I get to go to Busan tonight again!!! Tomorrow (Tuesday)
there is a training meeting for all missionaries being trained and training.
Unfortunately Elder Yun has been to 3 training meetings in the past and
president doesn't feel like spending the money to fly him there and back so I
will be going solo....that’s a whole 1.5 hours that I will be away from a
companion! Scary! I'm super excited though because I get to see the rest of the
missionaries that came out with me!
So I will tell you about the trip to
Busan last week.....quite the adventure. It is about 1 hour total of travel
time to Busan, counting take-off and landing, 35 minutes of flight time. We
flew to Busan and the office Elders picked us up and we went to the mission
office. We stayed the night there, and let me tell you, I didn’t sleep very
well. In Busan it is a lot cooler than Jeju, so at night we had air conditioning
and because we weren’t used to that when sleeping or anything, I frozzzzze at
night! The next day we drove an hour to Ulsan which is where the meeting was
being held. I got to see my zone (because it was zone conference)! At the
beginning of the meeting Sister Gilbert made some announcements including one
about a 24 hour bug going around......when she made this announcement I think I
missed it. During the second session of conference (we had 2 sessions, 2 hours,
1 hour lunch, and then another 2 hours.) I started to feel sick in the stomach,
headache, and bad chills. I talked to Sister Gilbert and she had said I caught
the bug! This just goes to show that being isolated on an island can have some
effects on you, or protects you;) I was pretty miserable on the flight back (which
was 3 hours after the conference ended) and then also that night and the next
morning. I was all better by the next night.
So pretty miraculous thing happened this week! Saturdays at
5 we have English class. We usually meet up with the sisters an hour before to
prepare for it. This past Saturday we were busy setting up for English class
when I heard a noise from the hallway. When I went out to look to see what it
was, it was some random guy! He came to our church wondering who we were and
what we were all about. We then taught him for about 40 minutes a little
introduction to the church, gave him a Book of Mormon and some pamphlets and
the he left. One thing we talked about was the Sabbath day, he asked us what we
believe about it and Elder Yun was able to answer because we discussed it that
morning! Let me tell you more about that, Elder Yun and I were discussing it a
few days before and we stopped after we couldn’t find out more about why we
have the Sabbath on Sunday. Well Saturday morning we were studying and I was
looking up something in the bible dictionary and I randomly remembered about
how we were talking about the Sabbath. I looked it up and found an answer. I'm
sure it was the spirit that reminded me about it because the Lord knew that guy
would come today and ask about it........................--------because the
conversation was all in Korean and I still don’t understand a lot, Elder Yun
told me about his background that he found out. The guy said he is from the
mainland and is moving to Jeju sometime soon. He was in Jeju right now looking
around for a place to move into (hopefully he moves to somewhere around Jeju
city rather than Seogwipo so we can teach him if that time comes anytime soon;)
). But that day, Saturday, he was at a park that is on the opposite side of the
street from our church and he was walking on the trail thing that is there. He
said as he was walking he saw our church and was interested to find out about
it because he never saw our church before. So he grabbed his things and walked
over and wandered in, which was when I saw him in the hall. If anything results
from this experience I will be sure to tell you how it goes!
Last thing, pday today! I owe it to the Brain for the idea.
drumroll please-------------------------------------we went to the Ripley's Museum!!!!!!!
It was super awesome, way better than the one we went to in Williamsburg or wherever
that was. Apparently there are 32 in the world and it is number 32, aka the
newest one. It was pretty big and they had a lot of cool things. I will send 3
pictures again of it. (I only ever send 3 because that’s all that fits in an
email and I don’t know how to make them smaller file size)
That's all for this week!
Love,
Elder Frampton
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