It's a Long confusing story but My goal is to get all the names to do my Family's temple work! The eldest brother has the books of all the names dating back to like1300.
let me tell you about today- sunday. I asked my cousin if i could see the family history book and he said yes when he gets home JULY 9.... one step closer to temple work.
So this morning while i was getting ready in our shared juniper style bathroom, this girl walked in so i decided to invite her to church and she came. She is Korean but is from Brazil. She has never met a Mormon before ever. After Relief Society she had a lot of quesitons and was interested. I bore my testimony to her and I will be giving her a copy for the BoM soon!
* side note this is totally the watered down version of my day because there was so much.... k mom asked me to email this guy brother kwan that we met at the temple in 2008 when we were here. and i felt weird about it cause i didn't know him!
any way matt watts was with me and so he came to church with us. then matt and i went to this fireside. we met one of his old companions (Tim Vogel) that happens to have grown up by and with sarah jane or something to that affect! then those two wanted to go see their mission president(President and Sister Ringwood) who was speaking at the farewell of the current mission president (President and Sister Burton)they invited me and so i decided to go.
so i went and matt was translating for me because it was in korean and everyone thought we were dating or engaged because we are in a different country blah blah blah we laughed !!! well they had a dinner and everyone was catching up so i was just kind of sitting there. there was this KOrean couple sitting next to me and i was trying to see their name but it wasn't on their tag. it just said employment service mission in Korea. i felt the need to talk to him so we started talking he asked if i served a mission in korea and i said NO then he asked what i was doing here i said going to school for the language. he asked my name i said heidi eysser then where i'm from i said USA then he said where in USA i said UTah then he asked where in UT i said bountiful! then he asked my moms name i said Choi Chong Hee or Chay Eysser, he asked where my dad was from and right then I knew that THAT WAS BROTHER KWAN. I said ARE YOU BROTHER KWAN? he said yes yes i am! I said I met you two years ago when I was here in Korea and I did baptisims for the dead and you talked to my mom!
Well after a tearful spiritual moment he we exchanged numbers and email and such and he asked if i needed anything. I said well you see i'm the only active memeber on my mom's side and My uncle has the books of all our family names. back to 1300's I said they are 100+ pages long and there are 5 books. Is there a micro film i can copy them with so I can find someone to translate and do the work and he said Heidi that is a really great question. He said It just so happens that my best friend specializes in translating old Chinese Korean. He would love to do that..... Seriously! No unhallowed hand can stop the work of the Lord from progressing.
Ah if everyday could be like this! where you know you're doing the right thing at right moment in the right place.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Yonsei University
I got to Yonsei University Yesterday Morning. I explored the town and did my share of window shopping for 7 hours. Needless to say, my feet hurt! It's really hot here!I had swoobs, swack, sweaty everything. I showered 3 times in 1 day because I'm not used to the Humidity at all! Killer! Utah and Korea are complete Polar opposites in climate.
Cally me sweaty betty.
My roommate is named Connie and she is from LA. She is really nice. The Dorms are really similar to Juniper. REALLY Small shared bedroom with a common bathroom. Except they are really NICE. it does however have the social life of Eccles.... Non-existant. So this morning I got ready in the bathroom and tried to talk to every girl that came in. :) They probably think I'm a creeper
All the guys are concerned about is Drinking, the dorm rules are soooo strict, and they have Asians monitoring the halls. SCARY. you better be good or they will nuke you. Or chase you down and yell. good granny.
There is a legit laundry room here along with dry cleaners?? yeah right! SUU doesn't have that! and a gym, resturants, and shopping mall in the basement of the dorms. SHUT UP. and While I'm thinking about it, this one Burger Joint had what they called "DELISH" shakes.... the MANGO. YES, DELISH. yeah we have Walmart, but I'm not dissing. I miss the CC.
*side note, Koreans aren't exactly the friendliest humans on this planet. Don't look at them and smile, because they have no facial or emotional response. Bump into them, nothing.. Look at a High School Couple, ooooo the girl just might give you the STINK EYE.
They are really into the COUPLE SCENE. everyone is in a "relationship" they dress the same the guys and girls have matching rings, jewelry, phones, key chains, rings... everything. They are WHIPPED. Gross. They make me look like a realtionship FAILURE. People even came to this program with their boyfriends. I used this program to get away from Boys. hahahah
Today meeting after meeting after meeting. ORIENTATION IS GAY. all 1200 of us don't care. We got a handbook and rule book when we checked-in, and honestly everyone has read it. They repeat stuff over and over and over.... ugh BORING. Plus I broke a nail... fail.
Katie my new BFF and I went and hit the streets- not as hookers, as explorers. Window shopping and such! After our last meeting it's time to explore and get lost in the city.
My Korean is getting better. I forget the (yo) and the end of words which you use when you are talking to older people and I've gotten called out on it a whole bunch! I'm understanding more and going out by myself I've had to work my way through the language barrier. So I'm getting better... I think :)
Cally me sweaty betty.
My roommate is named Connie and she is from LA. She is really nice. The Dorms are really similar to Juniper. REALLY Small shared bedroom with a common bathroom. Except they are really NICE. it does however have the social life of Eccles.... Non-existant. So this morning I got ready in the bathroom and tried to talk to every girl that came in. :) They probably think I'm a creeper
All the guys are concerned about is Drinking, the dorm rules are soooo strict, and they have Asians monitoring the halls. SCARY. you better be good or they will nuke you. Or chase you down and yell. good granny.
There is a legit laundry room here along with dry cleaners?? yeah right! SUU doesn't have that! and a gym, resturants, and shopping mall in the basement of the dorms. SHUT UP. and While I'm thinking about it, this one Burger Joint had what they called "DELISH" shakes.... the MANGO. YES, DELISH. yeah we have Walmart, but I'm not dissing. I miss the CC.
*side note, Koreans aren't exactly the friendliest humans on this planet. Don't look at them and smile, because they have no facial or emotional response. Bump into them, nothing.. Look at a High School Couple, ooooo the girl just might give you the STINK EYE.
They are really into the COUPLE SCENE. everyone is in a "relationship" they dress the same the guys and girls have matching rings, jewelry, phones, key chains, rings... everything. They are WHIPPED. Gross. They make me look like a realtionship FAILURE. People even came to this program with their boyfriends. I used this program to get away from Boys. hahahah
Today meeting after meeting after meeting. ORIENTATION IS GAY. all 1200 of us don't care. We got a handbook and rule book when we checked-in, and honestly everyone has read it. They repeat stuff over and over and over.... ugh BORING. Plus I broke a nail... fail.
Katie my new BFF and I went and hit the streets- not as hookers, as explorers. Window shopping and such! After our last meeting it's time to explore and get lost in the city.
My Korean is getting better. I forget the (yo) and the end of words which you use when you are talking to older people and I've gotten called out on it a whole bunch! I'm understanding more and going out by myself I've had to work my way through the language barrier. So I'm getting better... I think :)
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Korea in the Lime Light!
What can I say thus far about Korea? Let's skip the pretty and get down to the nitty gritty.
Airport in Los Angelos. Standing in line waiting to check in- I had to pee really bad, sweating, flustered and surrounded already by a million asians. My mom stood in line for me while I went to the bathroom. When I came back she made a friend with the girl right behind me. Her name is Katie and she is from Chicago. Not only that, she is going to the same Summer Program as me! YAY!! So we both felt better when we found out that little bit of info.
Airport security: It doesn't help ease your nerves when there is a giant sign that says "TERRORIST ALERT HIGH" ummm thanks. Then I get selected to do a random full body scan. It's the new situation where they can see down to your skin. Lucky me. Then I get a full body pat down; butt, inner thighs the whole shi-bang. Yeah felt violated right away.
Watching Lost made me nervous when we had turbulance- my imagination took over. I didn't talk to the people sitting next to me. They only spoke Korean but the dude on my right side was a freakin seat hog. RUDE! he was like leaning over the arm rest on to MY SIDE, MY SEAT. Plus he was spreading his legs and a couple times his foot was touching me. GROSS. After dinner he un-zipped his pants. ugh. gross. I focused on my movie.
I fell asleep the last 3 hours of the flight, and I woke up when we were landing. I looked at the dude on the right and he smiled, then grabbed my neck and pushed my head forward. Then he started punching my back. Really hard. I was like ummm WTH?!! weird human.
Thankfully he jetted out of there as soon as the fasten seat belt sign went off.
So, my uncle picked me up and we rode the bus back to my grandma's house. As we got off the bus I saw two sister missionaries :) One was from STG and the other was less than interested in talking to me. Maybe she didn't understand
What I learned in Korea?
Well I went shopping at Nam Dae Mun Market. Its full of all kinds of Crap, but also good stuff. Is it a deal? depends on what you're buying
The street is lined with vendors selling delicious fried Korean who-knows- what. Some dude dumped a bucket of dirty water on my shoe! Also the sent of Bun daegi fills your nose. (that would be a catapillar cacoon) and in my opinion it smells like death in a pot. BLAH! hate it- can't even look at it.
How to make a Korean women Angry:
1- Try on clothes and don't buy anything- the cuss you out.
2- Take pictures of their merchandise. Yep they'll come running after you
I had many women hatin' on me today
KOREAN FASIONS
I did however find that popular clothing items include
parachute tupe pants
mismatched floral print anything
socks and sandals
and you can't forget the classic bucket hat and GIANT Sun Visor is a MUST
The Bus ride home? yeah well I was seriously praying we wouldn't die. There was NO MERCY from that dude at all. He almost hit 3 people in a cross walk, kept honking at stop lights. Almost t-boned a car. Had to slam on breaks because people were stopped. Almost ran over a lady who was running to get in the bus. ahhh I got a bit motion sick from all the jolting and possible whip lash.
Overall its been an outstandingly fantastic but hot and humid day.
Airport in Los Angelos. Standing in line waiting to check in- I had to pee really bad, sweating, flustered and surrounded already by a million asians. My mom stood in line for me while I went to the bathroom. When I came back she made a friend with the girl right behind me. Her name is Katie and she is from Chicago. Not only that, she is going to the same Summer Program as me! YAY!! So we both felt better when we found out that little bit of info.
Airport security: It doesn't help ease your nerves when there is a giant sign that says "TERRORIST ALERT HIGH" ummm thanks. Then I get selected to do a random full body scan. It's the new situation where they can see down to your skin. Lucky me. Then I get a full body pat down; butt, inner thighs the whole shi-bang. Yeah felt violated right away.
Watching Lost made me nervous when we had turbulance- my imagination took over. I didn't talk to the people sitting next to me. They only spoke Korean but the dude on my right side was a freakin seat hog. RUDE! he was like leaning over the arm rest on to MY SIDE, MY SEAT. Plus he was spreading his legs and a couple times his foot was touching me. GROSS. After dinner he un-zipped his pants. ugh. gross. I focused on my movie.
I fell asleep the last 3 hours of the flight, and I woke up when we were landing. I looked at the dude on the right and he smiled, then grabbed my neck and pushed my head forward. Then he started punching my back. Really hard. I was like ummm WTH?!! weird human.
Thankfully he jetted out of there as soon as the fasten seat belt sign went off.
So, my uncle picked me up and we rode the bus back to my grandma's house. As we got off the bus I saw two sister missionaries :) One was from STG and the other was less than interested in talking to me. Maybe she didn't understand
What I learned in Korea?
Well I went shopping at Nam Dae Mun Market. Its full of all kinds of Crap, but also good stuff. Is it a deal? depends on what you're buying
The street is lined with vendors selling delicious fried Korean who-knows- what. Some dude dumped a bucket of dirty water on my shoe! Also the sent of Bun daegi fills your nose. (that would be a catapillar cacoon) and in my opinion it smells like death in a pot. BLAH! hate it- can't even look at it.
How to make a Korean women Angry:
1- Try on clothes and don't buy anything- the cuss you out.
2- Take pictures of their merchandise. Yep they'll come running after you
I had many women hatin' on me today
KOREAN FASIONS
I did however find that popular clothing items include
parachute tupe pants
mismatched floral print anything
socks and sandals
and you can't forget the classic bucket hat and GIANT Sun Visor is a MUST
The Bus ride home? yeah well I was seriously praying we wouldn't die. There was NO MERCY from that dude at all. He almost hit 3 people in a cross walk, kept honking at stop lights. Almost t-boned a car. Had to slam on breaks because people were stopped. Almost ran over a lady who was running to get in the bus. ahhh I got a bit motion sick from all the jolting and possible whip lash.
Overall its been an outstandingly fantastic but hot and humid day.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
California to Korea
Never thought quitting a Job would feel like this.... sad but great at the same time! Close the door on this situation and open the door to a new one! The last day is weird really. I've pretty much wrapped up everything and on the Plus side you get Presents. Which reminds me, THANK YOU if you were a contributor to my gifting, and Thank you SENATOR HATCH from employing me for the past 13 months. It's been fabulous- Most of the time, until you get cussed at by the crazies. But I'm not complaining.
side note * my favorite phone calls will always be the man who claims to be President Tom Monson and Senator Bennett... he always calls and always want the illegals to be "working on the church farms" that dude needs to realize I know that President Monson's voice doesn't sound like that- and why would the Prophet call Cedar City???
I've never blogged before but decided that this is the only way that I'll really be able to keep record of my so-called adventure to KOREA. Adventure or nightmare? I haven't decided yet.
I will say that I just got back from California and it was freakin AMAZING. Went with Club Rex (Clint, Ben, Brian, Vacation Nick, and Rhett) then of course my lovely twin Sarah. We were bums on the BEOTCH and just soaked up the ocean, sand, warm weather, and of course all the weird humans that dwell along the pacific coast.
From Fake Boobs to Homeless men peeing in public, to rediculous love triangles I'd say anytime there is a co-ed it gets CRAZY. hahaha
We drove out in two cars: the Fun car and the other car. I of course was in the FUN car. Stayed at Kimberly's House (my sister). With two dogs (teddy and sasha). Friday Morning we went to the Griddle and ate loads of food, then hit up Venice Beach- which to locals is known as the place to get your fair share of WEED. We had no idea. The MJ apparently was the big hit there. There were weird people for sure! They sold magic wands, and weird crafts and junk. We sat on the beach for hours, got it on by some weirdies saw homeless men and gays makin out. SICK- that's cali for ya. Then my cute little cousin showed up and we went the 3rd St. Promonode in Santa Monica. Ate food and then goofed around for hours on end. Sarah sang on the street and tried to make MONEY, then we saw som girls caught for shoplifting.. Skinny and blonde- of course they were talking the cops out of arresting them...
We had a BBQ at Manhattan Beach then played on the beach. There were a million oddly dressed individuals - including a large girl with bikini and suspenders- lets talk gross BARF. then went to the Dodgers game.
Sunday went to Zuma Beach and layed out, then hit the road home. Ben lost his phone. The Devils Threesome took place. "It all started with SPOONING". Sarah took Nick on a date and from there on it just got AWKWARD. Of course we stopped at the state line to throw down some money on the tables.... i lost for the first time, but only $20 so I don't feel too bad.
Anyway the trip was all kinds of FABULOUS- but its the people that you go with that make it GREAT! in a 1-10 rating i would give it a 35. we laughed and didn't cry. The boys were mad when it came to the loss of the beloved dodgers. Sarah and I were annoyed with all the sicko men that kept coming on to us. Gross. Anyway great trip, great weekend! :)
Amanda's wedding is Friday, the dinner is Thursday night! I'm packing Wednesday for Korea so after the wedding I can drive back to Cedar City then Saturday Morning head out San Diego and Sunday FLY. gag me. Its bitter sweet- I don't know how I feel about the situation, but whatev... should be good. Gotta keep 2 words in mind as to WHY i'm leaving America..... TEMPLE NAMES.
side note * my favorite phone calls will always be the man who claims to be President Tom Monson and Senator Bennett... he always calls and always want the illegals to be "working on the church farms" that dude needs to realize I know that President Monson's voice doesn't sound like that- and why would the Prophet call Cedar City???
I've never blogged before but decided that this is the only way that I'll really be able to keep record of my so-called adventure to KOREA. Adventure or nightmare? I haven't decided yet.
I will say that I just got back from California and it was freakin AMAZING. Went with Club Rex (Clint, Ben, Brian, Vacation Nick, and Rhett) then of course my lovely twin Sarah. We were bums on the BEOTCH and just soaked up the ocean, sand, warm weather, and of course all the weird humans that dwell along the pacific coast.
From Fake Boobs to Homeless men peeing in public, to rediculous love triangles I'd say anytime there is a co-ed it gets CRAZY. hahaha
We drove out in two cars: the Fun car and the other car. I of course was in the FUN car. Stayed at Kimberly's House (my sister). With two dogs (teddy and sasha). Friday Morning we went to the Griddle and ate loads of food, then hit up Venice Beach- which to locals is known as the place to get your fair share of WEED. We had no idea. The MJ apparently was the big hit there. There were weird people for sure! They sold magic wands, and weird crafts and junk. We sat on the beach for hours, got it on by some weirdies saw homeless men and gays makin out. SICK- that's cali for ya. Then my cute little cousin showed up and we went the 3rd St. Promonode in Santa Monica. Ate food and then goofed around for hours on end. Sarah sang on the street and tried to make MONEY, then we saw som girls caught for shoplifting.. Skinny and blonde- of course they were talking the cops out of arresting them...
We had a BBQ at Manhattan Beach then played on the beach. There were a million oddly dressed individuals - including a large girl with bikini and suspenders- lets talk gross BARF. then went to the Dodgers game.
Sunday went to Zuma Beach and layed out, then hit the road home. Ben lost his phone. The Devils Threesome took place. "It all started with SPOONING". Sarah took Nick on a date and from there on it just got AWKWARD. Of course we stopped at the state line to throw down some money on the tables.... i lost for the first time, but only $20 so I don't feel too bad.
Anyway the trip was all kinds of FABULOUS- but its the people that you go with that make it GREAT! in a 1-10 rating i would give it a 35. we laughed and didn't cry. The boys were mad when it came to the loss of the beloved dodgers. Sarah and I were annoyed with all the sicko men that kept coming on to us. Gross. Anyway great trip, great weekend! :)
Amanda's wedding is Friday, the dinner is Thursday night! I'm packing Wednesday for Korea so after the wedding I can drive back to Cedar City then Saturday Morning head out San Diego and Sunday FLY. gag me. Its bitter sweet- I don't know how I feel about the situation, but whatev... should be good. Gotta keep 2 words in mind as to WHY i'm leaving America..... TEMPLE NAMES.
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