Yep. It's a Thursday! Definitely weird emailing at the end
of the week, especially because so much had happened since the last response
home. I have limited time but I will do my very best to blaze the keyboard and
let you know all I can!!!
First and foremost: I am nineteen! Wowza.
How in the world
am I already this old? Pretty crazy. It seems like just the other day I was
eighteen! Though technically true, I just find it so amazing that I am here!
Here I am! In Asia! In Korea! I am so excited to be a missionary! And I am so
grateful to my Heavenly Father that I can already be his representative here at
this time. It is crazy to think that missionaries have only been coming this
young for two short years and I've already been a missionary for eight months!!
That is some sort of crazy! Thanks to everyone who bombarded my inbox with
well-wishes and your love! It is so felt and so appreciated! Thank you all of
you for being a part of my life. I feel so blessed^^ (I included an Asian
smiley face because I feel like it conveys the emotion better. You
know..squinty eyes and everything^^) The birthday was fantastic! One of the
highlights was most def when I got Settlers of Catan in Korean from Elder
Wagner and our Australian Korean investigator Joseph! It was a good day! I had
like three cakes! Plus Joseph's mom Agnes made me homemade banana bread! Then
the next morning I got a package in the mail from the fam! So great! I feel
like they know me so well! Thank you so much for the compilation of Elder
Holland's Greatest Talks.. Love that guy! What a birthday!
I also sent home a picture of me with and an Old lady in front
of a spectacular statue--thing. Monument! The word is monument! Sorry, I
forgo...second language problems. ^^
Well I am out of time but the story goes
that I was on a split in the neighboring area with a new greenie, ELder
Salveson. We went and helped a less active 87 year old women. She likes going
for walks. So we helped her down from her third story apartment then pushed her
in her wheel chair following her directions to this memorial. What you can't
tell from the picture is that we actually pushed her up a mountain! Yep. We
pushed her up and over the mountain and then she wanted to take a different way
back so we ended walking all the way over the mountain, through Cheung Beuk
National University, and down the street back to her house. Quite the trek
though it did give us a great chance to learn about her conversion story after
the close of the Korean war! So cool! Korea is the best, and I love this
gospel! Love serving! Love getting to help cute old little ladies that look
like cute granny ewok's and getting to share the gospel all the while! The work
is going well and I am sorry but time is up and I must be going.
I love all of you! You are continually in my prayers and
know that your lives, your hopes, dreams, and needs are continually before the
Lord. He is There! He is there to bless and strengthen and to uphold us by the
hand of his righteousness! I pray that you can feel that love and see his
ever-present hand in your lives today!
Love you so much.
Onward and Upward!
Elder John McKay Tucker
Elder John McKay Tucker
More birthday pics:
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Thanks Mom and fam for the awesome birthday box! It came so
quickly! I got it morning of the 18th!
Which is crazy fast for the mission office. |
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Also Elder Wagner and one of our investigators pitched in
and got me CATAN! Needless to say it was a fabulous day!
Language study was never so much fun. (because it's all in Korean!) |
The pic of our new team mascot:
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| Thanks, Malibu! |
We made some mac and cheese with gourmet pan fired chicken breast.
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| #italianspices |
So we went shopping at the supermarket on Monday and we
found a coconut. It was pretty cheap and it is a coconut..so we bought it.
Found out that coconuts are really hard to open. We didn't have a hammer to
drive the screwdriver into the coconut so we had to improvise. Ninja style.
[Photos without a story; maybe next time....]
