July 17, 2008

Hey Parents! How are you? I'm good. This past week was pretty much the same as the past 5 of this transfer. We just walk around all day and contact and then teach at night. Haha we have been meeting with our investigator that is getting baptized like every day lately and that has been pretty fun though. He is a pretty trippy guy but we have really grown to like him a lot. This week i went on exchanges with the district leader in suwon and that was prett fun. It's always nice to get a change of scenery, even if it's only for one day. We also had a combined district meeting in suwon yesterday with everyone in my zone and President Burton came. It was good to see him like always, something about talking with him always pumps me up to get out and do work. Everything in my area is pretty good too, i am definitely getting ready to transfer though. It's hard walking up and down the same streets every day for 3 months and i swear i have talked to like every person in our little town. This next transfer is going to be really big because there are 10 missionaries going home and 8 coming in so hopefully i'll move. If i don't it will still be okay though, next transfer we should have 2 or 3 baptisims here and it would be cool to be apart of that. Oh yeah guess what happened this week? We were walking around one day and started talking to this college student in korean and he was answering our questions in english and so we told him that he speaks amazing english (haha we tell every person that even if they can only say hello but this kid was way good) and he was like yeah im from america. So we started talking about where he was from and he was from strongsville! He went to St. Ignatious in high school and he was just studying here for the summer. It was pretty crazy, haha his accent made me miss Ohio. That was probably the only crazy thing that happened, it seems like i am just starting to get used to things here and so i don't have as many stories to tell. Oh yeah i did learn something this week from the district leader though. When we were on splits he was telling me how the like to go visit members and give them food and how they like to bring ice cream or something for their investigators so i have been trying that lately and its so fun. Haha like everytime we've met ì •ê²½ì„­ we have brought him his favorite ice cream and he loves it. Oh and yesterday we were walking to the bus in suwon after our meeting and i had a package that Melissa sent me and it had some salt water taffies and i gave them all away to some kids we were talking to, they loved it. It's crazy how something as small as giving candy to kids or taking food to a member can increase your charity and love for them. The Korean people really are so amazing, the part in my partriacle blessing that talks about me growing to love the people i serve is definitely coming true; i really do love them more and more every day. I think that is about all i have to report so i wil answer your questions now. My shins are doing better now. I havent really been excercising a lot in the morning and so they have chilled out some. I tried to put the arch support from my soccer shoes in my dress shoes but they make my shoes way to tight so i don't know if i will be able to do anything as far as that goes. I think i will be fine as long as i dont jump rope that's what made them act up again. Our leaders have been telling us to get a service project for the past couple of weeks and we have been trying but we haven't been able to find one. We went to the city office the other day and asked them if they had anything we could do and they said no, so right now we are just doing english class for service. The people are mostly middle class here. ì‹ ê°ˆ is a pretty old city so there are a lot of old nasty appartments but it's okay. It seems like the money in Korea isn't as evenly distributed as it is in america though. Most of the people are just middle class and all about the same and then there are a handful of ridiculously rich people that drive the nice cars and live in way nice appartments. The economy here is really bad right now though so a lot of people are having a hard time getting jobs. The people all have health insurance from the goverment which is a good and bad thing. It's good because everyone can get medical help if they need it but people also go to the hospital for the most ridiculous things because its so cheap. Haha i swear if people here stub their toes or something they would go to the emergency room. I haven't been sick at all which has been really good. I think that we can get everything we need in the drug stores and sister burton is on top of her game with taking care of all of our health worries so i should be fine. Well parents that is about all i have to report from this week, haha i am sorry i know i end my emails pretty abrubtly but i always have to hurry and get them sent before our time is up, the computers shut down after exactly an hour. Thank you for your letters and prayers though they really help. I love you and i hope all is going well at home!

Love Elder Musso

P.S. i need an election update, haha you need to step up your game with that! Oh and Whit i will start thinking of some names for you baby, i could probably come up with some pretty sweet korean names if you want!