Hello! Today isn't preparation day--just email only. This weekend is a big giant holiday, Choo sok. So prep. day is getting moved to Saturday, the main day of the holiday. I've been asking people what they do for it. The women all kind of moan. Then make mounds of food, clean the house for visitors. A lot of people call it "Korean Thanksgiving," but it sounds like it's even bigger. Traditionally held at the parent's house, and the oldest son's wife gets to do a lot of the cooking.
Other things we've been up to: We're working on planning a special fireside meeting with Sister Buford. We've been talking to people at the different wards we serve at, and one of the bishops really latched on to the idea. Sister Buford will talk about being in the movie, show some behind-the-scenes pictures, do a Q and A, and then talk about how, during and after working on the movie, she found the Church. She'll tell about her past attending a different church and studying religion, about getting a Book of Mormon, meeting the missionaries by chance, etc...and about her conversion.
We had a meeting last night with the bishop and his councelors working on some of the plans. We also met on Sunday. I walk out of these meetings feeling like a diplomat. I get to negotiate what people are saying, and translate--Sister Buford speaks some Korean, but I speak a little more. It was fun to look through some of her pictures last night, too, and the people at the ward were enammored (sp??)--someone handed us a bag of corn-pop like snacks. We really didn't need them--an investigator had just bought us a huge dinner (I think it was an entire duck that we ate), and so I tried to hand the bag off to someone as we were leaving, and the bishop said, no, they're for Sister Buford.
A member had also given us a flat of pears for Choo sok that we took home on the bus last night. I carried it on my head on the way back like the old women here, and Sister Buford laughed, and made me laugh. Things are good:)
Much love!
--Carrie
Other things we've been up to: We're working on planning a special fireside meeting with Sister Buford. We've been talking to people at the different wards we serve at, and one of the bishops really latched on to the idea. Sister Buford will talk about being in the movie, show some behind-the-scenes pictures, do a Q and A, and then talk about how, during and after working on the movie, she found the Church. She'll tell about her past attending a different church and studying religion, about getting a Book of Mormon, meeting the missionaries by chance, etc...and about her conversion.
We had a meeting last night with the bishop and his councelors working on some of the plans. We also met on Sunday. I walk out of these meetings feeling like a diplomat. I get to negotiate what people are saying, and translate--Sister Buford speaks some Korean, but I speak a little more. It was fun to look through some of her pictures last night, too, and the people at the ward were enammored (sp??)--someone handed us a bag of corn-pop like snacks. We really didn't need them--an investigator had just bought us a huge dinner (I think it was an entire duck that we ate), and so I tried to hand the bag off to someone as we were leaving, and the bishop said, no, they're for Sister Buford.
A member had also given us a flat of pears for Choo sok that we took home on the bus last night. I carried it on my head on the way back like the old women here, and Sister Buford laughed, and made me laugh. Things are good:)
Much love!
--Carrie
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