the Korean currency equivalent). Dinner is on me from now on.

Fun story of the week pt. 2: The better I get at Korean, the worse I get at English. And it's not like I forget grammar or words (I do forget hard words sometimes i.e. dissolve), but the noticeable decline in language ability comes in the colloquial phrases that I tend to mix up or omit certain parts. So yesterday in my attempt to say "I'm excited to have some alfredo pasta pretty soon here" I said "I'm excited to have some alfredo pasta pretty here"... I can no longer function in an English society.

Have a great week everyone!