안냥하새요,
Letters and packages can just go to the P.O. Box that you already have. I
don't know how much it would cost to send me camera stuff. I don't really need
it for anything but emailing you. If you want to send it then that's cool but
otherwise I'll try to find it when I have time. We don't have a lot of money
for sweet treats and Koreans don't like them much. If you ever want to send me
stuff then sugary stuff is good. You are allowed to make videos but I may not
be able to play them on this really old church computers. Do it any way though,
sometimes we go to computer labs.
Cool news about Dad's calling. We have a whole family of
missionaries!
I assume you found Masan on a map and know where it is but we are on the
ocean. There is a lot of topography and we live in an apartment on top of what
is basically a mountain. Every time we want to go back home we have to hike
back up it and I have never reached the top with any energy left. Our apartment
is fairly big for Korea but it's pretty trashy. We don't have any hot water in
the sinks but the shower tries to make up for that by burning us alive. There's
no air conditioning but at least we expected that. I thought it was just that
Korea didn't have much air conditioning but I guess every one has it but the
missionaries. We have fans though.
The other missionaries names are Elder McBride, Elder Moon, Sister
Ellsworth and Sister Choi. The member call me Stapler changno-nim.
The work here is kinda frustrating. Koreans tend to be really busy so we
rarely meet with even our best investigators. I haven't had an actual lesson
yet or met most of our investigators. Hopefully it will get better in a few
weeks. The students are all studying for the big standardized test right now.
Finding is hard as well. Missionaries have a bad reputation here. Other
churches like to send out missionaries and they are all crazy. They tend to
stop you in the street, ask what you believe and then attack it. I hate this
practice intensely.(the sin not the sinner) We had a run in with some
yesterday. They were actually pretty pathetic but we found out later that they
were from this one really scary cult church. I guess that counted as a lesson so I
lied earlier. He was trying to convert us as much as us him. Apparently they
have a book about Mormons and how to confound them. Whoever wrote it had never
tried it on actual Mormons before because they were easily answered. He came
with some questions about verses in the Book of Mormon that seemed to contradict
the Bible. When we explained them to him he tried to pull out the anti-Mormon
book to look up more questions but my companion started asking questions before
he could. He was much more thoughtful after that. We have another appointment
but we'll see how it goes.
One good thing about my area is we have the best Ward Mission leader in the
world. He is a convert of about 5 years but still shows us lifelong members and
full-time missionaries how to do the work. He is busy but he does most of our
fellow-shipping and always comes to all of our English classes. He has all
sorts of inspired ideas and makes sure we don't forget anything or anybody. He
also speaks really good English and gives us food. I thank Heavenly Father for
him every night.
Could you do something for me? Send me some of your favorites scriptures
and some thought about them. Could you try to find some that even
non-Christians could understand and relate to? I would love to be able to share
my family's favorite scriptures in spiritual thoughts.
Another request. I didn't bring any recipes. I would like some easy ones
that don't need much dairy. We do have milk but we try to go easy on it because
it is more expensive. I also haven't been able to find any shortening. Is
there a good substitute? I would especially like sweet recipes. As I mentioned
before we don't get a lot of sweet things. Most of what we eat is rice and eggs
and ramen.
I have more to say but I'm out of time. I love you,
Elder Stapley
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