<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> Erica's Thoughts

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Home!

I'm back in Utah, sitting on my bed. I don't know how I feel about being home, frankly. I wish I were still in Korea some days, but other days I remember how hard it was and don't really want to go back. I've been kept busy here at home, which is good. We've been waging a war against little terrorists in the house and had an exterminator over yesterday. It was fun getting ready for it. Gave me something to do most of the day.

It's amazing how fast life moves. Korea feels like a dream and an eternity ago, much like home felt like a dream the moment I entered the MTC in April. Everyone has been super nice. Which is good. It's also been super awkward. Especially at church. I hate feeling like a disappointment to people. Before you start telling me that I'm not a disappointment, I know. I've heard from President Perriton and my stake president and my bishop that I'm not. I'm not a failure. My mission wasn't pointless. But that doesn't change the look in people's eyes seeing me home. It was awkward at church, and I can see why a lot of missionaries who come home early go inactive.

President Perriton and I talked about this feeling of failure in length before I came home. I know I'm not one. I just sprained my hamstring and had to be pulled from the game before I did some serious injuries to myself. So here I am. Home. Taking it easy for a while.

I didn't take many pictures in Korea (I thought I had a year and a half), but here are some pictures from my mission.
Me and my trainer, Sister Lee Se-ri. This was our last day together as companions. There's a restaurant behind us that looks like a pig.

This is Sister Jung Eun-ju and I my last day in Gwangju. She was an awesome companion. I love her to pieces. We made every day a special day.
This is my first district in Korea. They were crazy. Lots of fun, too.
This is in the MTC with my district and with Brother Murray.
This is the MTC too with Sister Son and Brother Erickson in our classroom.


I'm sure I'll post more pictures and stories and whatnot in the future. This is just a quick post to let everyone know I've come home safely.

Erica

1 Comments:

At December 21, 2009 2:16 PM , Blogger Helena said...

I'm sure that must be hard. We had one sister who went home with an eating disorder and was able to go back out stateside later.

I served in Taejon back in 92-93 and was able to go back and teach English with my husband in 96-97.

I miss Korea a lot too, and it's been 12 years!

 

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