Letters From The Land of The Morning Calm

Korean Countryside, Jeju Island, and Typhoons Hello Beloveds, 안녕하세요! We lived through our first Typhoon. It was deliciously scary! It made a real racket.  It was certainly a troublemaker.  We watched it during the middle of the night.  The power went out for a bit. We saw the power lines blowing mightily in the wind, and the heavens were opened. Dad instructed all the missionaries to stay inside until noon the following day. All of our obligations were postponed (oh darn!) It felt like school being cancelled.  It was wonderful! I hope we get another one soon.  Korea is beautiful!  We have been doing interviews all week so we have traveled many miles through the countryside, which is stunning.  There are big, green mountains everywhere.  It's almost hard to take it all in because it's so pretty. And it's consistently pretty.  We have seen the ocean and many rivers, bridges, etc.  The Elders took us to a beautiful beach.  It ...

ARRIVAL 안녕하세요 Family and Friends, Well, we made it!  We traveled very comfortably (thanks friends). We are here in The Land of the Morning Calm.  Yay!  There are Korean people everywhere:) The first two things that happened after we landed were: One, we walked into a wall of humidity (97% to be exact) which made my already bad case of bed-head worse and made sweat run down Dad's narrow little forehead; and Two, after eight months of studying, I couldn't for the life of me figure out which language they were speaking.  However, I was determined not to be disheartened. We love it here, and we love the Korean people.   The humidity is actually nice.  Bye Bye chapstick!  Getting out of the airport was no easy task.  Tons of red tape and Covid shenanigans. When we were going through customs, I had a tickle in my throat and coughed. I then felt myself glancing around furtively feeling like I'd done something illegal, the fear of execution looming over m...