Showing posts with label siblings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label siblings. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Life is Good Facebook Challenge [week 19ish]

I love these guys! Elder Jack Livingston is a good guy! So is Elder Jonah Del Priore and Elder  Joe Griswold. All great guys, and it was cool to watch them grow as a companionship. They weren't really best buds towards the beginning of MTC and by the end they were the closest of friends. I'm grateful I got to know these guys before they went to the Korea Seoul mission. I wasn't challenged to the life is good challenge, so I challenge myself today! The future posts are probably going to be shorter than this one though so I can write them in English and Korean. 

Feb 4th, Day 1: I'm thankful for my MTC 동기 (peers)


February 7th: Day 2 of Life is Good. I am super thankful for my siblings! I challenge Brigham Renfroe to participate in the 10 day challenge.
저는 여동생과 남동생이 너무 감사합니다.

February 8th: Day 3 of the life is good challenge. I am thankful for the people I am able to teach, here in Korea. I love them all so much. I won't challenge or post pictures of them for their privacy, but know that I love them!
제 가르침 진친구들을 사랑합니다!
February 9th: Day 4: life is good challenge. I am thankful for delicious Korean food. Today I challenge Adam Stucki to the life is good challenge. I love this guy! He was my roommate and he is on a mission right now. What a cool guy!
저는 한국 음식을 좋아하고 감사합니다!

February 11th: Day 6/10 of the life is good challenge in which I say something I'm thankful for, and challenge someone else to do the same thing 10 days jn a row.
Today I would like to say thank-you for the 몰몬 경. (Book of Mormon) and all the other great resources the gospel library has to offer. I look forward to personal study more than anything other than meeting with friends to teach. Good stuff. Today I invite 이승규 장로님 (a top notch missionary) to participate in the life is good challenge if he so desires.
저는 몰몬경을 사랑합니다!

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Home MTC [Week Two]

Hello Everybody! It’s the end of the week (yes Sunday is the end of the week because God made the world Monday through Saturday, then rested on the LAST day, so there) and you know what that means… You get an email from your favorite missionary in the whole wide world! 

My last Sunday at home

Good ol' Harry Potter Clue.  The only version worth playing.

I am still at home-MTC which is a jolly fun time. Almost every day me and my district meet with Brother Waggner and Brother Harley. Brother Waggner is super chill. He starts out the class with 10 minutes of showing us elders cool pictures he took in Korea. Then for the next two hours and fifty minutes we have ourselves a practice session from Preach My Gospel and do role-plays to practice being missionaries. Brother Waggner does a good job of keeping us all engaged and interested. He reminds me of my high school art teacher Mr. Berg (yeah, he’s that cool). Brother Harley is ALSO  a very cool teacher. He is very excited to teach us the things we will need to know to teach other people about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He is more business, but that is more because Waggner is less business than anything. We learn out of the Preach My Gospel (PMG) handbook for the most part in both of those classes.


The other teachers we only see once or twice a week. Sister Cho and Sister Kim. They are both Korean, and both so incredibly, so super nice! Sister Cho is teaching us Korean twice a week, plus any time we schedule a one on one lesson. She speaks perfect English, and I assume Perfect Korean. Sister Kim teaches us the same stuff as Brother Waggner and Brother Harley. We have lessons out of PMG, and practice proselyting. Her teaching style encourages us to share our testimonies and invite the spirit more than the Brothers' classes (they still do this just not throughout the class), and her classes do help us invite the Spirit. She is one of my favorite teachers for that reason. My district is her first group of American English speaking boys she has taught, so I think we are more rowdy than she is used to. I can also tell that some of my district thinks she isn’t very engaging, but I think it mostly has to do with the slight cultural differences and a language barrier. Her English isn’t perfect, but we can always understand what she is literally saying, just not always what she is trying to say. But this is GOOD! We are supposed to be learning Korean, and learning to talk with people who don’t speak English as their first language. 


So yeah! I have some great teachers, and I am really excited to go to the Provo MTC this Wednesday. I can’t wait to attend all these cool classes and workshops live, and meet new people and see my district IRL. I am so grateful to be able to feel the Spirit every day, and learn more about my Savior Jesus Christ. I cannot wait to serve and teach the people in Korea! I love them already. I love all of you as well! Thank you for reading my emails and staying in touch with me. 


Truly, Truman


Last time to see my mom's best friend, Cori


Olivia Byram was at the Corn Dog shack when we went


Also, the guys working there gave me my food for FREE
because I am a missionary and when we went the second 
time, the guy handed my food and said, "Do your best,
and the Lord will bless you."  I love being a missionary!