June 12th

I survived my first week! I landed in incheon on Tuesday afternoon where we were greeted by the Furnisses. They are as good as advertised. I am obsessed. They were so kind and hilarious. I cant wait to serve under them. We spent the next day and a half training and interviewing. Thursday we met our trainers. My Companions name is Seo 저 매 님  She IS SO AMAZING. We had to get our bags from Daejeon to Naju (my area) which was no small thing. I have three gigantic bags. There are two of us and she only counts as half because she is miniature haha. You should have seen us getting them into taxi's (plural) on and off trains, up and down multiple staircases. It was ridiculous. But we did it. The church is true! So we took a three hour train ride down to Naju (rhymes with Naboo). I looked over at sister seo and asked what Naju is like. She got a big smile on her face and told me that "Naju is so fun, the branch is so good you will learn Korean fast but lund chamenim, presidentt complimented you when he called you to naju. It takes a stable person to serve in naju". Im learning what she meant more and more every day haha. Naju is this tiny middle of nowhere town in the south. On the first day i got a tour where we got from one end to the other in 30 min. surrounding are rice fields. and then nothing else. haha. I feel like a REAL missionary. Our branch has 50 people in it and they are all out of their minds. I could go on forever telling you how apostate it is haha. But we are fixing it. Half of the branch are children and they run around like possesed wombats all three hours. Running in and out of rooms, sunday school and sacrament meeting. There are these three little boys who are trying to kill me. They kung foo fight me 24/7 and i dont know what to do cause im not supposed to touch them so I just hold their heads while they swing away and say go away in korean- love them haha. The ward mission leader has these five little girls  who are china doll terrorists. I love/am terrified of them.

I sleep on a yo on the floor. I feel so sweet every night. there are these toads outside that sounds like dogs barking. It is SO loud. Sister Seo and I just lay awake laughing. Korean food rocks my world. Seriously. It is so good. I feel like im running a marathon (i basically am) so i devour whatever is in front of me. its amazing what you'll eat when you're starving. There's nowhere to get American food here so im living the Korean way 100% which aint so bad. my favorite thing so far is these noodle rice things in this spicy kimchi sauce. ay go. But its all so good. You have no idea.

We go jogging past rice fields every morning. Its so picturesque. I get to watch these little old ladies working away in the rice fields.

Ok the buses are CRAZY! They dont stop. They just slow down. When you want to get on or off you have to run for your life and even then sometimes the doors shut on you and I glare at the driver like "really?! I know you saw me!" The buses also smell like death. I have to ride with my head out the window like a dog so i dont lose it.

Every other day theres an announcement made in our apt building that comes straight in our apt. It is so loud- hugest invasion of privacy I have ever seen ha. One day the announcement was that someone threw stuff over the balcony and hit someone walking by and they were bleeding. Haha. I love Korea.

AH! We committed a lady to get baptized on Sunday! HAHA! She is so cute and sweet and speaks a little English so we can kind of communicate. She doesn't have facial expression so i can't eer tell what she's thinking but she's getting baptized and im so excited! I told her id make her cookies and she kind of smiled- awesome.

We also met this BEAUTIFUL lady from Bangladesh with a little girl who wants to meet with us. She is SO getting baptized- she doesn't even know.

Korea is AMAZING. Naju is kinda weird cause all the women are working in the rice fields so the only people we see are men and we aren't allowed to talk to them. We spend lot of time walking. A LOT. I am exhausted but its the good kind. My feet hurt. Will someone send me some food? I want some dried mangos. I LOVE YOU! Im studying so hard! Sometimes people understand me when I speak its so so cool!

I spoke in sacrament meeting. I said the gospel has blessed my life tree much instead of very much.

I taught an english class on thursday. This creepy guy showed up who kept hitting on me and when I kept ignoring him he finally left. We might have to change the schedule and forget to tell him haha.

ok ill write more next week. I love being a missionary. Its has hard and long and crazy and fun as they say it is. Im so greatful for the gospel. Its so happy!

Love love love,

Lund 자 매