It's finally winter

Pictures
1.2. Selfie stuff(My comp looks like a dad haha)
3. Yummy soup we bought one night!
4. Selfie in front of the church
5. Spooky spider in the basement
6. Picture of the street!
7.The Christmas tree we decorated
8. Selfie
9. Apparently they have free hot chocolet on the street! YAAAAAA
10. My comp eating his daily kimchi
11. My comp still looks like a dad.

Winter has officially hit here in korea! It's a whole new kind of missionary work when you are freezing on the street. It takes a lot of focus and desire to want to talk to people. When I am walking around, I am reminded of the first missionaries who are trekking through snow and all sorts of natural hardships with only a sack on their back and no knowledge of their next meal or place to stay the night. When I think about it like that I don't feel like complaining or having a bad attitude about anything. I love missionary work and all it teaches you!

This week there was not a lot to do in my area because we are not teaching anyone and the members have been super busy. YAY creative missionary work here I come. It is hard talking to people one the street during the day because all of the men are in work. Since we can proselyte to men, going out is not super effective. We cleaned our church some of the days where we couldn't find things to do or picked up trash on the street. We are also making a video right now for our members to share on Facebook so we also worked on that. 

Wednesday we had interviews with president and  that was awesome! Our president is a really wise man and we had a really good conversation about how I can improve as a missionary and serve and love my branch members more. Really grateful to have him as my mission president. 

Thursday was definitely the coolest and most fun day of the week. Elder Lee from another area exchanged with Elder Giles for a day. Elder lee is from highland utah and is a really cool guy! The first thing we did was go to Burger Mugger for lunch. I wanted him to try the yummy delicious food that is there and I also was craving something american. We we talked to the member who owns the resturant for the first little while and then two white guys walk into the restaurant. So I struck up a conversation with them and found out that their english is perfect! They are both from Germany and they are working in korea for a few weeks on some german submarines. They were both realy cool guys so we asked if we could sit with them and eat.  We asked them about their families and they told us that they both have daughters and wives and they love love their families. At this point we started asking them about God and church and all that jazz. Basically that ended up leading into us teaching almost the entire first lesson to them right in the restaurant while we were eating. Such a cool experience. We challenged them to look up our website and then contact the missionaries in Germany. I don't know if anything will come of it, but all I know is that the spirit was there really strong and the two guys could feel it for sure. 

The rest of the exchange consisted of us getting lost a lot because the bus system is so crazy and I can't korean still so that was fun.

Saturday we got to go out with the branch president's family for dinner. Their son speaks fluent english and lived in south jordan for a few years so it was really fun to be with them. They are such a strong family and you can sense the unity in the family. The restaurant was really nice and we ate a lot. I now love sushi and so I ate a bunch of that. The people at the restaurant were so surprised and spooked that their were two white guys in this restaurant so basically everyone was staring at us the entire time. 

Not much else happened this week. This is my last week of the transfer and my last week with elder giles. I think I am going to stay in this area and elder giles will leave so that will be interesting. Super excited for this week and all of it's adventures!

Elder Meeks