This week has been the best and the worst. Isn't it funny how missions are like that?!
I got transferred to a new area! Pohang is really awesome. It's right by the ocean and there's a beach with sand and everything! And the branch is really wonderful and there are tons of super cute kids in it! We even do a kids' English class on Thursdays! It's so fun! We're also preparing the cutest family in the world to be baptized next Sunday. The missionaries have been teaching them for 6 months and they're finally ready! They are seriously the cutest. And I have no idea why but their kids love me! Their little boy is just my buddy! I am so tempted to break the no-holding-kids rule every time we see them. Also, serving with Sister Morrison is so much fun! I felt like Ariel when she gets her voice back when we met at Transfer Meeting! It's so weird having an American companion! We have way too much fun together. Our first three nights together we stayed up until like 1:30 talking and peeing our pants laughing so hard! Also, we are the only two ginger sisters in the mission and we're serving together...so jundo is pretty insane. People literally stop us and ask if they can touch our hair. It's super weird! But we found two new people to teach this week because of it...? Ginger power?! I think so!
Pohang is also super intense though. It is known within the mission for being a super hard area. Sister Morrison tried to shield me from that at Transfer meeting, but before she could say all of the good things about Pohang, I had heard all of the crazy bad stuff. But it's really not as bad as everyone made it sound. It is just that there weren't sisters in Pohang for 30 years until about 5 transfers ago and the branch president expects a LOT out of the missionaries. I am so nervous and I feel so inadequate. I feel so overwhelmed by how much I still need to learn as far as Korean goes, and this area has never had a sister as "young" as me before (as far as amount of transfers goes) or two Americans, so gaining the members' trust is really hard. I seriously have no idea why President sent me here. Pohang an area where hardcore sisters who know what they are doing go...and I am the complete opposite of that. I like flowers and baby things and bows I am pretty much as soft-core as it gets. I am so confused, but I am trying not to let the stress get to me too much. I have adopted that super old song by The Mountain Goats that goes "I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me" as my theme song because I think Pohang might rip out my soul.
Anyway, Pohang is FREEZING! It rains pretty much everyday I and I have been sick with a weird cough/cold all week and it just won't go away!! But I am way to afraid to go to the doctor though...Korean doctors' offices are way sketchy and I can't speak Korean to save my life, so I think I'll just wait until the cold blows over...
Anyway, there's not a ton to say! I am super happy and super stressed as usual for missionaries. Pray for me because I have never felt so inadequate in my life.
Have a great Thanksgiving and each of you eat a piece of pumpkin pie for me!!
사랑해요!!!
I you love
Sister Johns
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| Scenic Pohang |
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| Posco (a huge steel factory in Pohang)...pretty much everyone on Pohang works here and has MONEY because of it. That makes missionary work a little hard but also good because there are lots of people, but not a lot of humble people. |
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| I love this Ginger!!! :) |
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| 호떡!!!!!! YUM! |
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| Hey! They kind of do celebrate Christmas here...kind of! |
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