June 19, 2008

Hey Family! How are you?? I am doing way good. I just got off the bus from the temple and it was amazing. The temple here really is so cool, its crazy to be in the middle of the second biggest city in the world and have it be completely chaotic and then walk in the temple and have it be perfectly quiet and peaceful like always. It takes 2 hours to get up there and 2 hours to get back though so we aren't going to have much of a p-day today but it was worth it. My zone did a session with the ì¸ì „ zone so Elder Haviland was there, it was so good to see him! Haha it was one of the happiest moments of my mission. President and Sister Burton were there too and it's always fun to see them. They are amazing i love them. I am going to apologize at the beginning here, haha this will probably be pretty short because i had 10 emails to read before i could start writing but thank you for writing me. Mom it sounds like you're having fun in Cleveland, make sure you let everyone know that i miss them. Haha and Dad you got a blackberry? Thats pretty trippy! Whit and Weave i loved the shirt about Weave's boys, haha where did you find that thing? And Stace your boy toy is very handsome, i hope things are going well with that. Oh and yes Nick if you are reading this how about you right me once in a while huh?? Haha it would be nice to know if you are still alive or not. Everything is going pretty good here though. The confirmations were really good, and Ryan and the girls are all doing really good. Ryan really is amazing. We met him yesterday and talked to him for a while and he has such a solid testimony. He took the TOEIC, which is the english test that all Koreans have to take to get jobs, a couple of weeks ago and he got the result back and he did way good. He said that he thinks he did so good because God is blessing him for getting baptized. Haha and at church this new girl moved into the ward and she is pretty cute so we tried to hook Ryan up with her but he told us that he wouldn't talk to her because he comes to church to pray and not to meet girls. He's pretty funny. My copmanion is pretty cool. He's a good missionary but his Korean isn't the best so we have a hard time figuring out what people are saying to us sometimes. It gets pretty frustrating when you ask people questions about the church and then you have no idea what they answer. Other than that it's good though, i have pretty much been the senior companion for the last week and it's been fun to have a little bit of responsibility. Lets see next question. Haha yes there are flowers around, that was a really random question. In the parks and stuff they have really pretty flowers but i haven't really noticed on people's balconies. Families don't really have pets. A few people have dogs but they are all lap dogs because they all live in aparments and they have no where to put big dogs. We do our laundry at home but we don't have a dryer so we just hang dry everything on the balcony. Oma asked about the weather.. The rainy season officially started yesterday and it rained harder than i have ever seen in my life. The streets were all rivers and i decided that i am probably going to have to get used to being soaked from my waste down for the next month. When it's not raining it's really humid at hot, We are pretty much soaked either with sweat or rain constantly. And as far as the shopping goes, i don't know exactly where people shop but it seems like most of them go to the markets and subway stations for everything. The markets are just streets with little shops and stands everywhere and you kind find pretty much everything you want in there. The subway stations are amazing here! They are all pretty much malls and everything is soo cheap. We went to a big station in Seoul today on the way to the temple and it was so cool, i'm a little jealous of the Elders serving there. They had ties for $3 and dress pants for $15! It was pretty sweet. Sorry Mom i answered all of those really fast but i wanted to get them all in. My time is up so i need to go but thank you for all the emails and the packages. You're amazing. Thank you for your prayers, the Lord is really blessing me, there is no way i could be doing what i am doing with out his help. I love you all and i'll talk to you again next week!
Love Elder Musso