June 5, 2008

Hey Parents! How are you? I'm doing good. Getting emails from everyone always makes me happy. So wow Whitney is pregnant huh?? That is pretty trippy im not gonna lie! Haha that will be crazy to come home to a year old niece or nephew. It's kind of a bummer that i won't be there when Whit has the baby but it's cool i guess. Everything is still going good here. We are still insanely busy and super tired but it's fun. This weekend should be amazing. We are baptizing 이영우 (Ryan), 이희원, and 이명원 on Sunday and we are super excited. Haha it will be such a relief once it's finally all over. We have definitely had to work for all three of them. I'm going to baptize the girls and Elder Andersen will baptize Ryan, i'll make sure to take lots of pics to send you. Other than that this week has been pretty much the same as the last 4. Haha oh yeah except the rain. It has rained every day this week and supposedly it's not even the rainy season yet! We've been pretty blessed though, it seems like everytime we are inside teaching it rains super hard, and then when we go outside to contact it stops. I don't know what we are going to do in couple of weeks when the rainy season starts. We are supposed to get 140 contacts a week (a contact is introducing yourself, teaching a principle or bearing testimony, and giving them a commitment) and people don't like to stop and talk in the rain. Haha i guess we may just have to go door knocking all day or something. So i was thinking this week as we were contacting and i decided that diversity is pretty much the coolest thing ever. There are so many different groups of people in Korea it blows my mind. Just this past week we talked to people from Malaysia, Vietnam, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Iran, Uzbeckistan (sorry i have no idea how to spell that), Pakistan, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, Egypt and China! It's fun to meet people from all over the world, especially the middle eastern people. I think it's pretty messed up how Americans hate everyone from the middle east just because they are middle eastern and muslim! I was a little bit nervous talking with them at first because i thought that they would despise us because we are American (especially the guy from Iran), but they all turned out to be way nice. The Iranian guy is actually engaged to one of the women in our ward and so he has been coming to church every week lately. I think it would be way cool to teach him but i don't know how we would, he doesn't speak much Korean or English and i don't know if the Book of Mormon is translated into his language. Haha i'm sorry this email is pretty random i know but i am kind of at a loss of what to say. I was looking at Elder Andersen's email from his mom just barely though and she sends him like 5-10 questions a week that he answers in his emails, and he said that helps him with what to say. Haha so if you would send me a list of questions that would be much appreciated. Oh yeah i did save one last story to tell you though. So i am officially a Korean missionary this morning. Haha in Korea there aren't special foods for breakfast luch and dinner it's just all the same, but they do have cereal in the grocery stores so we usually just eat that. I ran out of cereal this morning though so i decided that i would have a Korean breakfast and i ate kimchee and rice! It was pretty intense im not gonna lie, and you probably don't think thats a very big deal but once you try kimchee you'll understand. Haha eating ridiculously spicy framented cabbage isn't exactly the best way to start your day! It was fun though i enjoyed it. Well parents my time is up so i need to go, im sorry this was kind of a lame email i'll try to do better next week. I love you though!

Love Elder Musso