Well you are probably wondering
why I am writing this email so late today....well probably not because you
always get it in the morning anyways...today and the next 2 days will be pretty
hectic.
So Elder Yun has his military reserve exercise thingy; he had it today
and the next 2 days. Today I stayed with a member that just got back from his
mission 2 months ago, I chilled in his house all day with him and his parents.
I made a cover for my planner; it’s pretty cool, its Mickey and Minnie Mouse. I
also drew a little, slept a little. That was about 6 hours of my day. Then me
and the recently returned missionary (brother "Lee") went to a Korean
market, this is like the traditional Korean thing. Not like the lotte mart or
emart that they have here (like Wal-Mart things). This market is open every 5
days, and Elder Yun said I was lucky to go because it’s like never open on Pday!
Well this market was awesome! It was huge!!!!! There were lots of different
things being sold. Lots of fruit, vegetables, animals, clothes, trinkets,
gardening stuff, etc.. I have some pictures if I have time I will attach. Otherwise
it’ll have to wait till next week. I mainly took picture of the cute animals
that they sold there....ha-ha.
We have to go to Seogwipo tonight because I will be
doing missionary work with the elders there for the next 2 days while Elder Yun
goes to his military thing. It should be fun, different but fun. Apparently they’re
doing service tomorrow in one of the members orange orchard.
So this past week went by really fast. We had like
5 dinners/lunch with members this past week which was awesome. The members are
getting better at feeding us;) we just need them to do missionary work
now...actually one young family (the brother born in Korea raised in America
and now living in Korea with his Korean wife, he speaks like only English and
very broken Korean) they gave us a referral and we were able to contact that
referral and meet with him! We think he might be a new investigator! He seemed
interested in what we have to teach. We also met with another guy that Elder Yun
met last transfer before I came. He’s like 80 years old and is a North Korean
that was put in a war prison during the Korean war or something and has been in South Korea ever since. Well when we met with him we brought book of Mormons in
English and Japanese because he can speak English and Japanese (we didn’t give
him a Korean one because he can read Japanese just fine....he said he didn’t
want it..ha-ha) but he seemed very interested in it, and was pretty accepting
to it being another testament of Jesus Christ! We will meet with him again
later this week so hopefully the Spirit can really work on his heart.
I didn’t have time to grab my journal before coming
here from the member’s house so I don’t remember much from the rest of my week.
One thing happened yesterday that I do remember. We were eating dinner at the
branch president’s house and.......he let me play his trumpet!!!!!!!! It's been
3 months since I have played, and that was terrible. I sounded so bad. ha-ha
but he was really impressed. He let me take the trumpet with me so I could
bring it to the church and leave it at the church so if I wanted I could play on
Pdays. That’s exciting!
Korean is getting better little by little, I
understand a tiny bit more every day. I'm trying to talk more and more every
day and I actually like talking. It's still hard to talk to other people
because I don’t have much conversation skills and vocabulary and because I don’t
understand. But its soo fun! I can’t wait till I can speak and understand
better! It’s amazing how far I’ve come in the past 3 months, and I know that if
it weren’t for the Lord, I would still be pretty much nowhere. I owe it all to
Him. Always turn to the Lord and he will provide.
Sorry it’s so short this week; don’t
have too much fun without me ;)
Love,
Elder Frampton
