Hello!!!
Okay I have zero time! We got permission to go shopping in Nampo for Elder Ralphs's last P-day so we are just emailing really quickly at Lotte Mart. Let me just tell you: you don't know shopping until you have been to Korea. It is all so beautiful and so reasonably priced. Dad, don't be surprised if I decline my credit card. ;) Jk. I'll be careful. But really though. I literally hyperventilated when I walked into this mall. No joke. You can ask my comp...and I may or may not have peed a little. God is my witness (is that bad to say??), if I ever serve here in Pusan or Nampo I will be broke and happy by the time I leave. Pusan is amazing! I didn't realize how much I miss the city until we got here today.
Anyway, this week was good. We saw two huge miracles! Hong Yeji, the cute girl from English class who works at the post office, invited us to go to dinner with her tonight in Changwon! We are so excited! I have been praying for Hong Yeji since we met her! She is the cutest human! Pray, pray, pray that we might be able to teach her or help her a little! She is amazing! Also, we were looking for less-active members the other day and after about 100 rejections a less-active sister who is about 25 answered the door and was super excited to see us. We are meeting with her on Thursday and Kim Moon-Jo on Sunday! Korean Thanksgiving is this week!! I am so excited!!! :) Fall in Korea is the best! The weather is great and there are these delicious Redbean and cream filled fish breads that you can get on the streets. You can also buy fried octopus pancake ball things. Most foreign missionaries don't like them, but I decided to hakunamatata it and try them. They were super yummy! Who knew?
Also, I had a major breakthrough this week. I felt like everything I have been doing is worthless because we don't have anyone to teach. But the other day, we visisted 박부자 (Pak Booja), the old lady we visit every week who always gives us weird food. And I realized that the fact that I, a selfish and human-natured 20-year-old girl, can sit on an old lady's floor drinking a cup of sicknasty powdered milk with about 12 sugar cubes (and my companion's because she couldn't do it) and listen to this woman ramble on in a language I don't understand about all of the (probably fictitious) flings she had with foreign men when she was young and still be happy/keep coming back is an accomplishment in itself. Before my mission, you couldn't have paid me to do that, but now it is a pleasure. I love Pak Booja and seeing her at church every week makes me so happy and visiting her and singing to her every Tuesday makes me so happy.
Well, that's all I've got time for. I have some shopping and site-seeing to do! :)
사랑해요!!!
I you love!
Sister Johns
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