Konnichiwa!
Talofa lava!
Malo Lei Lei!
Ni Hao!
Hola!
Annyeonghaseyo!
Hello! How's it going friends and fam?
Twas another week in paradise here!
Here is a good quote I heard this week. D&C 88:118
"Our Creator expects His children everywhere to gain knowledge as a personal endeavor. He issued this commandment: Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith."
Things I learned this week:
-teaching English is very hard
-teaching mission prep is awesome
-teaching someone who is studying to be a pastor is hard
-teaching Elder Kim what it feels like to do the bww blazin challenge (and get the sauce in your eye) is awesome
-teaching a Korean the restoration in English and having them understand it is hard
-teaching Elder Kim that pepper spray is a flavor of breath spray is awesome!!
So yeah. We had a good English class this week but it is tricky! Picture this. We are teaching them English, which means they don't know English, but because I only really know English, I can only explain things to them in English. So Elder Kim is basically a miracle worker at these classes. I'll explain something to the people we are teaching and then Elder Kim translates for them. Then they have a question and Elder Kim translates for me. Then I answer the question and Elder Kim translates for them...and so on and so on for over an hour. So Elder Kim is translating a lot and he is basically a beast! He just started learning English 6 months ago so he is a genius. Thank goodness for good companions am I right?
We've also been able to help teach mission prep which has been lots of fun! They only do 3 mission prep classes a year here and they just had their 3rd one so it was fun to be a part of it.
We are teaching this awesome guy named T__. His parents are Korean and American so he speaks perfect Korean and English. Which is awesome. He is studying to be a pastor and he has this really cool roommate named Forrest who is a member that recently returned from his mission in Russia. So he kinda has these two different perspectives coming at him right now and he is trying to decide which path he wants to take. It's a lot of fun! More updates to come for sure.
Today we did the Buffalo Wild Wings blazin challenge again and I talked Elder Kim into doing it. Yeah he's a beast and got the ghost pepper sauce in his eye. On his first wing. Went blind. Started eye sweating. But even tho the waitress told him to go rinse his eye out he somehow stuck it out and blindly found the remaining 11 wings and pounded them down in under 6 minutes. Elder Kimchi is a BEAST! Blind now, but still A BEAST! Me on the other hand didn't do so well this time. I got 4 wings into it and started gagging so hard the entire restaurant started staring. :) I think we are retiring from spicy food eating challenges :) :) :) but hey Elder Kim got a 5xl t-shirt out of it so it was all worth it. Now he has a new favorite dress.
Later today while we were eating dinner and panda express E. Kim found my pepper spray in my bag and asked, "what's this?" I said, "pepper spray!" he said, "what's that?" I said, "pepper flavored breath spray!" he decided that sounded delicious and lifted it up to his mouth to try it out. The entire restaurant turned to watch. Before I could snatch it from his hands he pressed down the button and got a cloud full of pepper spray right in his already blind eyes.
RIP
☠️☠️
Jk jk
*pfew*
By some miracle Elder Kim had it pointed the wrong way and sprayed it away from his face. And luckily no one was sitting next to us. I bet you can imagine how quickly I put the spay away after that. Haha that was a close one. Maybe I shouldn't joke around about those sort of things with someone who is still learning how to pick up on sarcasm. Maybe. Just maybe. 
Well that was a good end to my eventful week!
Have a great one!
-Elder Burgon
Pics:
-Elder Kim with his well deserved 5xl dress.
-I got the pic with the silvas from the dodgers Mormon night from a couple months ago ago.
-We got to do the Book of Mormon social experiment and had to steal some of our zone leaders normal clothes to do it in. Doing the social experiment was tons of fun!
-Elder Kim right before blazin and right after. Hehehe
