Sorry my email is late this week! That is because of an exciting adventure we had on P-day that I will explain more about later!
But first of all, I can't believe Kayleigh is getting married in like a week or something and Aubrey got into BYU! It's so crazy and everyone is growing up so fast! I just want to go run away to Neverland with Peter Pan! Growing up scares me so much and I just wish all of y'all back home would stop doing it! Sister Clove has that super sappy dad-jeans song called "Butterfly Kisses" on her usb and when it comes on in the mornings we have to sprint over to turn it off because it makes me feel so depressed. Haha. I am such a baby!
Anyway, this week was an adventure! I randomly woke up one morning and wanted to cut off all of my hair. I'm not going to lie it was getting so long and unruly! I was starting to look like Captain Jack Sparrow! And then I saw Sister Curr at District Meeting and she had just bobbed her hair and my mind was set! I needed to get rid of at least 6 inches of crazy, ginger hair! So we set up a hair appointment at the good hair shop that the Gyungju Sisters go to and Sister Lee Yeji (who is perfect and both English and Korean) helped us make sure that we didn't accidentally tell the hair lady to shave our heads bald. Also, I had them work a little Korean magic on my hair (literally because that's what it's called) and permanently straighten my hair, which I thought would take an hour and a half, tops but it ended up taking pretty much all day...so that is why we are emailing today ! It just made President laughed when I talked to him at Zone Conference yesterday! I was so embarrassed! But I had no idea that doing an American's crazy ginger hair would stress out an entire Korean salon's staff and take 4 hours. Oopsies! Next time, I won't be doing magic on my hair!
Anyway...
On a missionary work note, things are still a little hard here in Pohang because we still only have one investigator who can't/won't come to church. But we have been working sooo hard. And we are finally starting to see some of the drops in our bucket show because last week at the bus stop I talked to this old lady and she just kept going on and on about how much she loves Americans because the American soldiers gave her food that saved her family when she was young and Korea was still a developing country. I gave her a Book of Mormon and told her about my Great-Grandpa serving in the Korean war. Then last night we were getting on the bus to go to Kim Unjung's house and she came up to me and said that she remembered me and wanted me to teach her granddaughter English! We got her number and called her and we are still waiting for her to call back! Please pray that it will work out! Also, Kim Unjung (our recent convert) really wants to share the gospel with her brother's family but she doesn't know how because they don't want to come to church on Sunday, but please pray that we will find a way together!
Zone Conference was so great yesterday! We learned about the importance of repentance and how to teach it more effectively to everyone. We studied Luke 15 and I wanted to share some of my insights that I got from studying it/conference yesterday. In Luke 15 there are three parables of things being lost and found. If you look at the end of all of them, you can see that when something is lost and then found the people who find the lost sheep/silver/son call all of their friends together and rejoice. We have all lost something in our lives and then come to find it again through Christ. Most often, we lose ourselves doing something dumb that seems worth it in the moment, but when we "come to ourselves" and repent, we "sing the song of redeeming love." And that song isn't meant to be sung alone! "The more you understand the Savior and His Atonement, the greater your desire to share the gospel will become." (that's in PMG somewhere or something) So as we repent each day (and repenting just means going through your day with God and telling Him all the things you did and counseling on how you can do better) we will understand the Atonement more, and want to share with our friends and family. The gospel really is a great gift and such great news! Share it with everyone! Your friends, your family, your kids. Whoever will listen!
I love y'all so much! I can't believe how much my life is changing here in Korea and how much everything is changing back home. Sometimes I really miss it, but I know that it will all work out. Soon enough I'll be home laying on the floor listening to my The Smiths records and reading Hemingway. But for now, I've got some really important work to do and not a lot of time to do it!
사랑해요!
"I you love!"
Sister Johns
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