Leanne Noelle Chun <leanne.chun@myldsmail.net>

To:Beth

Feb 4

Feb 4 at 5:58 PM

Back to the mountains! We love Gangwondo!

The new area is beautiful! I am here with Sister Cook of Seattle, Washington. She's going to be in her fourth transfer, and she is awesome! She's the French speaker at the Mormon Helping Hands Center that we've been asked to help out with. And I? Ah speaka de Engrish. And kind of the Korean, but I think that's sort of deteriorating a little bit, unfortunately. Don't worry, I'm working on it.

We're opening an area, which means we're pretty much starting from scratch, so there's going to be a lot of finding in the next few weeks. 👍 My favorite (she said, somewhat facetiously). Hehe but it'll be good. We're both really excited.

As I already mentioned, the area is just gorgeous! The couple days that we've been here have been chilly, yes, but the sky is so clear blue, and the sun is so bright! Of course, it's at way too low of an angle in the sky, but I don't blame it. I think we have to enjoy this while we can: Our branch president mentioned that the months of February and March are the snow coming months... 

The view from our 15th floor apartment is awesome. The Elders are jealous. Hehe

As far as the Olympics go: The Winter Olympics are called PyoungChang, but only the sports that need snowy mountains will be in PyoungChang. The rest of the stuff is going on in Gangreung, so Korea built a new train straight from the airport to Gangreung. The Church was able to secure (somewhat miraculously) a spot for a Mormon Helping Hands Center right across the street from the station. Our involvement will happen about three days a week when we go to Gangreung to volunteer in the center. Members are also volunteering, so the missionaries' job is to help the members have a fun, spiritual time, and to help run the center (providing information about the area to patrons who may come in to the center, showing them the Family History stuff we have, helping them get hot chocolate, etc.). We were able to experience the Center a little bit on Saturday, but we're excited for the days to come! 

Find out more about the Winter Olympics in Korea!

I love you all! Have a good week!

Love,

Sister Chun

The view from our apartment (in our new digs).

Elder Dygert, Elder Tung, and Elder Gilmore squished into the back seat for our drive
out to Gangwondo. They were super good sports about it. _)

We saw this today on the way to email_ a flower vending machine. Korea knows how to do things.

The Book of Mormon Olympic chain we made during YM/YW in our new  branch
to help us count down the reading. I was pretty excited about it.

Before leaving Seoul...we went to the temple.

Cute companions at the temple!

Last district picture! (The other Elders actually weren't out of the temple yet,
but we had to go, so...)

Had a fun temple P Day! It was good to see Sister Castro!

And I took a picture with Sister Castro's boyfriend. Happy birthday, Kai!

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