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!