the work is hastening!

Hey peeps!!!

 

I wanted to send this email before I read the rest because we have one computer to now five missionaries!! This week we will be doing computer 전도 aka while we are going around proselyting we will be looking for a new place to email.

 

So you ask, why five missionaries? Well this week, I got a text from President Gilbert on Friday at about 9:40 at night to call him. So we finish calling our contacts and give him a call. Well, he asked what we would be doing the next day around 3:30. Well, long story short my very first trainer Sister Kim 김소라 has returned to the Korea Busan mission and is my companion again. It is very different adjusting to the dynamic of being with my first trainer and my first trainee but it is alright. So I am still the trainer and the senior of the area but Sister Kim is my support. It is really funny trying to fit all of us in our little apartment. The new bed is a king size so when we all roll out our beds we are all overlapping each other and every night looks like a giant slumber party. It is so fun having Sister Kim back and catching up, but also hard adjusting to another huge change in the dynamics. But I know as I rely on the Lord that all will be okay.

 

This week was 주석 or Korea's version of Thanksgiving. We were all able to get together as a zone and have an activity that day. We played games and shared thoughts about gratitude and ate lots of delicious American food! The senior couple organized all the food. They are the best! He was in the Air Force, so they can get on the military base, and they made little bags for all of us with things you can't buy in Korea. Including Mac and Cheese and root beer!!! so heavenly!!! It was the greatest thing!! 

Also sorry no pictures this week. I took out my camera to take some pics, and then one of the elders took it to take some epic selfies, and it got left at the church. But the sisters from the area have it for me, and I just need to wait until I see them again to get it back. So who knows when that will be. We are supposed to go on exchanges with them this week so I hope I can get it back fast. 

Amazing miracle: a less active who is very not interested in the church called on our way to the activity and wanted to have us over for lunch but since we were already out of the area she said she still wanted to bring us food. So she took a taxi all the way to 수성 to bring us some food. We met quickly with her and her two kids and hope to meet with her again this week.

 

Last night we took a two hour bus ride to the boonies of 상인. We have a member (the Filipino who speaks English and we teach Korean to) who just moved out there so we went to meet her and introduce her to the sister missionaries in that area. It was so much fun! She bonded really well with the new sisters, and it was so much fun being back with the sisters who I lived in the four-man house with. 

 

The work is hastening so quick. We have so much work to do. It is such a blessing but also a struggle. I am so grateful for this opportunity. I feel so privileged to be counted as a missionary out serving now along with Tanner. I am so excited for you T-Money!! You will love it! I promise time flies by faster than you think. Keep calm and carry on :)

 

Thank you so much everyone for all your prayers and thoughts and letters. Please continue to keep me and my stress in your prayers :) This is a time that I am really learning to fully 100% rely on the Lord. I can not do this with out him. Even with His help, it is incredibly hard. I am working on putting all my pride aside and truly putting everything in His hands. It is much safer there and that is the only way I will be able to survive.

 

I love you all so much!! I know with out the slightest doubt that this Church is true! Spread the gospel and refer a friend to the missionaries! :) This work is so much easier with your help!!

 

Love you all!!!

 

Sister Cheney