Magic School Bus!?

These books were on the bookshelf in the nursery room at the church. We had Magic School Bus books when you children were growing up!

Elder Kim is one of the zone leaders who were at the church for stake presidency meeting along with Dad and the AP’s. I showed the Magic School Bus books to Elder Kim and asked him to translate the names for me. I liked/noticed how they were called Marvelous School Bus books. He said they were his favorite books when he was young. We liked them, too!

Sunday evening we attended a musical concert performed by a Korean family that lives in Iowa. The father of the family sings opera, the mother accompanies on the piano, three daughters(ages 16, 14, 9) play the violin, and a younger brother tags along. The father mentioned that they lived in Texas(El Paso for a number of years before moving to Iowa). When the girls started playing this song (I think the father called it “Chasing the Orange Blossom”???) I wanted to start clapping my hands and shout out a “YeeHaw” a few times, but we were in the chapel so I didn’t dare. We did speak with the girls afterward; they were so quiet. They have been traveling around Korea performing for a number of weeks and will continue for another month. They must be exhausted with all their travels(we have missionaries in other areas that have told us about their concert any stops).

The second picture was taken just outside of the restaurant across the narrow street from where we ate dinner after the jundohing(proselyting) activity with the new missionaries. We felt bad because this restaurant was completely empty, when the restaurant we ate was busy with customers. Look closely to the right side of the restaurant sign(the little flame) says Bero Bero(our name)(the Korean characters is spelled the same way as our name is spelled, in Korean, on our name tags.

There were lots(maybe a hundred or more) of police(dressed in riot gear/protection) outside when we climbed the stairs up from the subway station. We saw across the busy intersection where some vans with loud speakers were announcing some sort of a strike(driving slowly through the intersection), with people carrying some flags of protest.

We had only two new elders this transfer, along with five new sisters. Dad always tries to make it fun and unexpected in assigning the trainers to the new trainees, but since we have just two elders Dad had to mix it up to have some fun and surprises.

Today our new missionaries were assigned their trainers! So much energy, nervousness, excitement was in the room. This sister missionary was so cute!