Tuesday, January 27,2009
As for other things... I'm in my third week at the MTC! I feel like I've been here forever! Our two week mark is tomorrow. Dad, everyone who knows that I'm serving in the same mission as you thinks that's awesome. I'll write home to you in Korean soon (at least a few sentences), but like you said, it's hard to do that on the computer! It takes a while for things I learn to sink in. I usually have to practice it over and over again before it finally occurs to me how to use my newfound wisdom. I can't remember how French was when I started learning it (that was 7 years ago!), but it definitely wasn't as hard as this! Everyone in our zone is really excited because they closed the MTC in Korea (okay, I'm going somewhere with this), so all the Korean missionaries are coming here for three weeks before heading back to Korea! I think there are about ten, and the missionaries who have been here 8 weeks are acting like their hosts. It's funny because the American missionaries are trying out what they know about Korean customs (like shaking hands with two hands out), while the Koreans are trying out American customs (shaking just one hand). Speaking of shaking hands, we tried to shake an "investigator's" hand at the TRC on Saturday and he laughed and wouldn't do it. Turns out, Sister Copeland, our fount of Korean knowledge (her mom is Korean), forgot that women DO NOT touch men in Korea! Oops! But the really funny part is that Brother Keel, the pretend investigator we taught, is the brother of my home teacher last winter. Isn't that funny? They both go by their last name (Keel) so it's a little confusing. I knew Keel, my home teacher, was from Korea, but I hadn't seen him in ages. It was great seeing his brother at the TRC! He introduced me to an elder in the zone that he lived with during fall semester. I'm always running into people I know. It's really funny. It's weird that at the end of the day, the people I know that work at the MTC go home to their real lives and I stay here. But that's okay! I chose to live without the real world, right? I'm here to learn how to teach the gospel. AND to learn Korean. That's the really hard part!Ai-yi-yi-,I have so much more to write but I'm late for Choir practice. Love you mucho and I'll write next week!