June 27, 2008

Hey Parents! How are you?? I am doing pretty good. This last week has pretty much been the same old stuff, lots of street contacting, lot's of studying, and some teaching as well. We're having a hard time finding new investigators lately though because usually we would meet quite a few college students but all of the colleges are on summer break until september so we have no where to meet them. And not only has it affected us getting new investigators, but also our number of contacts as well. Last week we went to the down town of our area and contacted for like 4 hours and only got 30 contacts! It's hard trying to talk to old men all the time like that, they never really want to talk so even if you say high and try to shake every one of their hands only one out of ten or so will actually stop to talk. Other then that everything is good though. Our investigators are okay, we don't have any really good looking ones right now but that all can change really fast. After we baptized Ryan and the two girls we have pretty much had to start over. Yesterday we had zone conference in ìˆ˜ì› and it was amazing. We had a little health thing for like an hour from the area doctors and then President and Sister Burton spoke and then the assistants did training. President and Sister Burton really are the best, everytime i talk to them they like recharge my batteries and make me stoked on missionary work again. The both talked about the Savior and faith and Sister Burton talked a lot about Moroni 7:33. I love that scripture it has become one of my favorites. Let's see i don't have much else to report so i will answer your questions Mom. My clothes and shoes are doing pretty good. The rain is really rough on my shoes but we've been lucky it hasn't been raining all that much, i think it only rained a couple of times this last week. Elder Haviland seems to be doing really good. He is way excited about being a missionary. Haha it really was soo good to see him, i was pretty stoked. He is serving in ì¸ì „ which is the western part of the mission by the airport. It sounds like things are a lot different for him because he is in the city and i'm out in the sticks but he said that he really loves his area. I have only talked to Elder Hadley once but he sounded like he was doing good too. Oh yeah i forgot to tell you that i saw Elder Hutchings at transfers it was fun to see him too. He is serving in the beverly hills of Seoul so it sounded like the people were a little mean but he likes it i think. The whole money situation is good. We are only allowed to spend the mission money on groceries and transportation and stuff like that but we always have enough so it's fine. Haha it's funny that you asked about food this week, I have quite the story to tell you! In Korea it is kind of a tradition in the summer to eat ë³´ì‹ íƒ• (bosheentang) which is dog soup. One of the members in our ward loves the stuff and i was talking to him on sunday and i asked him when he was going to take us out to eat it. Haha i was really just joking around but he got all excited and told me that he was talking us this week. So on tuesday night we went to this shady little restaraunt and ate ë³´ì‹ íƒ•. Usually when they eat dog it's only in a soup but he not only bought us the soup, he also bought a huge thing of just straight up dog meat! Haha when the waitress brought it out i really thought i was going to die but it actually was pretty good. It was a little bit too chewy for my liking because they leave the skin and fat on it but it definitely wasn't bad. The picture that i attached is my first bite of dog! Haha my time is almost up here so i can't tell you more about it but make sure you save that picture i'm going to want to keep that one! I want to tell you about something that i learned this week really fast though. We were talking to an investigator this week about happiness and as we were teaching him i realized something about the gospel. He said that he wasn't happy and we read him Mosiah 2:41 and promised him that if he would keep the commandments and live what we teach him he would be happy. He still didn't really believe us so i decided to tell him about my situation. I told him that i am in the middle of no where, in Korea. I can't speak any Korean, i have no money, i can't talk to my family, i can't talk to my girl friend, and i was soaking wet (it was raining really hard that day). If you look at my life from a worldly perspective i have absolutely nothing to be happy about, but i have never been happier in my entire life. I know that i am doing what i am supposed to be doing and i am doing what God wants me to do. Because i am doing he is blessing me and i truly am happy. The gospel really is the only way to find true happiness in this life, i know that now more than i ever had. The church is true! Sorry i have to get off my time is up, haha i hope that makes sense. I love you Mom and Dad i really do. Thank you for your prayers. I'll talk to you next week!
Love Elder Musso