tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39479051114680690652024-03-21T00:56:40.683-07:00Sister Alicia ThornleyAlicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-47700630471496921952015-12-21T10:56:00.000-08:002015-12-21T10:56:00.601-08:00It's beginning to FEEL a lot like Christmas!! December 20, 2015<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hello! this week was a week of changes!! Monday we were able to get all packed adn ready to go. We were able to have a good time getting all of our stuff ready! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday was really good it was our last day in segwipo (English spelling is so hard!) so we wanted to do as much as we could! We were able to go to the post office adn get Sister Kims stuff mailed off to her house. Then we went and were able to visit the sister that we met on the street the week before it was actually really good! She is really nice and was pretty responsive to our message. she said that she would read the BOM and that she would pry to help overcome the hard times so that was really good i knew that i would be sad that i couldn't meet with her for 10 days but i think she will be okay! after we were able to visit a less active adn theyfed us some food adn we were abelt to have a good time there! we ate the meat that is on a pigs foot.... yeah that was really weird! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday we were able to take a bus ride to the airport adn on the way there it was snowing !!! ahh it was so pretty!!! it made me happy! when we go to the airport we were able to check in and them we just had to wait for a long time. the plane ride was so pretty!! we were literally on top of the clouds the whole time ahh so pretty!! i love it! when we go to busan we had to walk to the office with all of our stuff that was really long walk!! and my bag was really heavy!! ahh i was so tired!! we were able to meet the other missionaries that were having the Christmas party and then we wen tout to eat lunch because we were really hungry we go tto talk to a lot of people and then we went on exchanges i got to go with sister Fiso again! that was really fun we had English class and then visited some members in their area that was really good they were really nice people! when we were together we were able to meet one really nice girl that was really interested so we gave her a BOM and got her contact i hope that they will be able to meet with her again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday we went back to the office adn were able to have our Christmas meeting! it was really good! i really learned so much there! We also got to watch 17 miracles at the end it was really fun! I love that movie! After the meeting i got to meet my new companion adn together we were able to travel to our house that is like a 3 hour travel!! it was so long and also really cold when we had to go outside! but we made it eventually! my arms were so dead from my suitcase by the end of the night! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we planned dot visit one person that lives really far away but when then they canceled so we did prep for our Christmas party! I twas really good! in andong we have done a lot of BoM lessons on the street! i really like it her and the things that i am learning i love my companion she is so awesome! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">i also found out that this area is a lot colder than my last area so i am really really cold! but its all good! i love missionary work!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I Hope you all have MERRY CHRISTMAS!! </span></div>
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Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-7366392275139412015-12-18T13:09:00.001-08:002015-12-18T13:09:18.052-08:00December 14, 2015<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This week was so good!! it was kind of different but really good! First i have som ecrazy news! this week because my companion is going home on the 17th i will have to be getting a new compaion early before the transfer ends.. so iwas really nervous about that adn that i might have to learve this area taht i have really grown to love! so i recieved a call this week adn i was told that i will be going to an area called andong for the rest of the transfer with another sister thats compnion is allso going home (Sister Hurley my trainer). so i will be goign to a new area for 10 days adn then as far as i know coiming back to Seogwipo for the next transfer! ao taht will be crazy we will be goign to busan on wednesday adn then we will have a christmas meeting adn theni will be going to a new area to finish the transfer! I will be with Sister Yang Hanbeet (Koean 양한빗) it will be an adventure!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This week was really good i will have to keep it short today becasue of time. I will tell of one really cool experience that we had! one day we hada lot of time so we were out on the steet talking to people and as we were talking to one lady we saw the elders walk passed us btu we didnt really talk to them so we finished talking to the lady adn them left to go talk to the elders and when we waled up to them there was another tow ladies adn a child that started talkign to them first (in english) adn said the thye had say them down the road adn follwed them until they caught up to them and that they wanted to meet the sister Misssionaries!! at theat point we hadnt said anithing but htem the elders we able to say taht we were right there. so we got to meet them adn we found out that the ladies are sisters adn that one is a member but less active and aht the other is not a member but that they met witht he missionaries a lon gtime ago adn got a good feeling and becasue the non members life is hard right now she wanted to meet us again to get the same good feeling! so we were able to get their number and talk to them. it was really cool! we will be able to meet them tomorrow (tuesday) also our last day int he area! It will be really good i really do feel that we were ment to find them but i am scared for what will happen when there arent sisters in the area for the 10 days! i really do need ot come back to this area! but i know that God has a plan for this area adn for me I Love this work adn the things that i am learning!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Another Good part form this week we were able to meet with a less active sister that is really amaxing i love her so much she has really became a good firend to me. adn as we were talking we talked about when this sister gets married that she would pay for my plane ticket form america to come to her wedding!! hahahaha how amzing is that i want to hold her to that so ican come back!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We were also able to watch the First Presidency Christmas Message with the Branc h on sunday but I didnt really get to enjoy much more than the misic becasue it was all in korean so that my companion could listen to it! that was kind of sad to not get to actually hear the message but maybe i will get to read it later!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We were also able to meet one lady on the street and give her a BOM and while we were with her she read some of it and after told us that when she reads the bible it is really hard to understand but when she read the BOM that is was easier to understand sot aht was a really cool experience i really love this area! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I love this work adn i know that i am supposed to be here at this time I really really do love the koean people adn the love that they are able to give to me as well! i wil miss Sister Kim YeJi after she goes home but i loof forward to the adventurs left here in Korea!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">hello everyone!! this week was really good we were able to see some really great miracles and they will contunue to come this week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Monday we had a really fun pday we went to a place taht looks like a creater! it was really cool but it wasnt what i was expecting to see! haha all of the pictures ive seen its reallly green adn pretty but it was kind of brown adn dry! After we were able ot do a lot of findign but we didnt have as much success as we wanted!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday we able to have a good meeting iwht the elders adboiut how we can use the new christmas video to find pople to teach! we are goign to have an event that we will invite peple to tha tthey can come adn learn more about the church. adn meet members adn the members can bring friends to. it was really good we came us with some really good ideas im excited to seee it work out! after we went adn visited adn investigator for a short time. after we ate korean sweet potato pizza for dinner!! ahh it is so good i think it is one of my favortie pizzas now!! haha after we had lot of time to find pople! it was hard but we talekd to a lot of people and were abl eot give out a book of mormon. i cant remeber very much beacuse we did so much finding this week with not a lot of success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday we had district meeting nd were abelt ot practice singign for when we all to caroling together to try adn get new people to teach! it was fun i relaly love christmas songs adn the feeling that they give! at the meeting we were able to have cupcakes because it was my companions birthday a week ago! that was really good! i was ableto t learn so much there i really like the things that we learn tit was good we talked aut how we need to be sharign the blessings that we recieve with all of the people that we meet with! After we visited a less active! she is so sweet i love her so much! we talked about reading the BOM and the things that she can learn from it ! she iwas so nicew ! While we were there it started to rain like crazy!! i was glad taht we werent outside!! hahaha after we went to visit an investigator but we were only able to talk to her less active son and learn that she is really sick adn hurts so that was sad. i hope that we are able to find a way to help her! after we went o visit a member but she wasnt home so we had to do some finding adn were able to give another BOM adn meet some godo people! it shard weverytime we give out things and then nothing comes of them adn the time but maybe some day they will have interest and call after i leave this area! I really think that will happen someday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">turdaay we were abl eto find anew service project for us! it will be good we will be helping elderly people! so taht will be good to have! after we went ot visit a less active but when went we had the wrong address or she had moved! so that was sad! we were then able to take a long bus ride to our branch presidents house so that we wuld help his wife make kimchi!!!! yay!! that was so much fun! it is actually hard work though! they litterally pput the spice stuff on all of the cabbage leaves so it takes a long time adn they make so much!!!! we hardly made a dent in the amount they will do ! i ate so much kimchi that day!! as we were making it adn then after for dinner!! when we went ot go home we had to wait for the bus for 40 min. adn it was really really cold!!! but it was okay becaause when the bus came it was really warm!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we were able to have mcm adn then eat lucnh it was good we ate so much food!!! we also did weekly planing adn then visited another less active she is so funny!! we had a good lesson aout prayer adn reminded her to pray. she is making some progress so its really good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we were ablr to go to a farm adn help an investigator pik their furit! it was good but we were there for a really long time!!! we were able to talk about hte BOM and start to teach more about the chuch! we were also able to visit some other investigators for a short time and gave them a card to watch the new christmas video! so that will be good it they can wtch it! then we visited a member but she wasnt there it was ol\nly her son so we just had to visit on the door step for a short time. then we did some finding. adn ate dinner we talked to so many people but they werent very intersted!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday we went o piuck up a less active to take her to chrurch with us to was good she was able to come! church was good but it was kind of sad when the girl sitting next to me took the scarament bread and saw that it hade mold on it..... so that was unplesant because i had already eaten it! but iguess because it was blessed it was okay! haha we were abelt o thave a dinner appointment with a member it was good this family is really awesoeme! Afte dinner on our way home we got a text from a potential investigator asking if we can come todinner today(monday) this person hasd nt anyweed our calls at all!! so this was really awesoeme! it wil be a good week!! have a good week everyone!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wow this week was really good, but it turned out really really cold!! we were able to do a lot of good things!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">monday we had zone conference it was really good and i already talked about it last week. i really learned a lot this week from the things that we talked about there! I really feel that i am supposed ot be here at this time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday we were abl eto have the rest of our pday! it was really good we went to a waterfall! it was really pretty! i really like it her in jeju there are so many pretty things that are so colse!! after that we went to the churcha and watched part of the restioration video! i relaly love that video adn i really can feel the spirit when i watch it! i really do know that this church is true adn that Joesph Smith was called by God. After we were able to meet with one of our investigators adn we were able to teach english to her son and then we taught the plan of salvation! it was a relaly good leson the son had a lot of relaly good questions and was really interested in the message adn really understood it well and basically re taught it to us afr\ter! it was cute! we also tried to go visit adnother investigator but they werent home os we werent able tto mee them. so we were able to do some prosiliting... and one of the ladies we talked to we told her hwer we were going adn because it was really far she gave us a ride!! That was kind of cool but she seemed like she only has english interest but maybe we will be able to meet her again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday was Sister Kim Yeji's birthday!! yay!! os we were able to go to lunch with the elders and have a little 'Party' for her!! it was fun. after that we went to visit a less active that owns the caffe! when we went there she gave us a really good orange and other fruit dirnk adn also a really really good apple pie!! ahh it was really good! i was happy to have pie on the week of thenksgiving!! haha we were able to have ashort message with her and invite her to read a part of the book of mormon so that will hopefully help her! after that we had a lot of time!!! So we walked a lot! but when we were walkingit was really really cold!!! ahhh so cold!! i was really wishing that i had more warm clothes on!! haha it also was really windy adn was raining a little so i was frozen!! haha we were able to do some more finding but because of the colod mot a lot of people wanted to talk to us!! AFter we were able to take a long bus ride to our branch presidents house to have dinner and when we go there they took us out to eat a meat restraunt!! ahh it was so good!! i relaly like how they cook th emeat here! its kind of cool they just bring out the raw meat adn then in the middle of the table is little grill thing and you cook the meatr yourself!! it was really good!! I ate so much food! then they took us home! oh and we planned to make kimchi sometime this week! so i adm really excited to be able to make kimchi this week!! haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday we Were able to have full study aand then we dressed warm adn went out to go try to find people to teach... we tried knoclking doors for the first time.. adn it wasnt very effective!! most people werent home or didnt want to listen... but i was happy that we were inside adt one point because it started to hale adn was really windy adn really cold!! We were aslo able to go to a bridge to find pople but there wasnt very many people beacuse it was so cold! after we went to the church adn were able to warm up adn get some papers to put in the book of mormons that we give out. Then we went to our next appointmenet adn as we were walking there we got rained on!! so we were alittle wet! but we were able to meet our investigatior adn it was good she is really nice but it was kind of hard to understand her and her house was really cold too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we were able to have mcm adn then we went to our service project picking fruit!! oh my goodness it was so cold!!! the gloves i had got wet and so the cold weater made my fingers feel frozen!! We were there for a really long time!! we picked so much fruit!! it was crazy to see how much fruit one tree can have!! After we were able to go with the member to our next appointment adn we were abel to visit a lessactive. it was godo we tlaked about how we can share the gospel with others. Their house was also really cold so it was hard tostay fouced because i couldnt feel my fingers adn toes the whole time!! but it was good</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we were got to do some more service for a poteantial investigator!! yay we heloed them on their farm as well adn we were abelto pick so much fruit again!! but this time it wasnt as cold so i was really happy!! They are a really nice family and we will probably get to meet them again! After we went to the church and were able to have english class with our one english member.. it was good we were also able to teach her about the plan of salvation adn then she took us ot eat dinner it was really good! it was good to havesome warm food!! haha after that we went oand were able to meet with one of our investigators. it was good we invited her to read the book of mormon and then come to church. she is friends with one of our less actives so we want them to come to church together!! after we met her we had FHE with a family adn we were able to talk about chirstmas and whey we have it adn them we played missionary tag! it was really fun! we [played soem other games as well. then we waked home and we taked to some ladies and when we tried to give them a book of mormon they litterally ran away from us!! that was kind of fun!! haha today i alos got a Korean Name from my aweosme compaion!! its 한송이 han song ee it is used when counting flowers so it litterally means one flower! kind of cool!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday was really good we were able to have church and then we went to visit alady but beacse her bak husrts she couldnbt open to door to letus in! so that was sad then we did weekl;y planning adn went ot a dinner appointment! it was relaly good! i ate so much food! we had rice adn veggies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a relaly good week i relaly learned a lto that i dint include! i love missionary work adn being here in korea even though it is reallly cold!! i hope that all of you havea good week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wow this week was a very busy week we were able to do a lot of good this week adn i was abelt o learn a lot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Momday was the start of a new transfer and it is my companions last trnsfer of her mission so it will be sadto see her go but I love this work and the things i am learning! Monday we were able to go to a waterfalll that is really close to our church and take some pictures it was realy fun even though it was just me and my companion we were able to try some famous jeju hallabong juice but it wasnt as good as we thought it would be so that was sad. it turned out to be a very rainy day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday we were able to go iwth a menber to quickly visit a less active that was really nice we were able to share a short message from General Conference and invite her to come to FHE withher kids i hope that she can come! AFter that we went o meet a new lady that we recieved a contact form she has two sons and wants us to teach them english. it was a good meeting she is a very nice lady adn is actually really interested inour church We were able to teach about hte Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith it was a good lesson adn we were able to invite her to chuirch and to be baptized she said that she would when she learns more. it was really cool. we were abelt o also teach english wiht her sons and htey were really cute they were nice kids. After them we were abel to do some finding it was good we were able to meet some people but most of the people we wtaked to rejected us so that was sad! It was kind of a herd night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday We wentot visit the less active the owns the caffe she is the nicest person ever adn she gave us some really good lemon tea (not breaking the word of wisdom!) it was also a rainy day. we were able to watch a video with her. she really liked it adn i hope that we can see her progress adn continue to learn of Christ! After meeting her we went to the church adn were ablr ot have area meeting iwht the elders adn to meet the new elder inour area. after we went o meet with one of our investagtors adn it was a cool leson we had planned ot finish the restoratino but when we got there she told us that she was having a hard time and os we were able ot change the lesson and just focus on the power of prayer adn how we can overcome hard times though prayer! After we were able to do tracking again and we were able to give some people a book of mormom. but there were a lot of people that rejected us again but we were able to introduce ourself alot! i think that is the thing i can say the best in korean!! haha (because we use it so much!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday we were able to meet with one of our investigatiors she is really nice adn always gives us food or other stuff! We were able to have agood lesson with her adn then we went ot get "fried Food" with her! she got us really spicy fried stuffed peppers adn a bunch of other stuff it was good at frist but then i ate the hot pepper and felt like i was going ot die!! ahh os spicy! after meeting her we wento meet another investigator but when we got there she couldnt meet os that was sad! but we were able to go to visit a lessactive that we are focusin g on a lot! it was a good visit we asked her to help us wioth missionary work and inviting her friends to meet us. we also invited her to church!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we were able to have District meeting! it was a really godo meeting i had to give the lesson on the korean learning it was good i was able to learn a lot as i prepared and then as i taught . we had a good chance to learn about how to increase our faith to reach the goals that we have as a mission. we also set some goals asd a district for the transfer. oh adn we were able to recive new beds so that as really nice but we had to take these huge beds back ont he bus that was a stuggle. after we were abel to meet with the nam won familoy adn teach about how to be girded byt he spirit. today was also a relaly crazy day as we were walking ot the bus in the morning we say one investigator adn one less active then as we came back from jeju we saw to same investiagtor adn then a member say us with our new beds and was ablet o give us a ride home then we saw another investagtor and then another lady that we had met int he same place two times! it was a crazy day we ran into a lotof the people we meet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturdy we were able ot have engish class adn teach our investigator again it was good we showed a video an\bou tthe plan of salvaion. then she took us again to get fired food it was once again reallly spicy and made my stomach hurt form the oil. but she is a good persom we wer aslos able to meet iwht our new investagator family from tuesday with the elders and we invited her to church but hse didnt come. we were able to have a really good lesson adn i think that she wil become a really good investigator adn that she and her sons will be ablet o feel of hte truth of the gospel! after we were able to do some morew tracking adn it was another day where everyone ignored the missionaries they were really not willing ot listen to us to that was hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday we had churchj adn it was really good we were alble tto have a lessactivcve there adn she was really happy to be there i was abelt o play with some of the kids here ahhh they are so cute one little girl sang me a tratitional korean song taht was relaly cute! We were aleot do weekly planning adn then we went o visit adn investigatior but she was sick so we werent able t actually meet hert so we finished weekly planning and the n did some more tracking adn was alble to get one girls contact adn she was really interested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">today we went ot jeju city to have Zone Conference with Prestident Barrow it was a really godo meeting we talked all about how we need to have the faith to accomplish the goal that we have. I relaly learned a lot adn i really feel that i am blessed to be her at this time! I I love missinary work adn am ready do the things that i need ot have my faith grow in order to do the Lords Work!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope all of you have a wonderfun Thanks Giving! im thankful for all of you! have a great week!</span></div>
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Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-1451992908575774792015-11-20T10:53:00.002-08:002015-11-20T10:53:15.061-08:00November 15, 2015<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Wow this week was really good we were able to do a lot of really good things. and we were also able to recive a "new Vision" from President Barrow... the new Vision is that every companionship in the Korea Busan mission gets one baptism every week!! wow that was kind of a crazy thought at first! when i heard this i though taht it is going ot be impossible but as we talked aboutit as a district we all decided that it is oging ot be some thing that we can do because it is the inspiration that Presisdent Barrow recieved for our mission. i think that it wil take a lot of hard work and faith but i know that because this is the Lords work then it will happen! We will be having a lot of miracles with this new goal and i am excited to be part of this! President Barrow actually saw something simmilar in his mission so i know that it can happen!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Momday we went o the largest aquarioum in Asia!! that was reall cool! it was really fun and we got to take a lot of cool pictures adn i got to see dolphins jusp really high that wass really aweome! Tuesday we planned ot have service but then it got cancled so we had to make a new plan we were able ot visit a menber in the branch that was really nice. we also went to visist another less active that actually intoduced us to one of her friends that w might be able to teach!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday was 배배로 day!! (beabearo) this korean snack that is chocloate covered skicks abd because it was Novenber 11 we got ot eat them adn give htem theo the people we visited. this was the dayt hat we heard about the mission vision so it was a very thoughful day. we all got to go find people ot teach and then we went o a meat buffet together it was really good but i couldnt eat very much! After we came back adn went ot visit a menbers wife that is a nonmember but we wernt able to actually visit her so that was sad! bgut we visited another investigtor it waas good we were abel to teach the restoration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thurday we went to visit anothher less active but we couldn talk to her very much because she was busy with her caffe that she owns. then we met with another investigator and were abelto tach english. i really dont know how to tach english! i feel like i cant speak it any more! and i dont understand how it works! haha but them we had to come home adn deep claen our house. it was good i like being about to have our house clean! we also ordered chicken!! ahahh korean chicken is so good!!! It was also tranfer call night! ahh i reall didnt want ot leave this area! we got a call from President Barrow adn normally if he calls that means that you are goign ot be training or get anohter calling. but wehn we tlaked ot hin he said he got the wrong number!! ahhh it was crazy!!! we are staying her in Seogwipo together!! yay!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we had mcm and were aboet ot talk abotuhowo we can get the one baptism a weekand that we need the members help ! it was really good today was also a very rainy day i got so wet!!! haha we were also able to do weekly planning then we wento find some pople to teach. we were abel to find one person but she isnt answering or call anymore... sad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we had english class! it was good we wre abel to tack adn then share a message. it was good we walso got to go visit the Nam won familoy thye are the family of kids they were crazy! btu we were abelt o play with them and then we had them do a little quiz for the message! we also were abelt o have FHE and that was really good we played osne really fun games! we played the candy bar game adn eveyone loved it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday we had chruch adn we also went to pick up a lessactive to bring her ot chruch! it was good adn then we were able to have a branch counsel meeting adn the menberes were really good about seeing htat they need to help us find people to teach! it was a really good day we were abelt o go finid again but itiwas a day where everyone ignored the missionaries... sad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was a godo week we were able to see some pretty godo things happen here in seogwipo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Monday we were able ot go to jeju city and go shopping it was relaly fun we went in this underground shooping place! taht was pretty cool it was actually a pretty big shopping area! after that we can back and were able to have area meeting with the elders and we were able to plan an activity for the youth in our branch i think it will be good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday we went to service!!! we got to pick the manderian oranges!!!! ahhh it was so fun at first and then after about two hours we all got really sick of it! but we were able to to really help this family so it was good! we ended up being there for a really long ltime!! it was kind of crazy but alos fun! after that we cane back adn had dinner adn then we were abel to make the long walk home!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wednesday we went ot district meeting. but as we were walking ot the bus stop we saw a maybe 12 year old girl get hit but a huge tour bus but luckly the bus wasnt going very fast adn the girl was able to walk away from it! aahhhh it was so scary! district meetin g was relaly good i was able to learn a lot we tlaked about baptism adn the way that we can improve in our teaching ot helop people recieve baptism. it was good thaej\n we came back wand were able to meet a less cative sister she is really nice then we went to the city hall to change my address.. that was a stuggle we had ot treanslate a paper into korean btu they accepetd it adn i was able to become aresident of jeju islad finally!! haha then we went and visited another less active it was a good meeting as well. Thursday we were able to meet with our new investgator it was godo but i leaned that i dont know english or Korean!!! hahah its relaly hard to teah english when you feel like you dont know how to properly use it anyomre!! haha then we went and visited to less active sisiters that when we first meet with them they werer reallyu rude andbut we were able to meet them adn it was actually really good we invited them to church adn we also to have another meeting next week it was actually really good !</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we went to visit a menber but we werent able to find her house so yeah that wasnt good but then we went ot visit another member and we were abletlo leave a messsage with them. After hat we went to namwon witht he elders adn were able to teach those kids. they were kind of crazy as usual and then it started to rain really hard ot we had to leave adn run to to the bus stop ing the rain!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we were abelt o have english class adn also meet with out\r investigotor again it was a relay godo class we were ablet o wathc a video for the message and she really liked it! today was also a relaly really rainy day!!we were also abole to meet another invesitgaort adn them have FHE it was realy fun we played a lot of games adn shared amessage!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday we were abletoi to have to less actives form thursday ccome. they were kind of crazy adn then we were abelt o go to the beach with the primary and when we were there one of the little boys 3 years old told me htat he loved me!! haha so cute!! After church we did weekly planning adn thenm we went o to dinner appointment! it was relaly good i rellly like the famly hat we went with! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week was relaly good i learned alot! todya we are going ot go to the learges squarrium in asia!! so that willl be relaly awesoem! Im excited!~</span></div>
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Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-26006890904693118932015-11-20T10:52:00.001-08:002015-11-20T10:52:04.862-08:00November 1, 2015<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Wow this week went by really fast!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">monday was really awesome! I really love Jeju it is os pretty!! I want to see the rest of it! hahaha</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday we Did a lot of prosiliting.... that was a really long day but we were able to talk to some really nice people we also go tot meet with a former investigator. it was kind of intersting she has actually been a missionary for a different church in a lot of different places but when we met her it was really good. I think we will be able to meet her again and help her. she kind of taught us a lesson though so that was different being the one getting taught not teaching! haha after them we met the STL's becuse they can to jeju for exchanges and we were able to be with them adn eat chicken!! ahhh korean Chicken is so good!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday we had sudy adn service it was really differnt havign 4 sisteris in our hosuse so we and sister Fiso ( my mtc companion) had to study on the floor! yeah that was weird. but we went o our service actuvity adn had to crawl under the trees adn open the fertilixer bags.. thast was crazy there were so many spiders it was reallly gross but also fun!! haha we shared a message with them and it was really good it ws fun being with sister fiso again but also kind of hard bwecause we are at the same level of korean so we had to try and understand people! haha it was really good aftet we did some more prosiliting and then came home adn had dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thursday we went to jeju city because we had Zone meeting! ahhh it was so good!!! we taled a lot about eternal families and they actually showed a video of our mothers sharing theier testimony of eternal family it was a relaly good meeting! after we went and ate the famous jeju soup it was really good i relaly like this soup its meat and noodles and then a little bit of seaweed. AFter tat we came back to seoguipo adn went o our sevice activity adn were able to pick op the trash around the members business them the fed us mud fish soup that stuff is interesting but the koreans love it!! haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">FRiday we had mcm adn them we went to eat at a chinese oplace adn there was a big bug in the food that was gross but we had to keeo eating it!! ahhh so crazyu! we also went and visited some new people so that ws good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Satuday we had english class adn a halloween party at english class we had a new persom come adn we were abel to invite her to do our 30/.30 program so she becmee a new investigator! YAY!!!! Them we went yo jeju adn were able to have a party adn carve pumpkins adn eat yummy food adn play lots of games it was a relaly fun night!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday we had church and were able to meet a new family that we have been trying ot meet fri along time now it was a really good lesson and we intvited the mother to get baptized adn she said she would when she knows morew so hat was really cool!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today we are goign to go to jeju sity adn go shopping with the other missionaries so that will be fun I really love Korea and my mission i am learning os much i really can feel the belssings that this gospel gives to everyone! I hope you all have a good week!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ps sorry the end was a little jumping around adn crazy to understand! haha</span></div>
Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-36160667804845805862015-10-27T13:14:00.002-07:002015-10-27T13:14:29.902-07:00Hello Everyone! October 25, 2015<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This is going ot be a short email this week because of time. we were able to do a lot this week. We were focusing on the book of mormom and truying ot give it to the people we talked to. we were able to give out six in the week! btu only two of the people we think we can meet again. I really hope taht we can meet them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week i studied alot about the restoratiion aadn the i\history of the church it was am amazing experience i was able to really feel my testimony grow and see the real importance of the Gospel in the life of everyone!! I really do love missionary work and hope that all of you are doing good! I really do love seeing how much I can learn when i put my mind to learning. I have been able to see some improvement in my korean... very little... But i really do love be ing here in Korea servign these people they are the kindest people ever! TOday we went a tour of Jeju with one of the members! He was so nice and really wasnted to hepl us adn make sure hat we had a good time we were ablet o see only halp of the island so he wants to take us the rest of the way another pday. We were able to take some really cool pictures adn see alot of the Isaland! I LOVE KOREA!!!</span></div>
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Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-55347148498149601852015-10-27T12:49:00.001-07:002015-10-27T12:49:07.754-07:00October 18, 2015<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">wow this week was really good. we were able to have some good experiences her in Seogwipo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">momday we had area meeting with the elders and then we realixed that we werent going ot have time to meet one family so we decided to go right them adn just randomly visit this person. so we all made the trip there and when we got there it seamed like they werent going ot amswer so we went around the hose to the back door adn knocked and a man opened he door adn invited us in. this man wasnt the person we wanted to visit. the person we wanted was a less active man that apparently lives in Seoul. but this was his father and he isnt a member so we were able to go in adn talk to this man and then his wife adn we were ablet o teach them a lesson and we offered them a book of mormom but they alread had one and they even had the April Conference Lihaona so taht was really cool i howp that we will get to meet them again! we might get to help them on their farm!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday we were ablet o meet a less active sister that works/owns a cafe. she was so nice and gave us our drinks for free adn then as we were talking wiht her she gave us some cake for free so that was really nice! this sister is super nice and i hope that we will be able to help her adn her whole family come back to church. we also went ot visist another less active with the elders but the less active wasnt home so that was sad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wednesday we were ablet o have disrtict meeting! ahh i really love it! i was able to learn so much. Sister Kim had to give a korean lesson. taht was really good hwe taught about the comon mistakes that forigners make when speaking korean so that was really good for all of us to see how we can improve! after we went and did servive again. we got to work on the halla bong farm of one of the members (they are just the big oranges) it was good we were able to get a lot done for them adn it was pretty fun being in the trees! i cant wairt for them to get ripe so we can eat them!! hahaha after that we went to the Branch Presidents house (he lives really really far away!!) but it was really goofo her tool us and the elders to dinner. oh wow it was a really really good dinner!!!!! it was these huge cuts of meat that you put on a grill in the middle of the table and cook it yourself. wow it was really good meet.he had us eat somuch!!! i think that each on eof us there had to eat our won huge piece of meat!! but ti was really good adn just when i thoought i was full he orders rice adn soup for us!! so yeah Koreans really do show their love thought giving you food!! haha</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thurday we were able;t o to do weekly planning and then we went o change my adddress but when we go there thye said that i didnt have the right papers and that i needed some other things. adn it was really hard because i couldn treally undestand them adn then Sister Kim had to re explain it to me in more simple korean... so it was still hard to understand.. but we eventually decided to call one of the office elders and he was able to find the right papers so we can go try again later! then we went and had another service activity for amember picking up trash. then they fed us what is called mud fish soup.... yeah sounds gross right... but i was able to eat it... that family is really awesome! they are really nice and when we were sharin our message there was tewo other families from the branch that showed up so we were able to talk to them too! so taht was good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we were able to do waht we call "chace 전도" or chace proseliting we were able to talk to a lot of people adn were able to give out two book of mormons so taht was really cool we were able to also teahc a lot of short lessons adn also get some contacts! it was a really successfull day we also were able to go visit a famly that we invited to church adn we were able to play a game with them and tach a very short lesson. they are really cute kids i really like them a lot!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Saturday we were ablet ohave a very small english class!! theyre were two people that came... yeah iti was intersting.. after english class we went o Jeju city so that we could have interviews with president. it was really good i was able to learn so much from him and he was able to really helpo me he is a very smart man! after interviews we ate chicken alfrado.. it was really goos an good reminder of home! haha we also were able to have a fireside tjat was focused on family! we watched a video that talked about how we onley have so much tim eon earth and thas we need ot spoend time ith our family. i Really liked hte meeting i was able to learn a lot an dfee of the real importanc eof family!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday we were able tohave the family come to church ti was kind of crazy having to watch the 4 kids adn try adn keep them entertained the whole time i was really glad that church is only tow hours her becausethey would nt have made it the 3 hours! haha we wer able to finish weekly pannin and alos hav an area meetin gfo rth enext week. it was a really good day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">this week was relalyu good i lov being a mission ary and learn ing so much every day! hava good week!</span></div>
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WOW ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!!!! this week was full of so many good things!!! Monday we took a plane to the island and then had to take a really long bus ride to our home! it was so much fun! what an adventure!! It was pretty crazy butu we were able to talk to one persnon right off the plane and get her number so that was really awesome and then the taxi ride to our hose we were ablet o have a brief lesson with him and give him a book of mormom. that was really good to se that we were going ot be okay here! haha</div>
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Tuesday we were able to get more settled\ted into our home adn also go shopping! that was good our house had hardly anything so we had to get some food for the week! After that we met the elders and they showed us how to get to the church.... its a 45 minute walkt form our house to the church!!!! ahhh so far! btu when we got htere it was relaly cool the church is super close to the ocean!!! wehn we look out the window we can see th eocean so we got to go over and look at it and them we were introduced to the area by the elders. it was also kind of hard for them because they were whitewashed in just one transfer before us adn the other elders that were here got taken out so its kind of and adventure for all of us! After we got home we called all of the members adn intorduced ourselves! we actually were able to set an appointment us for the next day with on e of them so taht was realy nice!</div>
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wednesday we went to Jeju city to have district meeting. it is such a long bus ride!!! and we had to be there earlly so that we could watch the womens meeting of general confernce! that was really good i was able to see it in english adn Sister Kim was able to watch it in Korean. It was a really good district meeting we were able to set goal sall together soi it will be reallycool to see all of us work hard ot goet there! after the meeting we traveled adn came back for the meeting with the member it was really good they werea realy nice family the mother is active but the daughter is less active so we want ot try and get her to come to church. They were really nice! after that we met wiht the elders adn alos with the District President (like the Stake President) adn we were able to mave dinner with him adn get to know more about hte area!</div>
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Thurday we had a service activity with one of the members. he owns a farm that has oranges and little manderan oranges so we were able to go there adn help him cut back the trees it was really fun we they will be really fun to help harvest later!!! haha then we wathced the elders help him with some other work. we were kind of stuck there!!!</div>
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Friday we met with the same lessactive from the other day it was good they fed us lunch. that wasreally nice of them! after we met iwht the elders again and went ot visist a member adn his non member mother but they ended up not being homeso that was sad. we also went and introduced ourselves ot a less active sister taht was really nice!! we went and visiteed anothter family that is kind of investigating the church they are a really poor family so that was sad to see. we were ablet o get osme really pretty pictures on our dinner time! ahh its os pretty here!!!!</div>
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Saturday we wathcherd general confernce! ahhh it was so good i was ablet o learn so much!! I really liked all of the talks i relaly liked elder Cooks talk i was able to learn a lot from him. after confernce we went ot visit some there people that are less actives. itiwas kind of hard to find their house.. we accidently knocked on the wrong door like 3 times!!! hahaha oops! but when we met with thhem thye had heard some bad things about our church adn sid that we didnt believe in God adn Christ so taht was a arelaly sad meeting but hopefully in time we will be abelto help.</div>
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Sunday we got to watch the sest of confernce. it was really good i really liked the talk that was directed to the sisters adn i was able to see that by me being on a mission right now i am building the foundation that i need i order to have a stonget family later! we alo go to do some elglish class finding,... there wasnt very many people that were interestied to that was sad! we also were able to meet a formere investigator . she was reallly nice but it was hard because she really really liked the sister she first met but maybe we will be able to help her!</div>
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Ahh i love it here i am learning os much!! both Korean and about missionaary work! I have seeen an improvemnt inmy korean becaus i hav eot speak it all the time with Sister Kim. She is the nicest person i have ever met and i really love bein gwith her! She is always os kind oto everyone! I really look forward to the rest of the transfer!</div>
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calls!!! so on thursday night they call all of the people that are</div>
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leaving and tell them where they will be going and who their companion</div>
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will be.. so I was expecting a call because I have been in ShinJeong</div>
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for a long time. so when we recieved the call i answered and they made</div>
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a big deal about it and then they told me taht i would be going to a</div>
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place that is surrounded by water..... They also told me that i would</div>
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be opening a new area for sisters (white washing) and then they</div>
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finally said that i would be going to Jeju island and in the city of</div>
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Seogwipo 서귀포!!! ahh and i wil have a korean Companion! her name is</div>
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sitster Kim YehJe 김예지 i dont really know her very much but it wil be</div>
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good! I am really excited! I will have to fly on a plane to the</div>
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island so will be gong there at like 7;20 pm today. ahhh it will be</div>
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such a different experience!! I will have to learn so much! It will be</div>
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really good! I will really really really miss this area but i will</div>
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also really like my next one!</div>
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So about the week!! monday was a different day we only had a short</div>
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pday but it was good we didnt have FHE because of the holiday but we</div>
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were able to do some english prosliting it was good but really slow</div>
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not a whlole lot of people talked to us so that was kind of hard.</div>
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Tuesday we had the mission 5K/10K so we went to Busan for the day!! It</div>
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was so much fun! I did the 5k. ahh i stil really dont like running!!</div>
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haha but it was fun because i was able to talk to one of the korean</div>
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sisters that was really nice. we were able to have a really fun time</div>
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and they even fed us hamburgers and hot dogs so it was a very americam</div>
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meal it was so good but they added in the tpouch of kroean with</div>
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breaded sweet potatoes and some rice cake! haha it was really good!</div>
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after htat we played games and just had fun! we also had english</div>
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Wednesday we had district meeting ahh i really love it! Ilove being</div>
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able to learn from the other missionaries i have really felt my</div>
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tetimony grow because of it. We went o eat lunch after and it was</div>
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really good there is one elder that is so funny we were alll laughing</div>
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so hard that we were about ready to cry!! it was really good! After</div>
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that we went o visit a member but she wasnt home so we went to visit</div>
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another one and she was home and we were able ot share a message and</div>
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then she fed us dinner! it was actually really good food! (even though</div>
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Thursday we had service it was good the old people are so fun i like</div>
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them. Ahh so when we clear the trays we dup all of the food into a</div>
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bucket adn then we have to move it to dump it well as they were moving</div>
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it some how it tipped over and all of the food trash went</div>
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everywhere!!!! ahh it was so gross!!! after service we were able to</div>
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meet sister Haun JeeYoung she is a less active. iti was good we teahc</div>
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her daughters english and its some times really hard becuase one of</div>
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the daughters only speaks Chinese.. yeah crazy! but we were able to</div>
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see talk to her and get ot know her better She told us that she might</div>
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be able to come to church the following week. we also told her that it</div>
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might be my last time seeing her... so that was really sad to say</div>
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goodbye! after that we came home and cleaned the house really god adn</div>
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then waited for the call. and found out that i would be going to the</div>
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Hawaii of Korea! so that was crazy we actually recieved a call from</div>
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president at like 10:34.. but he told us that he callled the wrong</div>
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number... yeah that was scary for sister Cunningham becausue when</div>
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presiddent calls htat means that you are going to be training and she</div>
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didnt really want ot train... hahaha it was crazy!!!</div>
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Friday we were able to get a call form sister cunninghams new</div>
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sompanion she will be with sister Cooper she was in the MTC with me.</div>
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Then i was able to pack and get all of my stuff ready to mail to</div>
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Jeju... korea is really awesome and has a way that you can just mail</div>
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my bags and the plane and all of htat stuff.. we were also able to</div>
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meet Kim YoonEh for my last time. it was good she is so cute i love</div>
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Saturday was good we were ableto have a good weekly planning and get</div>
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everything ready for sister Cunningham adn sister cooper. We also met</div>
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church. it was really good. then we had english class that was really</div>
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goodbye to all of them. But after we had a movie night for the branch</div>
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but only a few people came so that was sad but Sister Go YuMin came</div>
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so that was really fun she is so nice she gave me and sister</div>
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Sunday was good we had a meeting and hte branch President asked me and</div>
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ot miss them i actually almost started to cry as i looked at Go yuMin</div>
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light of christ that was now continaully in her life. After church i</div>
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had to say goodbye to all of them adn it was really sad it was really</div>
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hard to say goodbye so Go Yu Min but i will stay in contact with her.</div>
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Seogwipo too! Ilov emy mission and the things i am learning!</div>
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</span>Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-84537722508627013742015-09-29T11:14:00.002-07:002015-09-29T11:14:29.154-07:00First Real Bible Bash Sept. 28, 2015<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hello everyone!!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">well i had my first real bible bash today! that was preatty crazy! i</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">dont even know what church it was but these people just stoped us on</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the road and asked us a question that i didnt understand so i looked</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to sister Cunningham and then they just went off about the passover</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and how we need to be baptized and about the sacrament and the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">atonement. They were really targeting me in thier questions, I feel</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">that it was beacuse i dint underatnd them at frist so they thought</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">that i didnt know the bible. It was really crazy they had me reaad</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">some scriptures in the bible. we were able to get out becasue it was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">going know where. they werent being very nice to us so it was hard.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but it was a good evperence so that the next time that happens i will</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">know how to handle it better.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so this week was really good i learned os much! its crazy that there</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">is only one week left in this transfer. it went so fast!! I will</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">probaby be getting transfered next week. i will find out on thursday</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">night!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Monday we had FHE and it was good again we played s fun game with a</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">beach ball adn some rolls of paper it was a mix of soccer and hocky!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">haha it was fun! not a whole lot happened on monday so yep.. haha</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tuesday we went to find some less actives it was okay we were able to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">find most of the houses but otheres we couldnt. it was the Craziest</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">part of my area i've seen! we went into what is called 시골 or the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">country side! ahh it was so cool! one minute we were on the main road</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">adn then we would have to take a little path that went winding up in</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to the country and up on the hills! It was so weird because the place</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we were in looked like it was abandoned but apparently people live</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">there!! Also there were some pretty crazy spiders there!!! ahh they</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">were so gross!!! they were really big yellow and black ones and they</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">had really really crazy big webs!! i have a picture that i will send.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I actually almost ran into the biggest one we saw just as we were</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">walking back it was about the size of the palm of my hand adn just</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hanging above me! ahhh so scary! Sister Cunningham got a picture of</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it. ahh they were so gross!! we also had english class . It was good</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but kind of sad becasue there was probably 3 people there. elder Smith</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">shared a really good message about how even the little things we do</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">can make a difference. I feel like it might have been ment more fro</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the missionaries! haha</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Wednesday we had district meeting! it was really good i really learn</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so much from the other missionaries! We focuesd on Christlike</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">attributes. it was really good i was able to see how i can improve! We</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">had lunch together after it was really good it was pig rice soup!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(haha korean translation is so funny!) We all got free hand towles</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">because the place we weent to was new so they were giving out gifts!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we also o tto go visit sister park Jeehyun (the taekwondo lady) it was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">so good she is the cutest lady i have ever met! it was a really short</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">vist but it was good Sister Cunningham was able to get ot know her a</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">little better. We also got to visit a member and play with her kids</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">adn talk to them. It was really good this member needs some love so we</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">were able to meet here and show our love! They showed us lov eback by</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">giving us some fruit and some other random snacks! oh it rained a lot</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">today so we had to walk in the rain adn got really wet!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thursday we had service! it was kind of crazy because there was a lot</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">of pople then so we had to worry about helping all of them. But it was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">good they had a tradidional Korean soup that is basically just rice</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">cake and broth them some other stuff. it was good but they always feed</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">us so much!!! haha We did weekly planning for the last week of the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">transfer so that was preatty crazy!! we planned to meet with a less</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">active but she had to cancel because she wasnt going to be home. So</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">htat was sad but we were able to get a lot of stuff done for the next</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">week!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Friday was a really different day!!! There is a lady that is friends</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with sister Cunninghams grandma that is Korean that is in korea for</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">some time so she wanted to meet with us so we had to plan and figure</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">out how ot meet them and where to eat. we had an appointment with</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sister Kim Yuneh (a long time less active) so we had to move her back</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but then the woman we were meeting decided to invite Sister Kim to eat</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with us so we invited her and she said she would come so that was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">exciting! we went and met with all of them and ate SO MUCH FOOD!!! but</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">it was really good we had Shabu Shabu. After we met with all of them</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we went with Sister Kim to her house to have a lesson. It was a good</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">lesson we were able to talk to her and reallu see the things that she</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">needed. Sister Kim is sucha a nice person i really love her So it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">makes it hard to see that she has so many doubts and doesnt let the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">truth into her heart! After meeting with her we did some prosiliting</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we werent able to find very many people but it was good!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Saturday was the start of the Korean Holiday called Chuseok (추석) its</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">very simmilar to thanksgiving so they eat a llot of food and bow to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">their ansestors. Its a really big holiday. We decided to make all of</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the members little handouts with a scripture so we did that. we also</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">had english class and we actually had pople come!! it was good I was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">really supprised that peopl came even though it was a holiday! After</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">elgish we did some elglish class prosiliting with the elders. we were</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">able to get some people that might want to come to class! I also had</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to make sure that i had my talk ready for church the next day! (yeah i</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">had to give a talk!)</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sunday was the offical day of chuseok so church was really different!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we went backwards and had young woments first then sunday school then</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">sacrament meeting. When church was supposted to start there was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">littlerally us 4 missionaries and one other lady that wasnt a menber</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">of our branch but then the Priedeman family came adn we were able to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">have the young womens and sunday school with them. It was really good!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I love being able to listen to the gospel in english every once and a</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">while! I was able to learn so much from them. they are an amazing</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">family i dont want to leave them!! Sacrament meeting was good there</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">wasnt very many people there.. actually i think there was more</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">visitors than members of our branch! haha but it was reallly good I</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">had to give a talk..... yeah that was really scary!!! I spoke about</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">obedience and why its important. i think it was okay but it was really</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">scary. Ahh i was trying to say that i was thankful for the opportunity</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to serve in this branch but when i got to that part i coulnt remember</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the work for opportunity! AHHH so i had to say it in english but they</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">were able to understand becuse the ppeople that knew english were able</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to wisper it around the room!! hahaha yeah and then as soon as i ended</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">adn was going to my seat i remembered the word!!! AHHHH yeah it was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">fun. After church we went to a mebers house and ate some Traditional</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Korean ChuSeok food then helped them move some tables. It was good to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">actually be able to serve them. Then we went with the elders down town</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to do some prosiliting before our next appointment. we were able to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">talk to a lady and give her a book of mormon! it was really good i</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">hope that she reads it adn will call us later( we werent able to get</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">her number so sad!) the next appointmet we had was with the Priedeman</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">family the elders and 4 other missionaries in another area. It was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">really good!! I love the Priedeman family so much! we had a potato bar</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">for dinner! it was so good! then we played some really fun games and</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we were able to talk about some of the ways that we could see</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">improvement in the area. then we were also able to watch Pesident</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">uchdorffs talk from the sisters meeting! ahhh it was so good!!! I</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">really loved being with that family. they are such an amaxing family i</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">really love them! Brother Priedeman teared up as he tlod us that he is</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">proud of us and that our families love us. It was really special!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I really love my mission and being a part of helping this work move</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">along! I am loving every minute that i am here! I know that God is</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">blessin me as i am on my mission! I am so thankful for all of you and</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the support that you all give to me. I hope you all have a great week!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sister Thornley!</span>Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-22307079407006559262015-09-23T10:47:00.001-07:002015-09-23T10:47:11.106-07:00Change the Mission Culture Sept. 21, 2015<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Hello! wow this week went so fast! There was a lot fo good things that</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">happened as well.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Monday was really good i talked a little about it a little last week</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">but we were able to have FHE after and it was really good! Its so fun</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to be able to be with the families and get to know them better.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Tuesday we went to look for less actives we were able to find all of</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the houses but we think that they either moved or that they just didnt</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">want to answer the door. It was good though we were able to see more</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">of the Korean towns it was good even though we werent able to find the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">lkess actives. We also had english class that was good but not very</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">many people came so that was sad!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Wednesday was reallly good we were able to have Zone meeting! ahh it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">was a really good chance to learn from the other missionaries! I</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">really liked learnign how i can improve we were ablet ot use the topic</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">from the mission tour adn discuss the things hat we can do to make our</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">mission a better experience. It was focused on changing the mission</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">culture I was able to learn so much! after that i went on exhanges in</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">pohang with sister Ha she is so cute i really like her a lot! We were</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">able to hava service activity adn then we visited some of the members</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">there.It was really good!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thursday we studied and them visited a less active in that area it was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">good. we had to travel a lot to come to exchange back but it was good!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">after we exchanged we went to visit Sister Haun GeYeong. she is a less</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">active we vistied her adn her sister ( her sister isnt a member) it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">was really good we were able to teach english and get to know them</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">better. It wa good! we also met with sister Lee CheUn she is a high</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">school student adn is suoper cute we were able to have a really good</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">lesson with her.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Friday we did weekly planning then visited Kim YoonEh she is also a</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">less active I relaly like her we taught her a good lesson adn talked</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">with her for a long time she actually made us french toast!! haha that</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">was really good! WE also met with sister Lee CheUn again she was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">really interested and had really studied the pamphlets we gave her it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">was a really good lesson I think she will be a reallly good</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">investigator!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Saturday we did a lot of proseliting. IT was good we were able to talk</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to a lot of people and were able to teach some short lessons! we also</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">had english class that was godo at first we tonlky had two students</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">that came!! haha but then more came! It was good. I like teaching</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">english because they are fun people to talk to! haha</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sunday we had Church and Sister Go YuMIn was able to be confermed. It</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">was a really special experience! Even though it was in Korean adn i</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">couldnt completly understand it all i was able to feel that it was the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">things she needed. she is such an amazing persom i have really learned</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">alot from her adn the example that she is! We alos were able to have a</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">lesson with her. She wants to learn about the second comming adn about</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">the millinum so that will be and adventure to teach the next time!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Especially because i dont even know how to explain it very well in</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">english!!! haha After church there was the usual lunch and it wa good!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Then we did some prosiliting we were able to talk to one lady for a</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">while but then all of the sudden she said she had to leave adn asked</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">for our phone number adn we were abel to get hers. it was a weird</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">experience!! haha also that night there was a branch party with more</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">food!!!! yay!! haha it was really good food!! I got to talk with the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Priedeman family alot so that was fun. Its really nice having an</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">american family in the branch so that i can talk to them.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Today we planned to go to a whale museum with some other missionaries</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">btu they go there first and it was closed... so yeah that was sad. but</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we were also to go shopping today adn get some fun Korean things that</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">i wil be happy to hav when i go home! I really love korea adn being on</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">a mission I have really learned so much from the time that ive been</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">here. It has been such a good experience! Thanks for the support you</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">all give me!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sister Thornley</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-14931280977740992072015-09-23T10:45:00.000-07:002015-09-23T10:45:04.196-07:00I'm so happy!!!! Sept. 14, 2015<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ahhh this week was so good!!! we were able to see some really amazing</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">things!!! First off we were able to have a baptism!!!! Sister Go YuMin</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">got baptized sunday night. It was such a special experience for</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">everyone. She is so prepared. I was able to teach her from the first</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so it was really cool to be able to see the change in her from the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">start to now. She has a light around her all the time that others are</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">able to see. Even though it is hard to communicate with her I feel</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that I have a conection wiht her it is a really good feeling! I was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">also able to write her a letter in korean that I feel she will like.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It was crazy to see the letter i gave her because it was alll in</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Korean!!! adn i could understand it all... ahhh so weird!! haha but it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was a reallly good experience. We were also able to have sister Hurley</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">come. taht was reallly good because we were the ones that taught her</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">from the start. We had two really good talks that we were able to feel</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the spirit so strong. we also had two misical numbers they were</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really good. it is amazing to see how music can bring the spirit into</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the room. She only had to get baptized once so that was good! adn then</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we had the branch write letters to her adn were able to give that to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her. she shared her testimony and the end as well adn it was reallly</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good she was able to feel the spirit so strong. I reallly feel that</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she will continue to progress. we also had some snacks after and she</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was able to talk with the members adn get to know them better. It was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so good!!! we also gave her a nice BoM and D&C it was really good!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">earlier that day she came to church and after we were able to spend</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the day with her adn we were able to watch the restoration video it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was really good i think it helped her understand the restoration a lot</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">better! Ahhh she is so cute i wish that all of oyou could meet her!!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hahaha oh also with week we went and got dessert called Bing Su 빙수 it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was really good we were able to have a good time wiht her adn help</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">both of us get to know her better.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so the week is goin got be short because of time. Monday we had FHE</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">adn then after there was two members that took us to dinner beacuse</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">they said that missionaries are always hungry (not true!!!) but they</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">took us to eat adn they got us the Fish from finding nemo that is the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">deep sea fish with the little light!!!!! ahhh crazy right!! I ate that</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">kind of fish. it was in sauce and was really spicy!!! I had to eat so</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">much!!!! they made me eat the most of the food because i was sharing</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wiht the two mambers adn them the elders and sister cunningham shared</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but becasue i was with the members they made me eat the most!!! ahhh</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it was so hard!!! haha but im still alive! haha</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Tuesday we were planning on getting some of the prep for the baptism</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">done adn so we went to see the font adn the whole bottom of the floor</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was covered in dirt!!!!!! ahhh it was so gross we think the the drain</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">backed up and got it dirty so we started to clean it adn we had to get</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">brushes and scrub really hard to try and get it clean it as so bad!!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but we got the most of the gross stuff off adn then we had english</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">class. it was good i dont remember what happpened vey well but it was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wednesday we had Mission Tour!! it was so awesome!!! we had to leave</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">our house really early to get there on time because it was like a two</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hour train ride!! but it was so good i learned a lot! The persome that</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">came was really good he was really fun adn his wife was really cute</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she didnt know english or korean very well because they are from japan</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but she taught us how to make lips out of paper adn talked about how</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we need to open our mouth. It was really cute!! that basically took</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the whole day because of travel adn it was a long meeting but i</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">learned so much.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thursady was kind of a crazy day!!! we had service adn they ran out</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of rice!!!! ahhh thats not a good thing here!!! these people need</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">their rice!! haha so we had to wait fro it to cook for like 15-20</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">minutes.. yeah it was crazy!!! after service we went with the elders</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and a member to eat lunch. it was a reallly good lunch. we were able</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to have a good talk with her and i was really thankfun for elder Ha</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because he was translating a little for me so when i didnt understand</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">all of it he would help me. we also met a less active sister that is</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">new in our area she was reallly nice i think i talked about her last</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week but but she was reallly awesome we were able to teach her</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">children english. but it was kind of hard because one of her daughters</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">only speaks Chinese!!!!! ahhh so crazy!! this is when i wish that the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">small amount of chinese i knew didnt leave my mind when i started to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">learn Koean!!! hahaha but it was good the youngest daughter is reallly</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cute adn was fun to play with!!! we also had dinner with the Preiedman</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">family. that was reallly godo we were able to have a good american</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">dinner!! haha and also talk to them and help them as a family. then we</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had an appointment with the senior high school student adn it was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">reallly good we were able to teach english adn have a reallly good</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">lesson with her! She is so cute i reallly like her!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Friday we went and had Bing Su (its like ice crean ans shaved ice but</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so much better!!!) with Go YuMin i already talked abpout that but then</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we were able to do weekly planning and then we also were able to meet</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with the same high school student adn she baught us bubble tea!!! it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was so good! she i sso nice adn the lesson was good too she was</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">reallly interested in the plan of salvation so we are going to start</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">there with her. I will be good!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">saturday we were able tp get all the big prep for the baptism adn made</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sure that we had everything we needed it was a reallly busy adn kind</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of stresssul day but we got it all done we also had english class agin</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">adn after we got the church ready to have church the next day.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sunday!!!!!!! ahhh it was so good!! other than what i said at the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">first there isnt that much to say! ha but we were able to talk to the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">branch adn get everything planned for the baptism. We had church and</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it was reallly good!! Go YuMin is reallly awesome. she stayed after</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">church and ate with the branch and then we answeed the questions she</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had and decided on a dress for her to be baptized in. then we watched</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the video and we also went to the branch presidents house adn ate</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">dinner with the elders adn Go YuMin then we made sure that wverything</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was ready and took lots of pictures.. AHhh it was so good she even</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cried at the end because of the spirit it was really aweosme!!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It was a reallly good week!!! I love Korea I love Go YuMin and i love</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Missionary Work!!! have a good week!!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sister Thornley</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-65513945737338981892015-08-31T13:55:00.003-07:002015-08-31T13:55:52.647-07:00August 31, 2015<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hello everyone!!! this week was really good! I am so happy that i</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">stayed in my area we were able to see so many amazing things!!! I</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really have learned a lot from Sister Cunningham she is amazing!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Monday we planne dot have FHE but no one came..:( so sad but we were</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">able to talk about the area and I was able to tell about our</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">investigators ( wow that was hard to spell in english its easieer in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Korean!!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Tuesday we planned to visit a less active but because of the rain she</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">told us not to come... darn!! but we were able to go though and talk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about all of the investigators and the less actives that we visit and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the members. it was really good. we also had english class. that is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">always fun we had a newer person come again so we were able to talk to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her and get to know her better and talk about what we do as</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">missionaries. I</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wednesday we had district meeting!! ahh i love beiong able to learn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">form the other missionaries they were able to help me see a lot of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">things that i could work on! we also learned osme fun korean phrases.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">i learned how to say that my stomach was going to tear. i alos learned</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">some other things that i cant remember at the time... (appariently i</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">need to study them more! hahaha) but after that we got lunch it was</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good but probaby not my favorie korean food. We also got to meet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Janniy and Darina, Janniy is russian and Darina is half russian and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">half korean it was a really good lesson we introduced the plan of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">salvation and they seemed interested. we will teach the rest this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week. They are such asweet family I really llike meeting them! we also</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">went to vist a previous inveestigator it was really good because she</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wanted to satrt the familly english program so we will start to teach</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">english for 30 min then share a message for 30 min it will be really</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good i hope that she will have a stronger desire to learn about what</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we teach( when missionaries met her before she was really close to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">baptism but then her husband passed away adn so she stoped meeting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">them yeah sad story) but hopefully we can help her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thurdsay we didnt have service... so sad i actually like going to see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the old people there they are so fun!! but we were able to try adn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">visit a less active that just had a baby we didnt get to talk to her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so we left a note with a scripture. we also go tot visit Kim yuneh she</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">is also a less active (ive talked about her a lot) we talked to her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">abput Patriachal blessings and she was actually interested. so we hope</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that she will have interest and make the change in her life so that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she will be abe to recieve that blessing and guidence that comes from</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it. it was a really good day i was able to learn a lot for myself</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">while helping others!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Friday we were able to meet the Less active that we planned to meet on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">tuesday her name is Gwak geehey ( ahhh putting it in english is hard!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but we helped her brother translate a paper.... that was really</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hard!!! but it wa skind of fun. we also shared a message abput God and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">abput prayer it was really good. I hope that we can help her more as</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we continue to meet her! we also did weekly planning that was good we</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">were able to plan a good week! I hope that it will go as good as we</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">plan!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday was SO AMAZING!!!!!! we were able to go to the church and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">meet Go yumin to have her BAPTISIMAL INTERVIEW!!!!! yay!!! ahh she is</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">such an amazing person i have really grown close to her in the time</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that ive been teaching her!! She is so prepared and ready to make the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">step of baptism!! Her interview was good adn she passed so she will be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">baptized on the 13th of september!!! Ahhh it wil be such a good day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for her! We were able to start to plan for the service adn it will be</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a really good day! There might even be one of the elders investigators</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that will get baptized that day too!!! ahh it will be so good!! She</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">said she would come to church as well!! AHhh she is so great! We had</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">english class after thhat it was good there wasnt as many people that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">came but it was still good! we were able to get ice cream after with a</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">meber that is really sweet. whille we were standing eating our</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">icecream some drunk men came over and were like "you can speak Korean"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it was funny! we had to leave though becasue they were getting Creepy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">But then we were able to set up the church adn get it realdy for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sacarement meeting. AHHH such a good day!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sunday we had PEC and then church Go YuMin came!!!!!! Yay I wasnt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">worried that she wouldnt it just amkes me happy when she does come!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It was a really good meeting Sister Cunningham gave a welcome talk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">then we were able to have a lesson with Go YuMin and the elders. We</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">were able to help her be ecxited for her baptism and then help her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">feel more ready for it. We were able to talk about the things that she</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">needed! She was really cute at helping me and sister Cunnungham in RS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because when we didnt understand she would help us. She also talked</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about how she wants to teach her boyfriend about what she has learned!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">She wasnt able to stay for the lunch after but she was able to learn a</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">lot. After church we ate lunch and then went lookin gfor less actives</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it wasnt very successful on the less actives but we were able to talk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to some people one person actually had a frind that was Mormon adn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">moved to utah or somthing like that. so hopefully the grandma and son</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">will call us(it was the grandama that we stared to talk to then the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">son that knew the mormon) super cool!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Today we had to go to the place to get sister Cunninghams forigener</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">card renewed so that she could stay in Korea, that took so long!!!!!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we were there waiting for like 2 and a half Hours!!!!! but we got it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">done and were able to get lunch so it was okay. I really love korea an</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">everyting about being a missionary!!! there are so many things i can</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">learn! I hope all of you have a good week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sister Thornley!</span><br />
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So also this week there was a really funny thing that happened... when<br />
we went to vist the lady that lost her husband we just go to her phone<br />
shop adn her coworkeer was there adn as soon as she saw us the first<br />
thing she said was "how do you say this" then she showed me her phone<br />
and on it was "i dont give a ****" yeah i was really glad that i<br />
stoped myself from saying the rest of it outloud... but we told her<br />
that its a bad word and that we dont say it. but she just kept trying<br />
to say it.. haha so funny! i was glad that she and her co worker were<br />
saying it wrong but it was just funny that it was the first thing she<br />
asked us!! yep thats my funny story.<span style="color: #888888; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
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Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-84695164713833566792015-08-17T10:22:00.000-07:002015-08-17T10:22:36.827-07:00A Week of Inspiration--- August 17, 2015<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wow another week has gone by again! Time is going so fast. I really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">feel that time might be going faster in Korea than it was before I got </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">here!! haha but really Ive almost been here for 12 weeks!! I really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">feels like time is going so fast! this week was full of really awesome</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">things we had a lot of new things that happened.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Monday was the usual FHE it was really fun this week we played spoon </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hockey that was really fun they had a pingpong ball and spoons and you </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hit it towards a goal with the spoons super fun! It was good activity </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because we had a lot of people that came this week! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Tuesday we had a lesson with a new sister that we are doing the family </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">english program with her name is lee na hyun( not sure how to make it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">into english haha) but we met her and it was really good we talked </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about god and prayer with her. it was really good she was actually </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">interested in the message and was asking questions so it was good. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">them we had a lesson with Go yumin she is the college student that is </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">close to baptism. it was a really good lesson we had a member there</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">adn that was really helpfull because she knows english so she can help </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">us understand the questions! but it was really good we tried to set a </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">date wiht her but she felt that she didnt know enough about the gospel </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and she was worried that after baptism she woudld make a big mistake</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">or that she would fall away she is so aweosme though. i Really di feel </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that she is so prepared. After that we had english class it was good i </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was able to do the intermiediate class it was fun they were pretty</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good at english so it helped me but it was hard to teach english </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because sometimes i feel like i dont even know english anymore!! haha</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wednesday we had district meeting!! it is always so good we were able </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to preactice talking to people and starting conversations with them</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about the gospel and why we are here as missionaries. it was really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">helpful to me! After that we got to meet a new person her name is </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Janniy she is a russion that lives here adn we were able to meet with </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her and start the family english program with her daughter that is</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">half Korean. She is the prettiest girl i have seen!!! She was really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">nice too. We set up to meet every week so that will be really good! Im </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really excied to meet them!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thurday we had service!!! yay it is always so fun. it was good but </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">they had a fish side dish this time!!! ahhh im not a big fish fan!!! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">haha but after i put some on my plate to eat it so i dont offent </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">them... adn then next thing i know there is an older lady putting MORE </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">FISH ON MY PLATE!!!!!! ahhhhhhh so hard!!! I was already having a hard</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">time eating the little bit that i put on my plate!! but i was alble to </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">eat some of it and then hide the rest... probably no the best but i </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">couldnt eat any more. we also met with sister Kim yooneh this week it </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was really good she is so nice i really like her but its just hard </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because she really doesnt have the true desire to learn and feel the </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">spirit. After we met with her we had someone call us that waanted to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">either come to english class or start the family english program!! it </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was really cool that she called us i hope we are able to meet with her </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">in the future!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Friday we went to Busan for a sisters Conference!!! that was so </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">aweosme!!! I really liked being able to learn from that we were taught </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">how to address the problems that our investigators have. Then we got</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to split into groups and learn how to cook some Korean Food!!!! taht </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was really fun! I got to learn how to make sweet adn sour pork it was </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really good in korean its called 탕수육 (tang sooyouk) it was really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good!!! there was somany different kinds of food!! I really liked</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">learning more about how to cook food! so fun we learned so much both </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">in food and spirtiually!! that took the whole day but it was a really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good day!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday we had english class it was good! after a member took us and </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the elders to dinner it was okay it wasnt my favorite food but i am </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">still learnign to eat the things they give me! haha we were able to go </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">out on the street adn teach two lessons one person we talked to was </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really good at english adn was actually going to america (Texas) in a</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">week it was so cool to talk to her we werent able to give her anything </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">or get her information but hopefully she will be able to find the </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">missionaries in texas!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sunday was really good we had an investigator at church. Her name is </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">beck minsouk she is the lady we met on pday two weeks ago! She is so </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sweet and was able to really connect with the members. at the lunch</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">after church she was just with the members and bacically just acted </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">like she was at home it was really awesome!! we had to go to a </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">different area to have chior practice. that was good but it felt </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">reallly long becuse i cant understand what they say!! haha but them we </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">met with our chinese investigator Joan she was so sweet! we teach her</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">daughter english but we dont really know where we are supposed to go </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with her gospel wise because she doesnt understand korean church words </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">adn we dont know chinese words but we were able to teach her prayer</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and were able to pray with them at the end it. as we were on our way </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">home we got kind of lossed.... it was an adventure but we made it home </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">on time.. taht was really an answer to our prayers before we left to </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">come home we prayed that we woudl be able to make it home on time and</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">thats waht we did we were home at like8:58 so it was really cool! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Today we went to a buddest temple that was really cool koren culture </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">is so fun!! I really love it here in korea!! I have learned so much in </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the time that ive been here! i tried a silkworm today!!! ahhhh i dont </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">need to eat one of them again!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So funny thing from this week!! One morning after we woke up i was </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">saying the prayer to strt the day and after i finished it sister </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Hurley was just silent.... she never said amen!!! haha yeah she fell </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">asleep in my prayer!!! haha super funny!!!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">also i have started to be better at the korean grammer structure one </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">time sister hurley gave me something and instead of saying "thankyou </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">very much" it came out of my mouth "very much thankyou" haha so iguess</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that is one way that i can see that my korean language is taking over </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">my english speaking!! haha</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">such a good week i Love my mission and i love korea!!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sister Alicia Thornley!!</span></span><br />
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Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-77819850895939641882015-08-17T10:02:00.001-07:002015-08-17T10:04:38.913-07:00August 10, 2015<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wow another week has gone by so fast!! this week starts my 5th week in </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">my 2nd transfer! It has gone so fast but also slow at times! I really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">do love being here in Korea!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">So monday we were able to met a lady on the street adn give her a book </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of mormon and she saaid that she would meet us again it was such an </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">awesoem experience because she was the one that talked to us first. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">God really put her in our path to talk to her but other than that we </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really didnt do a lot at all! we planned to have FHE but no one showed </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">up so we had area meeting with the Elders and we were able to tal;k</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about the tings that we can do to help the members in the branch and </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">help our investigators it was good because some of the menbers really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">need help right now so we planned on meeting some of them to share a </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">message and build their faith. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Tuesday we planned to go visit the paris baguette lady from last week </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we tought that it was going to go a lot better than it did.. we </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">basically just went there said hello and baught some icecream adn </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bread ate it and had to go. we werent able to ask about the Book of </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mormon becuse people kept comming in adn interrupting so it wasnt the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">best. but taht night we were able to meet Sister Go yumin ( the </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">college student that is really close to baptism!) we were able to </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">teach her a really good lesson we taught her 3 commandments adn she </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">accepted all of htem really well. we taught keep the sabbath day holy,</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the word of wisdom, adn the law of chastity. It was really good she </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was able to comit to live all of them! yay! she said that she wouldn</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">t be able to come to church this week because of family reasons but</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that she would think of God and do things that were good. It was such </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a good lesson She understood the word o fwisdom too she said that she</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">doesnt really drink coffee or alchol so that would be easy. she </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wondered why we cant dring green tea but we told her our testimomy o</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">fit adn she accepted it. we also had time to teach the law of chastity </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and that was good she accepted it as well! Now we just have to set a </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">date fro her baptism and help her prepare more. We are going to meet </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">her again this tuesday and set the date so hopefully everthing goes</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">well!! after that we had english class adn that was good nothing new </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">happened. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wednesday we had Zone Conference all day! it was so good though i was </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">able to learn so much Presidnet adn sister barrow came and we able to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">talk to us. we also got to watch meet the mormons because a lot of </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">people hadnt seen it. It is such a good movie! I love the ways that it </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">inspires all of us to help others adn live our standards better! we </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">also talked a lto about the book of mormon and the challenge that we </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">are doing it is such a blessing to be reading the book of mormon so</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">fast! I have really learned os much from it and i do feel taht we are </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">being blessed as we do it! I have really felt my testimony of the book </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of mormon grow through it!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thurdsay we had service and then we were able to meet the lady that we </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">met on Pday adn were able to teach her the restoration and a little </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about the plan of salvation. her husband actually passed away recently</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so she was really ointerested in that. After that we met with Kim </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">yooneh (the less active) she actually read the assignment!!! it was so </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good we had a good lesson with her about the chapter! she made a </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">little progress this week!! yay! After her on our way home we stopped </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">by the paris baguette lady again this time we got to tlak to her more</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about the ook of mormon. we arent sure how interested she reallly is </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but we will continue to stop there to see her every once and a while! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Friday we had planned to meet a new lady that is russian but she </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cancled on us so we stayed home adn did weekly planning. After that we </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">had another appointment with a new investigator we taught her english</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and a very short lessson about why we are missionaries and a little </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about the book of mormon. it was good but she is mostly english </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">interest now. But we are going to continue to meet her! It will be </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">good. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday we had full study and then we met another new invesitgator!!! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">She recieved a book of mormon a while ago adn contacted us this week</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">adn we were able to meet with her. we taught the restoration but it </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was really hard to understand her! Even sister Hurley couldnt really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">undersdtand her but she wants to meet again to talk about it so thats </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really good. I think that the spirit was really guiding that lesson. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">After her we had english class it was good I was able to do basic with </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the Korean elder that we serve with. he is so funny!! we it was good</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">for me becasue i was able to work on my Korean adn learn to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">communucate with them better. I still need a alot of work though!! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">haha we were also able to have a lesson with Paul (he is the </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">highschool student that came to church the third day that we met him) </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">adn the elders and a meber. it was good I can really see how prepared</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">he is! He is such a nice person. The elders are planning on setting a </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">baptisimal date with him this week and we are thinkin god doing it the </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">same day for Go yumin it would be really awesome if everything works</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">out! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sunday was pretty normal we were able to go to church and learn a lot. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">We got to go the english sunday school class becasue we didnt have ny </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">investigators. it was really good. I love that we have an american </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">family! we also met with another new person it is actullay the son of</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">the lady we met on pday but he wasnt very interested so that was sad! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but it was a really good week i really love it here in Korea! Im </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">learning so much every day!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sister Thornley</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This was a very slow week here in Korea. Momday we had FHE. that is </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">always so much fun! i really do like it. the families that come are </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really awesome. We played a game and then there was FOOD!! I love that </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about Korea they always have food.. probaly not the best for my health </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but it makes me happy! haha there was homemaid bread and potatoes</span></div>
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again. they just eat potatoes as a snack here its so funny!! haha Tuesday we got to vist the Priedman family they are an american family that lives in our branch it was so fun I really have grown to love them. We made brownies for them and they were really happy they have two daughters by the way. they are a really strong family. when we</div>
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were there the mom asked what plans we had the night we told her just street contacting and then english class so she invited us to come back later adn eat left over enchalads with them so we decided to come back. it was so good to eat american food!! haha oh adn when we were</div>
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on the street we met sister hurley's first branch presisdent so he took us to get ice cream because it was really hot. Koreans are so giving!!! I love them. we also met a lady and taught a lesson and gave her a book of mormon in the first 15 minutes of being out there! it was so awesome! After we ate with the Priedman family they took us to english class and we had english vclass it was a really good time. I</div>
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had to share the message this week i talked about how we can all over come trials that we face. Wednesday we had district meeting and we were able to learn a lot! i</div>
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actually had to give a talk there too abouyt how we need to teach by the spirit i was able to share an experience i had at young woman's camp about pulling heavy things behind us up a hill and how "satin" tries to tell us we are strong enough to do it alone but the spirit it there quietly telling us the he can help. It turned out to be pretty good i was happy. adn it was really nice because everyone that was there was american to i didnt have to do it in korean! YES!! haha but aftert that we went to lunch and then came home and had amother dinner</div>
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appointment with a member adn the elders it was really good but i ate way too much food that day i actually go really sick from eating too much! then we walked home and did some teaching on the street it was good we were able to teach 2 lessons adn give one book of mormon. thursday we had srevice! so fun! i actually am feeling better about</div>
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helping there now it reminds me of work adn serving lunch to the old people there! haha after service we got to visit sister park Gehyun (taekwondo lady sorry i cant remeber how i spell their names in english so yeah haha) that was so good she is the sweetest lady ever!! i was able to get o know here a lot better this time so it was really good. then we got to meet with Sister Go Yoomem ( the college age girl that is really close to baptism) we met with her adn made a box for</div>
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her to put her book of mormon in! she is so cute i love her so much! it was really good to do that with her and get to know her a little better. she told us that she wont be able to meet this saturday and wont be able to come to church because of a family thing so that was sad but that she will be able to come in the future. friday we met with sister Kim yooneh she is a less active that has a hard time beliveing in God but we shared a scripture and watched the video that we shared in english class called the hopw of gods light it</div>
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was really good i hope she can improve this week! as we were walking to the bus stop we saw a store called paris baguette and we decided to go there to get dinner so we walked in and picked what we wanted and as we were checking out the lady that owned the shop asked</div>
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us why we are inkorea so we told her t hat we are missionaries and told her about what we do and we asked her if she has ever heard of the book of mormon she said no but we were able to teach her about it and give her one adn she said that she would read it adn that we should come back adn talk to her!!! it was so cool!! becsue honestly</div>
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we werent going to go insiide but then we did adn we were able to teach her!! then we came home and did weekly planning. Saturday we did more weekly planning adn then had english classs it was kind of hard because the elders werent there to help so we were really stressed about being able to teach but it went okay becasue there paul was there adn he helped us. ( paul is the boy that we met one day he came to english the next day adn then he came to church</div>
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Sunday was good we had church adn were able to fast. it was good. the branch president asked if we would be able to share our testimony in sacarament meeting so i shared my small testimony in korean and it actually went okay i was really nervous because i still dont like</div>
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talking in front of people but it was good! then we went home and did more weekly planning becasue we werent done yet then we weent out to the street to try adn teach some lessons it was a really slow night we</div>
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Oh adn today as we were coming to email we were able to teach a lesson adn give a lady a book of mormon and tell that we wanted to meet later! it was really good!</div>
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I love Korea!!!</div>
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ps the book of mormon challenge is really good i really like it. it takes a l lot of time but im learning so much</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">this grandma at the market today had a piece of lettuce on her head!!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: start;">super funny! only in Korea! :)</span></div>
</span></span>Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-42465627445914459072015-08-07T13:03:00.002-07:002015-08-07T13:03:04.695-07:00July 27, 2015<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Hello everyone!! this week was really hot here in Korea!! I have been sweating so bad! I am just really happy that my house and all of the houses we visit have AC and that the buses and cars have it as well! I Really am learing so much everyday! The Book of mormon challage is going good it takes so much time but i really am learning alot!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Monday was really good we had FHE and the same families came we played the candybar game that was s fun! it was kind of hard though becasuse it was with chopsticks! haha but i had fun! I had to give the message that was okay it was hard becuase i didnt have a lot of time to preapare s it wasnt the best! but i learned from it and wil prepare more next time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday we went to Hogey to meet with the new sisteres and turn over our investigatior from there to them. that was good she is such a fun lady she really opened up and shared her toughts. After that we had to hurry back because we had an appointment with a member adn the elders for lunch/dinner. The menber it sister Kim doknam the one that wrote the whole BoM in her journals! She fed us really good food. She made BBQ ribs and some other stuff that was really good but im not sure what it was called.haha we shared a message about the book of mormon and shared our favorite scripture. i decided i really need to worrk on my Korean because i coudnt tell her why i liked the scipture. but it wil come! after that we had english class that was good too. We had a good amount of people that came. We shared a mormon message that was really really good for the message. I think it heloped a lot of people! it was a video about a man that didnt believe in God at frist adn told baout how he came to believe in God. It was really good all of you shoulld watch it! its called "A hope of Gods Light"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday we had didrtict meeting. I always learn so much from it!! I really like the chance that we get each week to learn from other missionaries! after that we went on exchanges. Guess who had to stay in the area again...... yep me I had to stay and lead the area fro the second time! i guess they are just amkin gsure i can do it before sister Hurley leaves! haha but it was so good i went with Sister Hill adn she is such an amazing missionary!!! I learned so much from her! She was actually trained in this area so seh got to visit some of the people she taught before. We got to visit sister Park hyangme ( the artish that wants to be baptized but cant becasue of work opn sundays) that was really good we talked abiout the importance of having a strong foundation. it was really good. Sister hill was really happy to see her again! :) After that we went to another members house with the elders to have dinner. it was really godo too. it was meat and veggies that you wrap in lettuce. it was a good time. she also made homemaid bread with jam adn whipped cream! that was really good! haha </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Friday we had studay then went to visit sister Park from the other day that was so good to seee her agin becasue we havent been able to meet her for so long! seh is so cute i learn so much from her! it was cute becasue she asked me to pray at the end becuse "that is the only way that i will learn korean!" haha super cute! then she took us to dinner we had these little rice hamburger things. then we went and did some prosiliting it was good we actually met a less axtive sister there. she baugh all of us waffels. we planned ot meet with her again sometime. we havent been able to yet though.. :/</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">saturday we had a lesson with sister Go youmein the collage student she is so awesoem and still progressing please pray for her! we invited her to church again and she said she would come! yay! We also had english class we had a lot of new students that came! and we shared the same video as the message beacasuse everyone was new! then we went o dinner with the elders adn that took the rest of the nich becsue we had to set up for church adn wait for everyone to leave after english class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday was good we had PEC and cleaned then we waited for Sister Go to come. she was a little late but it was okay becsue she came and stayed for the whole time! it was really good we talked about baptism in class and she asked really good questions we told her that she doent need to know everything before she gets baptised adn she accepted that really well so we want to set a date this week. after church we went to hogey again for chiror practice that was fun we got to see some other missionaries. then we came home and did some BoM prosiliting withthe elders taht was so good~! we taught 4 lessons onthe streat and were able to give out 4 BoMs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today was a very relaxing day we spent like 2 hours studing the book of Mormom that was really good! but something fun today.. so when i woke up i looked at my right hand adn it was supper swollen!!! haha so i look like i got fat over nigh but just in my hand you can no longer see my knuckles!! haha yeah i think i got bit by a bug or somthing! hopefully it goes away soon!!</span></div>
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Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-53918553598388669192015-08-07T13:02:00.000-07:002015-08-07T13:02:05.341-07:00July 20, 2015<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Well this week was good. Yesterday at church one of the members said i </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">look like i could be half islander! haha it was really funny! but i </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">they think i have a litter darker skin! ha</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Monday i already told everyone about and i talked a little about </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">tuesday but the rest of tuesday was good. we had english class and was </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">able to talk in english with everyone that was good i learned more </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about korean culture and the differences in america and korea that was </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really fun! ha we had two new people come to english so hopefully they</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">will continue to come! :) </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wednesday was great! we went to kunch with the elders and their </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">investiagtor! that was really fun there was so much food as always! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">but it was relly good. we also when to see the lighhouse again that</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was really fun we were able to see some people fishing out on some </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">rocks surrounded by water! that was cool. ha wheen we were there we </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">asked some older men to take a picture of all of us and then after </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that the old men asked if they could get a picture with just me and </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sister Hurley so that was funny! sister hurley had a picture of it so </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">i will get a copy adn send it home some time! haha I got some really </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">fun pictures of the light house so i will try and send them home too! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">after that we had an appointment with sister Park hyangme she is the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">painter. that was a really different lesson it didnt really follow our </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">plan but we had planned to ask what she thinks about the book of </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">mormon and if she believes it to be Gods word so we asked that and she </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">said yes then we asked if she believes that our church is true and she </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">said yes again so we aksed if she would get baptized and she was like </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">right now?? we told her not right now that we would have to help her</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">prepare but she said yes that she would! that was really cool but then </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she had to go so we had to cut our lesson short and werent able to </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">continue.. :/ after our lesson with her we went and did some english </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">proseliting with the elders that was really good we were able to talk </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to a lot of people and get their information it was really good the </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">new elder in our area is really good he works really hard all the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">time! we also talked to a lot of foigners so that was fun! ha</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Thursday we had service and i just had to hand out the individual </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">yougurt cups so that was a lot less stressful so it was actually a </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">really good service day! haha but we ran out at the end so that made </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">it hard becasue they werent very happy! ha but hey it was still good. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">after service we went with sister Kim Surgee to get ice-cream stuff </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with the elders that was really good we were able to teach her a</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">lesson and talk about things that we do to overcome our chalanges. it </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was really good. then we went to another apointment with a less active </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sister adn gave her brownies that was okay it was kind of awkward </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">because ive never met her and sister hurley only met her one other</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">time but it was good she has two really cute little boys. It was good </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to meet with her and we want to meet with her again. Then we walked </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">home and talked to people as we were walking. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Friday we had district meeting that was so good we talked about the </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">book of Mormon and about how we can better use it. sister Hurley had </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to give a talk about it. she did relly good! ha Then we all went to </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">eat lunch together that was good too the people were really nice and </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">gave us a discound because missionaries fo to their restraunt a lot! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ha After districe meeting we met with Park Hyangme again (the painter) </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we taught english and then shared a message trying to prep her for </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">baptism but when we told her that she had to come to church at least 3 </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">times she said that she couldnt go becasue every sayurday and sunday </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she goes to Seoul to do an art workshop and that she wont be able to</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">come for another year and a half to two years..... so yeah that was </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hard. but we will continue working with her and hopefully she will see </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that she need to be baptized. but prayers would be helpful in her </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">behalf... After we met with her we came home and did weekly planning. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">that was good we were ale to get a lot done. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Saturday was really good we had full study time and then we were able </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to met with a member that was going to help us in our lesson with the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">collage students. It was good we had planned to talk about Christs </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Atonement and the blessings that we recieve from it. Only one sister </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">was able to come agian it was sister Goyumin she is so awesome she </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">still has so many questions and wants to learn more about our church!</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she was asking if we could teach the commandments so that she knows </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">when she sins and needs to repent. so we are planning on teaching them </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so her this week but she is really awesome. in the lesson she asked us</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">about church we explained it to her and she was really interested so </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">we told her that if she waanted to learn more than she would come but </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">at the time she didnt say yes or no but them we went to english class </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">with her and at the end she asked about church and said that she woudl</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">come!!! so that was really good we were really happy adn hoped that </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">she would follow through with it.</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sunday we were really hoping that Sister Goyumin would be there. we </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">sent her a test before and she said that she was planning on coming. </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so we were really happy! and Guess what she came!!!!!! Yay!!! she is </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">so aweosme She came and stayed for the whole time. She really liked it</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">and was glad that she could learn more. we were able to teach the law </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of tithing and she was really accepting and liked that we paid it </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">privetly. she thinks that our church just makes sence to her so </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">hopefully she will continue to progress. She is just amazing! After </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">church we finished weekly planning and then went and did Book of </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Mormon prosiliting with the elders that was really good we were able </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">to teach lessons and hand out a lot of book of mormons! </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Today has been good we planned to go to the bamboo forest and ride</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">bikes with a lot of the missionaries in the zone but it was raining so </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">when we go thtere they wouldnt let us but we still went anf had a lot </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">of fun! I really love being in Korea. Im learning so much everyday! I </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">am having a lot of learning ezperiences. I also really like the Book</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Of Mormon challange im learning so much from that. It takes a lot of </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">time but its really good! I love serving the Lord and doing his </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">work!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Sister Thornley</span></span>Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-20568669042616294012015-07-14T06:53:00.003-07:002015-07-14T06:53:26.681-07:00I've been in KOREA for 6 weeks!!<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">hello everyone!! this has been a very good week. ive learned a lot from being here! so the week started off really good with FHE we had one family there they are so amazing we played games and then ate food! they had boiled potatoes just as a snack!! Awesome right!! haha korea is great! there was a lot of food! Tuesday we had a lunch appointment with a menber. Sister Kim Doknam she is the most amazing woman ever!! she fed us really good food and loves to sing she sang us a song just as we were eating lunch! it was great then we talked about her sonversion story adn how her husband was inactive for like 20 years adn the whole time she went to church on her own wioht her two twin boys. And now she has a lot of time so she gets so study the gospel a lot. she showed us one of the ways she studied... wait for it because its so cool!!!!.... she hand wrote the entire book of mormon (in Korean)!!!!! she has like 5 huge notbooks that she wrot e down all of it! It took her 2 years to finish but she did it!! cool right! now she wants to start on the new testament!! i love this woman what an inspiring person i would never do that but its awesomne that she was able to do that fo rher study! after we met with her we went to the church to have interviews wiht president barrow. that was so amaxzing he is a very amazing man i was able to learn so much from him. He was able to helo me so much. after that we had english class that was fun when we were supposed to start there was only one person there and his enlish was already perfect! but then one sister showed up adn was going to just get the paper adn leave because nopone was there but then another person came so she decided to stay then one more person cane so we had 4 students and 4 missionaries! haha there wasnt that many people becasue it was raining really hard! darn! but after that we were able to have a lesson with sister kim surgee and answer the questions she had about the book of mormon. she read all the way to chapter 8!! she is so amazing! Wednesday we had study adn met the lee family that we teach english to with the boy the girl and the dad,. we only taught english to the boy because the girl doesnt like us anymore! oops but we had the elders there an dit was a really fun lesson we played games and then shared the restoration with them the dad wasnt open to very much of it but the boy was very happy when we gave to book of mormon to him he was looking though it like it was christmas!! it was so cute! then we walked home in the rain adn talked to people. we met to older ladies that were budist btu one had a son that might come to english class!1 yay Thurday we had sevice that is still stressfull becasue i cant understand if they wasnt more food or less but i survived. after we ate the food it was good again so i was happy! i tried crab for the first time! then we met with Kim surgee and a member to teach her the importance of the restoration adn why it was needed. it was a really good lesson she is so accepting of the gospel and of all the things we teach her. i really hope that she can continue learning! then we had a dinner apointment with the branch presidents wife with the elders that was a really good dinner we had a lot of fun adn were abel to help her see the importance of service. it was a good time! today was also tranfer call night... im staying in my area with sister hurley! YAY!!!! Firday we had to appointments planned but one fell though so we just had one with Sister Kang yangme she is so funny she likes to talk adn talked to us about how to be a good parent. i learned a lot form her but it was a hard lesson becasue anytime we tried to bring in the lesson she would just say that she wanted to take us to the beach or change the topic. but we will only met her one more time because the area she lives in is getting new sisters this transfer so we will give her to them. after we met with her we came home and deep cleaned our house. Saturday we had a lesson with Sister Go yoomeen the collage student( her friend couldnt come) but it was a really good lesson we had a member there that was ale to help expalin the questions she had and help us with the lesson. THis member is really awesome His name is Joseph he lived in america for a long time so his english is really good. he actually feels betterspaking english than korean! haha but we taught anout the plan of salvation and were able to get through all of it because she had questions about the rest so we were able to help her with that. she is progressing so good. Ive really learned a lot from meeting with her! We ahd the member invite her to church but she said it she had tiem she would come. after that we had english class that was good. I was still in advanced because i dont have to be realy good at korean! haha after english there was a fireside that we go to go to. it was really good it was a familyt aht the dad sang and the 3 daughters played the violin adn the mom played the piano it was really good there was a lot of people there ane the missionaries brought investigatiors we tried to get someone there but they all had other plans so that was sad. after they had food!!! that is a very korean thing to always have food! haha its great! but sometimes its not very good! :/ Sunday we had pec adn church. then we had a dinner apointment with the smallwood family! they are so fun! the father is half koreaan the mom is korean adn they have two little boys . the husbands Korean mom was there too bu thsh lives in amaerica. They all have really good english so that was good! the elders came too that was a realy good dinner. the Husbands mom made a cheese ball and crackers so it felt lik i was home!!! haha then we shared a message adn brownies that we made it was a really godo time i love that famly!!! we ahd to walk to the bus stop after and it was rainign so hard!!!! adn it was super windy!! but it was fun. we found out later that it was a typhoon! I can see why kimberly liked them so much they are really cool! haha so much water!! i was so wet when we got home it was a good day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">monday was transfers!! so we left outr house super early and went to busan. we go there and had a really good meeting. Presisdent Barrow chalanged the whole misison to read the Book of mOrmon in our native language cover to cover this transfer!!! adn he gave each of us a new book of mormon and told us to mark anything about Jesus Christ. it will be so awesome!! i am so excited! After that we went to lkunch with a lot of the missionaries and then went back to have a meeting iwht president and sister barrow about how traing is and allof that stuf it was a really good day. then we came back home adn had FHE again with the same family adn another one it was so fun! they had food again! we also got a new elder in our area the other elder went to be AP so thats awesome it was a reallygood day i learned alot. I loeve my mision and everything about it! Im excited to read the Book of Mormon this fast. I think i will learn so much! I love you all adn hope everything is going good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ps sorry for the mistakes in spelling!!!</span></div>
Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-17199174563651238052015-07-14T06:51:00.001-07:002015-07-14T06:51:39.630-07:00July 6, 2015<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">This week was once again very busy! I think that will be a very common thing in missionary work! monday we had pday wich is always good. we also had family home evening that was really good we had a lot of people show up so that made it better we played games and ate cookies and orange juice. Koreans really love giving food. ive been told that to show their love they give you food so we are very loved becasue we get a lot of food! its great! they give us a lot of rice cake!! tuesday we had a lesson with Sister Kang she is a very interesting person she likes to party. She told us that sometimes you have to hit people to have them do what you want of somthing like that. she also doesnt like when we give "homework" so its hard to help her faith progress because she wont do her part to progress. after we met with her we had english class. that was good we had a good amount of people there. We like it when we have a lot of people. mothiong to big happened but it was good. wednesday was a really good day! first we had district meeting. we had district meeting on the beach!!! aweesome right! we went to a place that had a lot of really big rocks and you could walk on a bridge and over to another big rock so we all went over there and had our meeting on the rocks looking out to the ocean! that was really cool! while we were there some koreans were taking oictures of us sitting on the rock! it was really funny but really awkward at the same time! haha we also ate watermellon and took pictures. It was really pretty becasue there were a lot of big boats that would pass as they went to the port. after that we came back to our area and make cookies to take to a less active. We went to visit her adn it was like a 30 minute walk but as we were walking we met a really nice lady that was going there too so we walked with her the whole way and talked with her. The less active wasn home so so we left thinking we went there for nothing but as we werer leaving a man stopped us and asked if we teach english. we told him yes. then he asked hoe much it costs we said free. he didnt believe us so we expalined that we are missionaries and as one of our ways of service it to teach enlish and share a message. he wanted us to teach his two children english a boy and a girl. so we got his information and set up a time to meet. he is christrian but he made it very clear that he had a religion. it was just a very cool experience. especially becasue he was the one that stopped us first. then as we were walking home we met another lady that was awesome and might come to english class but she didnt like the fact that we were a church.. so we will see.. we also met a really creepy man that tried to give us a ride home on his bike or take us to coffee he was kind of scary. but we were okay. Thursday we had service and met another less active sister. She is a really great sister her name is siter Kim yooneh but she has a hard time feelign the spirit so its hard to met with her. shehasnt mad eany progress in the time that weve met so we are ging to met her less from now on and hopefully she will progress another time. We also met the family that we met on wednesday. they are such a cute family!! the boy is 12 and the girl is 10 they are so fun. We learned about their religious background and that they like church adn taught them how to pray. Friday we had study ane met with Sister Park HangMe. She is so fun i love her! she is an artist adn likes to paint animals in peoples houses she gave us a pamplet with pictures of her art so that will be fun to have to remember her by. Then we did weekly planning. That takes so much time to plan for everyone! but its good. Saturday we had study adn met with the two collage students they are doing so good they are very interested in our church adn learing everything they can I learn so much from teaching them! I really hope that they continue to progress as much as they are. then we had english class i was with the advanced there was so many people there that day!! it was a lot harder to teach becuse i had to try adn give all of them chances to speak enlish. but it was good. After english class we planned ot meet with Sister Kim SurGee but she culdnt met :/ this is the sister that came to english class two times then told us abotu how she had a dream about god talkign to her. After we met with her adn gave her the book of mormon we hadnt met with her but we had checked on her often one day we talked ot her and she said that she had been reading a chapter a day in the book of Mormon so we wanted to meet with her because she had a lot of question she wanted to ask us but she wasnt abotu to met so that was really sad. but we also go t to met with the family again the boy is super excited whrn we shared the message but the dad adn the girl werent very happy but it was okay. we had to meet wtih the elders because there wasnt an adult female btu that was good they are awesome elders. sunday we had church and did more weekly planning then we met iwth Joan she is the chinese sister. she is hard to met with because her korean isnt very good and she doesnt understasnd when we talk abou the gospel but we gave a chinese book of mornon so hopefully she will read it and understand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really love korea and all of the people here i am learnign so much everyday. the language is comming slowly but good. I can understand a lot better than speak so i need soem work still. I love my mission!</span></div>
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This is the place we had district meeting</div>
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The bridge to the rock</div>
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Climbing huge stairs to the top of the mountain on pday</div>
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My lunch</div>
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Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-29836827994673508032015-06-29T08:29:00.001-07:002015-06-29T08:29:38.784-07:00June 29, 2015 <div dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">wow! this week was very busy it went by so fast!! monday we just had a relaxing day and got random stuff done. on tuesday we went on exchanges and i had to stay in my area and lead the other sister to our appointment adn to the church and home so i was really stressed and worried that we were going to get lost but i was abkle to do it!! YAY we didnt get lost or get ont he wrong bus so i was really happy abotu that! we had a really good lesson with a lessactive sister she is really great adn wants to feel the spirt but she hasnt made the effort to feel it so she hasnt felt the feeling s she wants so its hard to continue to teach her. after meeting with her we came back to the church adn had english class that is always fun! we had two new peopel some so thats good! i wish that i new more Korean so that i could actually help them more. but its all good it will come with time! Then the next day we had district meeting in my srea so i was able to find our way to the church adn we switched back to our mormal companions that was actually really nice beacue then i didnt have as much pressure. district meeting was really good! i always learn so much from it! its good becasue i get to practice listening to koeran and being able to learn more about the gospel this week we talked about testimonies adn the importance of sharign it often adn that its okay if its just a simple testimony in korean because that will be powerful to them. so that was really good! we also ate lluch together. that food was actually good too! it slowly getting better! After that we had a lesson that we had to hurry to so we went to that adn it was good this sister is super interested in the premortal life and has tons of questions about it so its kinf of hard to teahc her. but it was good. then we went and had ice cream with the sister that came to english class adn then became a really awesoem investigator (siter Kim SurGee) she is really awesome she is the one that just started to believe in god and now she wants to leasrn more about him. so yeah she is really great we were able to have icecream with her and a member thats her age adn they became really good friends we werent able to share a message but ti was okay becasue we go tto know her more adn tell her more about what we do as missionaries. she is super awesome i will talkd more about her later. thursday we had service. that was kind of hard becasue i had to serve the lettuce stuff adn the lady in charge wanted me to give more but then the people would tell me less so i had to find an in the middle place but it was hjard becasue i couldn tunderstand them very well. but it was good. we were abel to eat there as well so thats nice it was good food. i dont remeber what it was but it was good! haha then we had dinner with a member at a relly nice restraunt! we ahd some really good food that was vietnamese or somthing and it wa like rice paper that you put in water and then filled it with meat and vegatables then wraped it up adn ate it! that was really good! then we went and did some 전더 or steet prosiliting. that is fun btu wit was kind of hard to talk to people because it was raining pretty good adn they all had their umbrellas and didnt want to talk to us! but it was still good! Friday we had study adn then we had a lesson withthe same sister that is really interested in the pre earth life. (sister park) that was good then we met with sister Kim again the one from earlier. this time we talked to her abotu the book of mormon and were able to introduce here to that adn tell her that jospeh smith had a similar experience to her. she was really touched by it adn said that she felt really hppey hearing this so we were able to talk about the spirit. it was a realy good lesson! she didnt understand at first that the BOM we had was for her so she was like i need to go buy one of these books! so super awesome! saturday we had study adn english that is so fun i dont even rember what happened though! haha it wa a good day! sunday was also good church is hard though because i cont understand very much so its hard to focus but i did feel the spirti adn learn some new things! then we had dinner at a members house with the elders. this meber is so sweet! Sister Lee she fed us a really different dinner!! it was a wholw small chicen to ourself!!! so there was just a chicken in my own personal bowl and i was supposed to eat it all!! that was very different! haha but it was really good! so i was glad! we shared a message with her but int he middle her son came in and started to cry on her lap so apparently she was talking about how she fel that she was a bad mother and all of the stress of hsaving so many kids(she has like 6 boys mostlly adopted) but she satred to cry and then at the end the elders ased if we could pray fo rher family adn asked who she wanted to say the prayer and sh chose me adn i had no idea waht the pobelm was but i just said a vey simple prayer but it i know that she will be given strength. she is amazing becasue as i was sitting there not understandign i though to myself what an amazing mother she was just becasue of the way she was helping her son. It was a very touchign situation. I really had a good week! Im still loving korea and everting about missionary work even though its hard at times! this week with be very busy as well! im learnign so much everyday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">oh quick story when on exchanges we were on the bus and a motorcyle cut the bus off like three times so the bus driver yelled at him in korean telling him to pull over then when they met uo they just went off on each other about it i honestly thought that the bus driver was going to get out of the bus adn start a fight! haha it was just funny!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">once again sorry for all the spelling mistakes! there isnt autocorrect for english here so i cant see the mistakes very easy! ha</span></div>
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Alicia Thornleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17502142936071182915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3947905111468069065.post-12346560577264243302015-06-29T08:28:00.003-07:002015-06-29T08:28:39.611-07:00We are so busy!!! (June 22, 2015)<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: large;">wow we are so busy here in korea!! There are so many pople that we are teaching and working with! We have a full schedule every week!! I have really learned alot form the time ive been here! I am starting to adjust to the difference in culture but it will still take time!! I have had to eat some pretty weird things. yeaterday at the branch dinner we had raw fish.... yeah that was not my favortite thing ever!! it was also really hard ot eat it because there was a lot of lettuce that felt wierd in my mouth it was srachy!! ha but to add to that it was really spicy!!! but i tried my best to eat it.. but they were good aboout understanding that i wasnt used to the food so they didnt make me eat it all. i was very thankfull.. Im going to have to get a bigger stomach to be able to fit all the food they give us! but that doesnt man that im going to get fat!! haha that wont happen!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So last tuesday we had a lesson with a less active. she was great!! I really like meeting iwth her partly becasue she speaks english so i can understand it all!! haha btut she isnt making very much progress so its sad.. :( hopefully when we meet her this week she will progress so we can keep meeting her! them we had english class. that is always fun! we had a new sister there that day adn she is really awesome!! her name is kim surgee. i will talkd more about her later! Wedensday we had districh meeting and that was really good. I learned a lot from that. we have a lot of really good people that we can learn from. Then we came hone and didi some studding and went and visited a previous investigatior that we havent seen in a while. Thurday we had sudy adn service actuvity! That is so much fun we serve food to the old people that come there. I go tto clear the dirty plates and help them get food if they needed it. That was kind of hard becasuse i cant understnd them all the way so i cant really tell what they want. i had to try Squid after service that was actually pretty good. it was in a sauce that made it tsster better. so that was one way that it seems that the food is getting better! YAY! haha then we went and visited a less active again that lived really far away!! That was an interesting visit! she is mongolian and her husband is Korean. She has astogn testimony but she doesnt like soming to church so thats hard. she is actully taking a trip to new york to see the temple there adn to see america and canada. After our visit she drove uis to the bus stop but as she was backing up she bumped into a parked car!! so yeah i ave been in an accident on my mission. haha she was funny about it because she was like its just a scratch adn drove away!! then after we go to the buss stop we got on the wrong buss it was going the opposite way from where we live so we had ot get off in the middle of nowhere and get a taxi home! yeah that was kind of crazy! we talked to the drover aboout the BOM and gave him one he was in interesting person so it would be cool if he looked at the book of mormon and became in investigatior! Friday we had sudy and then we went to lunch at a menbers house and shared a message with them. The food there was really good as well so that is another sign that im being blessed with that! YAY! Then we had an appointment with a sister that is really good about keeping our commitments and is really interested in the pre earth life she is very good i like her alot! Saturday we had a really good lesson with a member present we taugh one of the callege students that has a lot of questions. she is still doing really well we had her read alma 32 about faith and the seed adn she was able to read and understand it really well she explainded it back to us really good so that it really awesome! She said that she has planetd the seed in her heart and that is is startign to grow!! YAY!! we asked if she would come to church but she said maybe next month so hopfully we can get her there soon!! then we had english class agian!! That was awesome the sister that came on tuesday came again! she is SO AWESOME!!! She recently started to believe in god because she said she had a dream where she talked to him! so she believes in God and wants to know more about him adn how he can help her life. she really is prepared to hear our message. we invited her to the dinner on sunday and she actyually came!!!! she was welcomed by the members and we told her about the BOM and set up a paln to meet with her and to 30 mintutes od enlish practice and 30 min of a lesson so that will be aweosme!! She is very prepared adn im excited ot meet her more! I love here already. I lready talekd baout sunday so yep thats my week I really like it here in Korea im learning so much everyday!! Its starting to get really hot here!! so thats always fun! We are very busy and are doign really well. Oh this week we are having exchanges adn i am staying here in my area and having to lead the STL so that will be crazy but i can do it! Missionary work is awesome! Thats all this week!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ps sorry for the miss spelt words!!</span></div>
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