One More P-Day then off to Korea!‏

Blah Blah Blah... Due to Daryl leaving to Korea soon and my slight disappointment in her for not coming home after my many bribes, I shall send her boxes of fattening desserts. So she will get fatter. I will also workout more so I will have a rocking bod when she comes home and then she will be jealous she didn't stay home and work out and get a new puppy. Here's her email... also I've been denied Sunday stalking and visits :( another reason to make her fat lol.

Happy Wednesday Everybodyyyyy!!

Okay so let's start off with saying that this past week has been the busiest week of my life here at the MTC! But I love every bit of it!! So. Like I said, last Wednesday we got so many new Missionaries and it was mine and the Zone Leader's responsibility to get all of them to their meetings 10 minutes early and on time to everything. I don't know much about Farmers and herding but MAN. Herding a bunch of Missionaries to one place is a lot harder than we thought!! haha There was so many of them and we were running all over campus to find them and herd them back with the rest of the new missionaries. Lots of Interviews, Meetings, and "Welcome to the MTC!" and being the STL a lot of the Sisters were sick this week with health issues but no worries we are alive and well!

ALSO. The Three Kaufusi bunch here at the MTC has dwindled down to 2! Elder Jackson Kaufusi left to Australia this past Monday and I wish him the best of luck! Also my other Cousin Sister Chloe Cox left to Virginia as well. I tried holding back my tears when they left but I love them all so much and know they will be amazing Missionaries. Not a lot of people get to say they had 3 cousins with them here at the MTC! What a blessing!

This past week was amazing. I have learned so much. One of our Sisters, got dry socket from a tooth being pulled and was really sick one day. She couldn't get out of bed and her and her Companion were fairly new. I didn't want her Companion to miss out on her Language time to learn so I told her I would be with her companion while she was in class. The first thought that came to my mind was "Stress" for I was missing 3 hours of my learning time as well and I was scared I would fall behind the others in my District.  I had been In N out of class all week. But I went to visit her and sat on the ground next to Sis. C(who was sick) and we decided to read our scriptures together. I started to read to her and it was such an amazing experience. I sat there feeling foolish of myself because I was so worried on my Language study rather than serving and helping others and the Lord helped me realize that! My purpose here isn't to learn the language. It's to invite, help, love, and bring others unto Christ! The language will come. Anyways We got talking and she told me of her conversion story.

She is from the Philippines, and was the first in her family to be baptized. One of her friends was a Mormon and told her she should start meeting with the Missionaries. Of course her family refused but she would tell her Mom every week "If I clean the house, do all the chores etc, can the Missionaries come over?" And of course her Mom said yes. Long story short she was baptized and later her whole family followed. She loves Missionary work and volunteered in the Philippines to be a Missionary before her actual Mission call to Korea! So she was serving as a Missionary for 18 months already before her actual Mission Call here! She told me she loves missionary work. She went through a lot of health problems but she shared with me a bunch of experiences she had and how the Lord had blessed her. I was amazed. She left everything to come serve a mission and I just love her so much! It made me realize that it really is all about serving others. It was a very humbling experience for me. She also got to meet with the Missionary Couple that taught her and converted her the other day! It was so exciting. 

LIFE AT THE MTC:

1. Had to give the Opening prayer last night at the Devotional. Brother Uceda came and spoke and it was amazing. I was so nervous to get up and say the prayer haha I WAS DYING. But no worries I didn't face plant it on the ground or anything. 

2. I got a package full of candy the other day and I made a candy trail for all the Elders to follow down the stairs of our building. My Companion and I were hiding and you just see all these Elders come around the corner picking up Hi-Chews off the ground yelling "KAPUSHI I KNOW THIS WAS YOU!" (They don't want to eat anymore candy because apparently they are all getting "Fat" as they put it.)

3. Quote(s) of the Week at the MTC:
 "So. I hear the MTC has wifi.... but... we wouldn't know.."

"Sister Kaufusi I've been training to fight your Brother Bronson."-All the Elders

Anyways I love you all and I hope you have an amazing week! Also we get our flight plans to Korea this Friday so that is exciting!! 

-Sister Kaufusi 

Warning: Bat on our floor SAY WHAT?!‏

Happy Wednesday!!

Alright alright let me just tell you this past week has been AMAZING. Our Senior Districts in our Branch all left to Korea this past Monday and let me tell you it was so sad. A lot of us Sisters were all really close to each other and when it was time to say goodbye we didn't want them to leave! On Sunday night they were all up late packing and Kava came in at about Midnight and tucked us all in bed. It threw me off because first of all, I was dead asleep and then out of nowhere someone is wrapping me up like a burrito! With one eye closed and the other one barely opened I saw that it was Kava. It's amazing to hear everybody's stories on why they want to serve and how they all got here. The faith all these Elders and Sisters have here at the MTC blow me away. Despite their hardships and trials in life they have so much faith to go on a Mission having faith that the Lord will bless them in their trials and bless their families while they are gone. I love it!

THE TIME IS TICKING DOWN. We have 19 days until we leave to Korea! How amazing is that?! I don't know whether I should be in complete terror or be absolutely excited. Just kidding... I'm so EXCITED. (And a little nervous...but 98% is excitement. :) We call the MTC the little Incubator for us or the training wheels. 

Just a little spiritual thought for the week: This past devotional Sister Oscarson, the YW's General President came and spoke to us. She talked about how obedience is so important. She said Missions are hard because 1. You have to work hard, but 2. As Missionaries we are learning how to forget ourselves and we are learning to give all of our time, effort, energy and every single moment to the Lord. We're looking outward to help others instead of always thinking about ourselves first. I loved that because it is a good reminder! She also said that Our individual Missions are the training grounds for our life.

 The Lord called us for a specific reason. We all have a purpose here in life. And we are all going to go through hard times. But the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves. Sometimes we have to be humble and be willing to humbly accept that his plan is better than ours. She shared the Mormon Message about the current bush. It's called "The Will of God" https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2012-01-014-the-will-of-god?lang=eng  I encourage you all to watch this! It has had a major impact to so many people throughout the world and this Mormon Message changed my perspective on life when I was a sophomore in High School. This video has a special place in my heart and I know it has a massive influence on the way we look at our trials and things. 

LIFE AT THE MTC

1. I was holding on to Kava's leg for the longest time because I did not want her to leave me. 

2. Their was a BAT ON OUR FLOOR. We all had to evacuate our floor and all the girls were on the ground crawling out the door screaming because they were scared the Bat was going to give them rabies. hahaha I even looked in and the Security Guards trying to catch the Bat were on the ground screaming with Trash bags hahaha. 

3. NEW MISSIONARIES TODAY! It's going to be a very busy busy day for us getting all the everyone here! Our Branch will now hold 111 people combined! Biggest branch here. Wowza

4. Update on people running into the Machines. Met a sister the other day who rammed her arm into it. haha I felt sorry for her and told her she wasn't the first one.

Anyways I love you all and I love the MTC! I love being a Missionary and it makes me super happy! I love it I love it I love it

-Sister Kaufusi 

August 11 안녕하심니까

Now... for those of you who follow me on social media you would know that yes I 1. stalked my sister at the MTC 2. I saw her and 3. I asked her to get in my car and leave with me. Well she didn't seem to keen to get in the car and I would've put her in there myself but there were so many people around I figured I shouldn't. The idea, besides kidnapping her, was that maybe if I tackled her hard enough she would fall over get hurt and have to come home. Yes I'm terrible I know. #BigSisterSTILLagainstMissions.

Daryl is so lucky she is surrounded with cousins in the MTC. I saw my cousin Chloe and there during the Sunday Stalking (Aunt Gina she was there around 12:00) but there was an angry looking old lady next to her giving me dirty looks so I decided not to make her more angry. But apparently she's in some leadership position and is an STL. I asked her if that stood for Strange Tall Lady, except she isn't tall and due to the movie theater experience we can confirm that she is indeed a lady and we all know she's very strange. Did you know missionaries can't chew gum? 

Reason 183 why I couldn't go on a mission: I would be denied my green trident gum which I rely on far too much.

The things I've noticed about my siblings when they are in full missionary mode:

1. Their spelling and grammar in their emails are HORRENDOUS.
2. They begin to care about things like modesty. After seeing Daryl running around the temple modesty doesn't suite her quite as well as soccer shorts and tank tops. That's just me.
3. They start to appreciate their other siblings a lot more than they did while they were at home.

I was laughing at her email about the pranking. Only because her and her friends the Power of 6 would always prank and scare Devin. That is called karma. I am just about done making Daryl this cute little book with pictures of our family and her life. She noted that we must all be dressed appropriately and shirts must be on. There went half the pictures from our beach trips since no one ever wears shirts at the beach. Here is Daryl's email though. Sunday Stalking takes place from 12:00-1:00 at the temple parking lot under the shaded area by the silver car with the Deathly Hollows sticker on the back (Harry Potter): 

 

Friends and Family!!

5/9 Weeks done in the MTC!! You know what that means right?? In 3 weeks we head off to Korea! We ordered our Tags the other day! 카푸시 자매 is what my name will be! They pronounce it (KA-POO-SHI Sister) their grammar is flipped around so my last name comes first then Sister.  So exciting!! Also no worries I found all my cousins here at the MTC. I ran and Hugged all of them so tight and I love them so much! I got to do a session with one of my Cousin's Loa and it was a really awesome/special experience for me. We said a little prayer together and then cried together. haha I'm so proud of you Jackson, Loa and Chloe! I know they're going to be amazing Missionaries. 

THIS PAST WEEK. It was full of miracles and tender mercies. We teach "Investigators" and we were teaching our one investigator 김자매님 and the Spirit was so strong in our Lesson and we were talking about Baptism and guess what! She told us she wanted to get baptized!! At first Sister Christensen and I had no idea what she was saying to us so we kept on having her repeat it then finally she said in English "I Want" and then we were all freaking out! My jaw literally dropped after she said that and we were so happy and filled with joy I was crying, my Companion was crying, and our "investigator"  김자매님 was crying. It was a glorious day. Now our investigators are just our Teachers pretending to be investigators just so we can have practice but I can honestly tell you it was such an amazing experience because I felt so much love for our investigator. I don't think of her as my teacher but an actual investigator. We've been teaching her about the Gospel and to finally see that she is understanding it and wanting to get baptized was amazing! I feel so much love for her!! Even though my Korean isn't the best, I try to speak my heart and she understands. Also we have amazing teachers here I say that all the time but they are all Angels.

Also! I was just recently called to be the STL(Sister Training Leader) over our entire Branch! Our branch is the biggest branch here at the MTC. I'm so excited and I know it'll be a lot of work but I'm very humbled and grateful to have this calling. I love it!! We get 50 new Missionaries coming into our Branch so I'm really excited to get them all here.

STORY TIME

So. This past Sunday, I'm walking on my Temple walk and I see a line of cars parked in the Temple Parking lot... I'm very suspicious because I see one car that looks like my Sisters and out of no where I see her head POKE OUT of the Window and she just smiles rebelliously. haha ALEXIS you sneaky person! I saw my Dad and my Uncle too! So fun to see them! Pretty sure Alexis attacked me on the Temple Grounds and I about had a heart attack but it was so nice to see her. It seemed like they were camping out there for a while! They're good at stalking

Story #2. 

Elder Nielson came and talked to us!! That's two Apostles in less than two months! CRAZY. And a rumor is going around that Elder Holland is coming within the next two weeks... I'm beyond excited. It's amazing! Elder Anderson had some powerful words and one thing that I liked that he said was he shared the Scripture Jeremiah 16:16 

"Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord,and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain,and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks"

 After He pointed at all of us Missionaries and said "Sometimes you are fishers, and sometimes you must be Hunters" His whole talk was on how sometimes as Missionaries we give up on finding people or teaching our investigators. It's when in that moment we must keep going and be HUNTERS. :) 

MTC LIFE

It comes to find out all the Sisters in our District are all into pranking and scaring each other. All the Sisters in the Senior District HID on top of my closet and IN My closet and scared my Companion and I sooo BAD. I don't think I've ever screamed so loud in my entire life. It's the highest I've ever screamed too. So now it's a competition and it's even gotten to the point where we hide underneath their beds before they wake up and grab their legs when they're coming out of bed!! haha so now I'M SO ALERT AT ALL TIMES. 

A funny thing our Elders did was when they were in teaching our "Investigator", our Teacher wasn't in the room because she had to use the bathroom so to be funny they wrote her a note and said "Sorry we missed you, here's some pamphlets for your HW." Then slid the note under the door with some Gospel Pamphlets and ran back to our room. hahaha about five minutes later our Teacher came in laughing so hard holding the notes and just blabbering Korean at us! We had no idea what she was saying but it was super funny!

Anywaaaaays I love being a Missionary! The feelings I have felt here and that I'm continuing to feel is indescribable. I love being a Missionary, it honestly makes me so happy. I love you all and no worries everybody!! I finally remembered what my blog was. There's more pictures on there and My Beautiful Sister always likes to put a little bit of her own twist to the blog.  It's sisterkaufusi.blogspot.com   Have a great week!

 

 

August 3... No Devin isn't her boyfriend... Awkward

I have a valid question... will the church block my emails to Daryl for name calling?? After getting angry with her for not sharing the mass email she made sure I got this week's.  As mad as I am at her for going on her mission and leaving me all alone, I am proud of her because I know she's working hard... I'm mostly proud because someone brought her and her companion In-N-Out and they decided to sneak and ate it! Everybody loves a rebel... Today 3 of our cousins entered the MTC so at least she will be surrounded by family for a little.

 

Here's Daryl's email for this week:

 

HEYOOOO Everybody!!

Okay this week has been unreal. We're first going to start off with the funniest thing that has happened so far here at the MTC. Sister Shockey and I run every morning on the inside track because it gets so hot outside now! But one day while we're running, on the sides of the track there are workout machines and some of them are slightly on the track so you have to be aware of them while you're running because you could easily hit one. Sister Shockey and I were running and BAM, she nailed her arm on one of the machines and it left a pretty gnarly bruise. So her companion Sister Haddock made fun of her the rest of the day because she ran into the machine while running... but little did you know.... the next morning Sister Haddock NAILED HER FACE SO HARD ON THE SAME MACHINE. She was bending over with some other Sisters trying to block the track so we couldn't run past them and somehow she hit her face right on the handle bar of this workout machine and is now concussed and has a bruised nose. So both of them ran into the machine and I got to witness both. hahaha I love them so much but so happy they're both alive. So FYI to everyone coming to the MTC if you are going to run, be AWARE of the Machines while running inside:)

Also shout out to my Cousin Isaiah for getting married last week! So happy for you and Bre!

This past week of course there was lots of Korean to learn. Everyday Korean Korean Korean but everyday we really focus on the Gospel and how we can better be servants in the Lord's Hands to help bring others unto Christ. I love that so much and our Teachers here really stress that we didn't just go on a Mission to learn the language, that's not the purpose. We are here on a Mission to help and Invite others to come closer to Christ. The language will come but we must focus on our purpose and the people. Everything we do here should have a purpose, if we don't have a purpose for doing something, then why are we doing it in the first place??

I've learned a lot in the short time i've been here at the MTC and I have a lot more to learn out here in the field. It's crazy that I've already been here a month!! During my personal study, I came across a talk that is called the "Principle of Work" By F-David Stanley that was given in a while back in 1993. But boy does it have a powerful message in it. Missions are hard. They're not an easy thing to do, sometimes you gotta suck it up, try with all your effort and be willing to do the Lord's will. Sometimes you just gotta grind it out till the end! WORK HARD. In the talk he talks about how Hard work is a blessing of God. "It involves going after it "With all your heart, might, mind, and strength." That alone, is the difference between the average and the excellent."  

This really made me think and success comes from personal diligence, commitment and hard work. Sometimes we gotta ask ourselves if we are spending too much time day dreaming about who we want to be instead of acting on it and establishing a course of discipline and working hard on what we are going to be. Say less, do more, and get it done.This applies to Sports, School, anything. I really want to make that a priority as being a Missionary and I know if I rely on the Lord and work hard he will strengthen me and bless me. And for everyone who is serving. Don't just go on a Mission, go out and Serve a Mission. Don't just go through the motions of things. Go out and Serve, be active and have purpose in everything you are doing. Don't just go on a Mission, go out and Serve a Mission. There is a big difference in those two statements.  

Anyways I love you all so much! Have a great week and work hard in everything that you do:) Thank you all for  supporting me and the Kindness you have all shown me. It means a lot! Also Loa, Jackson and Chloe all come into the MTC today!! ON THE HUNT TO FIND ALL MY COUSINS. (To the Parentals of my cousins... no worries I'll take care of them!) Have a great week! 

-Sister Kaufusi 

Side Note: I printed out a picture of My Twin Devin and taped it up on my closet and all the Sisters kept thing it was a "Special Guy Friend" and so I hate to write on it to inform everyone when they come into our room that this is MY TWIN. 

Sorry no email for the 20th! But... here's July 27's email!

Love my sister... even though she's kind of a ding dong. So she asked me to update her blog for her. Then forgot to include me in the mass email! Bless her soul... hope her Korean is doing better than her common sense. Sorry there's no email to share from the week of July 20 but that's HER fault not mine. Here's her email from the 27th if you didn't get it. I was out of town and didn't get to update the blog but here it is!

Hello Everybody!!!

All the days are blending together and it's so hard to keep track! The days go by long but the weeks go by so fast! Let me tell you about this week. This week was very humbling for me! The Korean Language is a very humbling language but I learn more every day and love it even more every day! No worrie's I'm learning it slowly but surely! 

SO. The devotional on the 24th of July was Amazing this WEEK. Oh my goodness. Like I said before my Companion and I are in the Choir and the Nashville Tribute Band came and played at our devotional and as a Choir we got to sing with them. It's amazing to see so many Missionaries singing at the devotionals. ANYWAYS. So one of the songs they sang was called "The Hardest thing I've Ever Loved to Do." By: Nashville Tribute Band Everyone please go look it up and read the lyrics it truly is an amazing song! The Band Member wrote it about his Mission and the lyrics sunk deep into every single Missionary there. It really hit home with a lot of the Missionaries. The Spirit was so strong while singing that song I couldn't help but cry and cry and cry. Haha but no worries I wasn't the only one! Everyone was crying! Even all the Elders. You could here the sniffling throughout the whole building.  

Also, my Companion and I memorized Joseph Smith's First Vision all in Korean!! Crazy!! We used it in some of our lessons to teach some Members and that was really cool. The Spirit was strong. A group of our Korean District got sent off to Korea this past week! So sad because Sister Clegg went with them and now it's just Sister Shockey and I when we run in the mornings! All the Native Koreans left this week as well. But we will all see each other again! We sang "Till We Meet Again" to all of them that were leaving and yes, the tears were flowing! I don't like to cry that much but oh man when the Spirit fills the room the tears sometime come. Happy Tears of course!  They're such great Missionaries and I'm so excited for all of them who have left! But TODAY. WE GET 46 NEW MISSIONARIES IN OUR KOREAN BRANCH! 46!! Which is Crazy! That doubles the size of our zone. We're getting more Korean Sisters from Korea so that'll be exciting.

FUNNY THINGS:

1. Story time!! One night I'm in cleaning my room and Sister Kava (My Poly Sista) busts open the door and tells me to lay down...Me being so confused does what she says because she's poly and she could curl my whole body weight just with her pinky finger. So I hop in my bed and then she TUCKS ME IN MY BED. She tucked  me in so tight I felt like a burrito or something. It was so funny. Then she ran over to my companion's bed and tucked her in too. We were all laughing so hard. Every night now she comes in and tucks us in and then we say OFA ATU! 

2. I got to do a session today at the Temple with some of my Amazing friends Katie and Kenzie and I loved every minute of it. I was bearing my testimony to them in Korean outside the Temple and a man heard me and came over to talk to us. Apparently he served in Daejeon too when he Served his mission and told us a little bit about it!

3. I forgot to send my group email to my Mom and no worries I got about 4 Emails from her and Alexis making it very clear to send these to them so do not worry Mother and Alexis!! I love you!

4. We have a pantry full of food in our room. Literally two closets full of food so all the Sisters in our building come up whenever they're hungry and get some food from the two closets we have. We basically have our own food business here. 

5. Played some major Basketball this week... Corbin, Alexis and Bronson taught me so well...I air-balled it about 10 times...said a prayer in my heart then after, one of my shots went in. Obviously The Church is true. SooOooo after that I decided I should stick to running:)

Anyways! I love it here and everyone I have met! I absolutely love being a Missionary. Have a great week everyone! I would love to hear from you all so shoot me an email if you want. Send pictures too because I love seeing how everyone is doing! Also there's a blog my Sister is running that has my addresses, pictures, and my weekly emails on there if you would want it. I forgot what the address was.... hahaha but once I get it I'll send it out in my next email! Love you all!