Hey folks!
We have officially finished our first full week of being at the school here in Seoul! I must say, it was amazing. We seriously have the most amazing students. They are so loving and accepting of us. They also take care of us like crazy. Being here really feels about as close to southern hospitality as you can get without actually being in the South.
Anyway, ministry things have been great. I've been getting to know the students a lot better and I feel like God is starting to show me the people He wants me to minister to. I think a lot of my purpose for being here this summer is to do some discipleship stuff with some of the Believers. I'm really of the opinion that my time here is very short, so getting the Believers here to a place where they can tell their classmates about Jesus is, in the long run, a lot more beneficial because I'll be gone in August. That's not to say that I'm not going to try really hard to share the Gospel with people who haven't met God yet. I really feel like God has laid 2 girls on my heart to minister to that I live with. I'm super excited because they've agreed to do a Bible study with me this Wednesday. I'm hoping to make it a regular thing.
Something that has been so incredibly amazing to see is the progress that Grace has made. As a lot of you may know, Grace is the girl that I felt really burdened for last summer and felt led to minister to and she met God at the end of the summer. All year I've been concerned about whether or not she was actually going to live out her faith. Well I quickly found out that concern was for nothing...Grace is a totally different person now. She has God flowing out of her all the time. She gets up at 5am everyday to pray and read her Bible for an hour. She intensly prays before she goes to bed. She goes to church every Sunday and is really involved there. She's been memorizing scripture. The other night I started talking with her about the past year, and we talked about how she felt when she found out her dad died (she found out he passed away in the North in January). She talked about how sad she was but then she said, "Because of God's grace, I am not sad anymore." Wow. How amazing is that? I was completely blown away. You can just tell that the Holy Spirit is resting on her. I am in constant amazement of what God has done in her.
One of my favorite things that I've been able to do so far is spend a lot of time with Jade. She's my age and she's definitely one my favorite people in the whole world. She speaks really good English. She's one of the funniest people I've ever met and she loves Jesus SOOO much. I got to know her really well the last month I was here last year and we basically picked up where we left off when I got back. I really am excited about discipling her. A few days ago she got to explain to me in more detail about her story of how she got to Seoul. For a lot of reasons, I can't explain in detail what she told me, but basically she shouldn't be alive, if things had gone the way they normally do. God spared her life. It is absolutely phenomial to see where God has brought her. I have no doubt that he has something very, very special for her to do with her life.
So there are a few random things I wanted to share. This past weekend I spent the night at the apartment I used to live in last year and it was so great because I got to sleep on a couch (I sleep on the floor at my normal apartment.) and I got to sleep with a fan. At my normal apartment we just have a window to open. It's been an epic battle between me and my roommates because they want the window closed, and I want it open. It's been in the high 80s here and there's no A/C, so it gets quite warm when you sleep. Anyway, this weekend was awesome because I FINALLY got to sleep with a fan. So I got back to my apartment last night, and as I was taking a shower I was praying and telling God that I didn't know how I was going to go back to sleeping in a 90 degree room with no window open and I was asking him to please let them want to open the window. Well I get out of the shower and two fans magically appeared. I was so insanely happy. I couldn't stop smiling for like 5 minutes. Then I realized I was being a spoiled American, so I calmed down some, haha. All that to say, God provides, even the small things. And also I don't think I'm going to die of a heatstroke anymore.
Another random tidbit that I wanted to share was that last week we had this meeting at a camp that we're doing at the end of the summer. Well we all arrive at the church we're meeting at and one of my team members show's up with the little bag, like you would put a present in. I look in it, and there's a live rabbit in there. The teacher she lived with has a rabbit named Today and a baby rabbit named One Day and she thought it would be a good idea to give my teammate, Rachel, One Day to carry around at the meeting. We had a lot of prayer time and I couldn't help but keep looking over at this bag with a rabbit in it and busting out laughing. How random???
Anyway, this past weekend was pretty awesome as well. Jade took us girls shopping and then the whole team plus a bunch of our students went out to karaoke. Karaoke here is AMAZING! We had such a good time and bonded with our students. Last night I got to cook dinner for a bunch of students. I made pancakes and eggs. They don't normally have that, so it was cool to be able to share a little bit of my culture with them.
I think that sums up my past week! Please continue to pray for these students. One student in particular got some really bad news about her family. Please pray for her. Also pray that God will keep giving us opportunities to share his love and Gospel. Also pray that God will give me the wisdom to lead my team and that we will stay unified.
Thanks so much for you support!
-Lyndsey
So there's also a few random things I wanted to share. First of all,
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Finally Back Home Again
Hey Folks!
Today marks day two of my time in Korea!!! I am unbelievably excited to be here. It's been really crazy being back. On one hand, I am in complete disbelief that I'm back here after waiting for what seemed like an eternity, but on the other hand, it feels so normal to be here...it feels like I've picked right back up where I left off. I must admit, that is an amazing feeling. It honestly feels like I've finally come back home to where my heart is.
As for some specific things have happened, when I arrived at the airport in Seoul, Grace, who I wrote about a lot last year, was there to meet me!!! It was a total surprise and I'm not going to lie, it was pretty epic. Then I found out that she had been preparing a place for me to stay in her apartment. There was a lot of love going on! So I'm living in an apartment with Grace, 4 other girls, and a teacher from the school.
Yesterday was our first day at school, and it was phenominal! I got to see so many people from last year, including Jade. I wrote about her a lot last year. She is honestly one of my most favorite people in the world. I actually forgot just how special she is to me and how much I love her. It's been amazing getting to be with her the past few days and catch up with her. It's also been really awesome to see all the students from last year. They have been so excited to see me and act like it's the greatest thing in the world that I came back. It's been a very humbling thing to experience the love that they've poured out on me already. There are also a lot of new students that I've met and been able to connect with. I'm really excited about that!
As for my team, they are AMAZING! I cannot believe how blessed this team is. We get along SO well. We connected instantly and get along incredibly well. We have 6 girls and 4 guys. It is such a God thing that we are all together. Everybody has an awesome story of how they came to the decision to come to Korea and how they got their money for the trip. It is such a God orchestrated thing that 10 people all get along really well. As the leader, I have been so proud to watch this group work together and to see them already fall in love with the students here. I can't believe how focused they are and how intentional they are with the students. It's been a blessing to be a part of this team. I truly believe God is going to do some amazing things through this team for His kingdom. I can't wait to see what happens!
As for prayer requests, please pray that the students here will continue to open up to us and that we will see the needs around us. Pray that our team continues to work in unity. Pray that we will have opportunites to share the Gospel. Please pray that God will give me the wisdom and discernment to lead this group, along with the other team leader, Jennifer, while also having a ministry with the students.
Thanks for all of your prayers and support so far!
Today marks day two of my time in Korea!!! I am unbelievably excited to be here. It's been really crazy being back. On one hand, I am in complete disbelief that I'm back here after waiting for what seemed like an eternity, but on the other hand, it feels so normal to be here...it feels like I've picked right back up where I left off. I must admit, that is an amazing feeling. It honestly feels like I've finally come back home to where my heart is.
As for some specific things have happened, when I arrived at the airport in Seoul, Grace, who I wrote about a lot last year, was there to meet me!!! It was a total surprise and I'm not going to lie, it was pretty epic. Then I found out that she had been preparing a place for me to stay in her apartment. There was a lot of love going on! So I'm living in an apartment with Grace, 4 other girls, and a teacher from the school.
Yesterday was our first day at school, and it was phenominal! I got to see so many people from last year, including Jade. I wrote about her a lot last year. She is honestly one of my most favorite people in the world. I actually forgot just how special she is to me and how much I love her. It's been amazing getting to be with her the past few days and catch up with her. It's also been really awesome to see all the students from last year. They have been so excited to see me and act like it's the greatest thing in the world that I came back. It's been a very humbling thing to experience the love that they've poured out on me already. There are also a lot of new students that I've met and been able to connect with. I'm really excited about that!
As for my team, they are AMAZING! I cannot believe how blessed this team is. We get along SO well. We connected instantly and get along incredibly well. We have 6 girls and 4 guys. It is such a God thing that we are all together. Everybody has an awesome story of how they came to the decision to come to Korea and how they got their money for the trip. It is such a God orchestrated thing that 10 people all get along really well. As the leader, I have been so proud to watch this group work together and to see them already fall in love with the students here. I can't believe how focused they are and how intentional they are with the students. It's been a blessing to be a part of this team. I truly believe God is going to do some amazing things through this team for His kingdom. I can't wait to see what happens!
As for prayer requests, please pray that the students here will continue to open up to us and that we will see the needs around us. Pray that our team continues to work in unity. Pray that we will have opportunites to share the Gospel. Please pray that God will give me the wisdom and discernment to lead this group, along with the other team leader, Jennifer, while also having a ministry with the students.
Thanks for all of your prayers and support so far!
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Hey hey!
As you may know, I'm jetting off to Seoul, Korea again this summer! In fact, I leave in 10 days to go to the most amazing place in the world! To say the least, I am incredibly excited. I will be going back to the same school that I went to last year and get to be with a lot of the same people that I was with last year. For those of you that kept up with me last year, I get so see my precious Grace and Jade! This year, I'll be doing mostly the same thing as last year, which is teaching English and hanging out with some amazing refugee students, all in hopes of building relationships so that we can share the love and Gospel of Jesus. This year will be a little different in the respect that I'll be a leader for about half of the team. I'm pretty excited about that and getting to know my new team. Speaking of which, I leave for orientation on Monday! I'll be doing all sorts of neat training stuff for about 7 days and then leaving on Tuesday, June 7th...honestly, that day CANNOT come soon enough! I really feel that I've been waiting for this ever since I came back last year. I can honestly say that I gave a big part of my heart away to the people in Korea and it will be one of the greatest joys of my life to be reunited with them. I am so excited to see what God is going to do through my team and in the lives of the students. I ask that you be in prayer for the students and my team. Please pray that God will use us to do big and mighty things for the sake of His Kingdom this summer and do great things in the lives of our students. I have all faith that God is going to work some amazing things in Seoul. I am so humbled and honored that He's letting me be a very, very small part of it.
I'll post again soon...in Korea!!!!
-Lyndsey
As you may know, I'm jetting off to Seoul, Korea again this summer! In fact, I leave in 10 days to go to the most amazing place in the world! To say the least, I am incredibly excited. I will be going back to the same school that I went to last year and get to be with a lot of the same people that I was with last year. For those of you that kept up with me last year, I get so see my precious Grace and Jade! This year, I'll be doing mostly the same thing as last year, which is teaching English and hanging out with some amazing refugee students, all in hopes of building relationships so that we can share the love and Gospel of Jesus. This year will be a little different in the respect that I'll be a leader for about half of the team. I'm pretty excited about that and getting to know my new team. Speaking of which, I leave for orientation on Monday! I'll be doing all sorts of neat training stuff for about 7 days and then leaving on Tuesday, June 7th...honestly, that day CANNOT come soon enough! I really feel that I've been waiting for this ever since I came back last year. I can honestly say that I gave a big part of my heart away to the people in Korea and it will be one of the greatest joys of my life to be reunited with them. I am so excited to see what God is going to do through my team and in the lives of the students. I ask that you be in prayer for the students and my team. Please pray that God will use us to do big and mighty things for the sake of His Kingdom this summer and do great things in the lives of our students. I have all faith that God is going to work some amazing things in Seoul. I am so humbled and honored that He's letting me be a very, very small part of it.
I'll post again soon...in Korea!!!!
-Lyndsey
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