1-19-14

So ya its been a few days now since i arrived in Korea. My first area is 삼 천포(samcheon po) and 사천(sacheon). Its a bit of a slummy area but its still pretty nice. Its fairly cold here, but its really the wind that cuts right through you. My new companion, elder brown, is from washington and is really cool. 

Missionary work is really hard here. A lot of people like to talk but no one likes to talk about church stuff. The branch I'm in has 15 members in it, which includes 2 sister missionaries and us 2 elders. So ya pretty small. My companion is

actually first councilour i think. I think i have some calling too but im not sure. Our branch president is 이 진 만(ee jeen man). He's really cool, and doesnt have a right hand.

This computer isnt very good so cant upload any pictures but i am taking some. My area is in a pretty remote area of the mission so we have to take a lot of public transportation. It calculates out that we will be spending at least an hour on buses everyday. Proselyting doesnt really work here, but the

other day we got to do some sports proselyting. We went over to the local basketball court and played 2 on 2 with some college students. Luckily my comp balls hard so we beat them like 1 to 11. We got there contact info which was really cool. We had one lesson on sunday which was nice.

Everyone talks reallly fast here so its hard for me to tell

what they are saying. I can understand for the most apart when americans are speaking Korean, but the Koreans throw me off for the most part hahah. Our appartment is pretty small. Its probably about 1 and half times the size of our living room in cali. And yes we do sleep on floors. We sleep on these mats called like 'yo's' our something. Its basically a bunch of blankets. Our meeting house is on the second floor of some building. Its probably about the size of our

house in cali.

I had to give a talk yesterday in church. It went ok i

think. Church only lasts for 2 hours here because there arent a lot of people. Everyone here freaks out when i tell them i played football. Everyone thinks that like im some like strong person or something haaha. Its really funny. My branch president said he wanted me to make our branch into a football team haha. Hes a funnny guy. The food isnt

to bad. I havent been eating as much because a lot of the food looks straight up disgusting. But i eat rice and noodles which is ok.

Everyone ios really nice here though. Theres not really much more to say than that. I hope everyone is doing well back at home. I am like 17 hours ahead of you just incase youre wondering. I hope you all have a wonderful day (or rather sleep) and ill talk to you again next week.

oh ya one thing i forgot to mention in my big email. I had the craziest experience my first day here. we were proselyting on a subway to this guy eating some weird food. and my

comp was like ya thats pig intestine. And i was like ew gross. and then he shoved a piece of it in my comps mouth and then one piece into my mouth. I just about threw up but i swallowed it down. I had like a rock in my stomach for the rest of the day haha

Elder Maccarthy