Tomorrow is my halfway point in the MTC. I certainly don't hate it here or anything, but I am definitely ready to actually get to Korea, as I'm sure all of y'all are sick of hearing about my boring MTC life and want me to get to Korea as well. So I'll keep it brief.
So the words for "child", "young woman", "virgin", and a word which I'm not going to write here but which might be considered the antonym of virgin are all extremely similar in Korean. Brother Sung tried to teach our district the difference once, and our English-speaking ears couldn't pick up on any variation. So that has made for some amusing moments while trying to teach lessons. My Korean certainly is rapidly improving, though. I've finally managed to stop lapsing into Spanish while speaking, so that's fortunate. Sabey, Litster, and I have decided that each day we'll have one person in our trio speaking only Korean (aka, one person doesn't get to speak). It's rough but it helps.
That speaker to which I alluded two weeks ago who was supposedly going to be a big deal turned out to be a big deal. It was President Russell M. Nelson--for the less Mormon among you, that's basically the second highest authority on the planet in our church. Not only that, but it was his first speaking assignment he had done since becoming President of the Quorum of the Twelve (which he was set apart as the very same day I reported to the MTC, coincidentally). We in the choir sang "Be Still, My Soul" at the devotional, which was super cool.
In other news, the Korean branch has been joined by none other than the one and only JDP3 (aka Jerry Dale Perry III (aka Elder Perry)). It was really weird seeing him here--I had almost forgotten that College Station actually still exists; it's hard to remember life before the MTC.
That's all, folks.
Stay classy, my friends.
Elder Rees, goin' back in there.
P.S. I'd like to offer a mass apology for the sloppy and disjointed quality of all my emails--both the group emails and individual ones. Also, sorry if I just don't even reply to anyone's emails. We only get 60 minutes to write them, and it flies by much faster than you would think. But don't let that hold you back from writing them, because we get to print out all the emails we've gotten in the morning and read them throughout the day, so I can read them all and I do really appreciate all of them!
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