Hi Mom!
Sounds like things are going well back home. I can't believe the blizzard season has started already! Korea is starting to get really cold. I'm so glad to have my warm coat! It's still cold, but it makes it so much better! Tell Casey congrats on his new job. That's awesome! I can't believe Chris had his last Primary program. That's nuts! I'm sure Brooke will be amazing once again in the Nutcracker. And I heard you're going to Grandma and Grandpa's house for Thanksgiving. That will be so much fun!

This week, once again, went by really fast! We got to visit Soon-Young Yong for the first time at her apartment and met her mom. She was really sweet! She is very old and can't leave her house very much. We were also excited to introduce Soon-Young to two single members her age in Youngdo, our other branch, and a new investigator. We all ate dinner together with the elders. It was great! Soon-Young discovered she was the same age as Mi-Young Go, one of the members. That means they're "chingu" (friends). Finding out someone is a chingu is very big and they hit it off great! Soon-Young also came to church yesterday. We hope she will be able to come to a special stake conference next Sunday. The Church put together a special broadcast for members in Asia. We hope they'll have an English room for the missionaries!
We also had dinner this week with a less active member in Youngdo, Sis. Harrison. She is Korean but her husband is American. I was on splits at the time- Sister So-Young Lee came with me. We had a wonderful experience talking to Sister Harrison and hope that she will decide to come out to church soon.

Yesterday we had two shiksas (meal invitations)! We had lunch with a counselor in the Daeshin branch and his family. I didn't think I could eat any more food... but we had to eat more that night at a shiksa of a Youngdo branch member's house! She served...get this...bosheentong. That probably means nothing to you, but to me that means DOG SOUP! Seriously. Fortunately, I avoid eating meat, so I didn't have to eat it. But my companion and the elders did! When I told the member that I couldn't eat the dogmeat, she said okay. Then she came out with a bowl of the broth! So I had some dogmeat soup broth. Didn't think I would ever say that!

We are going to have a big zone conference on Thanksgiving Day and a member of the seventy, Elder Choi (he's Korean) is going to speak to us! We're really excited, especially because Sister Jennings, our mission president's wife, is going to make Thanksgiving dinner! It'll be great.It's starting to get pretty cold in Korea but the work is still going well! We love our branches and the people we teach.

Love you! Hope you have a great week! Thank you for everything!
P.S. Dad, do you know someone named Blake Young? He served in the Busan mission in 1979-81 (maybe) and is the bishop (in Ogden) of an elder I serve with (Elder Mikkelsen). Let me know!
Love,Alyssa