Letter #45

안녕하세요!

 

Well I do not have much time to write...just a few minutes! I got caught up in buying Christmas gifts for you all that will be coming probably after Christmas...sorry...but I LOVE what I am sending!!!! SO FUN!!!

 

Thank you all for your love and prayers for me! Thank you so much! It has helped so much and I am on the road of healing! I feel like a BRAND new person...literally! I am so thankful for the experience that I was able to go through the last seven weeks, and my life is and will be forever changed because of it....completely changed. I literally am a new person. What a beautiful thing!

 

Well I did get a new companion and had an emergency exchange. I LOVE my companion with my whole heart. She is probably one of the hardest working companions that I have had so far on my mission and has such a strong fire. She just finished training and I will be follow-up training her. She is a korean and makes the most delicious Korean food ever! I am so lucky! I am finally learning how to cook Korean food. She and I have very similar personallities and just laugh and laugh together. Everyone loves her and she has so much love....I am literally in a 360 degree change from last week. I am so grateful for her and I am so happy for this time we have together!

 

The work is picking up like never before. Literally it is a 360 degree change. I am so happy to see the area finally starting to progress again. I felt like the last seven weeks everything was just on a hold, but now it is alive and awake again. I seriously am so happy!

 

I found out today that an investigator that I helped teach in my very first area is supposed to be baptized...or has been baptized this month. She lives in New York now, and is an American, and has finally received a testimony of her own! I was so happy to hear this news this morning!!!!

 

Well, this next week is going to be crazy busy with Christmas parties and a lot of fun things that I am looking forward to! I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and remember the true meaning of Christmas, Jesus Christ. I know that Christ lives and that He is my Saviour. I know that through Him and His atonement, we can all be free and find true peace and happiness. I know that through this atonement, we can be completely healed...I am experiencing that right now, and it is one of the most sacred, special experiences I have ever experienced. I know He lives and love us! He truly is our Savior, Lord, and King!

 

I love you all!

Merry Christmas!

 

사랑합니다!

커시 자매

 

Sister Kersey

Letter #44

(just a note to let you know a little of what has been going on for the last 8 weeks with Britanie.  She has had a Korean companion that has been having a lot of problems and has been verbally and emotionally abusive to Britanie.  Britanie, along with her Mission President and his wife have been trying to work with this girl for the last 8 weeks.  It has gotten so bad, that now there is going to be an emergency transfer to remove this girl.  Britanie will be going through some counseling to help her deal with the stress that she has been through as she continues to serve her mission.  We would appreciate all of your prayers for her.  
Thank you, Jim and Carri Kersey)

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What a crazy past few weeks! First of all, Congratulations Robert! I am so happy to hear that your wedding went well. You have such a beautiful new wife and family! And DALLIN!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday! :) AH!!!! I can't believe you are a teacher now and can go to DANCES!!!! AH!!!!! Colin: you better watch over him ;) haha jk!

Anyway, it has been an interesting last few weeks. Not the most uplifting and I will be honest, probably the hardest two weeks of my life! I am so grateful for the experiences that I have been having, and I feel and know that this last transfer and last few weeks will forever change the rest of my life. I am so grateful for them, and so grateful for wonderful mission family that I have here. What a special thing to know that Heavenly Fathe knows us and loves us each individually. He really does know exactly what we need and who we need in order completley to learn and grow and become the person that we are supposed to become! Wow, it just blows me away the love that He has for each one of us. I feel like now I know why I had to come here to Korea at this specific time. What a sacred, beautiful time!

Last week, I had a very special experience. As I was sitting in Sacrament Meeting, I felt hundreds of angels all around me. I felt a love that I cannot explain, and I realized that it is true that angels are all around us to lift us up! I can feel that and know that God is real, that His plan is a plan of happiness, and because of His plan, we will be with our loved ones for all eternity, just as they are now with us! What a powerful, special thing to know, that we will be with our loved ones forever. Even now with Grandpa Dean, I know that He is happy and that he is with us. I know that he loves us and we will all see him again. I know that he lives, just as our Savior Jesus Christ lives. And because of our Savior Jesus Christ, we will live forever! What a beautiful plan.

I just wanted to thank you all for your love and support and many prayers at this time in my life! I can feel the power of my Savior's atonement and know that He loves each one of us individually! As Sister Gilbert would say, "I will meet you in our prayers."

I love you all!

사랑합니다!

커시 자매

Sister Kersey