Can you believe I've already been here a month! Holy cow. I only have one month to go, and then off to Korea!!! Thank you all for the emails once again! They are so fun to read and I feel super cool printing off pages and pages of emails each week.
Well I have officially been here for a month, and we only have one left. SOOOOO crazy. I love it here, but the desire to actually be in Korea is growing everyday. Yestderday, our teacher told us all about the culture and society over there and it was fascinating!! I can't wait to experience it for myself, to meet the people, teach them, love them, and just be there with them! AAH it's going to happen so soon. I can't wait. So small world, I met a missionary named Sister Schafer. She is from Germany, but will be serving in the ST. GEORGE, UTAH mission. I was so excited. She said a lot of her time may be spent in the visitor's center, and I told her to watch for my family. So you should find her and say hello and make her feel welcome. She is the sweetest sister ever. Let's find her some people to teach! Also, there has been a rumor that the winter Olympics will be held in Korea either in 2014 or 2018. Can someone please confirm or deny this before we go insane?? That would be great. Speaking of small world, we had a substitute teacher come in the other day. His name is Brother Stanley, and he graduated from Snow Canyon in 2010. I went to tell him I graduated from Dixie that same year, and he said "Yeah I know you, you played basketball. I remember watching you play." I felt super bad for not having a clue who he was, but it was still cool! Sister Ahn's mom sent us all Kimchi flavored ramen from Korea. We ate it at lunch, and it was delicious! I can't to try the other food there. Three sisters did a musical number on Sunday. They sang Love At Home, one verse in English, one in Korean, and one in Tongan. It was so cool!!! They are all from Hawaii and are super sweet. So being a missionary doesn't always make me completely mature. We sang Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel during a devotional. We got to the chorus where they say "Do your duty with a heart full of song", and I just started laughing. Old habits die hard I guess. I was in charge of the Devotional review in our district, and in a meeting a few days later Brother Snow was raving about our lesson to all the District leaders. All I did was stand up front and call on people who wanted to talk, but he absolutely loved it and said all meetings should be as spiritual as that one. I love my district so much. We had a Korean elder who is serving somewhere in the states come up the other day and asked us to bear our testimonies. We did, and he was sooo excited because he hadn't heard a Korean testimony for so long. I love this place! And now for the grand finale, all of the devotionals here are amazing. On Sunday, Carol F. McConkie, the first counselor in the YW General Presidency came and spoke to us. Then that night, Stephen B. Allen came and spoke. He is the managing director for the entire missionary department. My roommate, Sister Patridge played the piano for the musical number while another sister sang "For Me Alone". If you haven't heard it, look it up. It is beautiful!! We listened to a recording of Dieter F. Uchtdorf's talk "A Missionary's Call" that night and it was incredible as well. Then on Tuesday, we had another live broadcast to many of the MTC's around the world. We sang in the choir again, and I was lucky to get an aisle seat. Our guest speaker was... Elder Neil L. Andersen!! It was absolutely amazing. He said 4, 137 missionaries were viewing that broadcast both live and worldwide, which is the largest MTC broadcast ever. He really focused on the importance of the one, and going to preach without fear. After it was done, security came and told us there was too much lightning outside to walk back to the MTC safely (our devotional is in the Marriot Center). So we stayed and sang hymns to let the storm pass. Elder Andersen decided to walk around and shake a few hands. He started to walk away from the choir, but then turned around and came straight towards where I was sitting. He only came up a few rows, but we got there early and were sitting in the third row. He came up and shook our hands and told us what a great job we were doing. Because I was on the aisle, he passed by several times, and stood beside me as he talked to a few people. He is such an incredible man! His spirit radiated the second he walked in the room. His love for the Savior and for us was so apparent! We were all so touched, and it was so sad when he had to leave. It was still pouring rain, but they let us walk back. We came back completely drenched, but no one cared. It was an incredible night! I love being a missionary so much. We get to go to the temple again tonight, which I have been looking forward to all week. It is the greatest place on earth. Thank you everyone for your example and support! I love you all so much! Keep writing emails, send pictures and dearelders whenever you feel the desire, and know that I love you all and pray for you every night. The gospel is true!!
-Sister Seegmiller!
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