Sarah in Seoul: Hello! . . . Week 7

여러분 (Everyone):

This week was crazy! Time is flying here at the good ol' MTC. We've started doing 24 hour English fasts which are hard but so good! We've been working with Kim 자매님 (Sister) about forgiving herself and why church is important. This week she finally committed to go to church and we were so pumped!

We also had 4 new native Sisters come this week. We're flying to Korea with them. I can't believe we're so close!

We also got 4M investigators this week. We initially planned on teaching the first half of The Restoration but we got to where we'd planned and we still had 10 minutes left so Warner 자매님 (Sister) looked at me and said "Want to teach about the Apostasy?" So we did! Without prepping, we went through the whole Restoration.

One of our teachers was gone this week so we taught our sub as a less-active member. We just testified of The Book of Mormon and it was awesome. So much awesome. We also did our first ever Skype TRC lesson! Ideally they try to have us speak with a native. However, we had a great lesson with Brother Johnson in Alpine, Utah. Sister Warner picked a scripture to share with him and it was revelation! She had him read the scripture and he told us that he'd just written a 3 page paper on that very scripture! So cool! I also successfully read some of President Monson's conference talk. In Korean. We also set a baptismal date with 최 형제님 (Brother Choi)!!

We got our 한국말 (Korean) nametags! Except we're only supposed to wear them in the classroom. But they're pretty cool and we like to call them our swag tags. I was asked to be the branch music coordinator last week so Sunday was a learning experience. We started singing "We are all Enlisted" and within 5 words I leaned over to Sister Warner and said "친차 나쁜 성택" Which means "Super bad choice" We senior districts were floundering to keep up and we read the best. Those poor brand new districts couldn't keep up. Definitely will not choose a song that fast in the future.

The story behind the title: Around week 3, language learners begin a slow descent into madness. Once you hit week 5, you're completely insane. We've now been here 7 weeks so as Sister Davis was rolling down the hall the other day, some other sisters gave us weird looks. Pari 지매님 (Sister) waved and said "Hello!" And then kind of pointing to Sister Davis "Week 7" So now, when we do something weird, we just say, "Hello!... Week 7"