Life here is so good! First off, the Devotionals are the best things ever! We had Jenny Oaks Baker come, she is Elder Oak´s daughter. She plays the violin and went to Julliard. We had Jay E. Jensen speak to us. He was previously a member of the Seventy. Rosemary Wixom, the Primary General President came and spoke to us in Relief Society on Sunday, and on Tuesday... Drumroll please... Elder Richard G. Scott came and spoke to us in a devotional that they broadcasted to the MTCs around the world. IT WAS AMAZING!! He is so cute and so sweet. He talked all about prayer, how to pray, how to receive answers, and how to act when answers are received. He gave us an apostolic blessing that we would be able to receive the gift of tongues and perform our best if we give the Lord our best. He told us to be good, and stopped to wave four times before leaving. He told us he could feel his sweet wife with him there, even though she passed away 18 years ago. It was amazing. We sang in the choir for the devotional. We sang Jesus, Once of Humble Birth. It sounded incredible! So much better than we ever had in practice. The Spirit was so strong!
On Sunday, we got some new callings. Elder Easton became the Zone Leader, Elder Wilkinson is our District Leader, Sister Ahn is the new Sister Training Leader, and I am the music coordinator. Woohoo! They are my favorite people here, so its awesome that we all get to work together! Our musical number went well. Singing in Korean is getting a lot easier. Our district will go find a piano and sing together on a regular basis. It helps relieve stress and bring the spirit so much! it´s great. We also watched the Joseph Smith video in Korean. I understood a few words so that is progress.
Speaking of amazing people, I love my district. Sister Ahn is the greatest. We have so much fun together, and she is the sweetest person alive. I´m so grateful to have her as my companion! She works hard, laughs a lot, and has such a strong testimony. Elder Easton always gives us stickers for different accomplishments, like teaching investigators, being on time, or just because he wants to. Elder Wilkinson is awesome! He gave us each a scripture that reminded him of us. He gave me Alma 56:45, because it was about courage and humility. It was super sweet! Elder Wilkinson went to Harvard, and Elder Smith went to MIT. They were in the same ward in Boston and are pretty good friends. They always get into a battle of wits, using words we often don't understand. But it's so fun to watch. They try to outsmart each other in every way, which makes pure entertainment for the rest of us. My roommate Sister Tehei is from New Zealand. She is hilarious. She loves my eyebrows! She tells me all the time how great they are, and she wants to take a picture of them to send to her sisters at home. Not a picture of me, just my eyebrows. Um.. Thank you! My good friends Sister Richans and Sister Baty are both here for two weeks, so its really fun seeing them around. Two German elders came up the other day and asked if they could bear their testimonies. They did it in German, and I actually understood most of it. It was awesome! Then we said ours in Korean and we walked away. This happens often, and I love it so much! We have the best teachers in the MTC. Sister Saegers is a linguistics major, so she can help with the language so much! She speaks Arabic, Hebrew, English, Korean, and wants to learn Greek and Japanese. Its so nice having someone like that help us to understand this language. Our other teacher, Brother Madsen is apparently amazing at Korean. He is white, but those who know Korean have said that his accent is perfect and that you wouldn´t know he wasn´t native by listening to him. So he helps us a ton with pronunciation. We also have some missionaries from Korea here, so we talk to them as much as possible to learn how to speak properly.
During the day, we have gym, class, teaching, and eat. That´s about it. For gym, we´ve played 4-square, basketball, soccer, p90x, and just walked around outside. We are teaching two investigators this week, and two more tonight at TRC. it will be interesting to see how it goes. I´m understanding more, but I have a hard time responding in a way that makes sense. Their sentence structure is really different from English. But it is improving and I love teaching so this will be good. There have been some hilarious mistakes made by a few of our Elders. One accidentally said he ate God, instead of believed in Him. Another Elder ended his testimony in the name of soy sauce instead of Jesus Christ, the words for death and a little are almost the same, so a few people have mixed up those two. And my personal favorite, Elder Smith and Elder Rencher had our investigator read a scripture in Korean. They thought she was reading about baptism, but they had marked the wrong scripture since it was in Korean. Instead, she read about Lamanites murdering wives and families. They had no idea why she looked so shocked and continued with the lesson. They realized their mistake after coming back and reading the scripture in English. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.
Basically, I love it here so much! Its so crazy that it's already been over two weeks. They always say that the weeks pass like days and the days pass like months. It's so true! I have already learned so much in a very short amount of time. My relationship with my Savior has been strengthened, I LOVE reading the scriptures, and life is SOOO good. I cannot wait to get to Korea!! I had a really strong impression during Music and the Spoken Word on Sunday. There is someone waiting for me in Korea, someone that has been prepared for this gospel. I don't know who it is, but I will know when we meet. It was the most incredible feeling and gave me even more determination to do my best and learn all that I can. The Lord truly blesses his missionaries and we have seen his hand throughout all we do. I love this gospel with all my heart! I love you all and hope all is well. Keep me posted. And the dearelders are great so feel free to send those anytime! Pictures are also great. You are all such a strength and a blessing in my life. Thank you!! I love you so much!
-Sister Seegmiller
p.s. I'm trying to find a computer that will let me send pictures. So far it has been unsuccessful due to lack of time. But hopefully pictures will come sometime.
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