May 8, 2008

Hey Parents! How are you? I am really good. Haha this last week seriously was the trippiest week of my life! It was good though, missionary work is seriously amazing i love it. Wow it feels like i have so much to say that i don't even know where to start. I guess first i'll tell you about our investigators. We gave two people baptisimal commitments this week and one said he would get baptized on May 25th and the other one said he would get baptized but he didn't want to set a date yet. One is actually chinese and he doesn't speak very good english or korean so its pretty hard to teach him. He has a chinese book of mormon and we have watched all the church videos in chinese with him. The rest of the time when we teach we have our ward mission leader write everything in chinese because most of the korean words have chinese roots. Its fun to teach him but we have to teach way slow to make sure he understands so we probably won't get him baptized this transfer. The other guy seems to be doing really good. My companion had asked him about baptism before and he never though he was ready because he didn't have faith but we asked him about it this week and he said that he believes in the BOM and Joseph Smith and everything so it was good. We are teaching a bunch of other people besides these two but we don't have much time so i can't tell you about all of them. Haha i'll tell you one kinda funny story though. We met this crazy old man last week right when we got off the bus from seoul and he told us that he has a liver disease and is dying and he wanted us to heal him. We met him on sunday and taught him the plan of salvation and told him about living after death and how he could have eternal life and everything and it was a way powerful lesson. My companion is an amazing teacher, most of the time i just sit there and look dumb because i don't understand anything but i taught a couple of things and bore my testimony. At the end of the lesson we watched a video clip from Elder Scott that talked about baptism and we decided that we would ask him to be baptized. Haha we are a little crazy i know but we figured that the man is dying so he needed to be baptized asap and he said yes! We were so excited for him and we tried to set a date with him but he didn't want to yet. So needless to say we were pretty excited because we taught a way good lesson and this old man wanted to get baptized, but the next day we scheduled an appointment with him and he didn't show up. When we called him he said that he didn't believe us and he wanted to be healed right then and if we couldn't do it he wasn't going to talk to us anymore. Haha i don't even know if that story made sense or not but it was pretty crazy, one day the man wanted to be baptized and then next he wouldn't even talk to us. I was pretty bummed after that i'm not gonna lie but its cool i guess. People still have their agency, all we can really do is help them feel the spirit. Most of the time when we teach people we teach them english for the first 30 minutes and then we teach them about the gospel for the last 30 minutes. It's really pretty easy to find new people to teach because everyone here wants to learn english. Haha its so fun to meet people on the street i love it. We usually just walk up to people and talk to them about random things or tell them jokes or something just to break the ice. I found out really fast in Seoul that the people never listen to you if you just walk up to them and start preaching. Haha usually we tell people how handsom they are or how fasionable their clothing is or something. Every one here loves being called handsom by americans! Its pretty scary for me though, i really can't talk about anything but the church so my comp does most of the contacting. On tuesday we didn't have any appointments so we went to this university and just talked to people for like 7 hours! It was a long time but we met some pretty cool people. We ate dinner on the campus and during our dinner break the school soccer team had a game and so we got to watch that for like a half our, it was amazing im not gonna lie. I miss soccer so much its ridiculous, but it was fun to watch. They were actually really good i was suprised. Lets see what else do i have to tell you about.. Oh yes the food. It really isn't that bad, well most of it isn't that bad. Haha i don't know why i was so worried about kimchee, it really is the last of my worries. Some of the sea food is pretty shady so i usually try to stay away from it. We went to our ward mission leader's house on monday night and had dinner it was really fun. We ate kimchee stew, rice, kimchee, and some other random vegetables, oh and sea weed of course. Haha you would be so proud of me if you saw me eating all this crazy stuff. I'll attach a picture of us eating at his house though so you can see what it was like. Our ward really is amazing i love it. The bishop and ward mission leader are really like the coolest people ever. There are probably like 50 or 60 members in the ward and they seem pretty solid. This week was fast sunday and they made me bear my testimony first and it was pretty scary but it was good. It was so cool seeing how church is the exact same here, half the world away as it is back home. The church is on the second and third floors of a public bath house its pretty funny. I would tell you more about it but i need to talk about mothersday calling and attach some pictures still so i need to hurry. I am going to call you on monday morning here which will be sunday afternoon there. I am planning on calling around 5 there. Call Melissa and tell her to come over because i won't be able to call her seperately. They are pretty strict about the calling, we'll only be able to talk for like 45 minutes. It will be good though im excited. Well parents i need to wrap this up, my time is about gone but i love you and i hope everything is good at home. Korea is a crazy place but it really is fun. I'll give you all the details when we talk on monday. Haha the pictures of me at the chalk boards are me teaching the Koreans how to be gangsters and speak ebonics.

Love Elder Musso

P.S. sorry i was going to send more pics but our time is up so i will just send them next week. I love you!