Hello everyone!
Now I'm caught up and have finally watched general conference, it's such a privilege to be able to hear from living prophets and apostles every April and October. I'm especially privileged because I get to see General Conference 5 times as a missionary, the next session in October will be my last Sunday as a missionary! I always have a hard time picking a favorite talk from conference, but one that I really enjoyed this time was called "Language of the Gospel" by Elder Valeri V. Cordon. He talked about how families preserve their native language through several generations even though they emigrate to a foreign country, and how than can be likened to us preserving the gospel in our lives and in our families. I think this talk especially rang with me because I have had a similar thought process while learning the Korean language. Learning this language is very difficult, but during this past year and a half I have learned how to study a language effectively, and the kind of practice and application it takes to achieve progress in learning a foreign language. One thing that has also been very helpful to me as I learn Korean has been creating a language study plan, where you set goals for where you want to be in the language by a certain time, and then you set detailed plans to achieve those goals. This language study plan helped me quite a bit, so I thought that making a gospel study plan might also achieve the same effect, so I set specific goals and plans on my habits of prayer, scripture study, and trying to be more like Jesus Christ, and that plan also proved to be really effective! So Elder Cordon's talk that related language learning and gospel learning resonated well with me, I would highly recommend it to all of you as well! You Can read/listen to it and all the other talks(they're all great) at:
Another cool opportunity we had this week was hearing from Mark Peterson, a professor of Korean at BYU and one of the first missionaries to serve in Korea. He taught us about the religious history of Korea so that we could better relate to the people here and build off common beliefs. It was very interesting, he shared that while about 1/3 of Koreans will identify as Christians and another 1/3 will identify as Buddhists, 100% of the population has core morals and beliefs that stem from both Confucianism and ancient Shamanism. I've already seen a lot of help from his training in the past week, building a foundation of shared beliefs with others has become a lot easier~
This week we helped an older woman do some work around her house(we dealt with a nest of spiders and the very large mother spider...), and as a reward she gave us a carton of eggs that her very own chickens had laid, and after a quick size comparison with our store bought eggs, we found that her eggs were far superior~
I think that's it for this week, I hope you all enjoy your week and your upcoming easter! Oh, and watch this video, it's really cool:
Also enjoy our weekly house selfie!
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