Week 2: more love from sister cho :)

엄마 아빠 잘지내시죠?

요즘도 바쁘시겠군요

아빠는tapes다 잘 씻었어요?그전날밤 쓰셨겠죠?? ㅎㅎ

엄마는 요즘에도 민히 아침 싸주시나요?

민히보고 일찍 일어나서 스스로 싸라고 하세요(코딱지 만한게! 엄마보다 더 늦게 일어나!) ㅎㅎ

저는 아주 열심히 살고 있답니다~!

아침 6시반에 절대 못일어 날거라고 생각했는데 일찍 자다보니깐 일어나 지던데요?? ㅋㅋ

자랑스럽죠~~??

아이스크림도 딱 한번 밖에 안먹었고! 브라우니는 손도 대지 않았습니다~! 잘했죠??

뉴스킨 화장품 잘받았고요~! 색깔은 기억이 안나서 집에가서 체크 해보고 다음주에 메일로 보내겠습니다~!

저는 정말 이것에 대해 감사하고 있습니다. 다른 사람들의 배경을 모르고 있다가 여기 와서 새삼 부모님이 저에게 얼마나 큰 축복인지 깨달았습니다~!

제 동반자가 요즘에 피아노를 가르쳐 달라고 하더라고요~!가장 쉬운 찬송가 하나를 가르쳤는데 동반자가 정말 좋아하고 항상 연습하고싶어해요~!

엄마가 연습 하라고 하라고 했을때 연습좀 더할껄....

어쨋건~!피아노 가르쳐 주셔서 감사합니다~~~!

오늘 점심시간때 나중에 디스트릭 될사람이 내일 한국 디스트릭 옮겨야 된다고 해서 아마 내일부터는 한국말 공부만 와장창 해야 될꺼같습니다!

그러나 저는 정말 기대되요~!!

요즘에 몰몬경을 한국말로 읽고있는데 어렵지만 읽으면 읽을수록 몰몬경이 참되다는것을 느끼고있습니다.

어렸을때 가족끼리 한국말 경전 공부한 생각이 나더군요.그것에 대해 감사합니다~!.

지희 한태는 영어로 써야되니깐 나중에 더쓸께요~!사랑해요~~!~!아이 러브 유.~~!~!

So this past week has been another busy one! Where to start?!

Sister Bulouniwasa and I have been teaching our investigators (our teachers pretending to be investigators) and their names are Nathan and Emily. It's been such a great experience so far even though they are pretending! We got Nathan to pray out loud for us! Yay!!!!! It made me so happy because he's been telling us he's uncomfortable praying for like dayssss which felt like yearsss! but he changed after we told him that Heavenly Father wants to communicate with him just like his father wants to hear from him often! That was greattt! But Emily, she didn't do the reading assignment we assigned her and that just made me so sad. we were both bummed because seriously it's like ONE CHAPTER! 1 Nephi 1 is like 2.5 pages long!! and she said she was just too busy that she didn't get around to it! But it's so short and you could do it in like 15 minutes! then i realized that Heavenly Father probably is way sad when we decide to go to bed without reading even just one verse :( so i'm trying to make scripture study way more meaningful now :) anyway, it's probably weird for your to read that i'm getting so emotionally attached to these fake investigators! and yes i think it's weird too! but it's cool to see that i can develop a deep love for those who i don't even know because i want them to have what i have--the gospel of Jesus Christ which makes me happy not only in this life but for eternity! Gahh i can't wait to get out to Korea!

So i started reading the Book of Mormon in Korean and whoa it is so powerful! but it's really hard! i read it side by side with my english ones and every time i read i just get really grateful that we did korean scripture study when we were little! i remember sitting in our living room and daddy passing out the copied korean scriptures and the kids just being like "awwwww noooo not in koreannn!!" but now i'm so grateful! the gospel is so true! and heavenly father prepares each one of us for a specific purpose in life; i know that mommy and daddy stressed Korean in our home because my mission is to be a messenger of Heavenly Father to those people in korea! Wow, the plan of happiness is so perfect.

This past sunday, sister dalton came to visit us and she gave a really good message! She said when you go running, you never turn around to go back when you're in the middle of a hill. you might as well push forward and finish it rather than using that energy and time to go back to square one. it's so true. we all face things in our lives that are hard but they are opportunities for us to grow and become closer to Christ. We need to keep pushing forward because that is how we refine ourselves to be worthy of the blessings of the celestial glory!

Gahhh i have so much to say but not enough time to say it all! Just know that i love and miss you all but i'm loving the MTC and i'm excited to go out to Korea in a few weeks! Scripture of the week: Alma 37:37 "counsel with the Lord in all thydoings and he will direct thee for good..." he loves us and wants what is best for us so let us pray often! :D

-Sister Cho

ps. mommy, i've only eaten ice cream once and haven't even touched the brownies! hahaha proud?

pps. there is a group of korean missionaries here and we all get together and eat dinner and some how they have access to kimchi! haha so i've been eating rice and kimchi for the past few days! i love koreans bahahaha :D

Week 1: Hello from the MTC :)

Family and Friends-

So I was going to try really hard to type in Korean but then I realized I only have 30 minutes to write, and my Korean typing would require triple the amount of time! But maybe sometime in the future, I will try and type in Korean :P For now, I will stick to English!

Wow. It has been such a great week! Basically every minute of the day is planned so it's hard keeping up but every day has been rewarding! And going to bed at 10:30? I LOVE IT! Mommy, I should have totally listened to you growing up when you told me to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier because it feels sooooo good! Minhee, you should try it sometime ;)

I'm still getting used to alot of things, like when people say, "What is your name?" I have to catch myself from saying "Sonhee" and switch to "Sister Cho!" and when people ask "Where are you going?" I say things like "oh, to the gym." or "to the classroom." but what they mean is where are you going on your mission haha Anyway, everyone here is SO HAPPY! and at first I didn't get really how everyone could be but then it made sense because the Spirit is so strong and one of the fruits of the spirit is LOVE (Gal 5:22) so of course everyone is sweet and super nice! The first half of the day went by really fast; they gave us our name tags and then had us attend an opening orientation where we all sang "Bring the World His Truth" (the MTC changed the words to "We are now the Lord's missionaries" and it was so awesome looking at my name tag and realizing YEP I SURE AM!) and "Called to Serve" and it was so neat to look around the room and see so many missionaries from all around the world all here at the MTC with one purpose: to invite others to come unto Christ!

So let me tell you about classes! I'm in this program called ADL (advanced language) and it means that I'm in a class with missionaries who are good at English but it's their second language so they need to learn a few more gospel related things in English. What's great is that my district (and zone) is so diverse! My companion is Sister Bulouniwasa (easiset way to say it is to think of "bologna" like a bologna sandwich and "wassup" minus the P") and she is from Fiji! She is so amazing; her siblings are inactive and her parents aren't members but she is so strong in the gospel and her testimony is a rock! she knows all the scriptures and references (which i need to work on haha) and she even knows the page numbers of almost all the hymns in the hymn book! She is so great and i love her. I have already learned so much from her :) My district leader is Elder Andrada and he's from the Phillipines (sp? sorry, no time so i'm just going to keep going!) and he's going to serve in Vegas, and his companion is Elder Maiwiriwiri from Fiji going to Vegas too! and we have Elder Cho who is the same "Cho" as us so we're probably related!!! and he's from washington going to Vegas and his companion is Elder Andoh-Kesson from Ghana going to Alabama! Isn't that so neat?! The church is so true because it works all around the world! it brings peace and comfort to everyone and this has totally strengthened my testimony of a loving Heavenly Father who loves and knows each of us :)

Our teacher is Brother Erickson who served in France and Sister Wheeler who served in Czech (sp?) and they are excellent! We have been teaching them as "investigators" and at first it was kinda scary but then i realized it's just like talking to people in normal life pre-mish but now i get to talk about the gospel which makes it even better! so after i realized this, teaching has been SO AWESOME! we even dropped the b-word (baptism) on the second day with one of them!

Daddy, I also went to choir practice here because Ryan said that he went and absolutely loved it too and it was so great! The director is amazing and all the people there are there because they want to be and it makes such a difference in the outcome of the song! we sang this song called precious savior dear redeemer and we talked about how Matt 4 relates to the song and how the Savior cares about each one of us just as He cared for those on the ship when he calmed the seas. Gahh I only have 5 minutes left but basically, daddy you would have loved it! And I'm going to keep going :)

So much more i could tell you about but I just don't have time!

I love the gospel. It is so true. I know i have only been here for 6 days now but everything i have seen, heard, and felt so far has confirmed that this church is true! we have a loving heavenly father who knows us by name. he loves us so much that he has given us the opportunity to become like him by sending us to this earth in family units to gain experience, progress, and change! I KNOW that through reading the Book of Mormon and sincerely praying to God, each of us can gain a personal tesimony of the plan of happiness and come unto christ! I love you all and and keeping you in my prayers!

-Sister Sonhee Cho