2-9-14

Well i hit my 3 month mark this thursday. Thats a crazy thought. One month in Korea. Ive been trying lately to look back and see how much I've progressed. I definitely think i have chopsticks down which is good. I think im getting more and more used to eating rice at least twice a day. The language is coming along very slowly, and the missionary work probably even slower. 

Our area is one of the hardest areas in the mission. Its right in the middle of the countryside and no one has any interest. So me and my comp have to find any opportunity we can to teach. So just about every day last week we played basketball with people hoping to get there contacts. We actaully did get a couple, and had pretty much a miracle for me. We were meeting with these two kids we met the other week to play basketball. And they had invited a couple of there friends and there school teacher. We hit it off super well with the teacher and he invited us to go out to dinner that night with him. We went and ate some Kim Chi Chi Kae and started talking about church and stuff. He was super open and he loves us. He wants to me again soon and we were basically able to teach him a pretty big bulk of the first lesson. It was so awesome to break our streak of having no lessons. It was a really big boost for me. 

Another thing I've found out about korea is how miserably cold it really is. The wind here is so cold that it literally cuts through every piece of clothing you have and freezes you to the core. And another thing, somehow, here in korea it doesnt matter what direction you face you are always somehow facing the wind head on. Im still trying to figure out how that works. 

but ya its super cold here. It even snowed a little during service on the farm and tody. This service on the farm was pretty intense too. We had to move like 75 50 pound bags of fertilizer. And what was even better was after only like 20 minutes I'm pretty sure i sprained my ankle because i heard a loud pop. my ankle hurt. Haha but i kinda just went with it for the rest of the 3 hour long service. It kinda sucked but it feels better now. That was basically how my past week went. Nothing to exciting but it appears that things are going to be looking up from here. Hopefully at least.

I hope everyone is dong well back at home. Ive never missed California weather more than i have now ahah. So enjoy it and ill talk to you all again next week. Love you all. See you soon,

Elder Maccarthy