A Look At Josh

Blogger is being retarded and will not let me place photos right now...frustrating.

So, rather than shutting her down without any pictures of Josh, I am posting twice. Please see the post below as well.

Slacker of a Sister and Dog

"I ate dog yesterday. It wasn't bad, kind of tasted like pork ( sorry jaro and jett)"

I had to start off with one of my favorite sentences ever uttered. The picture is just for effect...he didn't actually eat a dog that looked like Jaro and Jett. Actually, I'm not sure he saw the dog prior to ingesting it, so who knows if it was Newf Ribs or Golden Retriever Roast. I think eating dog is asking a lot...to see the dog alive, alive, alive, dead, ingest...a whole other story!

My apologies, I have been slacking on this blog and after being chastised by certain people; I am recommitted to this blog.

In the past month we have received emails from Josh, packages from Josh, Christmas presents from Josh and spoken to Josh (the highlight of the holiday's)!

Josh is LOVING Korea. He loves the Korean people and the food. He sounds just like a missionary. He speaks clearly, softly and slowly. He is still the same Josh and has the same sense of humor (which is my favorite thing about him). I had to catch him up on all the worldly things that I watch, see, listen to and read; specifically The HILLS. The only thing we could say about that was "DRAMA" (in unison)!!

Josh rewrote the words to Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" for a Christmas program they had in Korea. From what I gather, he rewrote it with to be about missionary work and he had the chance to play it on the guitar for his ward, branch, missionaries??? Not sure, but he was really excited about it and will hopefully be recording it and sending it our way. "Nothing Else Matters" is the song of the month per Josh's request.

He has quite a few investigators right now and is expecting some baptisms in the upcoming weeks. He is holding out on a lot of story telling at this point, in order to have things to tell us when he comes home. I will have to bribe him for some stories, otherwise this blog is going to get real boring, real fast (get...isn't it already...)

Again, email me with pictures and stories of Josh...if you think of any.

Stay Classy Friends and Family

Packages for Josh

If anyone would like to send a package to Josh, please email or call me, and I will get you the information you need.

We haven't heard from Josh much, so, please check back soon for a new post.

People of Korea

A few basic facts about Korean people. They are generally known for their darker complexion and high cheek bones. As a race, they can be extremely nice as long as you treat them with respect. However, just keep in mind that some cultural differences are involved so you may consider what they do as rude but they do not mean anything personally by it, it is simply thousands of years of tradition. One example of this may be with the older Koreans. Everywhere older people are respected, but in Korea they are highly respected. Sometimes they may appear to be pushy or rude to you, but it really is nothing personal :) Just a different place. The people truly are nice and helpful. If you need help and understand little Korean, they will help you. They love when you want to learn the language and will help you with that as well.
Some Koreans may still be stubborn and independent (I mean no disrespect!). Some are still very grouped (independent, but grouped.) What I mean is it hasn't been long since Korean's came out of the whole dynasty deal. You may find a lot of generalizations about each 'dynasty', such as the Lee Dynasty, Park, Kim, etc...and most of them are true! There are distinct characteristics that hold true, so older Koreans will ask a lot of questions about family backround.
If you travel there, you may get looks and feel awkward sometimes, but this is only natural because most people there are Koreans and asians, so any other race may stand out. That is nothing personal either :) I promise! You really should go sometime and enjoy it! It will definitely be worth the visit.

One common fact that many people never understand properly deals with birthdays. If you speak to an Asian online, you may get confused when discussing ages and what grade in school and everything. This is because birthdays are a little different. Korean people will generally have an age of 1-2 years older than someone elsewhere who was born in the same year. When a Korean is born, they are automatically considered one year old. Many Koreans then consider themselves one year older on January 1st.

Information provided by: learnkoreanlanguage.com

3 Months Gone

This is what we looked like 3 months ago, yesterday.

(Sorry Bridger, that the man we asked to take this picture cut you in half...but not with a knife, as Bridger just informed me)

I can't believe it has already been 3 months!

Josh Said...

Hello!

So, it is our first p-day in Ktown. Man it has been crazy! I dont even know where to begin. Our flight was super long. We got our companions on friday. My new comp is Elder Hadley. He is from AZ. Our apartment is super small. We live with another companionship. One of the Elders I knew in the MTC, so that's fun. You should see the motorcycles on the street. They're nuts! I love the food, it is even better than Sam Hawk. We have 3 investigators, one will get baptized next week hopefully. Church was awesome. All in Korean (obviously haha) and yes, i had to speak. Just an introduction and testimony. They were very impressed with my Korean. We teach english classes twice a week, and go "street boarding"(proselyting) for about an hour a day. We are very busy it seems. I love you guys so much! I'll talk to you next week!

-Elder Beasley

A Blog for Josh

Julianne, Josh's oldest sister, here. I decided to start a blog for Josh. I am doing this for the following reasons: his family and friends want to know and see how he is doing, to share stories about Josh, to be reminded of just how funny he is, to learn more about Korea, to view pictures of Josh (will not be limited to mission pictures), to keep track of movies and music he will miss, to document what his friends and family thought about while he was gone and any other reason I think of along the way. I think this is my way of keeping in touch with him. It was important to him that he not be forgotten; that we not only think about him often, but talk about him often. I hope this blog allows friends and family to come together and share stories about Josh. I hope you will email me pictures or memories of Josh that I can post on this blog. Like the title says,
"Let us not forget Josh!"

I will keep you posted weekly on how Josh is doing. If I can convince him (and more importantly, if he has time), I will have him write something specific for this blog. At the very least, you will know how he is going. I hope this brings Josh's family and friends together until Josh returns...

Everybody is a somebody, so even if I don't know you but you know Josh; please feel free to email me pictures or stories.

Here's to you Josh.