Pottery and Prepared People! July 17, 2017

A sign we helped make for a girl in our ward who just got home from her mission

The pottery place in the mountains

Bedtime!

Hottest day of the summer!

All of our travel time back and forth on the bus!

Waiting for the Elders to finish a lesson with the man's daughter

My cute Milyang district!

Hey everyone!!

This week was so cool. Sunday, Bishop comes up to us and says that this man called him and wants to come to church. He came to church, started taking lessons and is soaking everything in like a sponge. It is SO COOL. He has a cute little daughter we take care of while the Elders teach him. It has been so cool to see how prepared and ready he is for the gospel. I can't wait to see where it goes!

I don't think I'll ever get over how adorable our investigators are either, they just get better and better. Our investigator, Georgia, has been worried that I'm going to transfer soon like Sister Brady, so she decided she wanted to take me to do everything we've talked about doing. She called us this week and said she made us a pottery appointment and would pick us up in 20 minutes. Thankfully we had no appointments and off we went! She drove us up to this Pottery Museum. It's up in the mountains in this valley that has nothing, I've never seen so much open land in Korea! The whole area is protected because it's where they made pottery a loooong time ago. People dig up old pottery there all of the time. In this museum you can walk around and see all the pottery and then take a pottery class. So we went and made pots up in the mountains where ancient Koreans made pots! It was the funnest thing ever. 

Besides the heat stroke, everything is moving right along in Korea! This week it got so hot that President told us all to stay inside during the afternoon. Nothing better than showering all day long, bring the heat and the miracles!

Sending Love!!

XOXO

Plot Twist and Rain...July 9, 2017

Sister PakSoYoung and I went to lunch for P-day last week.

We got trapped by all the rain in a little tunnel without our umbrellas after an appointment.

Zone Conference, we're all in the same zone! I don't know who thought that was a good idea, but I'm pumped!

Our threesome attempting to throw another bed in our room! 

Hey hey!!

This week has been even more crazy than last week! It has been dumping buckets of rain! Thank goodness, Korea is in middle of a huge drought right now. Thanks to the lack of rain, it's supposed to be an unusually hot summer!

We got a phone call Friday night right before bed from the APs saying we were getting a new assignment. We needed to be at the Mission home the next day by 11 to pick up our new companion and would be over two areas. Definitely through us off guard! We are now in a threesome and over two areas that are 2 and a half hours apart! No idea how we're going to swing this, but it's going to be awesome. Our new companions name is Sister Cordero and she's awesome! Who knew thats where this transfer would take us! 

The best part of our week was our investigator got another answer to her prayers! Everytime she shows up with this glow on her face and is getting closer and closer. It's amazing how much prayer can change your life. She always says how she can't believe she's never done this before. She is becoming like my Korean mom, she buys me bread, texts me to make sure I'm home safe, she's just the greatest! She has the light of Christ in her so brightly and I'm so excited to see where it takes her!

Love everybody!!

Love, Sister Stout

The Good Old Switch A Roos! July 2, 2017

Hey hey everybody!

So this week brought a lot of news: A new transfer, a new companion, a new investigator, a new mission President and humidity like never before! I'm super excited to see what all of the changes will bring! With all the changes this week I was feeling a little overwhelmed with my lack of Korean skills and trying to figure out how to get into the groove of things. We were visiting a members house and because my new companion is Korean, woooah she just flew through our spiritual message and I sat there thinking.....okay soooo I have no idea what to say. The member looked at me and with the English he did know said, "Thank you for coming to Korea. We need you." It was a dagger straight to the heart. It's helped remind me of the angels the Lord puts in our lives and that they're all around us. That man had no idea how I felt or what I was thinking, but Heavenly Father did. I'm so thankful to know that there is always someone watching out for each of us.

I love you all!

XOXO

Love, Sister Stout

Last Night in the Nursery...Monday June 26, 2017

This is from when we had dinner at the Thompsons with Elder Sam Yiou and his mom.
Featuring Brother Thompson's photo bomb!

This is some of the ladies in the ward on Sister Brady's last Sunday in Jinhae!

The Stake President had a big dinner at his house for Sister Brady's last day!

Hello Hello!

Training is officially complete, do I feel trained? Nope, but that's okay! That also sent meant my cute trainer, Sister Brady, left me this morning. I don't think I've been that sad since I left for my mission. She's going to serve on Jeju, which is an island by Japan, which means I probably won't see her before she goes home. With that being explained, yes of course there were tears! I'll be staying in Jinhae with my new companion, Sister 박소영. My lack of Korean skills isn't ready for this, but it's going to be quite the adventure! She knows a little bit of English, and our grandma flip phone has a translator, it may become my best friend this transfer! 

This week we had a new family show up to our English class! When they walked in, none of us knew who they were, and we were all super surprised. People don't just show up to our English class unless we talk to them! The lady told us when she was in middle school, like 30 years ago, she met with the Sister missionaries. When she got into High School she stopped meeting with them because she was too busy, but remembered how much she loved meeting. She also remembered our free English program and wanted her little girls to be exposed to more English. She remembered the name of our church (which is a miracle in itself) and searched it to find when and where our English class was. After this, Sister Brady and I talked a lot about positive touches. There are so many things in our life we don't understand or feel like we aren't making a difference, BUT you never know the path the Lord has laid out. After a while, all of these positive touches add up and make a huge impact on someones life. It's definitely made me want to be a better person all of the time, so that I can always be ready to leave the touches the Lord wants us to. You never know what it can do!

Love you guys!!

Love,

Sister Stout

Hey there was a cool story I thought you would want to hear I forgot to tell you! I thought mom would like it. There is this man that owns a car shop kindof by our house so we walk past it all of the time. When we walk by we always say hi to him. The other day he called us over and invited us inside for some orange juice. We sat down with him and this other lady that worked there and they told us all about their family and stuff like that. They also asked us about missionary work. The lady asked how old I was and when I told her she about lost it. She kept asking me if I wanted to see my mom! And saying how I was a baby and my mom needed me! It was really cute. In Korea people odn't really move out of their parents house or get married until they're in the 30s, so for me to be alone in Korea was crazy to her! When we left she ran in the other room and grabbed this huge box of a brandnew 20 peice tupperware set and gave it to us! How sweet is that? They also invited us to come over for dinner some time! It was super cool! I thought it would make mom feel good!

Anyways Love you! Have fun in yellowstone!