1. Cringy musical number at the introduction meeting
2. Mission president, his wife, my come, and me
3. Me catching flies on the bus...really fun game...you should all try it sometime!
4.Rockin selfie
5.Dinner at the apartment!
6. English class advertisement photo shoot!
7. Yummy food
8. even yummier food!
9. Soft and chewey I couldn't eat because it wasn't mine...sad day
Hello my beloved friends and family! I am emailing from the church in bang oh jin which is my very first area! The title of my email is very very accurate because I literally can understand nothing here! People talk so fast and slur like all of their words and do a lot of other things that make it impossible to understand! My strategy is to just smile and bow, smile bow.
Anyways, all of my travels were absolutely great! Had good flights all around. Super blessed to talk to my family in the airport and to see how they were doing. I have never flown for so long before and I definitely had some trama sitting down for that much time, but I enjoyed it. Like every missionary does, I talked to the people sitting next to me on the plane. Met some really cool people and had some great conversations! People are just so nice and friendly. They are also super suprised when they find out how long you are serving for and why you are going to be away from your family and friends for so long! I had the opportunity to talk to a man on the plane from Japan to Korea in korean and english. He spoke both so we could talk decently well. I gave him a book of mormon which he readily excepted after my my broken explanation of it in korean. Very nice man! Korean people are just so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We had a very warm welcome from our mission president and the aps. They made us feel right and home and super safe and also super scared because they talked so much in korean so fast we were all like "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT???". The first night in the mission home was pretty rough because of Jet lag and all that jazz, but I survived. Suprisinlgy these past days I have had really no jet lag. The rest of the nights I can just sleep super well and I am not falling asleep anywhere that I shouldn't which is great! (See the video of my zonked out on the bus...)
The next day we had all of our introductions and it was all great! I met my super cool companion Elder Giles. He is a really really patient and chill guy. All of the missionaries said that I was lucky because I got the most chill companion in the mission. He makes things just so normal and missionary work is fun and just a great thing to do. He really has taught me a lot about everything here and its been very very helpful. He has made me many yummy dinners since we have got here. (My prayers were answered about having a companion who cooks!) My frist day we actually went out and started talking to people on the street! CRAZYYYYYYY!!! I was super nervous, but I made it through. My comp called me the handshake guy because I would just ask old doods if I could shake their hand and then my comp would take over from there. Super fun experience.
The rest of the week is history! My first night we taught english class to really sweet family. I got to hang out with the 10 year old kid and I taught him how to play hangman and some other games. He really sat me down in rock paper scissors which was definite a funny thing to watch. Including that class, we taught three classes all together this week! Really fun stuff.
I actually got to teach my first lesson on friday! Brand new person looking into the church and he actually speaks english really well and korean not very well so we taught him in english! His name is Alex and he is literally my age. He is from a country around russia so he speaks fluent russian, but his full blood korean. I really have a love for this kid. Such a hero! Really smart and really wants to know the truth about God and his church. He absolutely loves the book of mormon and is reading it a ton. He came to church on sunday and we got to teach him more there as well. He is gonna come watch general conference with us on saturday and sunday(in korea we watch it a week later because of translation). I am excited to see where that is going!
At church I tried to shake a womans hand which is like major major MAJOR taboo. I think I have never been so red in my entire life! I will definetly never make that mistake again! But I redeemed myself when I gave a rousing sermon from the pulpit in sacrement meeting...aka...a few sentences about myself and a very short testimony haha.
Today is Pday and we have a lot of stuff to do! So sorry for the lack of details about my very first week. I am really grateful to be here in korea and to do all these amazing things for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I know that I am his disciple and that he has called me to teach others about a gospel that brings families closer together, provides eternal salvation, and helps people know who their Savior is!
Love you all!
Elder Meeks
Pictures will come in another email!
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