Insert Inspiring Quote Here [week 25]

Well hello you lovely lot 😘 I hope you are all having a peachy-keen day. 

I, for one, have had a splendid week. Most enjoyable and fine. I like it here in the lil cabbage. So I was thinking if New York is the Big Apple, then Korea is the "Lil Cabbage" because of all the Kimchi. Get it? Huh? Right? That's a good, one right? It makes sense, right? Yeah! The reason my week has been awesome is . . . well let me tell you. 

So FIRST, last Tuesday (화요일) was super awesome because I went to my first district council in my  new area. Fisher 장로님 was there and he is awesome. We were in the MTC at the same time. What a stud. I get his emails and they are pretty funny. Oh and uplifting. So it was good to see him and say hi. We learned some good language studying tricks and tips at the aforementioned district council. 

And THEN, on Wednesday (수요일) My companion and I taught some people about the gospel. I can't remember specifics because I forgot to write in my journal. *bad missionary bad!* 

AFTERWARDS, on Thursday (목요일) we had ourselves a super jolly fun exchange with the president's assistants. I went with Christensen 장로님 to his area, and we went to a eat dinner at some super nice member's house. We ate a delicious red bean and rice porridge (patjuk). It was DELICIOUS. It was so yummy. And the harmoni (grandma) was super nice to me, but she spoke really fast and the AP had a hard time understanding her. I learned some good Korean studying tricks on that exchange. The biggest one being: don't stop studying. Just speak and read and write and think in Korean all day long. Easy.

AND VERILY VERILY IT CAME TO PASS, that on Friday (금요일) We (me and elder Carter, after exchanges) met with a super nice girl named Yoo Jean (유진) She was interested in learning English. We talked about English and how she is an elementary school English teacher, which is awesome, and I got to practice Korean as well. We were in a super cool cafe. It was called A Twosome Place I had always misread it as Atwosome place, because the spacing is a little off. It's a chain cafe in Korea. After chit-chatting about English and such, I was like "So do you want to hear a message that we came to Korea to share?" She was like "Um, OK." And I was like "righteous!" And me and my companion shared a message with her. She was super respectful and listened politely to our message and smiled and nodded. I'm not kidding when I say she was really respectful and nice about listening. But she just isn't interested in religion. She seemed to be doing fine, and didn't see a need for trying out a church that two foreign guys were teaching her about. 

One time a long time ago I was not the perfect man on a mission you see before you today (if you can't tell I'm being sarcastic about being perfect, then read this sentence and know I am.) I wasn't reading scriptures for an hour a day and thinking about my relationship with God all the time. And I was reasonably happy. I was super happy in fact. But with the gospel in my life I fill the holes I didn't know were there, and questions I didn't think about have been answered. So it is understandable when people aren't interested. Especially really nice elementary school teachers who know what matters in life more than most and are already spiritually oriented. 

The point I'm trying to make is its easy to think you don't need to turn to God and that it won't help, and that there are better ways of improving your life. But I can promise you it will bless your life and you will feel more happy and at peace if you just try to turn to God. 

NEXTLY! On Saturday (토요일) I met a guy named Jason. He lived in California for 25 years and speaks fluent gangsta. He was the most enthusiastic person about coming closer to Jesus and doing missionary work I have ever met. He believes in the Book of Mormon, now we just need to get him baptized. He had me and my companion chase a guy down to hand out a Book of Mormon. And he was like "Hallelujah! That's the work we need to be doing! They need to know Jesus!" I wish I could describe how enthusiastic he was. It was like Fletch as a televangelist . . . except he actually believes in the gospel. 

LASTLY on Sunday (일요일) two friends came to church. That was awesome. The members did a good job of welcoming them. That made me happy 😊. 

Allright I love you guys. Have yourselves a swagalicious week. Hmyokay love you buh-bye.

Truly Truman 

PICTURES!

Happy late Saint Patrick's Day! That's what most of the pictures are about. Uhhhm it's not celebrated in Korea. I honestly wonder if its celebrated in Ireland. But I love pinching people really really hard so yup. Saint Patrick's Day. 

There are some trees with acne or maybe their metaphorical mother dropped them on their metaphorical faces when they were metaphorical infants. The trees look weird is what I'm trying to get at. 

I promise I'll try to take more pictures this week, Mom. 😜