Saturday, April 20, 2019

A Month Goes So Quickly!!!

It's been such a long time!
This has been the busiest time we can remember.  Things are winding down quickly and there is much to do!  We'll do some catching up, but we'll break the month up and do more than one blog update.

The final week of March was the final week of interviews for the transfer.  The Gokbanjeong and Shinpung District was right before a meeting we had to rush away to so we didn't get to have District Council or lunch with the group.



 
 The next day was the Suji and Shingal District

This is a unique situation with a foursome! The Samoan sister had two trainers and another sister had a companion who went home.  I couldn't separate the trainers!  The fourth sister rotated between the two trainers to cover her area. 


Lunch was their favorite "forbidden chicken".  It was the best we ever had.
They were so happy, they asked the resident expert to sing the song!


We had a great district council right after.  These are smart missionaries!
 The phone got away...

The meeting we ran off to was with five of the six Military Relations couples serving in the four missions in Korea.  A head military chaplain who is a member of the church and a member of the English-speaking District for Korea wanted to get them all together to discuss how they're doing and to share ideas.  What a wonderful day it was.
 Interestingly, the chaplain and his wife lived in a ward in Manassas, Virginia and knew a couple from Indiana who had moved there from our church ward.  It is a small world.


We then had our last trip to the temple for this half of the year.  With the missions changing July 1, we are not sure when they'll have the opportunity again. :(  It was the largest group of the three days and the temple was very accommodating to allow us to switch rooms to keep us all together.
 Camera got away again...

 This is a very handsome group of young men!


These are the Gyeonggi Zone Elders
 These are the Suwon Zone Elders
 This is all the sisters from from both zones.








We also had a little live taping:  

We even had one of our previous missionaries join us for pictures.  He happened to be at the temple that day.

This was the end of the week with the missionaries.  Friday evening, our son, his wife and four children arrived.  They are the last of our five children to come to visit us in Korea.

The next blog will contain some of that.