WEEK 1
Hello Everyone!!
Oh man this week has been probably the longest week of my life. Haha we
finally got to leave the MTC! It was so bittersweet. Sister Christensen
and I made sure we had everything packed and ready to go two nights
before we left!
So the flight to Korea was awesome, haha we flew to Seattle first and
then straight to Korea. It was so funny because on our flight from
Seattle to Korea we almost missed our flight! There were 15
Missionaries, and our other plane ride came in late. We were running so
fast thru the airport people thought we were weird haha. But! We made it
with 5 minutes to spare. It was a blessing we made our flight. The
flight was long, but we were all so anxious to get to Korea and very
excited! When we finally landed our Mission President, and His wife was
there to meet us, and they are so nice. President and Sister Madsen
welcomed us right into their Mission Family and took us out everywhere
to eat food. THE FOOD HERE is amazing! I love it so much!
So I am in an area called Chungju! I love it here! I got a new
Companion, and she is awesome! Her name is Sister Zuniga; she is from
Texas, and she goes home in 5 weeks! Kind of sad but she honestly is the
best and helps me a lot with the language and things. My second day
while we were out proselyting I got to talk to an amazing Korean Woman
about her life and her family. I had broken Korean, but the Spirit
prompted me to talk to her, so I tried my best. I was speaking to her in
Korean and told her I was from America and then she started to speak
English to me. Haha, she asked me if I was going to be okay here in
Korea and I just laughed and said yes. I pray I see her again; she had
the light of Christ in her even though she was Catholic. I love going
out and proselyting because I love telling people about how amazing
this Church is. It brings so much happiness and blessings to people's
life, they all should get the chance to hear it! We are currently
teaching two investigators right now, and they are so cute. Her American
name is Sarah, and she is 13 years old. We taught her about prayer and
repentance, and she has so much energy about her. She has a baptismal
date, and we are starting to teach her the lessons.
We also went and taught some members, and I bore my testimony to them,
and they are so kind and loving! The members made our dinner, and it was
good. I ate a lot. I was so full after. I continue to try and do better
and to have faith. It's been a crazy week, and I've been overwhelmed at
times, but I know that with my faith, and with Hope, God will help
me.The antidote for things like that is service!! Serving others brings
me a lot of happiness! I love helping the people here. He knows how to
comfort us in times of need and is always with us. It's up to us if we
want Heavenly Father in our lives. He obeys our agency; it is up to us
to turn to Heavenly Father and seek him. He is there waiting and always
wants to help us. He loves all of his children so much and nothing can
seperate us from the Love of Christ.
So sorry I don't have any pictures to send home this week I forgot my chord! But next week I will for sure :)
KOREA!
1. Food is amazing
2. The People are Amazing
3. Everyday I get told I am super tall, I have really long eyelashes,
and that I am super tall again. haha Makes me feel good because I can
finally feel like I fit in with my fam now!!
4. I love this Gospel and I love this work. It's amazing and brings so much joy.
Have a great week everyone!
-Sister Kaufusi
WEEK 2
Sorry for the late email everyone! My Companion and I were doing
Companionship study when we got a call from a Woman who wanted to meet
with us and do the 30/30 program. 30 Minutes of Enlgish and 30 minutes
of us sharing the Gospel. We were so excited we dropped everything we
were doing and ran as quick as we could to the Church! We taught this
Woman some English and then started to teach her about the Gospel. She
seems amazing and agreed to meet with us two more times this week! She's
learning about the Restoration right now so I'm really excited how this
will go. Where do I even begin! This week has been tough I'll be
honest. Walking around in a foreign Country and trying to speak a
foreign language can be one tough thing to do! But the Lord helps me
through it when I speak and people understand me.. I think ;) ha! This
week we had Mission Tour! Which was really amazing because we got to
hear from Brother Choi who is one of the 70 covering all of Asia. His
wife and Him did a great workshop and he spoke about how it is a gift to
speak and that we shouldn't be scared or anything to speak this
language to people. The Lord called us to the work and he will always
provide a way! They said a lot of amazing things for me and it really
helped strengthen me,and my testimony.
SO. Story time:
Some members called us last week and really wanted to take us out
to dinner. So of course we went and they actually lived in Provo for a
bit! So we talked about Provo and their family and we were at a really
nice Korean food restuarant and food just kept coming. There was this
one fish, we have no idea what it was but my Companion and I put it in
our mouths and were like WHAT IS THIS?! I started to sweat it was
something out of this world hahaha my Companion was laughing so hard
watching me eat it. It was such an intresting taste.. Pretty sure it was
stingray or something but after my Companion kept looking at me and
told me to keep eating it... So i told myself I would try and with a lot
of Kimchi I did. hahaha it was funny!
I also gave out a Book of Mormon this week to a cute girl on the
train! She was a student and she's buddhist but she was very kind and
gave me some food as well. She's a student studying french but I told
her we could help her with her English.
We visited a former investigator named Lisa who is from the
Phillipines. She only speaks english but she is a strong Christian and
believes in the Bible. We had a long talk about the Goodness of God
and how God has a plan for us all. She is uneasy about the Book of
Mormon but no worries the Lord will help her!
I also gave a talk in Church yesterday and I was so nervous. Haha I
got up and was so tall I had to bend over to speak! Once I sat down the
cute old ladies patted me on the back and said good job.
Mission Work is hard, but it is so amazing and I love it! It's the
best decision I have ever made and I know I have a long way to go but
Heavenly Father is always there to help us. To pick us up when we are
struggling and make us into something better than we ever thought we
could be. He knows us better than we know ourselves. Have a great week
everybody!
There's more picures on my blog if you want to check it out!
The last picture is from some ofthe Sisters I served with at the MTC!
-Sister Kaufusi
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