WEEK 6; OCTOBER 16, 2016
SPORTS DAY/TRANSFERS/BEDNAR?!!
Hi everybody!!!
This last week has been beyond crazy. I finished my first transfer
here in Korea!! Which went by so quick! My Companion, left for America
today and I get my new Companion this week! Her name is Sister Park. SHE
IS AMAZING. Let me tell you, she's Korean and she was in the MTC with
me my first three weeks! Her and I actually were really good friends but
since she was Korean she left after her first 3 weeks in the MTC and I
wrote her a goodbye letter saying "I hope someday we can be companions!"
and she wrote that in mine as welll. And guess what!! WE ARE NOW
COMPANIONS!! I couldn't be more excited. She is truly amazing and I
can't wait to work with her.
So first off this past week we had Zone Training and our Mission
President and his wife came and joined us. President and Sister Madsen
are so wonderful and I'm so grateful for them and their hard work. We
got to see everyone in our Zone and that's always fun to see all the
Missionaries!
We went and visited a lot of Members this week and they LOVE TO
FEED US! I haven't eaten this much food in my life haha. It got to the
point where my Companion and I would not eat breakfast or anything until
we had to go and eat because they feed us so much food that by the end
of it we can barely walk! haha It's so good though and the Members here
are amazing. We shared some messages with them on the Atonement and
Jesus Christ and it was very spiritual.
Happy Birthday to my Beautiful Mother and Happy Birthday to my
Awesome Dad as well! Geez they're such amazing parents and I'm so
grateful for them!
This past Saturday was SPORTS DAY. And 1. I have never been so sore
in my life, 2. I love Korea and 3. Who knew Korean Woman could be so
competative! Ha! I love it!!
The Stake I am in are all amazing members. I love them all so much!
So they have this annual sports day where the whole stake gets together
and play sports literally all day. We took one of our investigators and
I was so excited. First thing we did, was STRETCH! They have this
stretching routine and it was super funny. After, all the Mom's,
Daughters, Sisters etc. All played a soccer game. This was a legit game!
They were all so excited and told me in broken English "Kapushi, don't
pass to us. You take ball, and score only. OK? SCORE. SCORE.SHOOT and
SCORE." It was the best game of my life! We ended up winning 2-0 and
after I scored they all came running over jumping and clapping. haha it
was so cute I'm so much taller than all of them I look like a giant!!
They were all so cute and funny but SUPER COMPETATIVE. I was laughing so
hard. I would try and pass them the ball and they would just tell me to
go and shoot because they wanted to win haha they had an announcer and
everything and it was super fun. They had kickball, races, everything.
We played all day and it was up in the Mountains of 충주 and it was so
beautiful.
This week Elder Bednar is coming to Korea! He's speaking to all of
us so we will all be going down in Gwangju to go see him. It's going to
be a busy week out here but I love it so much! Have a great week
everyone!
-Sister Kaufusi
Pics:
1. All of us at sports day!
2. This little boy is in the Ward I'm serving in and he reminds me
so much of my Twin Brother Devin. haha He is so funny! I beat him in an
arm wrestle but no worries that was only after he beat me about 10
different times!
WEEK 5; OCTOBER 9, 2016
HEY!
Hello Friends and Family!
This week was amazing. We taught one of our Investigators and I
tried to participate as much as possible and I'm pretty sure she did not
understand a thing I was saying but she said she could feel it in her
heart that what we were saying was true. Really amazing. The Lord is so
mindful of his Children and I think often times we forget that but he is
aware of us and knows us personally. We are Children of the Almighty
God! How amazing is that. This is something amazing to recognize. We are
the literal Children of a loving Heavenly Father who created all things
and has blessed us so much. I love it!
This Past week we were able to meet with one of the Ward Members
who took us out to for lunch. Her name is 완인숙 and she is an amazing
Woman. She told of her story on how the Missionaries were meeting with
her husband a while back. And they were amazing Missionaries. The Elders
were teaching her Husband and he cared for them very much. He told her
that if he were to ever get baptized, he would want to be baptized by
one of the Elders that was teaching them. Later on, her loving Husband
passed away. And he never had the chance to get baptized. She, is a
strong member of this Church and has so much faith. Later on, she
miraculously found the Elder on Facebook that her Husband was talking
about. And he was visiting Korea within that month! She quickly
contacted him and asked him if they could arrange a Temple date so her
husband's temple work could be done and he could have the chance to
baptize him through baptisms of the dead. That Elder, came back to
Korea, with his family and they were able to do her Husband's Temple
work and he was able to be baptized by the same Elder that taught him so
many years ago. She was so happy telling this story and at the end she
said "He said he wanted this Elder to baptize him if he were to ever get
baptized. And look at that, that Same Elder Did get to baptize him."
HOW AMAZING!?! Her husband passed away but the joy of temple work and
baptisms for the dead, even though he passed away, they were still able
to do his work and he was baptized. Amazing.
We were able to watch conference this week and how amazing was
Conference everyone?! So many good talks that were so thoughtfully and
spiritually prepared by Disciples of Christ.
I want to say so much but I have little time so I will highlight
one of the talks that stood out to me. Brother Uceda gave a very
powerful talk on paying attention the the Holy Spirit but also pin
pointing the importance of prayer. Prayer, is vital and so important.
When we pray do we pray as if it's a burden? To try and go through a
prayer as quick as we can so we can hurry and do something else? Or do
we pray with real intent, talking to our Heavenly Father about our day
and our desires. He invites us to pray always and he knows our hearts.
When we pray do we pray for our will to be done or do we pray with
God's will in mind? These are some of the thoughts I had and then the
scripture came to me about "They pray with their lips, but their hearts
are far from me." Brother Uceda went on to say the Lord doesn't say "I
am too busy to hear your prayer, or you hnly come to me in troubled
times. I will not listen." No. Only men do that. We have a loving
patient Heavenly Father who is always there listening and wanting to
help us. When we pray with sincerity and real intent, it changes our
whole perspective on prayer and what prayer really is.
I've learned a lot through Conference and I hope you have to and to
always have a prayer in your heart!! Have a great week and sorry this
one was kind of long!
-Sister Kaufusi
1. Some of the food! So Good!
2. With the STL's and Sister Haddock celebrating the birthday!
3. The cutest family we go and teach them 2 times a week english
and gospel! They're all the cutest little girls. They giggle when I pray
in Korean because I have an american accent when I pray and I know so
little. hahaha
4. At a ward function! Playing some games with the Cute Old Grandmas :)
WEEK 4; OCTOBER 3, 2016
Food 1000x! Birthdays! Split!
WHAT A WEEK!
First off it was General Conference!! How was Conference for
everyone?? In Korea we watch it a week later so I'm so excited to watch
it.
The Land of Korea is amazing. So many amazing people and so much
good food. Funny story about that. This week I got to on splits with the
STL's and Sister Haddock and that was so fun! I love all of them so
much and they celebrated my birthday by going to Baskin Robin's and
eating this big BUCKET FULL OF ICE CREAM! While we were there we visited
a Members house. She was very nice and made SO MUCH FOOD! Because there
was five of us Sisters and so she MADE TONS OF FOOD. It seriously
covered the whole table.
Now I can eat a lot and earlier that day before we left for the
Split, my Companion and I went to go visit our Bishop's Wife and share a
message. She's known for being a good cook so we ate so much food at
her house. and we ate all of it! After, we went to the City over to do
splits and we went to this Members house and we. ate. so. much. food. I
literally almost threw up because of all the food and I was praying in
my heart so hard to Heavenly Father to please not let me throw up and I
didn't! She kept putting so much food on my plate and I just had to eat
it all. I imagined I was Bronson or Corbin haha and said "I JUST GOTTA
EAT IT ALL" Pretend i'm a football player. But we shared a message with
her and it was really fun.
Today, our ward had a ward activity and it was so fun! Almost all
the Members were there and we ate and then we played some games. All the
Dad's and the Bishop in the ward love to play soccer so they put in
some soccer games for me and it was super fun! It was hard to do it in a
dress haha but they can't wait to play soccer with me. They're having a
Stake Sports Day next Saturday and they're all so excited. I am too!
But the cute Old Grandma's in our ward taught us Korean Dances and they
even brought out the Ping Pong Tables and had an intense game of Ping
Pong.
This week lot's of appointments fell through but we're still
working hard. My current companion goes home next week so I'll be
getting a new companion!! So we've been getting her packed and things
and working hard for her last week and a half.
I'e been reading a lot in the Book of Mormon and Alma 56 and 57
talks about Helaman and the Stripling Warriors. I started crying while
reading these chapters because Helaman cares so much for his "Sons" ad
their faith in the Lord just blows me away! I sat there reading with
tears streaming down my face because I was so amazed and the love they
have for each other and the Lord. If you have time please read them.
Anyways I love you all and have such a great week!! Sorry I don't
have any pictures this week because I need to by a Card Reader to plug
into the computer... haha no worries I'll send lots next week! :)
-P.S Sorry for my spelling errors.... haha it's propably going to get worse as time goes on!
-Sister Kaufusi
Week 3; SEPTEMBER 25, 2016
Hellooo it's me! (Adele Voice)
It's already Monday again?! This is crazy! This week has flown by and so many miracles have happened!
1. 박순회 was the Woman who called us last week and wanted to meet
with us to learn English, we tuaght her the first lesson and she told us
she believes in Prophets! We're finishing the first lesson with her
today so I'm really excited to see how it goes. I'm also really excitd because we're going to invite her to come watch General Conference with us as well.
She does the traditional fan dancing and I want her to teach my
Companion and I how to do it! She truly is amazing and her work ethic to
learn english is amazing.
2. We had Zone Training this past week! Which was really fun
because I got to see people from my MTC District! So good to see
everyone.
3. ALSO! Happy Late Birthday to my BEAUTIFUL Sister. So lucky to
call her my older Sis. I love you Alexis! Someday when I'm back from the
Mish you can be my Fitness Coach and get me into real good shape. haha
4. Happy Birthday to my TWINNER TWINNER this Sunday! Dev, I love you you're doing amazing out in Switzerland!
5. Oh this week I also had to give the Spiritual thought in English
Class. And run the last half hour of it. Pretty intimidating but we had
so many people come! It went well and all of the Koreans are really
nice. They all love to learn English. We'll be walking down the streets
saying hi to people and they'll just run up to us and say Hi in English
or "I love AMERICA!"
6. Also another Major Miracle we had was we were coming home from
one of or Proselyting Activites and we were late, and we missed our bus
stop to get home. So we were hurrying home when we were walking past
this man, we said hello and he stopped and said hi to us in English! He
was really excited to see us. He told us he was meeting with the
Missionaries before but then his Mom Died a year ago and then his
personal life got hectic. He moved away but recently moved back here to
Korea. He said he's been to our Church a couple of times but that he was
looking for the Missionaries and he was happy he saw us walking home.
It was such perfect timing!! If we didn't get off on the right stop, or
came home just minutes before, we wouldn't have ran into him. We got his
number and sent it to the Elders. What a miracle!!
7. PROSELYTING ACTIVITY. There was a big festival going on in
Chungju this week so we made signs with "Questions of the Heart" and
people would stick stickers on which one they wanted to know more about.
It was really fun. So many people and it was so fun!
I've learned a lot this week. I've been reading in Alma Chapters
17-20 about Ammon. This story is amazing and the faith they have to go
out and preach the Gospel to the Lamanites who absolutely hated the
Nephites but they went out with so much faith. I suggest you read those
chapters if you have time. There's some beautiful verses in all those
chapters about the light of Christ and how it changed some people.
Patience is another thing I've learned a lot. Sometimes I wish I
can just speak Korean but I have to pace myself. Having patience and
long-suffering and I know that if I learn a little bit at a time, the
Lord will help me! Anyways I love this work and I love you all so so
much! Have an amazing week everyone!
Pics: 1. Proselyting Activity! So much fun!
2. Our investigator 호소연 She has a baptismal date! She's so cute.
3. My Mom sent me a package with some goodies in it and I was really excited about the Reese's. Thanks Mom!
I love this work!
-카푸시 자매
