Open your Mouth

Hello everyone!

This week's highlight was a visit from Elder Yamashita, he is Japanese and is in the area Presidency over here, so we had a special training from him. He taught us a ton of cool things, I think the biggest thing emphasized was the word "Act", we talked a lot about how what we actually do is a lot more important than what we can do. 

His wife also engaged us in an origami project, one phrase we use as missionaries is "open your mouth", because as missionaries we are called to share the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with everyone we meet, but it is very hard for pretty much all missionaries, because talking to complete strangers can be pretty hard. So we made some origami lips(with open and close action) to help remind us of our calling as missionaries

-Cool huh?

Other things for this week:

-Helping an older woman chop the logs that we carried for her a few weeks earlier. She usually buys us lunch after we help her, but this time she gave us a giant box full of liquid yogurt, all of which were on their expiration date that day so we're all trying to drink a lot of yogurt right now before it gets into the danger zone..

-골뱅이(gor-bang-ee) It's a type of sea snail or a cousin of the sea snail, but it is considered quite the treat here. WE were fed some this week, except my companion Elder Kang has a slight seafood allergy, so his lips got really puffy and he looked like a fish

-황사(yellow dust) There is this stuff called yellow dust, it's yellow dust(go figure) that blows over from China in the Spring. We had to do several things in a different city this week, so we ended up not coming home to our house in Anseong for 2 days and 1 night. But when we left, we left one of our windows open, the day when the yellow dust happened to be the worst. We came home on Friday night to find everything in our house covered in a thin layer of yellow...

-Pictures!

Have a great week everyone and Happy Children's Day!

Love,

Elder Bigelow