sorry I haven't sent the weekly email for a while, I'll continue doing them though! so the past 3 weeks have been eventful we now have 3 investigators! which we found all in a couple days! we have only had one lesson with each of them! but the last few weeks have been fun! last p-day we went to an island and rode bikes around the park and checked out the Korean national building(like the  capital building)! My companion and I started getting up at 6 every morning to go running we run to a park that is about a mile away and work our for 20 mins with a bunch of old Korean men! and I also bought a Korean suit! we went to su-won and we got to pick our fabric and we got custom sized all for $160! then today we are going to a market place that sells books and ties for cheap! But my district changed this last week we have a new elder and sister! the sister is Korean so we have two Korean sisters in our district now! so hopefully that well help with my language! but this Saturday we get to go to an orchestra concert for are new friend who works at a pizza school we always go to!

I got to take the one of the elder's to the transfer location and pick up the new elder and take the subway back to were we live so that was fun! I had to do that because his companion is an Olympic gymnast for Canada and he had his gym time during that time! he works out for 3 hours a day at one of the colleges in the Olympic park here! so I get to go with him once a week and study while he does his thing! he is super good! before bed every night he does a hand stand for 20 mins and alternates from one hand to the other! I love it here in Korea! He invited us to go so hopefully that leads somewhere! I love you all have a good week!  Elder Grossgebauer!

 

This building will be 120 stories high!

 

 

 

where we do our laundry!

 

 

A statue of a guy that made Hangul mar/Korean

 

Seoul Tower

 

National Building

Our awesome Kitchen!

 

 

 

Week 14

Week 14 “Frozen”

Weekly update, The last 2 weeks have been challenging! Dakota has not had time to Do a group email but said next week he will start it up again! I am going to give you a quick update.  His original MTC District had their 12 week follow up it went great! Here is a picture of them all!

There is 6 missionaries and 25 ward members in his area. They feed them really good. He has made a goal to only speak Korean, so the ward members are helping him. He is loving it there.

He is working hard. His missionary trainer says he is doing great. He said that Elder Grossgebauer is always willing to do anything needed.

This week they got to watch a little of the movie “Frozen”a cute show. As he got to help out with the Pre-school age kids. Said they are fun and very active! 

Last week was very busy! We thank you all for your prayers and love for Elder Grossgebauer.

Stay tuned for next week’s update!

 

One of Elder Grossgebauer MTC Companions "Goodbye MTC January 2014"

뻔데기 Elder Watts & Silk Worm experience!

Let's go Ice Cream!! week 3 in Korea!

So this week was eventful! on Monday after emails we went and contacted we got yelled at my first time all we got to say was we are missio/ and he cut in and yelled at us in Korean so it wasn't that bad because I had no idea what he was saying! But Monday all we did was contacting all day so that was great! Tuesday we meet with the sisters and went to 하나시 which is about 20 mins away on bus. so we did street boarding for a few hours and the people there were super nice because they don't see foreigners as much! after that we split upon and did a few more hours of contacting. we travel allot by bus and subway! we spend about 50 dollars every 2 weeks on travel cost! we do allot of our contacting at intersections and just causally talk to every one! but that night we meet up as a district and had dinner at an area 70's house he wasn't there it was his daughter that made us a big meal of spaghetti, bulgogi, and rice!! it was super difficult eating spaghetti with chopsticks! then after dinner she went and bought us ice-cream! On Wednesday we meet up for lunch as a district before district meeting we had lunch at Ashley's a nice American buffet, we enjoyed fresh salad and my new favorite thing Hawaiian fruit salad! after district meeting we contacted and went to English class! we talked about how people react in stressful situations! but one of the students found out my name was German so he went off talking about German beer, German food, and he repeated that he loves beer like every other sentence! On Thursday we had our p day we went to the temple in the Seoul

mission! i was able to meet up with other missionaries from my last district so that was nice! we then went with the sisters to gang-nam and enjoyed some tacos at this Mexican restaurant! we walked around Gang-nam for a few hours we went shopping in the subway markets but we couldn't find any men's stores everything was for lady's! which Korea is the place for lady's who loves clothes and shoes because every other store is a shoe store! on Friday we did weekly planning which was fast because we have no investigator to plan for! but we then went and contacted for a while then meet up with our district to get some pizza school! the guy that works there loves us so he gives us any thing in the mini fridge for free which we feel bad taking things we just grab a small soda every time! we then went back to the church and practiced our singing performance for Saturday! on Saturday we went to the church early and cleaning the baptismal font and got everything ready! we then had English class! we talked about education and then talking about America and guns! haha all the people in my class call me John F. Kennedy because they think I look just like him!! English class is one of the best ways for us to get investigators so we do English class allot. we have some one who we are going to meet with soon so hopefully we will have an investigator soon! but the after noon we had an amazing 침례 식 (baptizmal service) we had people talk about baptism and then we  preformed our sound! ( I need thee every hour) and she was baptized!! we had food after! Koreans love food which every thing is centered around food! we are constantly being feed which is good! but I am gaining weight though!! after the service we had young men's and young women's we played spoons, card games and had Korean snacks! Sunday we had church then after we played contacting bingo with the sisters we made a bingo board of people who you could see on the street like some one wearing a red hat, or some one working out etc. so we did that for a couple hours! the sisters one of course! but it was super fun doing that because we were super excited to talk to every one! then that night we went to a members house and they made a bunch of food for us! my ward loves me because I love Korean food! i have been able to eat every thing I have been given so far! but after dinner we talked about there missions and they showed us photos of their mission and after we gave them a quick message! I love being in Korea, I love the people, the food, the culture! i feel really blessed to be out here! I love you all! have a Good week!

-Elder Grossgebauer!

 

this is from the window of the area 70's home! this is were im serving

downtown gangnam! I didn't see psy:(

 

2nd week in South Korea!

하피 빨린틴스 여로분!!! also happy birthday DAD!!!

"the most important of the lords work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own homes."- Harold B. Lee 회장님

I want to say thanks to my dad for being the greatest! I love you dad!

 

Korean church culture: after church on Sunday we all set up tables and the sisters prepare a ton of Korean food in the kitchen and we all set down and eat food together as a ward! it is super nice because you can socialize with each other for an hour! I would suggest it for the ward back at home but here in Korea you only have to feed about 20-30 people and at home you would have to feed up to 100-300! haha I love the Korean culture! its allot to take in but I'm trying my hardest to be Korean!

So this week has been kind of tough in Korea! opening up a new area is pretty difficult! it is also kinda difficult when we don't have a phone! it broke last week so we have been waiting for a new one all week and last night we got a new one which is a nice touch screen phone! which we are not sure if we were supposed to get it! because we had to meet some lady who switched the cards in the phones and installed everything and that was the phone she gave us! but we don't have a charger for it so we got today to use it!  We have been street contacting a lot! hopefully we can get some investigators soon! I haven't taught my first lesson yet but I want to give one super bad! but things are going great for my ward right now! the sisters in my district are awesome they have 3 baptisms lined up!! this week we have been visiting a lot of inactive people with the sisters! also when people feed us they feed us! I haven't eat this much in my whole life! so far I have gained 5lbs! Now we are going to start focusing on the ward a little more because the ward rely on us for almost everything! we do all the cleaning in the church, we open the church, etc.. so we are going to figure some plan for the next 4 months that we could strengthen the ward! we also want to get a lot of the in active people back to church!

So English class is the best we have about 25 people that come and I'm teaching the advanced class so we have about 10 people coming to that class this week we talked about money and how we can get rich because jack writes a essay each week so we read and discuss it! but we ended up talking about this kid named celvin who is going to school at uvu and he is back in Korea working and saving money so we talked about him a lot because he comes from a super rich family but now he is on his own so we talked a lot about rich people and there kids! ( by the way those are their English names!) but today isn't are p-day because we get to go to the temple on Thursday! but we still get to email for an hour! but this week I didn't take very many photos because we have been busy all week!

I love you all! -Elder Grossgebauer!

 

this is where we do our emails at!

 

This is the market we walk through to get to church!

 

 

 

Letter from the Mission Home!

 Hello from Seoul,

It has been a busy week since our new missionaries have arrived.  I saw some at the temple today and they are doing well.

Korea is changing the way letters and packages are addressed.  There is one year for the transition.  So our old address is changing to:
Korea Seoul South Mission
29 Wiryeseong-daero 22-gil, Songpa-gu,
Seoul, Korea  138-855

The address you received from the church will work along with this new address.  Please use this new address.  This will help to make the transition easier. 

Attached is a picture taken at the New Missionary Orientation on February 5^th.  It was taken just before they set out for their new area with their new companion.

 Sister Groesbeck, Secretary

Korea Seoul South Mission