Peter's Ordination

Today's Memorial Day, a national holiday in the States. Our next door neighbours have their flag flying outside but I haven't seen a whole lot of other flags...

I've had a really busy and long few days and I've been surprised by how well I've coped only to find that my body didn't cope as well as I'd thought. I felt really rubbish today for the first time in about a week and I know it's because I'm so physically exhausted from having such a mad weekend. So many unexpected things came up last week though, it couldn't really be helped. Well, I could've said 'no' instead of volunteering for things but as you know, that's not one of my fortes! :)

Our church finally moved to the new building a couple of Sundays ago so we're now starting our 12 celebratory events of which one is Peter's ordination this coming Sunday at 16:00! So he'll be an ordained pastor or reverend as opposed to an un-ordained pastor. In Korean his title's completely different as he'll go from being a Jun-do-sa-nim (or JDSN) to a Mok-sa-nim (MSN). The "nim" bit is the ending we use for people to show respect in Korean so teachers are Sun-saeng-nim, your boss you call Sa-jang-nim, and so on and so forth. I'm a Sa-mo-nim (or SMN) at church as I'm a pastor's wife! :) It's weird 'cause a lot of our older church members have known me since I was 5 so for them to go from calling me Yeonsook to Sa-mo-nim is awkward for both sides! So I've ended up with lots of names like Mak-nae ("youngest") SMN, Ggo-ma ("young" / "child") SMN, Yeonsook-e SMN, Jenny SMN, Oh SMN, Jenny Sam (some of the Youth kids think that Sa-mo-nim is too long), Yeonsook, Jenny... :)

There are a lot of formalities that go with being ordained which we still need to figure out so it's going to be a busy week. We were thinking of going to an Obs & Gynae this week but we've pushed it back to next week - my 12th week! There's the ordination which will take a lot of coordinating (and cost a fair bit too!) but it's also Finals week for Korean School this Saturday so I need to come up with a colourful not-too-hard but still assessable exam paper for my beginners' class students (ranging from ages 5 - 10!) and there's also a Youth Praise Night revival event on Friday & Saturday evening so we're both going to be really really busy this week. Some say we don't have our priorities quite right... I don't think they're entirely wrong!

I'm hiding in my mum's room right now 'cause the smell of the fish dish I ate so yummily this afternoon for lunch is now making me sick so I'm in the room furthest away from the kitchen... Sigh... Unpredictability is a pain...

I've been encouraged by emails from friends (like Carolyn B's today!) saying that they read the blog even though I've been so rubbish at keeping it going - thank you for not giving up on me!!!

Going to bed now... Good night dear friends!!! :)

Lots of love,
Jenny xxx