tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35679503276960541832024-03-12T19:54:09.446-07:00...Sister Kelsey Lund...Korea Daejeon MissionKalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-21817461642210657602012-07-15T21:26:00.002-07:002012-08-08T10:45:44.042-07:00I am so hungry<br />
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This might be areally short horrible email on account of I am so ferociously hungry i cant really focus on the keyboard or remember anything that happened this week.</div>
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Im really hungry because we keep playing on p day instead of buying food and there is nothing in our apartment and last night i ate two oreos four saltine crackers and salted nuts for dinner.</div>
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Dont feel bad for me. It is completely self inflicted.</div>
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This week was dreamy. Time is drifting by and I just get to spend all day talking to people I love about things I love.</div>
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One of those people is named brother pak. He and his wife are old investigators who we used to meet with but they are Buddhist and never kept commitments so we had to stop meeting with them but the other night i really felt like we should go visit them. I walked up to their house and I hear through the screen brother pak say "our American princess!" They both hugged me like a granddaughter and made us some crazy juice and they kept asking me why i stopped coming and how much they had missed us and reminded me of every nice thing we had ever done for them. I never realize how much me mean to people or how much people mean to me. We sat and talked on their front porch through the evening about their children and they gave me dating advice for when I go back to america (i should probably write a book- it was hilarious). We laughed and told stories and he finally turned and looked at me seriously and said- ive been reading the book you gave me. I said really? what do you think? He told me that he really liked it and he felt really good when he read it. I told him i did too. I asked them if they would pray about it and they said I dont know how to pray. Ive taught them maybe ten times but we went through it one more time this time they prayed at the end before they left. In his very first prayer to God he asked Him if i could stay in Korea and marry a Korean man and visit them a lot. He asked that i would always be happy and never be fat. He prayed for my family because they are probably not happy without me. He sincerely prayed to know of the truthfulness of the gospel and if what we teach is true. By the end of the prayer I was a crying mess realizing how much i love them and feeling that I had given up on them too early. I know that missionaries will come after me to help them but I want it to be me! what if they give up on them? What if they are lazy missionaries or cant find their house? AH! its the worst feeling in the world.</div>
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On a happier note Naomi had her baptismal interview on Sunday. She has completely transformed as she has learned about the gospel and read he book of Mormon. She completely glows. She is so full of hope- something that was absent from her life just a few months ago. As she has started living the gospel I think she has realized what she wants out of life and how much more she is capable of. I wish you could meet her. She is amazing. I got to sit in on her interview and hearing her testimony was one of the happiest moments of my life. Her testimony is so strong- i love hearing those first simple testimonies. I love that with the gospel you don't have to know all the details to know that it is true. I remember being a really little girl maybe eight and praying to heavenly father if my family would really be together forever. I remember feeling heaven around me and knowing it was true. Isnt that amazing? That God cared enough about a little eight year old girl to be listening to and answering her simple prayer? And He still does. I love being a missionary- i feel like he listens extra hard to our prayers because they are always about taking care of his children. </div>
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I am so grateful that people can and do change. Im so grateful that I can and do change little by little. Im so grateful for personal revelation. Can you even believe that the God of the universe truly speaks to us!? I am grateful that I have listened to that guidance in my life- not that ive been perfect at it, but im getting much better. </div>
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Im so grateful for the macro and micro plan that heavenly father has for us. He is even in the minute details of our lives- even when we dont see it. </div>
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I know this gospel is true. I feel it more and more every day i am a missionary.<br />
President Furniss often reminds us to be "happy always- content never" something that i love. Never give up on yourself- or others. The lord never does!</div>
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LOVE LOVE LOVE,</div>
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</div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-78665178823113503742012-06-30T17:11:00.003-07:002012-06-30T17:11:59.583-07:00<br />
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This week was memorial day in korea. ko sun ray the wife of shim gwang shik (the guy who passed away a couple weeks ago) asked us to go with her to his grave with her. We all loaded up in her car and drove about two hours into the Korean countryside where Shim gwang shik grew up. We drove up to this giant old korean mansion and walked behind it the the Shim family cemetary. At the entrance were these giant dragon statues and the Shim family creed or something. SO COOL. The cemetary sits up on a hill and looks out over his hometown and miles and miles of rice fields. In the far corner was a fresh mound of earth. We walked over and Shim Ji yoon (his daughter and our investigator) got on her knees and started to talk to her dad like she was there. "Oh dad we miss you so much, its been so hard." They place fruit in front of his grave and pour him some coke. We brought him some flowers and they placed them too. We all did full bows a couple of times and them sat and ate apples. His wafe sat by the grave holding the bills and paper work she is struggling through asking him what she should do. It broke my heart. We sat and talked with her daughter about her dad. We told funny memories and she told us about what he was like before he was sick. Then my companion turned to me and asked me to share the dream I had about him the night he died. Im not sure why but i started to cry before i could even get a word out. I felt the spirit settle in like thick fog as i told her about seeing him happy, young, radient, and surrounded by those he loves most. I told her I had lost someone too- my big brother. I told her I knew we would have them again. I and I told her I knew how we could have them again. That before we were born God created a plan for us so that we could learn and grow. He knew we would make mistakes so he provided us with a savior. I told her how the savior knows exactly how we feel. and more importantly he knows how to help us out of it. We talked about temples and their sealing power. All in Korean beyond my ability. I love these people more than I can express. I am so humbled and grateful that the lord trusted me enough to be apart of their lives during this tender time.</div>
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Adriene had her baptsmal interview on sunday. They changed to rules and i got to be there for the interview. It was one of the sweetest experiences of my mission to hear her tell her conversion story and bear her testimony. It was so amazing seeing how much she has changed and grown over the past few weeks. The lord has been in her life leading and guiding her to this place. While I was sitting in the interview i felt how much the lord loves Adriene. I love her so much. SO sorry im out of time. </div>
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sister lund </div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-10306572952621933772012-06-30T17:10:00.002-07:002012-06-30T17:10:54.365-07:00<br />
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So much has happened this week.</div>
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I lost my wallet. I royally freaked out. I called everyone in the city of chungju and most of Seoul and everyone was so incredibly unhelpful. I think someone stole it. I cant wait till the day comes i can tell them how rude it was to steal a missionaries wallet. I think maybe i cant get back into america now. It had all my ID in it. too bad for me. I gave my dying talk in zone conference. I feel like it is all a big joke. There is no way that i wont be here for the next one. I will always live this way and it really seems that i have always lived this way. The missionaries feel like my family. Korea is home. </div>
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I AM SO WEIRD.</div>
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Adriene found a bunch of anti mormon stuff online and i was really nervous to meet with her because i've never looked at anti mormon stuff i have no idea what it says. Her concerns were about the different accounts of the first vision, crazy stuff brigham young said and weird things the early saints did. Her main concern was that if there was indeed a restoration how were there imperfections in a "perfect" religion?</div>
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I love when i am teaching and I feel the spirit take over. I was able to explain things beyond my understanding, use scriptures I had forgotten were there. As we talked i explained- or i guess the spirit explained that although the gospel is perfect, man is not. The early saints were doing the best they could with the information they had. I told her to not let what you dont understand perfectly get in the way of what you do know. I told her that no matter how hard you try you can not prove logically that the gospel is true- its not the way the lord works. He will never take away our agency. And there always has to be room for faith. </div>
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We are reading 17 pages of the book of mormon so she can finish before her baptism. oh boy. She is going to be the most incredible gospel scholar. She reads every footnote. On sunday after church we read together and we got to the end of one chapter and i asked her if she had any questions. she was quiet for a minute and then she said i know this sounds weird but sometimes i just love the book of mormon so much that i want to eat it! hahaha</div>
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I love her so much. </div>
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Do you remember the mongolian that was riding his bike around the church parking lot and turned out to be a former investigator? He got baptized on Saturday. There was an awesome turnout for the baptism and the elders forgot to fill up the font before hand so we had a huge badminton tournament while we waited... maybe not the most reverent activity but we had so much fun and everyone was sweating to death. </div>
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After the baptism i asked him how he felt. He said it felt like he had been carrying a heavy backpack and it had been really hard but today he got to take it off. He said he felt free. He was radiant. </div>
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I feel so content. Which feels good. </div>
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President told us in zone conference "happy always, content never" which probably means my companion is going to get transferred. Im TOO happy.</div>
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sister lund </div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-40712526843315208412012-06-30T17:09:00.000-07:002012-06-30T17:09:07.360-07:00<br />
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Sorry for the late email. It was Buddhas birthday. If you go to Buddhist temples they will give you free food!</div>
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Also we went to a picnic with our ward and its was so so fun. We taught them to play football, i dominated in badminton, the bishops kids destroyed my in a water gun fight.</div>
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That night all the missionaries had dinner with the Jung family. Brother Jung is in the mission presidency and one of the most Christlike people I have ever met. I love spending time in his home.</div>
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I had a miracle this week. I have been in the middle of trying to get my visa renewed and it has been more than an ordeal. The last time i tried we got this terrible woman who was so incredibly unhelpful and was making me fill out this crazy paperwork and wanted me to buy a new foreigner card and I tried to tell her nicely yes but i have two months left I would really rather not buy a $60 foreigner card plus buy these special blue stamps that seem to have absolutely no purpose and cost lots of money I'm really only here to be a good citizen of the world so could you please help me out here lady. also did I mention i am a MISSIONARY?! Then she looked at me like there was absolutely nothing she was going to do to help me and sipped her coffee. Then my companion made me leave. I kept thinking about how grandpa used to say- why be difficult when with a little more effort you can be impossible. so true. anyways we went back the next week and my companion told me to pray to get a nice person this time. I laughed but then i really did pray. And we got a wonderful gentleman who didn't make me fill out any stupid paperwork in Korean or buy any blue stamps or stand on my head. He just stamped my papers gave me a lollipop and we were on our way. I love that Heavenly Father cares about the silly things in my life.</div>
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Adriene is progressing beautifully. I don't know if i ever told you her whole story so sorry if I already said this-</div>
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Adriene is an English teacher. She has been teaching at a school here for almost a year. She works with Mallory a returned sister missionary who came back to Korea to teach and is one of my favorite people on this earth. Adriene is probably one of the most prepared people i have met on my mission. The other Sunday we were in the middle of the lesson and I asked her what she thought about the book of Mormon- she said she felt it was true. Then she said I know it sounds weird like if been searching all these religions but with all the other religions I always hit a point where something just doesn't feel right but with this, i feel like all these questions that i have had all my life are being answered so easily. She said that when she was trying to decide where to teach English she really wanted to go to south America because it would be easy to find Catholicism there. But for some reason my mom kept saying you are going to end up in Asia I can just feel it! She talked about how she wondered what brought her here. The spirit filled the room and I felt so strongly to tell her that there was a purpose in her coming to Korea and it was to find this- the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I bore her my testimony that the things she was learning about and starting to understand were things that I knew to be true. Things that had filled my life with peace, purpose, clarity, and joy. Then I asked her if she would be baptized and she said yes! We are going to read the book of Mormon together before her baptism. 17 pages a day. Its killing me. But so so good. She asks really hard questions that I don't know the answer to but I always find myself responding and giving answers I didn't even know that I had. I am so grateful for the spirit we carry as missionaries. I'm so grateful to never be alone in what we do.</div>
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I am speaking in zone conference tomorrow. Ive been really stressing feeling like i have nothing to say but then i realized its actually that I have too much to say. How do i sum up my feelings about my missions into a five minute talk? I cant.</div>
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We are teaching a Chinese investigator who is the cutes thing in the world. We watched the video on the restoration and when it was over I asked her what she thought. She said she thought it was true. I loved how simple her response was. and realized sometimes i complicate the Gospel. It is so simple. God is our loving father, Jesus Christ is his son. If we follow his example and live by his teachings we will be happy. If we live the Gospel nothing will ever be permanently wrong but if we don't nothing can ever be permanently right. We are hoping to get a baptismal date this week so be praying for Ga Yoo. </div>
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sista lundo </div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-63294704616010710842012-06-30T17:07:00.000-07:002012-06-30T17:07:08.833-07:00<br />
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WE were SO busy this week. I am exhausted. I totally get why sisters serve a year and a half. I am the crypt keeper. We are teaching incredibly prepared people right now and i cant wait to see what happens. We are getting ready for two baptisms in the next few weeks and I think a few more are on the way. We are being blessed. My favorite is Adriene- the American. SHE SPEAKS ENGLISH. I have no idea how to teach the gospel in English but its a blast saying anything and everything I want to say and understanding every word that comes out of her mouth. Its weird to think that is how my life used to be all the time. Anyways Im excited to see how everything unfolds...</div>
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We are getting our apartment remodeled. Our wallpaper dates back to the Mongolian empire and they decided that espestice is actually not that great for your health. We got to pick out the wallpaper this morning. I was going for a Versailles look but the lady really wanted this crazy technicolor candyland theme. We had a big fight and I prevailed. She told me it was grandma wall paper. Whatever. I gave them soymilk and choco pies. </div>
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Do you remember the recent convert who has been really sick? I dreamed about him the other night. He called me on the phone and wanted me to come see him. He sounded so happy so i hurried over to his house. I walked in his front door and he was sitting in the middle of the room surrounded with all the people that matter to him- his wife, the elders who baptized him, his children and lots of little kids that were his grandchildren in my dream(even though he doesn't have any) He was laughing and telling stories. The most striking part of the dream was his appearance. He was young, handsome, full of life, and radiant. I remember sitting and watching and feeling his joy. The next morning one of the elders called to tell me that he has passed away.</div>
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We rushed over to the hospital where they were having a viewing. The room had a wall covered with flowers and a picture of him. They lay fruit and have incense burning. As you walk into the room you do a full bow- meaning forehead to the ground two times and then a half bow. Afterwards we sat with his wife and daughter and they just cried and cried. And i cried and cried. The timing of everything was really sweet. It was the day before transfers and their elders got to be there for the funeral. They were like sons to them- he even bought an English book so he could visit them in America. That night we stayed and served food to their friends and family that came. It was pretty incredible to see how grateful their family was to the missionaries. His sisters came and thanked us again and again for being there and being part of his life.</div>
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The next day was transfers and half of our district got transferred or went home. I hate change- you'd think id get used to it but i don't. Im so happy i got to stay with 서나리 she is an angel.</div>
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That night we went to part II of the funeral, this time with the ward. Only a few people showed up. Most of the room was filled with missionaries and family members. The bishop and stake president spoke about the plan of salvation but i didn't hear much because i sat across from his wife and my heart broke watching her sob. I hate funerals. I always completely lose it no matter what. I know he is in a better place and that their family will be together again but as a sat looking at her I couldn't help thinking what about between now and then? Who will take care of her? Does she have enough money? what about the loneliness? Everything gets better with time but i also know that the pain never really goes away. I felt so angry and upset feeling that life just has too much pain sometimes. I got on my knees that night and prayed. I prayed for her. for her family. I wanted to know everything was going to be ok and wondered why does it have to be so hard?</div>
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The next morning I opened my scriptures and found something in Corinthians- "for now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall i know even as I am known." I thought about life and all of its joy and all of its sorrow and I remembered, once again, we are here to obtain an education and work out our salvation. Life isn't easy because it cannot be a cheap experience. We are to model our lives after the saviors- how could we expect it to be easy for us when it was never easy for him?</div>
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So yes we must endure trials and sorrow and loss but we must always remember that He is ever with us. Right now we see through glass darkly- we cant see why but a day will come that we will stand face to face and thank him for loving us enough for letting us hurt sometimes. I know that He lives I know that he loves us. I trust Him. I know that the atonement is real and when we seek its healing power there is nothing to large or too small.</div>
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I love you.</div>
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<br />Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-76460164688571946502012-05-01T14:50:00.001-07:002012-05-01T14:50:21.114-07:00Mongolian Surprise!April 29th, 2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">안녕하세요! it literally feels like five minutes since i emailed but now that i think about it so much has happened there is no way it has only been a week!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First of all the weather has been incredible. Spring in Korea is probably what the celestial kingdom is. The whole country turned into a flower garden. Every other day something else blossomed. Because of the nice weather peoples moods are pretty nice as well. We have seen so many miracles this week. The other day we were heading to an appointment and stopped by the church randomly to get some water or something when I saw a kid on a bike staring up at the church. He saw us a started to ride away and then the next thing i knew i was chasing him down asking what he was doing here. Turns out he is from Mongolia and used to meet with the missionaries a few years ago. He said that he remembers feeling a lot of happiness when he met with the missionaries. His mom is really sick- maybe cancer and he has been really struggling being so far from her. That day he was riding his bike and saw the name of our church and felt like he should come in. We talked for a while and invited him to English class (so he could meet the elders). He showed up and that night the elders set a baptismal date with him. I love how as a missionary I think I'm in control of everything but i am reminded often of how very much the Lord leads and guides His missionaries. I just thought i needed a drink but the lord has a better bigger plan for us.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We got a call from a member the other day wanting to give us a referral. Her friend is about 44, single, wealthy, beautiful, and alone. She recently quit/lost her job (not exactly sure) her crazy neighbors are suing her and her dog died. yeah.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO we went and met with her. In the standards of the world this woman has it all. Her apartment is unbelievable. I think her Picasso was an original... and yet there she sad in tears unable to be consoled. I sat in terror for a moment wondering what in the world i would say to this woman and then i realized oh yeah... dork... you have EXACTLY what she needs. THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So often i find in Korea people who don't need God or just don't know where to find Him. They seek joy and happiness in beauty or wealth status or education. But in the end their hunger persists. They still need more.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And then i compare that to my bishops family. He has six children under the age of 11 which is unheard of in Korea. They live in a two room apartment- in worldly standards they have nothing and yet when i think of them the word that comes to mind is JOY. They are the happiest people I have ever met. What it the difference? Its perspective and a life filled with everything the gospel teaches. Service, love, devotion, family centered life. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">anyways. guess what else? I've been praying my heart out for 김경선 (my less active recent convert) and making the missionaries down there go after her. I wrote her a letter with a picture of us at her baptism- reminding her of the best day of our lives! and the lord answers prayers- she came to church for the first time in two months on Sunday! I am so grateful for those missionaries- that no matter what i know that there with be two elders in 그경선's ward looking after her. I hate that I'm so far away from her. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AH! I have so much to tell you! I have no time. I'll tell you everything someday. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But what you should know now is that I have a testimony. I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I know that with the gospel nothing in your life can never permanently be wrong. Without is nothing can ever permanently be right. I love being a missionary. I love Korea! </span></div>
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</div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-13727642848188848312012-05-01T14:48:00.001-07:002012-05-01T14:48:24.701-07:00Hey Your Dads in Seoul!!!April 23rd, 2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got a call from like 800 people this week telling me my parents were in Seoul and asking if i wanted to hide in their car on the way to convention.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey thanks for not even TRYING to see me! I heard lots about your trip from everyone. I even got a phone call from the convention from a member who put dad on speaker while he was talking.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The good news is that i got a call from the mission office telling me that my parents were in Seoul and that there was a very special package that a very persistent Korean man insisting that he hand deliver. I knew it had to be one of two things. Moms sugar cookies or dad in a box. I couldn't decide which i wanted more.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for the package! It was so fun. Mom I've lost my mind. Either my feet have grown or i asked for the wrong size. they were all small except for the tan ones which i love. IM SO SORRY ITS MY FAULT! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week has been pretty grand. We have been really busy and that's a good feeling. Our baptismal date is killing me and we are postponing... indefinitely. We met with her on Sunday after church because she wouldn't actually come to church, or read, or pray and talked about why its important to come to church and how she needs to keep praying and reading the book of Mormon to get an answer. But then i got really frustrated and realized none of that mattered unless she had a desire to know. I told her that I cant and wont make her do anything. We are here to give you the most incredible gift God has given his children but it is entirely up to you if you want it or not. I told her that I loved her but that we couldn't meet with her until she started doing the things that would help her gain a testimony. I'm pretty sure my companion wanted to kill me afterward but 아름 called us a few days later and asked what it would feel like if she got an answer. We talked for a while about the ways God answers prayers and she said she was going to start searching. Pray for her. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other day we were in a training meeting talking about missionary work discussing for the 100th time about how to find new investigators... working with members... retaining... and all of a sudden i felt overwhelmed with the task that is layed before missionaries. We have so much to do and not near enough capacity to do it. So then i thought about why I do it. What is it that keeps me getting up at 6:30 every morning? And i realized in the end it is my love for the Savior. I am often overwhelmed with my inadequacies but then i remembered who it was that called me. I am given so much strength by His confidence in me that I can do hard things. And it IS worth it. Even when we don't see it, our actions and efforts are noted. I believe so strongly that one day we are going to look back at all of this and realize that every experience this life offers, every heartbreak, and every disappointment have all been gently pointing our course towards the Savior and life beyond our current circumstances. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know that He lives. I know that He loves us. What an incredible thing that is!</span></div>
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</div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-48161586193476637442012-05-01T14:46:00.002-07:002012-05-01T14:46:36.611-07:00Popcorn Popping!!April 15th, 2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Cherry blossoms came out this week and it is so incredible. Through the center of the city a big river runs and giant cherry blossom trees line the river. It is maybe the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. There was a big festival for the blossoms and we went to go proselyte and found out that they were doing a march down the river to welcome spring so we marched with them for a while and taught them about the gospel. It was so fun! We found a lot of new investigators through it. I love spring people are in such a good mood.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of our new investigators is from China. She sort of speaks Korean and sort of speaks English. Its sort of an adventure teaching her. We gave her a book of Mormon and she read the first book of Nephi in the first week- this is coming from someone who had never heard of Jesus Christ. I feel like we are going to see miracles with her. I cant wait.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of the young single adults in the Taejon region met at our stake center for an activity and I got to see some of my favorite people from Kwangju. I found out though that one of my converts in Kwangju is less active. It broke my heart into a billion pieces. She was golden. Had such a strong testimony, and an amazing support group. She told me all the time how she wanted to be a missionary. but not she says that church isn't fun. Im about to hop a train to Kwangju and... i dont even know. Yell at her? cry? beg? that's no good. Its now up to her. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ive been thinking a lot about how important it is to be constantly strengthening your testimony. read your scriptures every day. Pray. Every day. Go to the temple. Serve. Share your testimony. It is the most precious thing we have. You cannot afford to be passively living the Gospel. like everything else worth having in life it requires effort.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Im so frustrated with the less actives in Korea. I just want to shake their guts and tell them how badly they need the Gospel! Sometimes i do. K i don't actually accost them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We sang a special musical number in sacrament meeting with the elders. Come thou fount. in Korean. It was horrible haha. I don't know why the members always assume the missionaries can sing. Maybe they learned their lesson. Maybe we shouldn't have picked such a hard song... </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Time is slipping through my fingers. Sometimes it is exciting. Sometimes I hate it with the fiery passion of 1000 suns. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just feel like im just now getting it! I love these people. I love sharing the gospel with them. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love being someones missionary. I love being separate from the world and spending all my time thinking about Koreans and their troubles, heartache, desires.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so grateful for my testimony. Im grateful for those times that i question and doubt- I am able to re-examine my heart and realize how very much I believe. How very much I know. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cant believe Kendis is leaving! Im so proud of her. She's about to start the grandest adventure. I love that we are all doing it together a million miles apart.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sister Lund. </span></div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-67124703978079694042012-05-01T14:45:00.001-07:002012-05-01T14:45:14.226-07:00One Time on My Mission I Got Hit By A CAR!!!!April 8th, 2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once upon a time it was raining the storms of Noah outside and the wind was blowing so hard I almost flew away. We had to go to district meeting so I grabbed my green umbrella with green hearts on it and lacy rims that was never actually intended to be rained on. We went outside and it promptly broke due to the gale force winds so i was getting drenched and running with my umbrella pointed in front of me to block the wind. The problem is that it also blocked my vision and so I kind of sort of didn't see the car that hit me/I ran into full force. Head on collision. Man vs. vehicle. Guess who won? Before I could say kimchi there i was on the hood of an Asian lady's car with an even more broken umbrella and an even more severely damaged pride. I slid off the hood of her car and tried to act like it wasn't a big deal but IT WAS. I GOT HIT BY A CAR! but really maybe i just ran into a slowly moving car running as fast as i could. Can you imagine what the lady in the car was thinking? She's just doing her thing driving down the street when out of nowhere a giant American with a broken green umbrella comes charging at you and just doesn't stop and ends up on the hood of your car. The best part was that she just shook her head and drove away. I would have been freaking out if i hit a korean lady! All the missionaries saw. and that is all i will ever be remembered for in the Korea Daejeon mission. I am ok btw. But i probably need lots of care packages.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are still working with Jack sparrows family and they are the loves of my life. They are really progressing and they pinky promised to come to church this week. I will die of happiness if they really come. its been like 11 years. Their kids are out of control and it is battle royale every time we go over. Elvis their son (yeah, his name is Elvis) Suprise attacked me while i was hiding in a fort with a bag of open glitter. NOT COOL. Ive been sneezing glitter for like a week which might sound kind of magical but its really not. it is currently elections in Korea and they do the craziest stuff here. Like these huge trucks that drive around with loud speakers blaring crazy Korean pop songs and pictures of hopeful senators doing a hand stand. At the giant intersection downtown at every corner crosswalk stood 6-8 korean ladies holding posters with a politicians face and doing an absurd choreographed dance to crazy polke techno music. I want to do that for Mitt when I get home.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our apartment is near a huge catholic church and every Sunday morning at 6 they play this insanely loud heaven angel music goes off and every sunday morning I wake up delirious- sure that its the second coming going on outside. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">General conference was amazing. I LOVED it. I laughed so hard when that guy made the super chauvinist joke about unrighteous dominion but no one else did because im pretty sure "im your husband and i have the priesthood" is a legitimate argument in korea. I love them. I am always left wanting to do and be so much better after conference. I felt tlike ever talk was written for one of my investigators. Im going to make them all watch conference.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love this gospel i know that it is true. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet- i know that because every time I talk about him and what happened in that grove of trees in any language I feel an unmistakable assurance from the Lord that it truly did happen. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love you. Thank you for your love and support. I am blissfully happy. There is nowhere else in the world i'd rather be.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">anyways one of the things we were supposed to do her first week is extend a baptismal commitment in the first three days. I was really worried because i couldn't think of anyone that would even maybe say yes and i so badly didn't want to pop her bubble. But we prepared for a lesson with an investigator who i love but has been progressing SO SLOWLY. She has been meeting with the missionaries for like 7 months and came out to church for the first time last week. Anyways we sat and started to teaching and the spirit completely filled the room. She kept asking us why we were so happy all the time- and i told her the truth. My life isnt perfect. I am not perfect. I do stupid things every 45 seconds. But my testimony of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ makes everything ok. Nothing could happen that isnt made right through the atonement of Jesus Christ- and that is something to rejoice about. We asked her how she felt about the book of Mormon and she said she loves the way she feels when she reads it and that she felt that maybe it was true. We explained that if the book of mormon was true then Joseph smith was a prophet and our church was the true church. She sat and thought about that and then i realized HEY! She is ready to be baptized! I said in English SUPER fast "ask her to get baptized". 서나리 did a beautiful job explaining and asked her to be baptized on the 15th (the real easter) and she said YES!!!! MIRACLE! I am loving serving with a greenie- they still have that unstoppable optimism and we are seeing miracle after miracle. I hope i get to stay with her until I die.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Guess who's getting a little baby missionary? I just hung up with president and im training. Kinda want to die/ excited-ish!!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I cant believe how fast this transfer flew. I feel like i just got here! This week was kinda lame. It rained all week and because of the rain every single person cancelled. so that meant we were out in the rain ALL DAY LONG. But we had some really great things happen. We are working with the most amazing family. The parents were baptized a little over four months ago and we are teaching their beautiful 22 year old daughter who is my favorite person in the world. Her dad is a retired fire fighter and their house is filled with awards from his days of saving people. They are the coolest family. The thing is that firefighters and policemen are known for drinking themselves to death and the dad is no acception. I think he is dads age but he looks maybe 95 and has lung cancer from smoking and his liver is failing. He's been going through chemo but he started refusing treatments this week. He hasn't eaten anything solid in 30 days. We try to visit often and every time he is considerably worse. He really could die any day. we went over to their house one sunday because none of them came to church (he cant even really get up off the floor). We had fun talking and hearing stories about him telling about our families. After we shared a message and were about to leave the dad started to tell us about his health and thien i thought he was telling us about the time he got abducted by aliens but then I realized he was telling us about his chemo treatments. Then he asked us to slap his chest and rub his belly and pinch his legs to help with his circulation. His daughter was really embarassed and was like "no dad stop thats weird just let me do it" but then he said she couldnt because she didnt go to church hahah. so... i did it. slapped his chest rubbed his belly and pinched his little bony legs. Its funny to realize there is literally nothing i wouldnt do for people as a missionary. I had my one year anniversary as a missionary. It was great. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Im nervous to be a momma. I feel like i dont know anything about anything. pray for me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I cant believe Ryans gonna be an Oxford boy.... I have no idea how im gonna one up that.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh i know. I ate kimchi for 18 months. WIN. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well I dont have anything else to say. I CANT BELIEVE IM TRAINING! AH!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This week FLEW. Everyday was incredibly busy. I love weeks like that. My body is taking a hit though. Im getting old. Its near impossible to get out of bed in the morning. i just sort of roll off my matt and crawl on my hands and knees into the kitchen. So pathetic. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We went out to a private school that jack sparrow teaches at to introduce our english gospel program to the students. We went with the elders who are both well over 6 feet and the two of us are blonde- i dont think we could have attracted more attention if we had Barack Obama with us. All the girls would basically start crying and shouting in english "marry me!" when we walked by and the boys they would shout "you're beautiful" or "I love you!". It was just like my high school days. oh how i miss them...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We broke off into groups to explain our program and have the students fill out forms of where they live, phone number, and religion. Everyone in my group were boys so i taught them little girl games like down by the banks and they loved it. They got pretty good at Miss Mary Mac. Then I taught them how to arm wrestle and they were really funny because they were WAY stronger than me but they kept letting me win. NO FUN. Everyone started watching and then one of the elders brought a girl over from his group who was the size of a small bear to wrestle me. I tried, i really did but she had the strength of many lions and beat me twice. Even after I tried to cheat. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I often think about missionaries serving in the states and feel envy. What could possibly be hard about serving in your native tongue. I would spend all my days baking cookies for our 200 baptisms! But the other night we had dinner with an RM American who served in Oklahoma. I was SO wrong. Her mission was just like ours except instead of everyone treating you like rockstars and thinking its adorable when you try to talk to them everyone hates you. She told us the CRAZIEST stories! I will never again feel bad about serving in an impossible language. Korea is the best. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our mission is having a 40 day fast where everyday a different companionship fasts and the mission prays for them and their investigators. We had ours on saturday. All of our appointments cancelled that day so we spent the whole day knocking doors and it was BOSS. We met so many amazing people. We went into this crazy oild neighborhood with actual old korean houses- pretty sure no missionary has ever gone there before. We found like five new investigators. We got carried away trying to knock doors that had never been knocked before and ended up getting lost on this crazy trail that took us on top of a mountain and we got lost for probably an hour and my companion was mad and it was hilarious. We were both in heels hiking through the Korean wilderness LOVE.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I realized yesterday during relief society how much i love korean women. In the states all the ladies just try to be perfect and say perfect things but in korea they just say it like it is. like last week they talked forever about how awkward and inconvenient visiting teaching is and how nobody likes it but how they all need to be better and asked us if we liked visiting teaching and i realized that my whole LIFE is a huge visit teaching activity and its ALWAYS AWKWARD AND INCONVENIENT and somehow i love it. then they felt bad and said they'd be better. Then this week they talked about how its important to make your kids come to church- then this lady raised her hand and was like "church is not fun. Im not going to lie to my kids and tell them how awesome it is when im just as bored as they are. We have to tell them the truth! and when all else fails bring treats". hahaa.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We had a baptism yesterday. A son of a part member family. Everyone was incredibly irreverent and the primary was having a circus in the hallway and i was so irritated because his dad showed up and i wanted so bad for it to be spiritual so we had everyone sing a hymn while the boy changed out of his wet clothes. We sang called to serve and all the high priests were in the back singing their own version and everyone was running around and laughing and everything was going wrong but all of a sudden i felt the spirit come into the room. There i was singing called to serve feeling rage and overwhelming love all at the same time for these crazy people who mean the world to me. The missionaries sang a musical number because everyone thinks that missionaries can sing which is too bad for me because i most definitely do not sing. We sang teach me to walk in the light. it was pitiful. we sang acapella because the organ in broken. My favorite part was looking up at this soaking wet kid sitting next to his nonmember dad and beaming mom and never wanting to leave this place.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">The other day we were walking around in the freezing when we realized we were incredibly hungry. My companion remembered smelling something delicious a couple blocks back so we went back and walked into this "buffet". I say "buffet" because it was the sketchiest restaurant ever but because we were WAY hungry it just didnt matter. None of the meat was being properly refrigerated. Everything looked really dirty and old but I just didnt care. My standard of living has deteriorated. a lot. anyways my favorite part was at the end when we were finishing up we had some extra lettuce that we didnt finish and the crazy lady who owned the place came over and collected them dropped two on the floor- picked those up, and put them back in the basket. Waste not want not.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">I love being an american in korea. One day a guy came up to me and grabbed my hair (its getting really really long) and inhaled deeply and said "if only you werent so big" and walked away. yes if only...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">We got a phone call the other day from a man named Kim bob. He really wants his wife to get baptized but she doesn't let him come to church so he told me about his amazing plan of us meeting them secretly at baskin robbins and surprising her. He explained that baskin Robbins is very expensive but that was ok because ï am a very rich man". He said it would be a good idea if i were casually singing a John Denver song because she really likes john denver and so she'd probably like me because john Denver people really like other people who like john denver. He even sang me some sample songs. I dont think she will be very surprised. I will sing john denver though.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">THe work is a lot slower up here. A LOT. But its ok. We have some brilliant stuff planned for this week. I feel like my emails are never spiritual. Sorry. The thing is that i feel like my spiritual experiences are these simple little moments that aren't even stories.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">I guess thats how life is too. Its less of the huge dramatic moments and more of these simple beautiful pockets of light.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Love you,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Sister Lund</span></span>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-82985614437750577382012-05-01T14:34:00.005-07:002012-05-01T14:34:57.312-07:0022 & Still Kickin!March 4, 2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SO JEALOUS YOU MET GEORGE KASTASTANZA!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I had a dream once that i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">married him. Not gonna lie it was not the best dream ive ever had.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">well it happened. I really turned 22. My companion was so so sweet and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">made me french toast and then we went out to a fancy italian</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">restaraunt with a bunch of missionaries. Its another elders birthday</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">today so we bought a costco cake with swans on it and cut it in half.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It was delicious. That morning while we were studying someone knocked</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on the door with three packages. I was SO excited. I commented that it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">would be funny if they werent for me and guess what?! they were for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sister Sagers and an elder. AWESOME. haha no big deal.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Then we had a couple appointments and it was over. Definetly different</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">from last year but truly one of the happiest of my life.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had zone conference this week. It was so amazing. My favorite part</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was hearing the missionaries testimonies that are going home. There is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a big group going home and it was really incredible. One after another</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they got up and talked about what their missions meant to them. The</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">struggle, heartbreak, joy, frustration and everything in between. I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">loved seeing these kids- most havent even started college- speaking</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">boldly of things far beyond their years.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had stake conference on sunday. It was great- a member of the 70 came.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This is the most boring email ever.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">im</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://sorry.im/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">sorry.im</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really distracted because we are going to a cat cafe and i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cant focus because im too excited. AHH i gotta go.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thanks for the birthday love.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">k bye</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sister Lund</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-90613415955753083402012-05-01T14:32:00.001-07:002012-05-01T14:32:48.554-07:00Nuskin Land!Feb 26th, 2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">ah! my email just erased and now this one is not going to be as good</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">because i lost my momentum.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I LOVE MY NEW AREA!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"> It's ginormous and so hard to get around but its</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">not a big deal because my companions a little genious and knows how to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">get everywhere and how to do everything including speak arabic,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">korean, and probably cure cancer. She is a lot of fun.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">I was flipping through records the other day and came across a less</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">active who's sister used to meet with the missionaries and has a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">daughter who is not baptized. Then i saw that she went to salt lake to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">for the Nuskin convention and called her up. She answered the phone</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">and i introduced myself and told her that i would really love to meet</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">her and her daughter. She then started to tell me how incredibly busy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">she was and that she probably was going to be in seoul for most of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">week and that is was very nice that i called maybe i will call you in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">a week goodbye. Then I blurted out "MY DAD IS STEVE LUND" shameless.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Then she was REALLY happy i called and agreed to meet the very next</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">day which my companion said it was nothing short of a miracle- they</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">have been trying to meet for two months. We met at the church and she</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">was absolutely lovely. we got talking and she started to bear her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">testimony and saying really beautiful things about the church and how</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">it had really blessed her life and then i realized she was bearing her</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">testimony about Nuskin. haha. anyways she was at church the next day</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">and that evening I got a phone call from her sister who was a former</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">investigator who refuses to answer calls. and now she is a new</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">invstigator who promises to come to church on Sunday. oh plus my</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">bishop works for Nuskin. weird.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">I sort of crashed a wedding this weekend. It was in this beautiful</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">restaraunt looking out over a lake. We were a little late though and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">most people had left by the time we got there. But true to korean</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">style the bride and groom insisted that we eat and left their</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">reception and went downstairs and ate with us. They were the cutest</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">couple ive ever met in Korea. She served her mission in Washington DC</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">and is a supermodel. They sat and talked with us and gave us all the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">marriage wisdom that they have aquired over the past two months they</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">have been married. After we ate the couple found out we were going to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">our english class on the other side of town and arranged for two town</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">cars to drive the elders and i to our class. Yeah. Korea is the best</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">place in the world to serve a mission.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Im turning 22 this week. Pretty much hate that. In korea everyone is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">one year older so i never got to be 21 but i refuse to tell people im</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">23. Ive come to that point in my life where its time to start lying</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">about my age. 22. I will tell people im 22 till the day i die</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">probably. Im so happy its spring. I cant wait for the Cherry blossoms.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">anyways. I fall deeper and deeper in love with my mission every day.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">It never stops being hard- the amazing thing is that i feel like i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">overcome one obstacle and the lord has another all lined up for me. Im</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">learning and growing so much. Im so in love with korea. I was standing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">on a bridge the other day for a district activity and stopped a girl</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">who immediately told me she didnt believe in God. I told her that I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">knew there was a God and that he loved her. I told her our lives had</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">purpose and that she could be with her family forever. It was just a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">simple testimony but as I said the words i felt it in my bones that it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">was true. I am so very greatful for the knowledge. I am greatful for</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">the special spirit that accompanies missionaries. That its there even</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">on a crowded windy bridge. I am so very greatful for my decision to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">serve a mission. This experience saved my life. Thanks for the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">birthday wishes!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">love love love</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Sister Lund</span></span>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-26749509891842978512012-05-01T14:30:00.000-07:002012-05-01T14:30:03.910-07:00Jack Sparrow and the Dolphin that Lives in our Pipes!Feb 20th, 2012<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">I live in Chongju now. Its maybe an hour north. It is MUCH colder</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">here. They actually get snow and you better not expose your hands to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">the cold or they will surely snap off. I love it here. Our apartment</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">is a shoebox and maybe the most ghetto thing i've ever seen. Every</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">time someone in the building takes a shower the pipes make this crazy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">loud dolphin cry. It does not set the mood for sleeping. nope. Mom</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">remember when i turned eight or nine and we were in hawaii and you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">signed Kendis and I up for the "dolphin show" and all we got to do was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">stick tubes down their throats and give them their medicine? haha.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">anyways...</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Sister Sagers is my new companion. She is blonde and very very very</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">smart. She studied molecular biology and arabic in college.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">yeah i studied art history and public relations.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">We had a funny day on Saturday. We were visiting a bunch of less</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">actives when we came out of an apartment building and across the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">parking lot i see a blonde girl. I told my companion and she asked if</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">i wanted to talk to here and before i knew it I was running across the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">parking lot after her. We ended up having to chase her for like three</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">blocks and I felt like the biggest freak but we finally caught up and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">"smoothly" said hi. She takes out her earphones and is super friendly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">and from florida. Then we found out that her boyfriend is a less</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">active member of our shurch and she thought he would maybe like to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">talk to us. Yeah she'll get baptized. ill keep ya posted.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Then we went to another less active's house and knocked on the door.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">This particular less active is known for being amazingly aloof. But he</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">was home and let us in! His whole family was home and we instantly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">bonded. I LOVE LOVE LOVE their family. I also love that their dad IS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Jack Sparrow. Facial hair, cheek bones, attitude, maybe even carreer.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">He's just the Korean version. Anyways his english is amazing and we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">got talking and told him about our english class that night. He</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">immediately got his oldest daighter ready and drove us all to english</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">class. Later the elders told us how they have been trying to get in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">touch with him for months and that his wife and children are not</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">baptized... anyways Jack Sparrow invited us over anytime. I had</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">several experiences like that this week where we were simply at the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">right place, at the right time, saying the right things. I sometimes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">think how do things turn out JUST RIGHT. or how did I even think to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">ask her about her mother- or what was going through our heads that it</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">was a good idea to chase some lady three city blocks to tell her hi?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">Then I remember that there is a God in heaven who cares deeply for us.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">He is aware of our noblest desires and our most profound heartache. He</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">has a remedy for everything. And most of the time His remedies come</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">through others.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">im so tired today. The wind NEVER stops blowing. I talked our whole</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">district into going to a cat cafe today and our</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">previous-assistant-to-the-</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><wbr></wbr></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">president-very-serious district leader was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">less than pleased because he is allergic to cats. Luckily I found some</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">dishwashing gloves, a sergical mask, and swimming goggles so that he</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">could participate. He didnt think it was very funny but you should</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">have seen him petting the cats with his pink dishwashing gloves. Best</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">day of my life.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;">love ya</span></span>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-15839726532324643712012-05-01T14:27:00.002-07:002012-05-01T14:27:45.711-07:00Starships and an aquarium<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">February 12, 2012</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We saw a bunch of miracles this week. We worked our buns off this transfer and we are starting to see lots of progress with our investigators. Even a baptism next week! So of course i am getting transferred. Back to square one. I'm going to be companions with a girl that went to timpview- don't really know her except she studied Arabic in college. Maybe she will teach me. Then i can communicate with the man who dad sold me to for 1000 camels in Egypt. wow that was random.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We threw a dessert party at the church last night for a couple families plus our investigators plus some less active families. It would have been awesome (we made awesome American desserts) except NO ONE CAME. Except the bishops family and my other favorite family in the ward. I felt like no one showed up to my sixteenth birthday party. But it ended up being SO fun. We played spoons. and i DOMINATED. It was especially fun because Koreans are mega competitive and they kept challenging me and I KEPT winning haha. Seriously went undefeated. I think i won their respect. I've loved it here. I'M so sad to leave. Missions sure do have a lot more heartbreak than i was anticipating. You completely give yourself over to these people and then you just get shipped off every six weeks. I hope president forgets about me for the rest of my mission and i can just die up there. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mom will you send me American treat/baking things? I want to start having my dessert thing a lot.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">um. i think thats about all. sorry to hear about Whitney. The cafe im in in playing her music right now. Its kind of way depressing. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">love love love love you. I have the best family in the world. Time is going by ridiculously fast.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I HATE CHANGE! what if my companion hates me?!?! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">got the handwarmers mom. haha. Lifetime supply. Just as i requested. hahah</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I didnt go to the Buddhist temple today. I feel like a loser. Its all i wanted. But Ive been having insomnia or something. I haven't slept in so long! Im so tired at night but then i lay there for hours drifting in and out of crazy missionary work dreams- cant catch a break anywhere these days. I do some pretty good thinking while I'm laying awake at night and its led me to these awesome ideas that lead us to finding super prepared people. We have six new investigators this week! Huzzah!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My favorite is the father of a man in our bishopric who recently had a stroke and moved in with his son and cant really talk anymore so they just make him come to church and ive made him my new best friend. He reminds me of Uncle Gary's dad but Korean. So sweet and funny. We had a baptism yesterday and i made sure he was front and center and he sat with me and mumbled all the hymns. Afterwards the son in the bishopric came up to me and said my dads ready to get baptized. Will you teach him the discussions? Then i had a heart attack. How the heck do you teach an old korean man who has had a stroke about the gospel? I prayed my heart out and began to teach him the first lesson. As we taught him i would ask him yes or no questions to see if he was understanding and he would mumble something and nod his head yes or no. Then we got to the part about Joseph Smith. I told him about a young boy who had questions- good ones. He decided to pray and God answered that prayer in a big way. I recited the first vision for him and, as always, the room filled with the spirit. I felt once again how true this gospel is. How individual and profound our Father in Heaven's love is for us. Brother Moon remained quiet and I asked him if he would follow Jesus Christ and be baptized. He smiled real big and gave a emphatic nod! YEEESSSSSSSS! We still need to meet with him a bunch of times and make sure he understands- don't really feel too good about dunking a man recovering from a stroke…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The other day i was knocking doors and this super old Buddhist lady answered the door and as soon as i said i was a missionary she yelled at us to go away and that she was happy and didn't need our crazy cult church. I was feeling kinda feisty that day so i told her that she actually did need our church and that everyone did. Then she started saying this prayer to cast out our evil spirits then i tried to hand her a pamphlet so she could think about it. Then she slammed the door. On my coat. So i calmly tried to tell her to open the door so i could leave and she just walked away. I was really stuck. so i rang her doorbell a bunch of times and she just ignored me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sister lund</span></div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-77530329360269280452012-01-31T10:09:00.001-08:002012-01-31T10:09:48.065-08:00Bicycle Accident<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I had a bicycle accident. Except i wasn't on a bicycle. I was walking down a really crowded street in the middle of a Korean market when out of nowhere the crowd parts like the red sea and this kid comes flying at me on his batman bike (what is it with me and batman?). He totally plowed into me and the whole market stopped to gawk. I thought it was hilarious but im pretty sure it was the worst day of that little kids childhood. He just keep apologizing and i told him to calm down and bought him some mandarin oranges. Yes, HE plowed into ME and I bought HIM a feel better treat. Whatever. I figure he'll remember the missionaries and get baptized in a couple years. Meanwhile everyone is still staring at us and the lady selling the walnut bread is snorting she's laughing so hard. NICE. Pretty sure only I am allowed to laugh at others pain. </span><br />
<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So, Ryan is getting married... its a miracle! Is Liz going to share a bed with Ryan and I now when we travel? That sounds awkward. How the heck are we going to organize THAT barrier? CANT WAIT! Welcome to the family Liz!</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ok but for reals that's awesome. Its about time ry ry. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We were supposed to go to the temple this morning that has the thousand golden Buddhas and the giant Buddha from street fighter. Only it depended on our investigator coming with us because we don't know how to get there. Then she was "sick" this morning. Totally punked us and Ashton Kutcher didn't even show up. WORST. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Im planning on going next week no matter what. There's only two weeks left of this transfer and i feel like im going to get banished to the north. etch.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I had a really cool experience Friday night. We had a member lesson with our agricultural engineer investigator. I was really worried about the lesson because she asks a lot of really good/scary questions that i feel like i can't answer well enough so I came armed with my favorite woman in the ward. We began to teach the plan of salvation and i was really struggling with the language and i felt like nothing i was saying was making any sense but i just kept talking, asking questions, and bearing testimony of what i know to be true. I felt the spirit really strongly but was certain I was the only one- as i was the only one who knew what i was talking about. We asked her to be baptized and she said she'd think about it. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As we left I was pretty crushed to be honest. The lord has helped me a lot- i can speak a lot of Korean but i just keep thinking COME ON! I'm out here working my head off! I'm studying! I'm eating the most insane stuff. Why cant you just THROW ME A BONE HERE! We walked the member back to her house and i turned and thanked her and apologized for my nonsense Korean and she turned to me and said what are you talking about? I understood everything you said tonight. That was almost perfect Korean- i haven't felt the spirit like that since MY mission! Then i cried a little and it was embarrassing. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The next day she spoke in sacrament meeting and talked about our lesson and I felt like a million bucks. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Today i just feel cold. And I'm sort of having a hard time typing because i really don't want my fingers to snap off.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I had a nightmare last night that i was home and i missed my mission so much and it was just over. I've become one of those missionaries. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey moms stop trying to talk about me coming home! i have like a thousand years left! </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I cant wait to show you this place. I love it here. I have a testimony that the Lord keeps His promises. Don't question Him. Ever. If it seems like something just isn't right, just wait- it isn't over. We are here having these experiences to have joy, learn, stretch ourselves, and eventually become like the Master. And according to me, that is worth any amount of suffering. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">All of my love,</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sister Lund</div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-14382919534747984932012-01-25T07:36:00.000-08:002012-01-25T07:36:44.763-08:00Happy New Year!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">Sorry for the late email. This week was Chinese new years and the country of South korea shut down for three days. Im so confused. I feel like i have to rethink my resolutions or something. In Korea there is a special soup that you eat on new years and it makes you turn one year older. I tried real hard to avoid it but alas, ive aged three years since we spoke last. Goodbye youth, we had a good time together!</span><br />
<div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Lots of amazing things happened this week but i forgot my journal which means i cant remember anything. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">The important things are that we have only two real investigators and we are knocking on every door and barking up every tree trying to find more. Still haven't found them yet but i have a feeling today is the day- i can just feel it. What i have been really enjoying is that because we have no investigators we have been able to spend lots of time with members and less active families. Yousong is a really interesting place because it is the brilliant scientist mecca of the world. Everyone in our ward is a nuclear engineer, or weapon defense specialist, or brain surgeon, or a famous psychologist. Its really intimidating. but not really because they are all the loveliest people ive ever met. Im really impressed with the way they are all able to mix science and religion. They are all so funny and their wives basically live in fur. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Lots of them get us rides home from their chauffeurs and it makes me feel really weird. But my companion gave our driver a book of Mormon the other day so… maybe its ok. right?!</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">I just found out Chelsea is engaged. Super happy/depressed. Looks like its gonna be me and you hangin out on friday night mom! huzzah. haha just kidding. I really do want to hang out mom!</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">All the members found out we went to a bathhouse and think its hilarious that i got a massage. Apparently that particular massage is intended for the elderly. pretty sure if my grandma got that massage she'd be in the hospital after taking that smack down. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">Oh! I had a cool experience. This families name kept popping in my head for some reason and so we made an appointment to go see them. Their family was new to the ward and we had already gone out the lunch with them and some other members so i wasn't exactly sure if it was a prompting but it turned out to be. Turns out the parents are newly weds. Both have recently lost their spouses and are having a yours-mine-and-ours experience and their daughter is really struggling. The mom pulled me aside and told me their story and said she really needed help so I walked into her room and did the only thing i know how to do and started talking. She was really not that excited to have a missionary bothering her but i just kept asking questions and made her give me her cell number. She is the cutest thing in the world and has refused to come to church since her dad died. It has obviously been very hard. I spent the next few days calling her when her name popped into my head and just saying hi. And then sunday rolled around and my weekly miracle happened. SHE CAME TO CHURCH! OK yeah its not a baptism or anything but it made my whole week. </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">I love being a missionary. I know i always say that but i almost always mean it. I love korea. I love the gentleness of the people. I love seeing subtle changes in myself as i let go of things and try to fill my life with the things i have the privilege of teaching everyday. I love my name tag. I love having the excuse to serve everyone around me. I love the way people light up when i speak Korean to them- like ive just jumped through a flaming hula hoop. I love this gospel. It is true. I can truly say this is the Lords work. I have felt His hand lead and guide me time and time again.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">All of my love.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">sister lund</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;">p.s. can everyone else stop getting married and moving to france. You know how i feel about change. I cant take much more of this. grasias </div><div><br />
</div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-76494920833206254832012-01-17T14:18:00.000-08:002012-01-17T14:18:11.833-08:00Bathhouse<div style="min-height: 100%; position: relative;"><div class="nH" style="width: 1166px;"><div class="nH" style="position: relative;"><table cellpadding="0" class="Bs nH" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><tbody>
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Two story homes, yards, dogs, porches. It completely blew my mind. I I realize this probably means nothing to you but these things dont exist in Korea. I insisted we go over there and find some investigators. Most people told us to go away but then his woman let us in. Her home was so beautiful. Ive never seen anything like it in Korea. PRETTY SURE THE COMPUTER IS FREAKING OUT AND THE REST OF MY EMAIL IS GOING TO BE IN ALL CAPS. SORRY I FORGOT THAT EVERYONE IN AMERICA LIVES IN MANSIONS. ENJOY YOUR LIVES OF LUXERY ALL!<div>ANYWAYS, SHE ASKED US ABOUT THE BOOK OF MORMOM AND I SORT OF THREW UP A LOT OF INFORMATION ON HER AND SHE RESPONDED WIT I AM ABSOLUTELY NOT INTERESTED. BUT THEN WE GOT TALKING. I ASKED ABOUT HER FAMILY- HOW SHE GOT A TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST. WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT MATTERED MOST TO HER AND WE SHARED WHAT MATTERED MOST TO US- OUR FAMILIES, THIS GOSPEL. WE TALKED LIKE FRIENDS WOULD AND AS WE DID I FELT THE SPIRIT COME INTO THE ROOM. I FELT HOW MUCH GOD REALLY LOVED HER AND HOW SINCERE HER HEART WAS. AS WE WERE LEAVING I BORE TESTIMONY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON ONE LAST TIME- WE PRAYED TOGETHER AND I ASKED AGAIN IF SHE WOULD TAKE THE BOOK. SHE SMILED, LOOKED THOUGHTFULLY AT ME AND THEN AT THE BOOK. SHE ASKED WHAT SHE SHOULD READ I TOLD HER ALL OF IT! </div><div>SHE HELD IT CLOSE TO HER CHEST AND ACTUALLY THANKED US. MAYBE NOTHING WILL COME OF IT BUT IT WAS AMAZING TI WATCH HOW DIFFERENTLY PEOPLE REACT WHEN YOU TREAT THEM LIKE THE SAVIOR WOULD- SHE COMPLETELY CHANGED WHEN SHE REALIZED HOW WE GENUINELY CARED FOR HER. </div><div>OUR MIRACLES THAT DAY DIDNT END THERE. WE WERE AT THE END OF AN INCREDIBLY LONG DAY WITHOUT A BREAK IN THE FREEZING COLD WHEN WE DECIDED TO START HEADING HOME. AS WE WALKED BACK TO THE SUBWAY STATION I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM ANOTHER MISSIONARY ASKING IF I WAS IN A CERTAIN AREA OF THE CITY. I WAS AND THEY CONTINUED TO ASK IF I WOULD VISIT A FORMER INVESTIGATOR OF <a href="http://THEIRS.IT/" style="color: #0000cc;" target="_blank">THEIRS.IT</a> WAS LATE AND WE DIDNT HAVE TIME BUT AS I WAS ABOUT TO START SAYING WE WOULD SWING BY THE NEXT DAY BEFORE I COULD STOP MYSELF I WAS ASKING WHERE SHE LIVED. I WAS LOOKING UP AT AN APARTMENT BUILDING 605 AND I JUST KNEW THEY WOULD SAY THAT APARTMENT. THEY OF COURSE SAID 6 05. I LAUGHED OUT LOUD AS WE MADE OUR WAY TO ONE LAST DOOR. THE WOMAN ANSWERED THE DOOR WITH HER DAUGHTER- A 40 YEAR OLD WOMAN WITH YOUNG CHILDREN. THEY INVITED US IN AND WE ENDED UP TEACHING THEM ALL ABOUT THE BOOK OF MORMON. WE READ MORONIS PROMISE TOGETHER AND WHEN WE ASKED IF SHE WOULD READ AND PRAY SHE SAID YES! I'LL DO IT! I REALLY WANT TO KNOW. I COULD SAY THIS EXPERIENCE SUPRISED ME BUT HONESTNLY, IT DIDNT. WHENEVER I WORK REALLY HARD AND SHOW THE LORD IM WILLING TO PUSH MYSELF- HE GIVES ME A MIRACLE. IM NOT A VERY GOOD MISSIONARY, MY KOREAN ISNT VERY GOOD- BUT IT DOESNT MATTER. IM ABLE TO DO WHAT THE LORD NEEDS ME TO DO.</div><div>OH ALSO, I MADE ALL THE SISTERS IN MY HOUSE GO TO THE BATHHOUSE THIS MORNING BECAUSE NONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN. IT WAS SO FUNNY. EVERYONE WAS YELLING AT US TELLING US WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO GO. I LOVE BOSSY OLD KOREAN LADIES. I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE THEM WHEN IM OLD. I GOT A SCRUB MASSAGE AND IM PRETTY SURE ILL HAVE BRUISES TOMORROW. THIS LADY WAS PUNCHING ME AS HARD AS SHE COULD! AND EVERY TIME SHE WANTED ME TO GO SHOWER OFF SHE WOULD JUST SHOVE ME OFF THE TABLE ONTO THE FLOOR AND THROW LAVA WATER AT ME. YEAH. I PAYED TO BE TREATED LIKE THAT.</div><div>LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU.</div><div>SISTER LUND</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr>
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<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The area has been kinda ravaged by strange sisters and sisters going home early. Sister Allen is the only one who knows the area and she is not my companion so we kinda just run around and find members houses and try to not get lost and talk to people. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Our area covers techno valley. Yes, techno valley is a real place. I insisted we go up there as soon as i got here but was a little disappointed to find there was no dance party.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sister miller is my companion and she is a little odd. Loves everything dweeb. Luckily all the important things are there- she's obedient, sweet and is down to work really hard. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Its really strange to not have a senior companion to turn to for help but im really enjoying being able to do things the way i want to have them done. I haven't felt this productive in a long time. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We have seen some miracles already- we went to a university close by our house and did some street contacting. As i was talking to people this middle aged man came up to me and started talking to me about learning english. I explained that we were missionaries and but we offered an english gospel program if he was interested. He continued to tell me that he was trying to find religion and that he thought we were meant to meet each other. We gave me his number and we met the next day with a member from the ward. He seems to have a lot of interest and i couldn't believe how much the lord is helping us to find investigators. We also picked up a chinese investigator and her husband- sweetest thing in the world. THey even came to church on sunday. Let me remind you i have been here FOUR DAYS. Love this place.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I have more to tell you about my dear sweet companion. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">She has a crazy good memory and can remember every part of every movie she's ever seen and is an amazing story teller. She even acts them out sometimes. Its like having a tv. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">only you have to be careful what channel you choose cause some are way too long and cant be turned off. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">She loves everything magical and mystical. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I love love love it. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We walked over to the church to do something and a bunch of the youth was standing around the church. A punk kid threw a snowball at us so i basically had to defend ourselves. In the middle of all this i was running away across the parking lot when i slipped on some ice.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The next thing i knew i was on the ground with a cracked rib (seriously it hurst when i breath. but don't freak out IM FINE.) and seriously damaged pride. Pretty sure i made a really good impression.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I spoke in sacrament meeting. I did ok until this little kid ran on the podium and stuck his hand up my skirt. Pretty much forgot everything i was going to say but everyone was really nice to me afterwards anyways.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So glad today is pday. Im going to play my heart out all day... actually until 530 and then i have an appointment with our slightly creepy ward mission leader.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Im so happy. Im so grateful for the support i get from all of my friends and family. Im the luckiest girl in the world. Im so grateful to be a missionary- time is going by much too quickly. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Guess what? The gift of tongues is real. Sometimes i can understand everything people are saying.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">LOV ELOVE LOVLOVEOELOVLOELOEVLEOV you</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">SIster lund </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span><span style="color: #666666;"><br />
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He walks around pretty much every day in full costume with a sign advertising the end of the world. He really freaks me out.</div><div>Anyways i noticed he was being followed by a bunch of teenagers who were harassing him and pulling and his cape and throwing stuff at him. Then Batman got real upset and started fighting them. Turns out batman isnt a very good fighter. They just sort of slapped each other and then batman got swung around by his cape. They tried to de-mask him but then he ran for the hills. BEST. hahaha</div><div>Also for some reason they were having a hugging festival in the middle of the downtown. It wasnt very cool for a girl who isnt really allowed to hug boys.</div><div>Imagine my discomfort. I dont like hugging strangers. Pretty sure no one does.</div><div>News years was super stressful and pretty much the opposite of fun. but whatever.</div><div>we got transfer calls this morning. We all knew i was getting tranfered so a bunch of the missionaries met at the church to have pancakes and say goodbye. It was fun.</div><div>Im going up to yusan... not sure how to spell that yet. Its near Daejeon. My companion will be sister miller. we will be cosenior together. living in a house with two other sisters. With two other sisters in our district. 2+2+2=6. Oh boy.</div><div>The four sisters are the ones i was in the mtc with.</div><div>yeah.</div></div><div>The is kind of cursed and sisters keep going home early from that area, and so the area hasn't had any missionaries for maybe three transfers and sister miller and i are white washing so its gonna be a fun fun time. Pray extra hard ok?</div></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="im" style="color: #500050;"><div>Im happy. I love korea. I love missionary work. I love new beginnings. I love when people send me packages with celltrex and things to help me be skinny and warm.</div><div>I loved talking to you on christmas. Honestly it was kinda hard after. I felt weird all week but im ready to go rule in Daejeon! Huzzah!</div><div>Say your prayers.</div><div>sister lund</div></div></div>Kalleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17511929721387935821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3567950327696054183.post-12520938095078165192012-01-09T09:29:00.001-08:002012-01-09T09:31:31.747-08:00Merry Christmas<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Not exactly sure what to say i feel like i already told you everything. LOVED TALKING TO YOU!</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Worst thing of my life hanging up.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so excited for kendis. Everyone is flying to coop! i love it!</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christmas is a couple holiday in Korea so all the couples were out in full swing in matching outfits and buying expensive jewlery.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I accidentally got us involved in the ward christmas party. between the two of us we could only come up with the talents of whistling and somersaults so we settled on a performance of rudolph the red nosed reindeer (actions included) We even got the primary kids to come on stage and sing along. Pretty sure we blew their minds with our talent.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it was a pretty low key christmas. Today felt more like christmas. I cant believe i got to talk to you! Its insane that you are still exist- its too good to be true!!</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My comp and i had a christmas devotional yesterday and read the christmas story and sang hymns. We talked about how cool it was to spend christmas in a place where all the frou frou of christmas doesnt even exist. You have to make christmas for yourself through our service, love and being able to really focus on the birth of our lord.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It is a beautiful thing to carry the same message as those herald angels 2000 years later of peace, joy, a the savior- that he lives.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There is nowhere else in the world i'd rather be today that in korea proudly wearing His name on my chest- telling anyone who will listen the grandest news ever given. Jesus is the Christ- the battle is won. All we have to do is decide whos side we are on.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Anyways. Merry Christmas. I love you desperately.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">also im kind of disappointed at your attitude about the bathhouse. Pansies.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sister lund<br />
also kim min jung is getting baptized on sunday! and i am missing it because im getting transferred. BOOOOO.<br />
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