안녕하세요 (Annyeonghaseyo)!
Merry Christmas!
I think we've got things arranged for Skype on this side, and so I'll be seeing you all in a few days!
This week was pretty crazy... I think I wrote about it last week but Elder 박 (Bak) got sick, and he was starting to get better, but then had too much food before he completely healed and so he got sick again (in retrospect, the seasoned steamed cheese chicken was probably pushing it after he spent an evening throwing up...).
We went to a doctor's office, and the doctor said to not eat anything for three days, and so that's what we did (the doctor is a total quack by the way; they took his blood pressure, Elder 박 (Bak) talked to him for like 3 mintues ("I threw up and got better and then I ate chicken and I don't feel good anymore"), and the doctor diagnosed him with an "inflammed stomach" without doing ANY kind of test whatsoever... Korean medicine seems kind of not sound at all), and so we got medicine.
He actually wasn't feeling that bad, but since he wasn't eating, Elder 박 didn't have a lot of energy to go outside and walk around and stuff. He's much, much better now by the way, so I think it's a good thing we took things kind of slow.
So that means we had to spend a lot of time this week at our church or house kind of doing busy work/stuff we can do without moving too much. I think I mentioned the Christmas cards our mission made; we spend a good deal of time preparing those (printing off and gluing messages onto them) and we gave out a bunch yesterday. We're supposed to be giving out like 10-15 cards a day, and we definately have not been doing that, so we have a bunch of cards that need to be given out before Christmas.
We spend maybe an hour to an hour and a half giving out the cards (one of us held a board that basically said "Take a card! Merry Christmas!" and the other gave out the cards as we wandered around 대구 (Daegu)). To be honest, it's pretty easy missionary work; there's not a lot of thinking we had to do, but it felt really good to finally step out, do something, and be able to count the numbers to prove that we worked (we gave out 105 cards this week, with some 90ish yesterday. We really need to be giving more out though).
Other than that, we've had a lot of planning an practicing (well, not as much practice as we need) for various Christmas meetings and other meeitings we have planned, so again, kind of a slow meeting.
We met with Brother 변수환 (Byeon Suhwan), a member, this week. To be honest, we were with him for a super long time because he said he wasn't ready to hear our message (he instead demanded our wallets and then spent like 20 minutes checking them out. He's kind of a funny/strange man (probably would be funnier if I could understand his jokes), but that was kind of weird). The message, however, went really well. Brother 변 is kind of a jokester, but he seemed to think really hard and he was really serious during the message. Have you seen the video "Heavenly Father, Earthly Father?" We showed that to him, and talked about the role of fathers.
Oh! I had actually planned to send a Christmas package, but that didn't work out, and so I wanted to send a bunch of pictures as a Christmas present insead, but that didn't work out super well either; I had hoped to have saved a tooooon of cool pictures but I'll send what I have (I thought about it, and I'm basically not giving the pictures I should have send earlier and then calling it a present, which is a pretty lame present). It's not much, but enjoy!
Talk to you on Christmas!
Love,
- Elder Luke
So here's a few pictures from 이기대 (Igidae) a couple of transfers back. I tried to save the cooler pictures for this...
Here's a few more from 이기대 (Igidae)...
Here's a picture I took in 남포동 (Nampodong, a big shopping district in Busan), along with some random rainbow stairs we found in 광안 (Gwangan). The stairs are pretty much in the middle of nowhere, but they were pretty cool so we took a few pictures on a pday when we had time.
The first picture is me with Elder 홍의택 (Hong Witaek -- Andrew's first companion in Gwangan, from the latter part June through the first part of August last year) - he had to come down to Busan to do military stuff, so we got to hang out with him during lunch after a district meeting. The next is our district picture, and the last is just to say, "Merry Christmas!"
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