I love Korea!

This week has been a little slower than others. My companion was really sick, and we had to visit several doctors and spent most of our time in our home letting her rest. But I was able to get a lot of studying done in the scriptures, in the Ensign, with Korean, and lots of other things. So there is always a silver lining. Even though I am going a little stir crazy being indoors all day, and have started practicing my handstand pushups between study sessions! With a lot of medicine, prayers, help from President Christensen (who happens to be a surgeon), blessings from Elders, and rest, she is doing MUCH better and we should be able to work so hard from now on! So we are both very happy and relieved and ready to preach the gospel!

 

We were able to meet with two investigators this week. Kim Ki Choon really loves English, but is very strong in her religion. She read some passages from the Book of Mormon, and took a copy for herself. We marked some scriptures for her that she would enjoy, like 2 Nephi 22:2, Mosiah 4:9, and 2 Nephi 25:26?(maybe) I can't remember the last reference, but it was the one about We believe in Christ, we preach of Christ.. We are trying hard to help her feel the spirit and see that our message will bless her life. But some things just take time. We will see her again this week. Fawn is doing great. We did English, and she is doing so well. Then we taught Lesson 2- The Plan of Salvation. She accepted it really well, and said she wants to go to the Celestial Kingdom, or 해의왕국. It's interesting, because we can't really give her sections to read in the Book of Mormon since her version is in Thai. But we encouraged her to read from the beginning and pray about it. She said the closing prayer for our lesson which was awesome! She might be moving back to Thailand, but we aren't sure yet. We REALLY hope she stays. Hwang Choon Cha is also moving! :( We will hopefully be able to see her before she moves, and then refer her to missionaries in her new area.

 

The other day we were able to have dinner with the relief society president, and then had lunch with the ward on Sunday. The food was really good, but had a few things you normally wouldn't see at an American feast. One meal had a bowl of raw oysters, some raw flavored squid, and a bowl of dried anchovies. The other meal was a big bowl of tofu with some flavored soy sauce on top. That's it, just tofu. And honestly it was all pretty decent. The tofu was good, but it didn't really feel like you had eaten anything afterwards. But we felt healthier!

 

Today we will be doing an exchange with our sister training leader, who in this really small world, is Sister Lawrence from St. George! So that should be fun. Everything is going great here. It snowed last night, which actually means that today is warmer than usual which is nice. This winter hasn't really been bad, and all the members have told us it's much warmer than last year. Which we are very grateful for! I love it here in Korea. The work is progressing and we are a part of helping that along! The work is going forward at home as well, and in Utah especially, most work is done through member referrals!! I love you all so much, thank you for the examples you are to me and everyone. Have a great week and Happy Martin Luther King Jr. day!

 

-Sister Seegmiller

And here is a super cool quote from the 1994 Inaugural Speech given by Nelson Mandela :
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"We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us,
It is in everyone.
As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates other."