Sorry I didn't email yesterday. I forgot to tell
you that we would have zone conference on Monday so today is p-day.
Thanks for the feedback about my challenge. That's why I
send you these things. In the District there is a bit where the Sister
missionaries sit down with a member and help plan out how to approach a certain
person. Have you seen that? It is sort of what I had in mind. It is in the
first district.
Wow Japan sounds hard. The members are pretty chill here
but I can see how that kind of pressure would have a negative effect on
member-missionary relationships. I'm not a huge fan of the setting a date thing
either because it doesn't help members know how to share the gospel effectively.
It is just pressure. We want people to know how to share the gospel. We may
not even get a referral but if we can help the members to share church
literature and share specific doctrine with their friends then it would be worth
it. I know how hard it would be to refer a friend to the missionaries. I've
never even done it myself. Our biggest fear is that we won't be able to speak
Korean well enough to help them. This idea might have to wait until we have a
native.
Will is going to Brazil!
Yay!
Camden killed a bear? I didn't know
that was legal. Is he getting it stuffed?
OK so about culture and language. I'll talk about food this week. Everything is too expensive. I could never live here after my mission because we can't get good food for cheap. Even rice, kimchee and ramen are expensive(relatively). I'm fine with expensive kimchee but why is rice so expensive? We have to get the members to buy it for us! We eat a lot of ramen because it is still cheaper than most things. I'm cooking a lot of pancakes and stuff but they never taste right. I think the flour here is somehow acidic. I have to pour sugar into everything or it doesn't taste good. Can I have the recipe for German pancakes, breakfast cake and fried donuts. Is there a breakfast cake recipe that doesn't have to much solid fats(butter and crisco are too expensive). It would be good if it didn't have the sugar stuff on the bottom too. I'm going to try to make it in the rice maker overnight and the sugar stuff would burn. If such a recipe doesn't exist then never mind. Wow, I think you can tell how I deal with stress.
OK so about culture and language. I'll talk about food this week. Everything is too expensive. I could never live here after my mission because we can't get good food for cheap. Even rice, kimchee and ramen are expensive(relatively). I'm fine with expensive kimchee but why is rice so expensive? We have to get the members to buy it for us! We eat a lot of ramen because it is still cheaper than most things. I'm cooking a lot of pancakes and stuff but they never taste right. I think the flour here is somehow acidic. I have to pour sugar into everything or it doesn't taste good. Can I have the recipe for German pancakes, breakfast cake and fried donuts. Is there a breakfast cake recipe that doesn't have to much solid fats(butter and crisco are too expensive). It would be good if it didn't have the sugar stuff on the bottom too. I'm going to try to make it in the rice maker overnight and the sugar stuff would burn. If such a recipe doesn't exist then never mind. Wow, I think you can tell how I deal with stress.
Sorry for the short uninspiring
letter,
Love you,
Elder
Stapley
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