It's the end of the world as we know it! Oct. 30, 2016

Apologies to anyone who got the song stuck in their head upon reading the title of this email, but as many of you know, this will be my last email in Korea. I don't have much time left to email, but I'll go through some of the excitement of the week and then I'll be on my way!

The biggest event of the week was the ward Halloween party, hosted by yours truly, the missionaries. It took all week to prepare and even longer to plan, but the ward really loved it, and it's been an adventure to put together.

But as a result, we haven't had much time to find people or teach our investigators. So that's gonna be all my news for the week... Hope you all have a great week!

Those who want to continue to keep in touch can email me at jts54321@gmail.com , but please allow me a bit of time to catch up on everyone!

Love you all and hope you have an amazing week,

~Elder Skinner

I just don't know what happened Oct. 23, 2016

 Morning everyone! Hoping you had a great week, cause I did! And seeing as I have a short amount of time I'll get right into the email!

This tuesday we learned a lesson that cheating never works. The story is, we were planning to share an English class message, but the video didn't work last minute, so we had to swith last minute and make it into a paper airplane contest about honesty. The idea is that everyone throws their airplane, then the missionary goes last and crumples up his plane into a ball and throws it farther than all the others. Thing is, my companion goes right before me (the designated 'cheater'), and his airplane just wrecks the competition, flying almost out of the room... And I, even with my cheating ways, was unable to get it farther. So there you have it, cheating doesn't work.

Later on, we went to a combined mission conference with Elder Bednar! Saw a couple of friends from the other mission, and of course heard from Elder Bednar teach us a few things... He's quite the comedian, though.

And a funny story from the week... We were walking around a park with a lake, and me and my companion spot a balloon, rolling across the grass. We don't think too much of it, until we hear a girl let out a little scream, and we find that the balloon had snuck up behind her and bumped into her, and she was caught off guard. That made our day just a little bit more entertaining.

But that's all I have time for, so I'll talk to you all next week and once again I hope you have a great week!

~Elder Skinner

Elder Skinner's got 5 minutes left! Oct 16, 2016

Which means it's time for a quick summary of my week!

This week was a pretty normal one, though we did have a few fun events to report. The first one being a long time less-active member that just texted and asked if we could visit him soon... At first I didn't know who it was but we went and talked with him for a bit, he's really nice and though he didn't come to church, he did give us 20 kilograms of uncooked rice... which I then had to carry on my back all the way home.

Later on we had an activity with the youth and young single adults (not a lot ended up coming) where we were able to teach about missionary work and just have a bit of fun with the young people of the ward. Turned out pretty good, but that's probably because we had one of the members helping with most of it ^^

So with that, that's all the time I have, so I'll talk to you all here next week! Have a great day!

~Elder Skinner