Sink fell off, faucet fell off, Good Times

Wednesday Transfers!! I sent some pictures of what our transfers look like, all the missionaries gather at a central building and we find our companions and say buy to our friends and head back to our areas! It was so fun and I used my selfie stick to get some good angles!

Sister Mineer is 180 centimeters, or in other words, 5 '11, and a blondie! She was super charitable this week and gave a sister a piggy back ride because she had a hurt ankle on the way down from a hike we had for a zone activity!

Thursday for 설날 (lunar new year) we met together as a zone and played group games, ate French toast and eggs for lunch, went on a hike, and then came back, watched Meet the Mormons and ate pizza! Everyone is gone on this day with family so the area was empty and no one was able to meet. We had training on the mountain about charity and committed us to be more giving, selfless, loving, caring, forgiving, and everything else that charity consists of. They had asked us to study charity that morning and I will share with you some of the things that I had learned about Christ and charity. 

So, Charity is the pure love of Christ. His love is everlasting. We know it is eternal because the ultimate act of Charity that He performed is the Atonement, which is an eternal sacrifice. If we choose not to have charity toward others, then we can’t receive Christ’s charity, which is forgiveness of sins, the Holy Ghost, blessings, etc.

We had a miracle this week! Last week we went to an appointment who, when we came to her door, she told us she couldn’t meet with us. We were a bit confused and disappointed because we had walked about 2 miles to her house... we started walking back and halfway home we realized that we needed to visit some less active members that were in that same location we just visited. We contemplated if we should take a bus or walk all the way back again... we decided to walk and on our way back we met a vivacious lady that knew who we were and offered to have us at her home and eat dinner and meet her family and do our family English program. When we met with her, she told us she had made a goal last year to meet and have a foreign friend, and now she and her family will meet with us. They are all really Christian, I think the husband relayed the whole bible to us last night... ha-ha and interested in seeing what our church is like. I see a lot of good things coming from meeting with them, and it’s a family!!! The daughter is 18 and the son is 16. I’m a bit excited to not have to teach some little boys right now, it’s a breath of fresh air! Jackson was crazy this week... :)

The day after 설날 (Friday) the district had an activity because things were still closed and families were all out of town. So we chose to have a morning sunrise hike and go to the bathhouse and get clean. We wanted to hike to a Christ statue that we had heard about and saw through the trees, but took the wrong path, got to the summit went back down before the sunrise, and never found the Christ statue\... disappointment in all its forms! But we are going back another time. We planned to heart attack the whole ward and prepped the hearts while watching Ephraim’s rescue! 

Sorry, this is a lot of email for one day, but I hope you liked it!

Fun stuff: I got stuck across the street without my companion and the district because I dropped my pen and they all ran and I missed the light...

Our kitchen sink fell off! The faucet fell off after I turned on the water. Now we have to boil our water in order to drink it. Good times!

Sister Wright

Transfer Calls! I’m always so nervous when they come! Drumroll please... For my last transfer I will be with Sister Mineer! She is from Parowan Utah. She actually was companions with Sister Nebeker and Sister Holmes in the MTC. I talked to Sister Mineer last night and she reminded me that ill have been with all three of them for only one transfer each! How interesting. Besides that, she clogs! I really enjoyed the transfer I had with sister Nebeker. It was a challenge at times, but I learned a lot about myself and about her all at once. We worked things out together, not that there were any big problems, just some little ruts in the road that made things a little bit more rocky than maybe other roads I’ve travelled on, but it was a fun one! I definitely was crazy with her, more so than with others. I think we may have had a real sister relationship bond at times! I’m grateful for my companion! She is so sweet and loves so many people!

This week we did a practice lesson with a member to help us do missionary work and involve them in missionary work as well. After the lesson we'd usually invite them to think of a friend that was similar with the investigator that they role played as and help them be a better member missionary. Well when we met with this member, she wanted to play a person she wanted to play, not the investigator we were practicing for. This took us through a loop, but we accepted and went along with it. After the lesson, she told us that who she was playing was herself and the questions/concerns/challenges she may have included were her own. Wow. We were actually role playing a lesson for her personally! It was a real interesting experience and great learning opportunity, and a way to help a member of the church strengthen her weaknesses.

This week the church kitchen flooded (on the second floor) yikes! It was a big mess so we helped clean it up with a spring water ladle, snow shovels, and mops. It was a sight to behold!

Taught Jackson! He stayed silent the whole time during the prayer, no fighting against it at all. It was amazing, it may have helped that he was a little bit sick....

The talk How to Be a Preach My Gospel Missionary by Elder Bednar saved my life this week. I recommend you to read it!

새해 복 많이 받으세요!!!! Happy New Year!!!(On the lunar calendar!) It’s a big holiday here. We will have two conferences on Thurs and Friday because Korea will be a ghost town and no one to talk to on those days! LET’S EAT SOME 떡국!!!(dok gook) traditional rice cake soup.

Love you!

Sister Wright

Plan of Salvation, Mario style!!

So you know about Jackson, the 8 year old boy we teach?? He actually
listened and didn’t yell or run away from us! Do you know how we did it?? Plan of Salvation, Mario style!! (See pics) He was so interested in how to play the game and we told him in order to start the game, you needed a body! So once the world was unlocked, you could start the game. If you overcome the mushrooms and obstacles, you can travel to the next level! When you win the game you get to go to the Celestial Kingdom!! I didn’t draw the pictures, it was form a previous missionary who used their talents in the most miraculous way. Sarah, his mom was very impressed that he actually sat down and listened to what we told him. It had a little bit more of depth to it but that’s the gist! Miracles! We also made a Dino-Quest board game for him! The prize was a cool dinosaur puzzle inside an egg we found at a shop by our house. We taught family history through that game and each turn you had to pick a card and fill out an interesting fact about your family. So he actually did family history! Cool stuff. Yesterday, we brought lunch with us at church because we wanted to go out right after instead of go back home and waste that time. we started making ramen in a rice cooker and all these people came up and saw what we had and asked for some, and we offered some, so we sacrificed our lunch yesterday. It was pretty funny. The elders are teaching a guy who started living on his own at 17 and invests in stocks and made a wrap about the book of Mormon... and he’s a protégé at piano and guitar... what! He is insane! 

This week, a lady we teach asked me if I accomplished my goal as a missionary, if I felt I was successful in what I came out here to do. It took me by surprise and I thought a bit and answered proudly, "yes, I’ve served others, brought people closer to Christ, taught and preached the gospel and loved. I taught people of the plan they can follow to return back to their Heavenly Father and live eternally" When I replied, I felt the Holy Ghost testify to me that what I had replied was true and confirmed my response. This week, I noticed during my personal study that the most successful, honored missionary on this earth, Jesus Christ, hadn’t baptized anyone. His goal wasn’t baptisms, it was helping, serving, teaching, preaching, uplifting and bringing people unto repentance so they can return back to their Heavenly Father. Our goal isn’t baptisms, it is bringing people unto Him to learn from Him himself. I know that that is true!

I end in the words of a struggling mother, wife, and member of the church that we met last night who lived in Paraguay for 21 years 

" Life isn’t easy, but vale la pena"(its worth it!!!:))

Sister Wright

He ripped off the head off the Holy Ghost last week... yikes.

This week has been packed! We went to the temple! While on the bus to the temple, I thought about going to the Korean session (usually the foreigners go to the English session). I hadn’t thought about going before but I felt that it would be good. We got to the temple and I asked my companion if we could go and she agreed. Well, when we went, I saw a member of one of my recent areas who id heard hadn’t been coming to all of church sometimes & been wavering in faith. She’s about 70yrs. old. She’s the member who always braided my hair at church! When we saw each other, our jaws dropped and gave each other a huge hug! It was amazing! I actually got to sit with her too in the temple. It was meant to be! It was a really special experience. I felt so looked after being with her. I feel that that was what was needed to happen. We were able to strengthen each other and experience the joy of seeing a family member (every ward I serve in is my family):) While sitting with her, I received personal guidance that I need to "serve those around me". I can’t do everything as a missionary, but my calling is to lift others and the only way I can start is by helping those around me. I know that we can receive personal revelation if we seek it and if we are listening. I knew I wouldn’t have experienced that moment if I hadn’t chosen to go to the Korean session. 

This week we taught Jackson! He’s a nightmare! (In a good way)!!! We make all these games for him and this week we are making a board game for him, but every time he hates it! He ripped off the head off the Holy Ghost last week... yikes. But as we played one of the games, he opened up to us and his mother that he'd been having a hard time at school and a certain boy wasn’t being nice to him. It was a sad moment because no one should go through those times, especially when we are all supposed to experience happiness! I just want the best for him!! One thing that makes missionary work so hard is that I can’t love everyone! I wish I had all the love in the world to share with all those I come into contact with! I just want them to know that I care!!!

I’m not perfect, but I want to be, and that's what drives me to be better. 

Love 

Sister Wright