January Updates

7 January

Dear friends and Saints in Jeju

Pretty slow week. It's been super hard to find new investigators here. Especially when its new years and everyone is just partying. but we're doin good here in Seoguipo. We got to go over to the Navy base and play basketball again. This time we played some of the soldiers. We also helped our friend John out with moving some furniture into his new school building and I realized how out of shape I am.

We had interviews with President Jeong in Jeju city this week. It was really quick but its always a good time meeting with President Jeong and Sister Kim.

Pretty boring email but not to much goin on. Hope you guys have a great week.

14 January

Great times with this guy

Super cold week. On Wednesday elder 이인영 came over to Seoguipo for exchange and we barely made it over the mountain. It was snowing so bad. Strait blizzard. I thought Jeju was only supposed to be hot. It was super weird to see the beach and all the palm trees covered in snow.
While on exchange we met with elder 이인영's uncle for lunch and I felt super bad making him walk in the snow storm cuz he's like 75 years old. After that we tried to proselyte but there was no one outside. Except for James Bond. We tried to get him to go home since it was so cold but he thought it was really fun.

Then when we got home and tried to order some food all the restaurants said there bike guys can't come because of the snow. We thought we were gone die. We ended up having to actually cook our own food.

We didn't have too much else go on last week. This week is week 6 the last one of the transfer. We get calls on Saturday, hopefully. So we will see what happens.

Everything's going good in Korea and i hope ya'll have a great week. 안녕

21 January

I don't really have any time to email. I got transferred to a place called Gimcheon in Degu Zone. It's super country side but it will be fun. And I'm District Leader and have some super fun missionaries in my district. It was super sad to leave Soeguipo but I told all the members I'll be back to visit after my mission. We got to hop on the subway right now then onto a three hour train ride. Hope you guys have a great week.

28 January

Gimcheon is soooooooooo cold. and it is like the most remote place in the whole mission. but it is Korea so there is still probably more people in this small city than all of Utah.

My new friends Hasan and Saeed

We actually had quite a few appointments this past week. Lot of old crazy people but a few good ones. We had lunch at the branch presidents house two days in a row.  They kept inviting us over since it was negative a thousand degrees outside. We also met with a police officer who is taking the lessons. super nice guy and he also took us out to lunch. then we met with a guy who runs a study room and he is trying to find a career for me.

One Saturday we met with these two guys named Hasan and Saeed who are from Iran. They really want to learn about Jesus and Christianity. They don't really speak any English and very, very little Korean so we communicated by passing Hasan's phone back and forth saying stuff into Google Translate. I also learned some Farsi or Persian... I think its the same language. Then they took us out to eat at a meat restaurant. They are super cool.

Our district is super fun. We have to travel pretty far to get to the other areas which is sort of hard. But one of the teams in our district has to travel three hours just to get to district meeting and then three hours back.

We pressin on here.

Hope ya'll have a great week. 

I'll really miss my friends in Jeju

December Updates

Once again, we have totally failed at posting Elder Mica Matua's email updates. Here are the email's we received in December.

With James Bond at the Branch Christmas Party

10 December

I'm in Busan right now meeting up with my new companion. I have to catch a flight back to Jeju so I don't have much time. My new companion is called Elder Braswell. We are in the same MTC group so we both already know each other.

This week was super fast. We got a bunch of lunch appointments since it was the last week. We met up with our Filo's and ate chicken. They also brought a few of their Indonesian friends. There was sort of a language barrier but it was fun.

I would write more but I have about no time.

Love ya'll

17 December

First week done. It was a good week but we had a lot of appointments cancel on us. Which sucks because we dont have to many appointments in the first place. So we did a lot of proselyting. Plus it snowed here a couple days so its been really cold.

Decorating for the party

At our English class we only had one person come and also James Bond but he just sits there and acts like he knows what we are saying. But we did start a new English class this past week. Well actually someone else started it for us. Our friend John, who owns a restaurant, his mom Lisa set up a free English conversation class in Johns restaurant. We thought we would just be sitting in and helping Lisa when she needs it but when we showed up at the restaurant Friday morning we found out that Lisa wouldn't even be coming and we were supposed to run the whole class. It was a little awkward at first but turned out pretty good. We had six members show up and they were all young moms but they are really cool.

We have also been preparing our Branch Christmas party. Its gonna be good besides the fact the Elder Braswell and I have to do a performance, and the performance our ward mission leader has in mind is... gonna be interesting. James Bond has offered to do a performance as well but I think the members sort of shut it down hahaha.

We will be heading to Busan tomorow and having the mission christmas party on Wednesday. Hope you all have a great week and Merry Christmas!

31 December

Heppi Christmas and Heppi New Yea!!!
I was pretty sick over christmaz but we still had a good time. Its always good to Skype the big fam on Christmas and New Year. Our ward also had a really good Christmas party. Elder Braswell and I had to sing and we totally bombed it. #fail. James Bond also came and brought the party with him.
We aren't doing anything special today for new years but the district president invited us and our Filipino friends over for dinner tonight.

We don't really have anyone to teach at the moment. We were teaching an old couple and even set a baptismal data with them but they moved to Seoul last week. We referred them to the elders down there and they said they would get baptized there.

Besides that not to much else goin on here in Seoguipo. Its crazy is already 2018. is gonna be a big year.

Hope you guys all have a great week and year.

Loving the Christmas hats

When I get bored at night (Christ)