So I am officially in my new area!! 부평(boo-piong) It is a big city in Incheon. It’s about 50 min from Incheon airport. So I pretty much started form the east of our mission and ended up on the west side. Kind of a fun! My companion is Sister Holmes and she has been here for about 3 months now. She is from Pennsylvania and likes to sing and she is a super reader. She finished the bible last week.... uhh ha-ha I’m a little behind. She’s cool and we get along real well. She is so great at stepping out of her comfort zone and trying new things, besides the fishy food ha-ha but I don’t blame her. Some of it can be a bit scary. I appreciate her desire to keep trying and not fearing anything. That is something I need, so I am learning a lot from her, especially stories in the bible :) We live with another companionship and they are great too, we all seem to work well and get along. So.. the house we live in used to be the mansion of the mission so it is super nice.. real wood floors!! Anyways, it is fun over here and the people are very nice to us. Hey guess what, we met the girl who I met on the subway that wanted to meet while I was living somewhere else. Remember her?? Her name is 이연억(Sister Lee). She is having a hard time with her family especially her son who is 20 and doesn’t have a good relationship with his mom and lots of personal problems. She wants us to help her and we plan to meet with her shortly. We gave her a proclamation to the Family and shared a message about how we can overcome our challenges through Christ and his gospel. It was a good meeting and she wants to meet again, but for now we are fellowshipping her because her husband doesn’t like church people too much.

It was hard leaving my last area, the members were amazing and we really grew to love each other.  I got some tips from sister Rose about this area because this was her last area, but to be honest, she scared me and pretty much said you can’t be yourself. I was kind of stressing this past Saturday because I had no idea what I was walking into and I didn’t know how I was supposed to act. I loved my last ward because the ward loved who I was and we all were comfortable with being ourselves and being hard working missionaries at the same time and willing to help the ward. But as I got to know the members of bupiong ward, they were amazing! Everyone was happy and I felt relaxed after meeting some members and meeting the bishop. And the best part was, I GOT TO BE MYSELF!!!  Some people said that the bishop can be very hard to work with, but as I was myself around him and expressed myself freely, he wasn’t bothered at all and at that moment I felt relaxed. I know that I am a representative of Jesus Christ and that I’m a missionary and I need to work hard and be diligent, BUT IT DOESN’T MEAN I CAN’T BE MYSELF!!  Sister Holmes and I were talking about this and how we are all sent to places for a specific reason and for who we are. If I hide who I am then I am living a lie!

I am happy

I am hungry

I am half Asian

I am obsessed with mike wazowski

I am a missionary

I am a daughter of God

I am a Mormon!!!!!!!

And another miracle, Joy Lee’s dad works around this area!! The missionaries have seen him !!! I am going to try and find her dad (he sells cultural Korean items) and talk to him and keep in contact!! It’s insane how small of a world this is. A lady in my new ward knows someone named Eric Olsen form Las Flores ward. They served in deajeon mission.  I know the Church of Jesus Christ is true and that Christ lives!! He is here and everywhere!!

I love you!

Our House.  We don't have a table but we have accepted the Korean way and eat on the floor

My desk is on the right

another investigator bought us an icecream cake korean style form Baskin Robbins!!

I will be greenie breaking!

Transfer calls!! sooo I’m leaving sanbon! I had a wonderful time with Sister Rose and I’ll be going to Incheon with sister Holmes! I will be greenie breaking! It will be fun and it’s a really big city. Funny thing, that was Sister Rose's greenie area so she is giving me all the tips of the area, the members, potential investigators and so on. I think that’s why president is sending me there. It will be an adventure for sure. Sister Holmes is from Pennsylvania and I hear she’s a funny character! And I’ll be moving into a four sister house. It will be a different experience from what I’ve done before but I’m ready for the challenge. Change is Good!!! 

I’m sad to leave this area, I felt like I really connected with the members, maybe because they kind of have an American feel to them and they have very outgoing members and leaders. I really appreciated their help and support for wanting to help the members become more united and do activities together. We did a dancing activity and Elder Baldwin taught the relief society sisters how to do the chachacha! We have been asked by the leaders and mission president to do whatever the bishop has asked us to do because WE ARE WARD AND STAKE BUILDERS! So we were included in this activity and these activities have really helped the ward come together as a ward family and not just people they see on Sunday mornings. We are also having a ward FHE tonight/going away party for the missionaries. Myself and Elder Stowe are leaving and going to Incheon. I love this ward and it will be hard for me to leave but it will be good to step out of my comfort zone and step up to the new challenge. Lots of growing and learning of course having fun at the same time! Without happiness, I would die out here! The mission can bring stress sometimes, but joy can counter all that and give a sense of hope and desire to keep improving. I have been blessed with a companion that has super knowledge and can answer any type of gospel question it seems like, whether it be my questions or investigators questions. I’m super grateful for her knowledge and now that I won’t have that, I need to keep working on gaining knowledge and retaining it. It really makes me just want to tell all those seminary students out there to focus focus focus! That time is such a privilege! I was thinking about school and how I participated in school and I always was so scared of asking questions. For some reason I am so bad at asking questions in school(probably because I’m embarrassed of sounding dumb...) but I wish I could have been more outgoing in that aspect. But out here in the field, I ask investigators so many questions while teaching and sharing messages. Even though my weakness maybe something in one area, I have found my strength in another. I am grateful for the simple blessings of our Heavenly Father. I may not be a scriptorian, but I’m trying my best to be one. I am not a pro at asking questions in school, but I feel like I have been blessed with asking questions of the soul. I’m working with what I have and going with it!!! and trying to make it even better!

We had a miracle this week. It was really cool. I was on the subway and chatted with a lady and she said she wanted to meet but she lives in Incheon, bu-piong city. We said we couldn’t go there and she was very persistent saying she’d feed us delicious food and she would clean her house super clean to have us over and invite her friends.  But she was sad and kind of disappointed we couldn’t meet with her. Well.... I got my transfer call and guess what! I’m going to that same city she lives in!!  I’m going to my new area with a potential investigator!! Super cool and kind of a reassurance that this is where I need to be going!

I read the book of Mormon and bible for personal study this week and it was very spiritual. Scripture power! Man those primary songs are speaking the real truth!!

I have to go but I love you and will talk to you next week!! :) I know that not only reading but applying the scriptures to our lives, we will receive an even greater testimony of this gospel. I practiced this during high school and I have noticed the blessings!!

Sister Wright

Buddhist Temple

Elder Baldwin teaching the Chachacha

The District

Hi family!!

We had a good kind of slower week. Our conversation time is hard because no one is out because it’s so hot, so we try and talk to people on air conditioned buses, at bus stops, and subways. Everyone carries cute sun umbrellas and it keeps us from getting too hot, they always try to cover me when I start talking to them because they now I’m hot! Super nice! And I always have my traditional fan with me at all times to keep me cool! The students testing season is over so they and the parents are stress free! People have more time to meet and the students are out on the street. In our area they’ve been having carnivals because of testing time and one was outside our house! kind of cool. We saw some break dancers last night and talked to people in the crowds! We go to the carnivals to talk to people because that’s apparently where everyone is! We have 3 real strong investigators and they’re true seekers of truth. Their American names are Alice, Celine, and Korean name sister jo! I love being able to share my testimony with them.

This morning during personal study, I studied in "daughters of my kingdom" relief society book and it talked about service the saints performed during the early times of the church. The women were amazing and sacrificed so much to help build the temples and provide for saints crossing the plains. They showed true selflessness. There was a quote that I can’t perfectly quote but it was along the lines of" even if you don’t get recognition for your service or actions you do, what matters? ".. idk sorry for the horrible quote. It’s on page about 45 by Eliza R. Snow. Anyways, I decided I could do more selfless service for others and help those who need my time and talents and devote all that I have!! There’s no other time like the present! Today is sister Roses birthday so I thought it would be great to make it super fun! I bought her balloons and journals and cute things and made her cake and put on a birthday hat on her head! Fun festivities for a girl who deserves the best! I love relief society and I love missionary work! ahaha this week was good, you are all in my prayers!!

Love sister Wright

cool man at the fair making dok, rice cake! traditional way

Families are so important

Well, my back has been torn apart this past summertime, so I took initiative to go get a massage!!! It was nice, just taking a little time to take care of my body was great. I was thinking about this and how much I’m taking care of my body and how much I need to improve to make my body healthier. I also related this to families.  So I’m here as  a missionary talking about families  and through the restoration of the gospel we can have eternal families.  Families are so important. We, just like our bodies, need to nourish our families and relationships with them because WE WILL forever be with them. Life is busy and hard and stressful, but are we taking the time to nourish the most important things in our lives??? I ask myself these questions and i feel bad because  of my lack of  effort. I ask, am I strengthening my relationship with my Heavenly Father? With my earthly family? What is overpowering my want to have a stronger family?? Obviously I am out on the mission and I can’t be with them or close to them, but I know that I can improve on goals, values, build Christ-like characteristics, and improve on being a better sister, a better daughter! Anything!! I keep teaching about how this life is to prepare to meet God. This is the time to be better, a time to grow and develop into the daughter Heavenly Father wants me to be. idk I was just thinking about that lately.

Well, our investigator didn’t get baptized this week:/ she’s back at work and now she has to work every day and her only free  time is  after 12 am.. We read the book of Mormon with her and talk about it. We are taking things slow with her because we know she wants to be baptized, but her husband doesn’t approve and it’s an emotional time. We asked her to just read 6 versus a day. We want her to have a firm testimony of the book of Mormon before she gets baprize because we don’t want her to become less active, and we have seen that a lot here in the past records. We are keeping the work going!!! Our new mission motto “we are the message" and I also made this motto last week "cherish the Challenge" :) love you!!!

Sister Wright

We played soccer, it wasn’t very fun. The Koreans segregated themselves!! And it was super hot. Oh well, I save that for when I get back home :)

My comp made a Mike Wazowski pancake for me!! she’s great!!!

Murphy!!!! he speaks perfect English and we don’t know how  he did it...he’s a genius I guess and he helps us with piano, sis rose and I are  singing  a duet at church soon, dear to the heart of the shepherd by Sherrie Boren! Super pretty! At least the piano is!

My comp made a Mike Wazowski pancake for me!! she’s great!!!

We bought some giant green onions

Murphy!!!! he speaks perfect English and we don’t know how  he did it...he’s a genius I guess and he helps us with piano