Kyleigh mission update week 20
추석 or chuseok!
Howdy everyone!!!
Monday September 21, 2015
We went to the Amusement Park here in town called EWORLD. It's smaller than Lagoon. Nothing beats Disney for me, but we had a good time nonetheless. My camera screen shattered, but it still takes pictures so that is good. Blessing! We also had Missionary Correlation Meeting and Family Home Evening.
Tuesday September 22, 2015
We went English Class proselyting with a member. His name is 김동현. He is a month older than me and he leaves for his mission to Anaheim, California in November. We met a cute middle school girl who spoke really good English. We are hoping that we can meet with her again soon. We met with Molly our investigator. She's been coming to English class for a really long time. We found out that she is the same Molly that we have in our area book. She had a baptism date like 2 years ago, but something happened and she didn't follow through with it. I've just known her through English class. About four or five weeks ago she decided she wanted to do our 30/30 program. {30 minutes of English lesson, 30 minutes of gospel lesson} We started meeting with her, and at first we had a really good feeling about it. We tried committing her to pray, but she wouldn't. This past week we tried to teach her, but sadly the spirit was not present during the lesson. At all. Both my comp and I could feel it. We felt so bad after. Come to find out the next day that she is also traveling over to the area next to ours and she's going to their English class and doing their 30/30 program with the sisters over there. She's kinda been lying to everybody. She told those sisters that she'd never heard about the 30/30 program..didn't even know about the church. As far as we know she is just playing us, so we have to figure out a nice way to go about things. We are allowed to teach her only for six weeks with the 30/30 program and then we can let her go. Kind of frustrating, but a lot of people just use us for the English, and we just have to be nice about it.
Wednesday September 23, 2015
We had District Meeting at Elder and Sister Dustin's house. She fed us tacos. I gave my talk on how we can make our study time more like the sacred grove. {A topic brought up on our mission tour.} We went in the underground subway stations and English Class proselyted with the same member we did it with on Tuesday. Then we had English Class.
Thursday September 24, 2015
Visited our Ward Mission Leader and the Bishop. We taught 한성순 (our Catholic investigator) and she said she would read the Book of Mormon so that was exciting! We also visited our Ward Mission Leader's wife, Sister 이윤순, for dinner.
Friday September 25, 2015
We visited a member family for lunch at a restaurant. We shared a message about FHE. We visited a less active with Parkinson's Disease. He is really sweet. Our Member Record book has needed some serious updating so Sister Park and I spent a lot of time on that because we didn't have any lessons. Everyone is busy preparing for their holiday that was this past Sunday. It's their Thanksgiving.
Saturday September 26, 2015
We stopped by a members work to quickly say hello with the Elders. We had English Class, but not many people showed up because of the Holiday weekend. Their Thanksgiving is like a three day event.
Sunday September 27, 2015
It was Koreans Thanksgiving Day!! We celebrated it with members from the ward. It was cool to see the type of ceremony they do to honor their ancestors. I even got to participate a little bit!
Hope everyone is well! Love you all!
Love,
Sister Kyleigh Cooper
District Meeting...
In other family news....
Annual school carnival...{which I secretly hate, but go anyway..} 
The ill fated train ride...bahaha...we got stuck!
So....I've always kind of had a "thing" for journals. I've kept one off and on since I was 7! Recently I've been re- reading journal entries that my dad compiled a few years back of my great grandma. Knowing how fascinated I was by reading them, he gave me his mother's actual journal to read the other day.
I've read the entire thing already...was completely enthralled with it, and could hardly put it down. My grandmother, Lyllian, was 21 at the time she kept this particular journal. She wrote daily. The year is 1925! And look!.... Oct 1st was on a Thursday too like it is today. Knowing what grandma was up to 90 flipp'in years ago to the very day I find just so fascinating. She was quite the social butterfly. Always going to a social, party or ward function, or so it seemed. She did those "eloquent drama readings"... You know like Anne of Green Gables did? Most of her entries are filled with her dating highlights or woes...She was practically engaged to a gentleman, Rulon, who was in the service over in Germany, but then she started dating a returned missionary, Royal, who I've been told by my Dad that she dated for the next 5 years. He didn't end up being the "one" either. She didn't marry until she was 27. Through her writings, I've loved finding any similar personality traits, and likes that we might share. Several times I could hear myself say, "I hear ya grandma!l Like I totally understand." haha Her journal will mention a book, or silent movies that she raved about, ... {which I was able to pull up on the Internet to see what she was referring to....such as the Great Divide}
Her father left the family in Dec of that year. Many entries {some of them super sad} were not in detail so it left me reading between the lines and wondering details...I never knew my grandma. She died at the age of 68 in May of 1972, four months before I was born. This whole experience has given me a most delightful peek into her life.
B with one of her best friends...
The ill fated train ride...bahaha...we got stuck!
B got recognized for her hard work at school...Way to go B!
lunch out with my mom, dad and sisters...
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