First P-day

My P-days will be on Friday while I am here at the MTC. It's nice and a little weird having one only two day after coming here. However, it's pretty nice because I can catch you up quickly!

This place is amazing! The first day our teacher only spoke Korean during class and she will do that our whole stay here. Its a challenge, but we are getting much better at charades! My companion is

Sister Ahn. Both her parents are from Korea so she has some background in the language. She is great and very patient about helping me with simple things. They went over the alphabet before I arrived so

I'm behind on that. But oh well! Our teacher is having us read Preach My Gospel in Korea. The language isn't too bad. The characters are actually made up of letters, so it makes more sense than other Asain

languages because you just read like English sort of. Not quite the same but similar idea. We are teaching our first investigator tonight in the Korean language. It should be interesting but I'm excited.

We are the only sisters in our district, with ten Elders. They are all 18 years old except one who is 19. They are awesome though! Our district leader is Elder Easton. He is the happiest, friendliest Elder ever.

His companion, Elder Wilkinson, is the 19 year old. Before his mission he attended Harvard on scholarship, studying economics and statistics. Both of them are going to serve in the Sydney, Australia Mission,

Korean speaking. How crazy is that! Elder Rencher will also be serving there. Basically, our Elders are awesome!

The rooms are made for 4 people to a room, but with the age change they have started putting 6 in there instead. We have four closets, four desks, and an extra random bunkbed. But the Sisters in our room are

great so it hasn't been a problem. Plus we spend almost no time in there so that helps. A sister in our room is from New Zealand, and will be serving in Korea. Her accent is so cool! Another Elder in our branch is from Australia

and will be servin in Korea. The people here are amazing. I love it! Adjusting to missionary life really hasn't been a problem. They schedule out every minute of every day for you. Our job is to be obedient and make every

minute count. A favorite saying is, Obedience brings blessings, but exact obedience brings miracles! I can see how it would be easy to be a few minutes late or sleep a little longer in the mornings. But this is our time to

prove to the Lord that we can and will follow exactly what he has asked of us. I am so excited to see what the next week has in store.

Life is great. The church is true! I am so excited to serve a mission and teach the people in Korea!!

Love, Sister Seegmiller

p.s. If you want your letters to get to me quickly, you can use DearElder and send them through that. I would love to have emails, letters, lots of pictures, and anything else you feel in your heart to send. I didn't realize how much they mean to missionaries until now. I love you all and hope to hear from you soon! Sarang hae!

My address is:
Sister Shanelle Seegmiller
OCT01 KOR-SEO
2007 N 900 E Unit 18
Provo UT 84602