안녕하세요~! (Annyeonghaseyo!)
We had a pretty slow week this week. Brother 전대영 (Jeon Daeyeong) had a bunch of tests this week, so he couldn't meet with us - he planned on coming to a couple of meetings (especially our ward social thing), but he said that his mom told him to stay home and study. :( He'll finish his tests sometime this week, so we can start meeting him more regularly from then.
My companion got a phone call a few days ago, and he's got military stuff to do! I'm not 100% sure what it is, but I guess first of all, all Korean men are required to serve in the military for 2 years. And after the two years, they're required to receive kind of follow up training every year for like 8 years or something. My companion's going up to some base that's like 2 hours away from 광안 (Gwangan, Andrew's area) for 3 days of training, and so I'll be with the 해운대 (Haeundae) elders for the next few days.
So needless to say, this week is going to be pretty crazy trying to coordinate 2 area's worth of work with 3 people. 해운대 (Haeundae) already has 4 elders, and I believe another elder is going there for military stuff, so I'll be living with 6 people. I have no idea about what will happen as far as bedding and food and showers and things go, but it'll work out, right?
Okay, back to this week...
The ward social ended up going really, really well. My companion was super, super stressed since he kind of had to be in charge of it (I can't explain game rules well...), but thankfully, one of our members, Brother 김동현 (Donghyun Kim) stepped in and kind of ran the show for us. There were only like 20 people that showed up at first, so we were pretty worried, but people tricked in and I think we had double that at the end.
Brother 김동현 prepared a couple of games, and it seemed like everyone really enjoyed it - people were talking about doing another meeting again sometime in the next couple of months.
We ended up playing kind of a rhythm game, Pictionary, and then a game that you play on a ping pong table - you take off the net, everyone kneels around the table, and you try the blow a ping pong ball of the table on the other team's side. It was a simple game, but people really got into it, and the meeting ended well. What a relief! Both my companion and I are really really grateful for Brother 김동현 - I think he singlehandedly made the activity a success. Elder 홍의택 (Hong Witaen, Andrew's companion) said that Brother 김 was an answer to his prayers.
We ended up not doing the children's English class due to our ward social - it would have been too much work. But the people who were interested in that English class are going on vacation, so it kind of looks like the English class is not going to actually happen, which is kind of okay by me (I really don't want to have to teach children...).
I don't know; other than that, we kind of had a lot of meetings this week - I ended up going to 해운대 (Haeundae) on exchanges again, we had interviews with President Barrow, we had a stake fireside this Sunday for President Barrow, and we kind of filled up the rest of the time with planning for stuff and our normal activities (English class, people we meet with weekly, etc.)
Here's a couple of pictures we took at a YM/YW's meeting like 3 weeks ago. The kid in the blue is Brother 정대영 (Jeon Daeyeong, the investigator Andrew mentioned in the first sentence). We did a kind of cooking activity where we made 떡뽁이 which is like rice cakes cooked in a sweet and spicy chili sauce (that doesn't describe what it is at all...), and frypan pizzas.
It's not alot, but I think that's it for this week! Have a good week!
Love,
Elder Luke
Notes:
전대영: Jeon Daeyong. The student Andrew and his companion have been teaching. Previously Andrew spelled his family name Jeong; looks like a typo in the first sentence.
해운대: Another area of Busan. Described previously by Andrew as "kind of a glitzy, rich, party city." A couple of miles west of where Andrew lives.
떡뽁이: Tteokbboki (what the characters look like to me), or tteokbokki (the way Wikipedia spells it). According to the aforementioned Wikipedia article, it's "a popular Korean snack food made from soft rice cake, fish cake and sweet red chili sauce." Here are some photos.
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