3-16-14

I dont have a lot of time to talk today so ill have to make this week a little short. We had a pretty nice week. We have made a lot of progress with our one investigator 필효 (Pir Ho). We have a basketball activity every saturday morning and on this past saturday we had like 20 kids show up! it was super awesome. We usually pray at the beginning and end of the activity and at the end we asked if anyoone wanted to offer a prayer (because me or elder brown usually do) and 필 asked if he could offer it. So awesome. Im going to get this kid baptized before im done training for sure. Also this past weekend we had stake conference in 마산 (MaSan). So we left saturday to go to the adult session, which took about 2 hours to get there. And the first speaker in the session i completely understood! like 100%. I came to find out that he was from Seoul. So that explained why i completely

understood him. Because just about every other speaker after that i probably understood like 30%. Its crazy how much of a language difference there is in a place a quarter of the size of utah. 

But after adult session we hiked over to the 마산 missionaries house to spend the night. I say hiked because they like literally live on top of a mountian and we had to walk up one of the steepest hills I've ever seen in my life. It was killer. But we got into there apartment and it was super nice. Its supposed to be a 4 man house but only 2 are there now. We had a elders sleep in that apartment that night. It was nice

but it was still a super tiny place haha. And they had mattresses too. So i got to sleep on a mattress for the first time in like 2 months. And honestly it was probably the worst sleep i've had my entire mission. I couldnt get comfortable. So i may just have to convert to a yo for the rest of my life. 

But then Sunday session went by like a

breeze and we were able to come back into our area and do some proselyting. No a super busy week really. Its hard to meet with people mainly because koreans are either working all day or there in school all day. So it makes it pretty much impossible to meet with anyone on any other day besides the weekends or at like nightime. But i would definitely say that missionary work has become more bearable. It used

to be supoer tough now its just pretty tough. 

Im 4 months in as of last wednesday i think. Ill be done with training in 2 or 3 weeks. Its crazy how time has been flying so far. We are going off to 진주 today so thats why time is short. Ill be sure to write a little more next week. I hope you all have a nice day. Ill talk to you again soon.

Elder Maccarthy