Week 25

Dear loved ones..

안녕하세요 from an amazing week in good ol' 한국! (Han-gook.. the Korean word for Korea)

This week a week of miracles.. We worked so hard.. We talked to so many people, gave tons of book of mormons and got lots of phone numbers.. and as a result, saw the fruits of our labors!! We got 4 new investigators this week!! WOOHOO! MIRACLES!

The first one is a lady named Kwan Hyo Shim. We met her a few weeks on the street and gave her a Book of Mormon. We called her and she wanted to meet up. The meeting was different than we expected.. she gave us back the Book of Mormon because she says having it in her house right now is too much of a burden because she doesn't even read the Bible.. weird excuse I know.. we couldn't reason with her to keep it, but she wants us to keep meeting with her and teaching her! Hopefully she takes it back as soon as she realizes it is TRUE dangit.. Anways haha she is super nice and she has the cutest little daughter named Kate that never smiles.. but she's so cute! The next one is a lady named Yoon Cum Sook. She is a lady we met a couple weeks ago when we were handing out english flyers one day! She has come to our english class a few times and she called us this week wanting to do the 30/30 program with us! So right now she's mostly English interest, but she has a lot of potential.. she says she wants to develop faith in her life. Well sista, we got you covered. :) The last 2 came yesterday.. In the middle of church we get a call from an unknown number, I answer and the person on the other side says "Hi! Is this mormon?" haha I was like why yes, yes it is! Yes we are mormon! It was a chinese girl names Pyojin who was interested in learning about our english program. I told her about english class and also about the 30/30 program. She said "Oh okay! can we meet today at 1:30?" Why yes, yes we can! After church we met her and her brother Poe, and brought them to the church to teach them. they are both in their late 20s and they are the nicest people ever! Their english is really good, they mostly just want conversation practice. I was a little worried about how introducing the gospel would be, but it was actually so awesome. Poe had to leave early so he didn't hear it. Pyojin started by telling us that she had no religious background at all but she wanted to know how our message could benefit her life. The lesson went really well.. So there is a lot of potential :) It was a fasting miracle. I am so excited to see what happens with all these new people :) YAY

Update on Shin Song Hee... Still not committed to a baptism date :( And she didn't come to church this week because she was out of Seoul, visiting her sister. We were disappointed.. but aren't losing hope. She has progressed so much and the fact that she is finally really considering baptism is a miracle in and of itself. I just want to help her see that as soon as she exercises her faith and commits to a date.. everything will fall into place. I know it!! Pray for her!

This week I read a talk given a while ago by a newly called mission president (whose name has currently escaped me) called 'The 4th Missionary' this week. It talks about the 4 different kinds of missionaries there are. The first missionary is disobedient, does what he/she wants and essentially gets sent home or even goes home on his own free will. The second  missionary is disobedient, but stays his whole mission, wasting his time and the Lord's time for 2 years of his life. So obviously there are very few of these kinds of missionaries. But then there is the 3rd missionary.. This missionary is obedient and hard working. This missionary feels the spirit and does much good. But this missionary withholds his heart. He does things because it is what is expected of him as a missionary, not because it is what he wants to do. He does everything that is asked and expected of him, but he wants to do what he wants to do, always hoping and wishing for a better time... next transfer, next area, next companion, when he's home from his mission.. and because of this, he isn't changed by his mission, like he could've been. And then theres the 4th missionary. Obedient and hardworking, just like the third. The difference is that he does what he does because he knows that it is the only intelligent thing to do. Why would I be here if I wasn't going to give my all to the Lord? Why would I waste my time, and the Lord's time? Sometimes I am the 3rd missionary in ways without even realizing it. Sometimes I find myself measuring sucess the wrong way.. the 4th missionary measures success from within! From the peace that comes into the heart every once in a while that says, you are exactly where you need to be right now, doing what the Lord wants you to be doing. It was such an eye-opener for me and such a good reminder of why I'm here :) 

Scripture of the week.. Luke 22:32 "When thou art converted, strengthen thy bretheren." I am converted to this gospel, and becoming more and more every day. I love being a missionary :)

Hope you all have a week happier than the life of the homeless cat with a broken leg that I see everywhere (I named him skippy).

Until Next week! 사랑해요!

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Sister Holmes

Spring time pics at the temple!

Just a Korean selfie for your enjoyment.

I love my compie

A delicious salad made up solely of lettuce topped with canned pineapple! Made by Sister Lee!

Week 24

안녕하새요!!!

Well I think I have seasonal depression. I didn't realize how much happier I am when the weather is good haha! SPRING IS HERE!!! Cherry blossom trees are blossoming everywhere, it is seriously so beautiful, so asian, love it. I feel so blessed to be here! But everyone is telling me to brace myself for what's coming... Summer. Literally death here. like 99% humidity.. I don't know if I'll survive so if I don't, just remember me in this happy moment loving the spring weather..

This week was the best.. On top of the weather being beautiful, there were some wonderful things.. The biggest being that Shin Song Hee is sky rocketing in her progression. This week we went to lunch with her and a member from the english branch named Heather. She is an american lady who is a professor at Ehwa (the same university where Shin Song Hee works), so we thought it would be a good idea for them to meet eachother! And man, it was the best idea ever! They hit it off so well, they have really similar mindsets and majors. They were just chatting it up the whole lunch! Best friends already. After lunch we taught her a lesson about the plan of salvation, and why we have to go through trials in this life.. She has really been struggling understanding how God knows everything that is going to happen, but we still have hard times and trials. She doesn't understand the role of agency. Heather helped us explain it to her in a way that finally clicked.. It was a really deep weird way that I was kinda worried about at first.. but I realized it is actually what she needed! She is a very smart, very logical thinking kind of woman. She wanted a logical and scientific explanation. So she got one! Now it just takes exercising faith. We gave her the talk "I will not fail the nor forsake thee"  by Pres. Monson (my favorite conference talk of all time). Yesterday after church we had another lesson with her, and we asked her how she liked it. She loved it so much, she shared it with her parents! She says she's never been happier.. and she is seriously considering baptism (she said this all on her own without us even bringing up baptism...) and now she is... pretty much.. practically.. almost committed to baptism.. on April 20th!!!!!!! ALMOST. She hasn't solidified the 20th for sure, but she says around that time! She says she still has some questions about Joseph Smith.... But this is seriously a miracle. She has never been so willing before.. All of our prayers are finally kicking in! :) YAAAAY

We got 2 more investigators this week.. CHINESE investigators.. So right now we currently have 3 chinese speaking investigators. I can't believe it! Teaching them is such a crazy experience. We explain everything 2 or 3 times, very slowly, in English and in Korean. Its pretty mentally draining.. but it really makes me realize how simply we need to be teaching to people, especially those without any kind of religious back ground. Our two new investigators names are Yuna and Li-Chin-Zu. Yuna is 27 and Li-Chin-Zu is 19. They are students here learning Korean. They are mostly english interest right now.. which kinda stinks.. but they want to learn about our church and are open to things! So we'll see what happens! Some people have to go to far away lands to receive the gospel! I never would've though I'd be teaching chinese people in Korea haha! Our lesson with Yoo-ou-ee this week was so great. We read about the restoration from the simplified bom stories with her, and she loved it. She was so interested, and has such a sincere desire.. It was an awesome lesson!

Sometimes I struggle with feeling like I'm not a good missionary.. So this morning I decided to read preach my gospel chapter 1: my purpose as a missionary. I was reading the section, 'the sacredness of your calling' and I was thinking back about when I got set apart as a missionary, and what a special experience it was. I remembered some of the things that President Davis said, and now seeing some of those things being fulfilled! I never could've imagine this experience. I know that I am where I'm supposed to be right now. Despite the hard days when I feel like giving up because I'm homesick, tired, and can't understand anything that's being said to me... there really is no where else I'd rather be :) I am truly so grateful!

(remember to read this when I am dead from heat stroke in the summer)

Love you all and wish you a week happier than a smiling chubby asian baby's face!

Sister Holmes

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Week 23

Dearest Loved ones

Another week has flown by here in good ol' Sinchon! And what a great week it was. This transfer is off to a really great start. I think I'm starting to find happiness in the little things more and it is making such a difference in every day life as a missionary. :)

Shin Song Hee is still doing really well!! She is praying every day. We had a lesson this week with her at a member's house. We talked about recognizing the feelings of the spirit. I really hope she got something out of it.. Member present lessons are always a difficult thing.. the members in our ward really like to take over the lessons haha. Its kind of a problem.. I know they're just trying to be helpful but it just really confuses our investigators and then the lesson always goes WAY longer than planned. Anyways though, she is doing well. Another happy little tender mercy, we were finally able to meet with Kim Teh Hee this past week.. first time since here baptism! And she came to church yesterday! It was stake conference. She has been so busy.. we're trying to help her see that church will help her life be better, not be another stress.. Oh man these koreans.. they are SO busy let me tell you!

We got a new investigator yesterday :) God answers prayers! Her name is Yoo-oo-wei. She is actually from taiwan. She speaks little korean and little english.. its the weirdest thing.. lately we've been meeting so many chinese people! And we also have a russian investigator! What in the world I thought I came here to speak korean. They didn't tell me that I'd need to learn russian and chinese on the side. no thank you haha. just kidding, thankfully there are a few ward members here in korea that can speak those languages.. so we are trying to get in contact with them for some member present lessons! Hopefully they don't talk to much like the members in our ward haha. Anyways, this lady is so sweet! She is in her 40's, she works here in an educational administrative program (whatever that means). She has mostly english interest, but she's actually really interested in learning about the book of mormon! We do this thing called the 'family english program' in our mission, I don't know if I've talked about it before! We meet with people and teach them english for 30 minutes, and then we share our gospel message for 30 minutes. It has been a really successful way of finding people for our mission. So yeah, we are going to read the book of mormon stories with her in english. She is really excited. Hopefully we can turn this mostly english interest into a gospel interest soon!! Pray for me to learn chinese! HA not. One thing at a time. So actually pray for me to learn Korean. I'm still lackin'. Getting there haha but lacking.

Like I said, I've been really trying to find more joy in the simple things.. This past week especially I have gained such a greater appreciation for the opportunity I have to study the scriptures and pray every day. These things are so simple, but SO IMPORTANT. For all of us. I think I took these things for granted my whole life.. I don't know what I would do without them now. This week I read the talk "We never walk alone" by Pres. Monson at the last relief society conf. I LOVE this quote from him.. "As we seek our Heavenly Father through sincere prayer and earnest, dedicated scripture study, our testimonies will become strong and deeply rooted. We will know of God's love for us. We will understand we do not ever walk alone. I promise that you will one day stand aside and look at your difficult times, and you will realize He was always there beside you." Wow. This is a promise from a prophet of God. So when things get rough, just remember this. As long as you are praying and reading your scriptures, you WILL receive strength to get through the hard times. Even if we don't understand why we have to deal with some things in this life.. He will never leave us. But we have to do our part to feel His love. I just want EVERYONE in the world to know this. I am just recently figuring it out for myself.

제가 행복한 선교사 입니다! I am a happy missionary! (I could've just made something up and you all wouldn't have even known hehe )

사랑해요!! 

Sister Holmes

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Last pday. Happiest day of my life...tandum biking it up. Seriously the funnest thing ever :)

 The Sinchon sistas :) (don't mind my hair lookilng like a horse tail, I just ran across Korea right before we took the picture. A little fun fact about missionaries. We're always running everywhere...I hate it haha)

 Last family pics before transfers! (our district)

Just for funsies.

Sister Lee told me to never make this face again if I want to get married.

Week 22

안녕하세요!!!

I'm in my 3rd transfer already. Wait what?? I can't believe that! Oh time, you never cease to freak me out.. Well I am staying here in Sinchon with Sister Lee for another transfer! I couldn't be happier. I love it here, I love my companion, I love our ward. I am starting to actually know how to get around, I am starting to build better relationships with people.. so I am so grateful for the opportunity to be here for at least another 6 weeks! This week started out so good with temple day. The temple always makes everything happier. How lucky am I to be serving in an area with a temple? I live 5 minutes away from it. Dang I am so blessed! After the temple, all the missionaries in our zone went to this super popular American buffet here called Ashley's. when they say american food, they really mean korean style american food. I have never had the weirdest combination of flavors in my stomach haha but it was a great time.

This week was awesome.. Lots of miracles, lots of blessings. Although a lot of our plans and appointments fell through, we still worked our hardest and had such a happy week! Shin Song Hee is finally really progressing :) This week we went and visited her at her work, she works at a university here, Ewha. (super prestigious all women's univesity.. btdubs.) We went to lunch with her and toured the campus. We have really been struggling on what we should teach her.. We have taught her a lot but at the same time she knows so little.. everything has just been kind of confusing. A few weeks ago we tried to commit her to baptism and since then things have been rough with her. But we are finally back on track with her. We decided we just needed to talk with her about prayer. And I am so glad we did. It is exactly what she needed. Just a simple reminder that she can feel happy and she can feel God's love if she prays. That was earlier in the week, Yesterday she came to church and afterwards we had a lesson. She says that since she's been praying more regularly like we committed her to, her life has been so much happier. She says that other people have been telling her that she seems so much more bright and happy. She said that she is deciding to trust in God and let go of the hard things. It was so amazing to hear this realization she came to. She even said that if things keep going this well, she will want to be baptized soon. She is understanding and accepting more than she ever has before. I can't believe it. I am so happy! This is why I had to stay in Sinchon :)

Funny story of the week.. I was on exchanges with Sister White, and while we were jundoing (street proselyting) I was talking to this lady with a dog, and I told her she had a cute dog! Right when I did, the dog looked up at me and then ATTACKED. it straight up bit my hand and I basically screamed and everyone on the street gasped and looked over at me. hahaha it was the most embarrasing thing but it was hilarious. I guess that's what I get for telling a lie. It was the ugliest thing ever. Not to mention it was wearing a tutu. So yeah. There's that haha.

I don't really have much else to say this week. It was great. I am so excited to start a new transfer here. Hopefully it brings us many miracles. Welllp I gotta peace now! The church is true. haha

BYE until next week :)

Sister Holmes

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Me & Sister Lee...livin' the dream

My new hobby: find inspirational signs and take pics with them

Utah license plate at Ashley's!! Whoot!!

Week 21

Wow. 

This is the last week of the my second transfer! Holy cow. I'm not gonna be a greenie anymore.. Actually technically I am not a greenie anymore because 12 weeks is your training.. and since I had a 7 week transfer my first transfer.. now I'm not a greenie.. Now I've moved up to the title "young missionary". I'm getting so OLD! Transfer calls are this saturday, I can't believe it! I don't know what will happen, President Christensen really likes to surprise people. But if I were making a guess... I think I will probably stay here in Sinchon with Sister Lee for another transfer. Which I would be really happy about. I love it here. I have been so blessed to serve here.. This is where all the missionaries dream of serving, and I had the privilege to be here for my first 2 transfers.. so whatever happens I will be okay with.. even if I'm shipped up North where there are basically no people... and it is even more freezing than it is here in the city.... Shoot. Yup I just jinxed myself I'm going to Kang Won Do next I know it. The Lord knows what he's doing right? I can handle anything I've survived this long haha.. 

This week had a lot of happiness inside of it. First of all.. I FINISHED PASS-OFF!!! I realize now that I haven't explained what this is in any of my previous emails which is CRAZY because it has taken over my life.. In our mission we do this thing called the Language Progression Program.. its where you learn the vocabulary for each preach my gospel lesson in korean, teach the lesson and korean, memorize scriptures for the lesson. You pass off each lesson with your district leader, then you do a midway pass off and a final pass off with your zone leader, and then you pass of with the APs.. so yeah, its kind of a big deal. And now I'm kind of a big deal because I finished it. So yeah. ;) Biggest accomplishment of my life. Such a stress reliever! It was killin' me! If nothing else good happened in the week I can be so happy because I'm DONE WITH IT!! Hold the applause!

This last week I had the opportunity to go on splits with Sister Thomas!! I love her so much. (She and Sister White are the other sisters we live with). She got here only one transfer before me.. I don't even know how I would've survived these last 2 transfers without her! It is such a comfort to know that you're not the only one struggling. We have been able to help each other out a lot.. so when we went on splits this week, we both realized that we've actually learned a thing or two! We got around all by ourselves, got where we needed to be, to our meetings, appointments and everything.. It was such a confidence booster! I feel like I don't know anything still sometimes and it stresses me out to think that I could get another really young missionary as a companion really soon here! But I realized that if it came down to it, I could do it. It might kill me but I could. :) This week I really recognized what an honor and privilege it is to be a missionary. I am grateful for the hard times because they are shaping me into the person that I want to be. I just love this gospel :)

It was a slow one for lessons again.. but on the positive side, Shin Song Hee came to church!! Last night there was a fireside given by Elder Nash of the Seventy. He talked about likening the scriptures to our lives.. and I sure loved it! She came with us, along with Kim Dong Hee! It was such a good night. Even if they dozed off a little bit during the talk haha. I'm not gonna lie there were points where I nodded off.. Its kind of hard to listen to a talk given slowly, sentence by sentence, english, korean, english, korean.. especially when you have a row of naughty little boys in front of you that were fighting the whole time haha. But I am still grateful for the opportunity to hear a general authority! It was in Young don bo, which is in the Seoul South mission so its awesome that we even got to go. Anyways, it was great! Oh man though, I don't know what's going on with Shin Song Hee... it turns out she was really upset at us when we tried to push her to be baptized a couple weeks ago.. so we don't know what to do.. we're just trying to work on strengthening her faith without being pushy because she doesn't want to talk about baptism.. But she is so amazing. I love her so much and more importantly I know that God loves her so much. Even if I don't get to be here when she's baptized, I really think she will someday. Lets just pray that someday is soon :) Pray for that miracle!

We are still working our tails off to find new investigators.. jundoing lots, making a million phone calls, doing everything we can! So actually I forgot, there was a pretty awesome miracle this week! But it was while i was on splits with Sister Thomas. There was a russian lady that Sister Lee met while jundoing once and we got her number and told her that we would get her a book of mormon in russian! So we did and when we went to meet her to give it to her last week she didn't show up. But on saturday she Saw Sister Lee (and Sister White) on the street and so she went and asked them for her book! They were able to go to the church with her and actually teach her a lesson.. they taught the restoration and said it was awesome!! I am so sad I missed it! So actually we do have a new investigator! Hopefully! we are trying to meet with her again tonight so that will be so good! She doesn't speak much english or Korean.. so it will be an adventure to teach her haha :) I'm so excited. More exciting news, tomorrow is temple day!! And the NEW FILM IS HERE!!!!!! I am so excited. Just so much excitement!

I don't really know what else to say. So I guess I'll be done now. Sorry if this was lame again. I'm lame when I email, I can't capture my experience through words.. but just know that I love this work! I know with all my heart that it is God's work! 

5 months in! Holy moly! This week's gonna be a good one!!! Last week of the transfer, its miracle time. Talk to you next week!!! LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!

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Week 20

Dearest family and friends...

Well, this week was a better one. :) Things were still pretty slow.. everyone has been so so busy with work lately so its been a rough one for lessons. But it was still great. Attitude makes all the difference!

This week I had the craziest experience. On Thursday around noon we were headed up to the temple because we had a lunch with on of the temple missionary couples, the Cases. The temple missionaries live in a little house right by the temple. We were supposed to have lunch with them on Tuesday, but they weren't home. Remember that now.. Anyways, the temple is right behind our church building! In fact to get to the temple you can go through the church. There is a back door and a little gate that leads to the temple. SO, we are going through the church to get to their apartment. We go up the back stairs to go through the door and we go out and find that the gate is locked, so we're gonna have to back through the church and around. Oops except one problem. The door closed behind us and it locked. So we are trapped in this little area between the door to the church and the gate to the temple haha. We were like great what can we do?? we're already kinda late for this lunch thing. So there's this stair case that leads off the side but there is a gate that is locked on it too.. but since I'm super limber and what not I decided that we needed to climb over it and get down the stairs which leads to the church parking lot. So we get over this gate which takes forever haha we almost ripped our skirts. And we finally get down these stairs.. and it leads to nothing. There is a 15 foot drop into the parking lot because there is this weird high ledge all around the church. I don't know if this story is making any sense but bear with me the good part is coming! So we walk around the whole church on this ledge and I get to the front of it, where the ledge is smaller, but still about 6 feet, and we jump off of it and finally we are no longer trapped haha. Such an adventure. So THEN, we look over, and there is a lady just standing there in front of the church doors, just staring. She didn't even notice that we just appeared out of no where. So we went over to her and asked her if we could help her! She said "I'm looking for a new church.. is this your church?" The doors are usually locked but we have the code to get in as missionaries, so we told her that and that she could tour the church! She was like "Wow! God guided me here!" Then we gave her a tour of the church, gave her a book of mormon and the restoration pamplet.. and we got her phone number.. MIRACLE. Haha we couldn't believe it. This is why lunch got canceled on tuesday right? We needed to be in front of the church at exactly that time on thursday right? I like to think so. We literally dropped from the heavens and appeared to this lady hahaha. It made my whole week.. We are trying to schedule and appointment with her this week.. I can't wait to tell this story at her baptism someday ;) I hope it made sense haha!

Yesterday was Jong Da Young's last week in our ward.. she moved back home, which is 3 hours away and in the Seoul South mission. I was so worried that she wouldn't come to church. She hadn't been for the past two weeks, and her phone is turned off now so we had now way to contact her. But I was determined to stay calm and not get stressed out.. Sundays are the most stressful days for me. It is the only day that both of our investigators have been able to meet lately, and a billion people are asking me a bunch of things in korean.. its just a hard day haha. But I woke up with the determination to have a good, happy day. So sacrament meeting comes around and Jong Da Young is there. Neither of our investigators came, or Kim Tae Hee..  But Jong Da Young is there so I could be happy. She shared her testimony in the fast and testimony meeting. She talked about how she wasn't doing things that were good in her life before her baptism.. It turns out that she had a lot more going on than we knew about. She told us this week that she used to be a heavy drinker and smoker. She was so addicted to these things that she got so ill and so in debt. Her life was in a really bad place. But she said that when she met us and learned about the word of wisdom, her life changed completely. She threw away all her alcohol and cigarettes and was determined to start fresh. She came to know that she was a daughter of God, and because of that she learned to love herself. It was the most perfect testimony. My heart was full. After church so many people came up to her, giving her their love and appreciation for sharing her testimony. It was so amazing.. my prayers were answered. I had been so worried about her, with her leaving and because she hasn't been very firm in her faith lately. I am not worried anymore. I know that as long as she is in this gospel, she will have family. She will have that love wherever she goes. God will take care of her. It was such a tender mercy. So although our investigators didn't come to church, and things fell through, I was so happy. :)

Well those are pretty much the highlights of my week. I am doing so much better. I am learning to take things one day at a time. I am learning to be grateful for the hard times, seeing them as an opportunity to grow so much. The days that are slow, the challenge of learning this crazy language, the heartbreaks, everything... all for my benefit. As I rely more fully on the Lord he always helps me to see that! I love being a missionary! Everything that is hard about being a missionary is so worth it! I TESTIFY OF THAT. :)

Love you all, thank you for the love and support like always! Until next week! 사랑해요

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Sister Holmes

Week 19

안녕하세요!

I think as missionaries we have to experience really hard weeks on our missions sometimes for no other reason than to help us be grateful for all of the good. Well this week was definitely one of those weeks for me.. and I can't really even explain why. Sometimes things are just really hard, and everything catches up to you. But there is nothing else to do except keep moving forward! It can only get better right? :) I hope. I'm going with that.

Well even though this week was a doozy for me.. I would be lying if I said there wasn't anything good.. In fact, I had one of the most wonderful experiences on my mission this week! On saturday, we were able to take Jong Da Yong to the temple to do baptisms for the dead :) Such a happy day.. She loved it. She has a new enthusiasm and desire to do family history now and it makes me so happy. Right before we went in the temple she told me about how excited she was to baptize her grandparents who suffered a hard life during the Korean war. It was such an eye opener to me about how important family history work is.. Temples are the most amazing blessing... We actually have God's power here on the earth to have eternal families. Wow. This gospel never ceases to amaze me.. and that is why I love being a missionary so much. As we teach others about the gospel, my knowledge and appreciation for it grows more than I can describe. So I just gotta remember this when I feel like giving up or when I feel like I'm not making a difference in anyone's life.. I am changing my own if no one elses! I am where the Lord needs me to be!

Yesterday after church during our lesson, Shin Song Hee asked me what was wrong.. She could tell that I had been having a hard day. I just told her that I had been feeling down on myself, and sometimes missionary work is really hard.. She said to me "I know. But you are amazing. You came here to Korea to help people. You have helped me more than you know. You are helping me be happy. I love you so much." It was one of the most tender mercies. Sometimes, especially this past week, I feel sad because I feel like I'm not making an influence or helping anybody.. I think this was the Lord's way of telling me that everything is gonna be okay. I am helping someone. I am needed here. I can do it. :)

Anways, this was kind of a short email.. I don't have much else to say except that I am so glad I am where I am right now, even when the weeks are hard. I love my companion, my area, my district. I am such a blessed missionary, really. I have every reason to be grateful. I am glad the Lord helped me see that this week :) I'm stayin' alive. (ah ah ah ah stayin alive, staying alive! I miss music dang it)

Much love,

Sister Holmes

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