Week 4

Week four was pretty fast! There were some pretty good highlights, being able to trade ties with Matt was awesome.  It's one of my favorite ties now. The posters that Grace and Dad put up were so awesome.  We all had a really fun time taking pictures. Sunday temple walk was really fun. I survived another week without having to give a talk in Korean for sacrament meetings so I am grateful for that. On monday we had TRC which is where you teach two lessons to like members normally and you just try to teach them something that they will need. The second guy we taught was a Brother who went to the Seoul mission. He said that Jeff was his AP for a little while he was there. I think his last name was Brother Vansimul or like Brother Vancul. I'm not too sure but we taught him about obedience and following the will of the father and at the end we asked him to bear his testimony after we had all said our own little testimonies. It was really awesome and the spirit was really strong. It's awesome the ability we have to speak and understand what they are saying in korean. It's so crazy. Yesterday in class we learned how to testify using testimony form and so each day we have to tell our testimony 3 times a day to 3 different people in korean.   It's crazy! But we just stop people while we wait in the crazy lunch lines. I wish I had an ipad so I could be able to type my testimony down in korean with the korean keyboard. I can talk about the gospel but that's about it I have no real idea how to have just a  normal day to day conversation but it's fun. On Monday we had our first English Fast which is what it sounds like where you don't speak any english. We did for like 2 or 3 hours.  It was so hard and crazy! It's fun though and kind of solidified that we are actually learning something here. I love being able to write stuff in korean.  It looks so cool and its awesome being able to read all of it. I also like learning all the fun korean slang because that's just fun too say! We also learn words that we use In volleyball like gongjoo which means princess in korean so when ever you hit the ball into the net you have to say "jonen gonjoo Imneeda" or I'm a princess and  then have to re-serve it haha. It's pretty fun all the things we can say. I miss you all a ton! This week was pretty good. I miss you all a ton! I love you guys! 

Love Elder Allen

Week 3

This week went by fast and was pretty good. The language seems to be slowing down a lot now. I feel like we learned a ton the first two weeks and then after that it has slowed down a bit. But I'm sure I am probably still making progress even though I don't think I am. We just got 50+ Korean Missionaries today so we are now the biggest branch in the MTC. That's pretty crazy. I've grown really close to all the Elders in my district they are all such fun and Intelligent Elders.

It's crazy to think that everyone starts school in the next couple days or has(grace). So that's wild I can't believe that it's already that time again.

I have some of the best teachers here Brother Watts, he served in Seoul Nam(Seoul south, my mission) and is such an awesome fun guy he is also super good at keeping us interested in what he is teaching and love when he is our teacher for class. Sister Zundell is our other teacher and she is from provo and served her mission in Seoul and she knows Lexis and Jeff. So its a pretty small world I guess. 

I miss everyone a lot at home and hope everyone is doing good. I love you all Elder Allen!

Love Elder Allen

Second Week

This week was pretty good. We had the chance to hear from the apostle Neil L. Anderson and he gave a really awesome talk 

 The food here really sucks so I have a hard time eating. It makes my stomach upset all the time. I try best to eat something at least. 

Niel L. Anderson gave a talk on keeping your fire burning and it was really good. I do Choir every time so we were able to be in the room with him and not have to watch it over the TV. I also was on the tv a lot because I was sitting right where they always put the camera when the choir sings and it was broadcasted to the all the MTCs. The Choir is so fun! 

The Korean Branch is so awesome, everyone in our branch are allstars! We all play volleyball together and we always just take over 1 side of a court and kill everyone we play against. The korean has been coming slowly and my vocabulary really sucks but I'm one of the faster ones at reading Korean in my district so that's pretty cool. I like how the korean symbols look and my hand writing is a lot nicer in korean than it is in english so that's a good thing. The korean language looks a lot easier then all the asian languages because we actually have an alphabet and only have one writing style instead of 4 like japanese. haha It's fun to read things in korean I mean I don't understand what any of the words mean but I know how to read the characters. We have a lesson pretty much everyday now and they have to be in Korean so its pretty crazy. We have to try and teach people by the spirit while trying to understand what they are saying and then figure out how to respond. So lessons can be rough but are last lesson with our first investigator we invited her to be baptized once she knew the things were true and she said yes. We had planned for that to be the last thing we were going to say but then all the sudden we all fealt the spirit and started testifying and bring up scriptures for her to read in korean and brought up a bunch of other things from our little korean book of things to say it was a pretty cool lesson. 

I miss everyone back at home and hope everyone is doing good. I love you all 

Love Elder Allen

Made it to my first P Day!

The MTC has been very stressful but when you get her everyone just tells you to make it to sunday! It also has been tons of fun I have the coolest district here! All the guys are so much fun to be around and are so crazy. 

I've seen a lot of my friends back from home Elder Garry, Elder Choi, Elder Hanks, Elder Miller, Elder Lilywhite, Elder Peterson. These are just a few I can think of off the top of my head but its exciting to seee all my friends while I'm here. 

The korean Language is incredibly hard and challenging but ill figure it out somehow. I've learned a lot since I've been here like how Open and close a Prayer and how to write and read in Korean. The language will come just slowly...

I'm in a trio it's pretty fun but can also be challenging because you have to drag along the two others sometimes. My companions are both very cool. Elder Dygert is from South Weber as he calls it haha. And Elder Burdett is from Boneville. They are both really awesome and spirtitual guys. 

I hope everyone at home is doing good I miss you all a tons! 

I love you all Elder Allen