Good Morning! So I know this is SUPER early
today, but now we officially can spend 60 minutes on the computer, so we're
going to send the "official email" this morning then get back on at
3:30 or so after we go to the temple so get on then and we can go back and
forth. If it isn't right at 3:30, just wait because I promise I won't
forget:)
This last week went by really fast
actually! It has been busy, which is good. Nothing too out of the
ordinary though! Korean is starting to make a little more sense, and I am
to the point where I can put sentences together on my own(ish) or with a little
help from the book. There are so many different grammar forms that are
hard to keep track of but the only way to learn them is by using them! We
try to speak as much Korean as possible (and could be lots better). Our
teachers tell us, "Not English Fast, Korean Feast." I'm working
on learning lots of different verbs so I can say more than "I know the
Book of Mormon is true" or "Joseph Smith was a prophet. (If you
wondered, those require "testimony form" and past tense.
#soexciting). I still have a LOOOONNNGGG way to go before I'll feel
comfortable speaking, but that's all part of the fun! We were saying the
other day that when we get back we'll have to watch Lost again and will be able
to understand the Korean that Sun and Jin speak!! Haha
Easter was great. Bishop Gerald Causse from
the presiding bishopric was the speaker. Yes, on Sundays you still get up
at 6:30 and then basically have personal study when church isn't going
on. We end up watching Mormon Messages on the TV in our classroom via
LDS.org a lot of the day. We started watching the YW broadcast, but
didn't have time to finish, and are hoping to soon. I love it every
year. Wasn't the little girl who said the prayer the cutest?! We
were dying. Anyway. Easter. He spoke on the Atonement and
related it to Missionary work. He said that with the Lord's help we can
do this, and love it! It was a combined sacrament meeting with the whole
MTC so the sacrament was passed to over 3,000 people! Amazing! We
sang I Stand All Amazed for the sacrament hymn which I loved of course.
We got there nice and early and were front and center in the meeting with the
whole Korean branch. Then we had a branch testimony meeting and district
meeting, walked to the temple and finally ate dinner. Fast Sundays at the MTC
are long. Especially when its Easter and you just want to eat more
candy...nom nom nom nom
So the other day our teacher Sister Wadsworth
told us a story her brother sent her from Parley P. Pratt's journal from his
mission to Canada. It was about him going to a meeting of people who were
discussing religion and how they needed to find the true church that was the
same as when Christ was on the earth. Parley P. Pratt happened to be at
that meeting and guess who was speaking. John Taylor! Parley P.
Pratt eventually converted John Taylor and we know what happened from
there! One of the Elders in my district said that he was a direct
descendant of Parley P. Pratt, and then I mentioned that I was a direct
descendant of John Taylor. Then I said how cool it was that more than 100
years later, we were sitting next to each other at the MTC preparing to share
the very same gospel to people who are also searching for it in a place they
may have never even heard of! Isn't that the coolest, most amazing
thing! This is when you know the church is true!
I can't believe I'm already half way through
being here at the MTC! Once I get there, I'll only have 16 months
left! I'm starting (slowly) to understand why people say this goes by so
fast! Even though I still have tough moments, I am so happy to be
here and am loving learning more and more about the gospel to get ready to
share with the Korean people!
Don't forget to get on later or I'll be really
sad:) Love you SOOOOOOOOOOO much! Hope you have a fun Spring
Break!
Love,
Em
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