So the past week was pretty tough in all honesty. Its a lot tougher here then I realized. At zone meeting I was able to talk to some other missionaries and they talked about how they are just getting contacts left and right, but we are lucky to even be able to talk to someone in one day here. We did weekly stats last night and when I looked at them i was a little disheartended. But i looked at the good we were able to do and it made it a little better. We were able to do 3 lessons this past week. One of them were to these two kids Jeong Hoon and Moo Hoon. That went alright. And yester we went door knocking and we actually got let in which is like unheard of. My companions been out for over a year and its never happened to him. So we were able to talk about the plan of salvation to a little family.
Then we had a crazy weird experience last tuesday. We had a discussion with this guy who speaks crazy sachuree. Which is basically like an accent. And hiw was super thick. And he talked like a 1000 words a minute. I honestly stared at him fro an hour and half and didnt know what to do because he was just talking the whole time. My companion didnt really understand him much either, but basically this guy is like trying to start his own religion. And he has all of these crazy theories. But what made it even better is he thinks he can speak the language of angels. So when we asked for hime to give teh closing prayer he just started making all of these weird noises. It was definitely top 3 strange/creepy/oddly interesting thing ive seen in my life. We had 2 cambodians with baptismal dates but we had to postpone them because we havent been able to meet with them. We haven't been able to meet a lot of the areas investisgtors recently.
Im not sure why but we have to do a lot of Jeondoing(proselyting). And somedays we would proselyte for hours and not even see anyone. Its really tough. But we just have to keep on doing our best. Sometimes we are able to play basketball with people on the courts and try to get there contact information. Its super awesome because usually we come at like nigh time to the courts and so its like two white kids rolling up wearing suits to play basketball. And my comp is beast on the offence, and my defense isn't anything to laugh at. Weve won everygame weve started. (Reading over this ive realized my english has gotten progressively worse.) I blessed the sacrament yesterday which was fun. Ive done it before but it was cool to do it again.
The food here is super obscure. I don't think ive eaten actual meat since ive got here. Koreans really like the fatty parts of the animal so its really gross when i have to eat a fatty piece the size of my finger. So i havent really been eating as much which hasent proved to bad becuase usually im just not hungry. Ive already noticed that a lot of my clothes are already a little looser than usual. But rice isnt that bad so thats probably what I've been eating most. Looking back at the week really not much has happened. The quite little town of Samcheonpo is about the same.
Thework is tough, but i know the reward will be worth it. I kinda broke down the other day on the inside and had a very very tough time. Because we had legit proselyted for 7 hours and dind tget to talk to anyone and then i went out to eat with a member and the food was very interesting lets just say. And i just wanted to go home and go to sleep. And thats exactly what i did. BEcause our bus took like an 1 hour to get home for some reason so we got home kinda late. But the next day something came over me and just made me feel good. I know its not going to get any easier. But i also know that the harder it gets the more heavenly father will help me. There really isn't another way you could do this work without him. That has become strikingly real to me this past week and a half.
Keep working hard everyone. Stay positive. There is a lot of work to do but the laborers are few. So keep your head up and just make it thorugh the day. I love you all.
Ill write you next week. See you soon.
Elder Maccarthy
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