more walking!

this week has been really good, we did a lot more walking this week. you think with all the walking and the hills i would get skinner, but nope haha ive decided 신촌 is going to make me fatter then i have already gotten, we had 4 or 5 meals with members this week, thats the first time that has happened my whole mission but i guess thats normal here. the food was really good but they feed you so much and since im a missionary i have to eat all of it, even when you feel like you are going to throw up because you are so full! haha 

not a whole lot happened this week that was different then last week (excpt sorry no crazy abandoned towns this week haha) but we found a lot of towns in our area that are just dirt now. i guess a lot of our area is super old so they are tearing it all down to rebuild, so a lot of addresses we have on record are wrong because their houses arent there anymore. so that was always disappoint to walk all they way there to find dirt! but its okay because we still get to talk to people on the way there.

yesterday we were going to an older ladys house after church so visit her, we like to go and sing primary songs to her, shes the cutest lady! but she didnt end up being home and we still had an hour before our next appointment so we decided to explore that part of our area. so while we were walking we got to a part of the road were we could go left, right, or straight. so sister hwang told me i could choose which way we went so i randomly chose to go left. we started walking that way when all of a sudden a lday walking toward us says "oh sisters! i have been lost, can you help me find the temple?" she is one of the temple missionaries and had only been here for one week and she went on a walk but couldnt find her way back. so she we were able to help her go find the temple. she told us that she knows heavenly father was looking out for her beacuse he sent us to help her. so who knew picking to go left randomly was actually the spirit telling us which way to go! 

so this week i decided the best 2 gifts you can give a missionary is 1.) cheese, cheese is so expensive here, so we never can buy it. but after one of the dinners we had with a member they gave us a package of cheese and we have eaten it with every meal since (we even ate quesadillas!!) 2.) a laminator (i think we met Mary Poppins this week) we randomly got a text from someone asking if we could meet her at the temple at 6 so we went. and she pulls out a laminator from her bag and a bag of chocolates to give to our investigators. and then she realized that i was on exchanges so the sisters i was with were from another area, so then she goes to her locker and pulls out another laminator for them and the same bag of chocolates, along with another huge back of chocolates, then we talk to her a little longer and she says oh one sec, goes back to her locker comes back with a hug box of chocolates for us and then we still talk to her and she goes back and grabs another hug back of chocolates, we were speechless! she is from swiss and her husband had sent her with all that stuff to share with her korean friends but she said the people she had thought of was the missionaries. it was so kind!!! so we spent some time this past week laminating message cards for all the less actives we have been trying to visit! it was the best!!!!!!!! 

 

thank you for all the ideas, we wil have to try them! yeah i know elder Wagner has a costco card, we wanted them to go get us cereal there because its way cheaper there but they havent had a chance to go yet. they said the next time they go they will tell us so they can get us stuff.  

im glad you are starting to feel better, getting sick is the worst! 

well i love you so much! 

have a great week

love sister hemenway 

right i would have never thought about giving missionaires that, but it has been so fun to use!!! haha i dont know how much american missionaires would use it though, because i dont know if they do message cards. 

i think they are getting ready to tear it down.... i dont know haha

awww yeah dont worry i have a lot of chocolate, thats probably also why i have gotten fat haha 

yeah i can do that next time, this apartment is so nice!!!!!

 this one is just a couple floors, we are on the second floor so we dont have any views besides the building across the street! 

he told me that he is leaving now in june, so thats like what i did! im so excited for him. he seems to be really prepared to leave. he even sent me a scripture that he loved this week! 

i am so proud of him.

and actually this week i have seen a lot of improvement with my korean, so i have been happy! 

i can understand more then i can speak, i still dont understand everything but each week it gets better and better

sorry the other pictures are on the phone and they wont send, so i will try to send them next week.

one of the pictures is of all the gifts, the other pic is when we were walking the other day we say the abandoned town so we decided to take a pic