Elder Cameron Spilker

This place is real!

Hey everyone I made it to Korea and I'm here in my first area 세종! It's definitely a crazy culture shock but I'm starting to settle in now a little bit.The plane ride was pretty long but our first flight to Seattle was worse than the flight to Korea. I got pretty airsick but the flight to Korea was smooth and was honestly probably the best flight I've ever been on.  Also ucthdwarf came and talked at the mtc the last day I was there and we had front row seats which was pretty cool he came and talked to us after and said he was coming to Korea in November and I was like "that's sick" and he nodded.

Anyways when we got to Korea my bags came out of the baggage claim and one of them had a yellow beeping lock on it that had a whole lot of korean on it and the only english that was on it said return or you will be punished for your crimes. It was scary and I thought I was going to north Korea prison but all I could do was laugh. It was OK I just had to go and get my bag searched and I was outta there. We were drove to the mission home and I was just in shock looking out the window on the drive over there. Then we had interviews with president got our new areas and comps and ate some insane food that president's wife made us.

All is good here though I gave an introduction talk in korean on Sunday and it went pretty good. I read my testimony off my phone but the rest was easy. I also got to help teach an English class on the first day so that was really nice to have a break from korean. Korea is crazy cool and very different but the best way to describe where I'm at right now is a video game city and also Disneyland. The roads and streets are insane and super beautiful and there are really cool parks too. The streets and parks just look like Disneyland and it feels like a video game city too. It feels like my korean grammer book came to life.

The food here is gas it is better than I imagined and it was worth the wait in the mtc it's also way cheap too. I've had some good stuff so far and we just went to Costco which was really interesting I ordered myself a pork bake and chocolate ice cream it was gas.

Also just had my first bathouse experience today and it was fire. For anyone that doesn't know in Korea they have bathouses with a bunch of different temperature hit tubs and showers and stuff and we are encouraged to go to them on days to embrace the culture. The catch is everyone is naked. It took a second to get used to it but it was the nicest thing ever. You can go in the super hot one and once it's too hot you can hope in the super cold one. And there's everything in between too. They have showers too so I took a full on shower in there too. 10/10 experience and I would recommend.

The language and work has been hard and our mission is pretty strict but it definitely has its benefits too. The apartments and food are great. And the people are really nice too. I lucked out with this mission for sure and you'll here from me next week.