Monday, No, 2, 2009
Hi everyone!
I'm SO excited to meet Puujee's cousin when she comes in January. Do you know her name? I knew that two sister missionaries were coming in January but I thought they were American. They don't have Halloween in Korea, but because of English academies, some children at least get some exposure to the idea of it. A member in the Youngdo branch runs an academy, so we helped her students trick or treat at some stores one night last week. It was really cute to see all the kids dressed up! On October 31, the Youngdo branch had a party, but it was just a coincidence that it happened to be the same day. It was a lot of fun! They wanted us, the missionaries, to prepare a really fun activity to show everyone. We got an idea from Elder (June-Woo) Jung to dress up like we were doing headstands and dance to the hokey-pokey. So we wore pants over our heads and sweatshirts on our legs with shoes on our hands and toe socks on our feet. We blew up balloons to stick in the hoods and be our "heads". Sounds confusing, right? It definitely was! With pants over our heads, we couldn't really tell what we were doing, and the members didn't understand the English in "hokey-pokey", so I'm sure they were bewildered by us. But it was fun because now we're just those crazy American missionaries (plus Elder Chun-Joon Lee)!! We're having a Halloween party in the Goejong branch tonight for their Family Home Evening group they have, so we're excited about that. The elders tried to make a pinata for the random candy we got, so I'm a little worried that the members are really going to get confused about Halloween! One of the Korean elders asked if they needed to buy Halloween presents for the party! We told them no, but just imagine. We could make it whatever want!
Anyway, I have to go, but I'm excited about this week! Sister Beckstead and I have lined up some appointments with less active members and potential investigators. And hopefully Su-hyun can get baptized on Sunday! It'll be a good week.
I love you all! Have a great week!
Alyssa