President Jeong started interviews for this transfer and instead of them coming to the office, he and Sister Kim are going to their apartments to inspect and make sure that everything is okay. Before they left on Tuesday, they brought us some rice cake? that Sister Kim had made for the missionaries.
Here is what it looked like:
Yep, it's green and the black spots are beans. We did try it. But there was just no taste to it at all. That's got to be why Koreans are skinny, because they eat no sugar.
On Friday, the Assistants and President left for Jeju Island for their Zone Conference. There are only 4 elders and 2 sisters on the island. We hear it is very beautiful over there. Hopefully, the President will take us one of these times.
Before them leaving, a missionary and his companion came to the office. President pulled one of them into his office and they spoke for quite some time. When the President left for the airport, the missionary was still in the office on the phone with his parents. We assumed that he was struggling and wanted to go home. This was a Korean Elder. Anyway, he talked for almost three hours. After all was said and done, he decided to stay at least until the end of this transfer. So he is staying with the Office Elders here at the complex. And his companion was moved to another apartment. Hopefully, he stays. He is a wonderful young man.
Wednesday at English class, I asked the question - what is your favorite movie and why?
One of them said Ben Hur - he liked the chariot race. Most of them talked about Korean movies. One of the ladies - Anna - told us of a movie about a young girl who wanted to learn how to play the piano. Her mother couldn't afford one, but their next door neighbor had one and he said that she could come and play his piano. So over a time, the neighbor asked her to start taking her clothes off. I turned to Wayne and we both started wondering where this was heading. So she stopped after she gave that little bit of information and then said that it was a beautiful movie because of the emotions this young girl discovered about herself. Needless to say, we didn't really comment on the movie and moved on to the next person quickly.
On Saturday, we did our normal things at the apartment, went shopping and then went for a walk along the river. We have noticed before that there are groups of people scattered along the walkway and you can tell that some of them are watching people play a game. We thought is was checkers or chess. But on Saturday, we got a little bit closer and took a picture. We don't know what they call the game but it was interesting to watch.
Those are black and white stones on the board and it looks like they have to stop the progress of their opponent. We will have to find out what the game is.
At church on Sunday, we listened to Conference. The ward stayed down in the chapel listening to the Korean version and we came upstairs to listen to English. Then of course, they had a luncheon and started again at 1:00 pm for the last session of conference.
It is fun to be here and see these people sit on the edge of their chairs, literally, listening to every word that is spoken.
Well, that's it for the week.
We love you and miss you all.
Oh, you guys are so brave! Mountain climbing, eating strange food, and on and on. Korea reminds us of Hong Kong - Chinese food is definitely tasteless. We need to cut back on sugar, for sure. We also saw the old men playing games; the missionaries told us they were gambling, but we never did find out what the game was. Your English classes are getting pretty interesting - fights, nudity....what next?
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We just live from day to day! We are glad you know what we are going through. It's been fun
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