July 24, 2008

Hey Parents! How are you? I'm pretty good, im soaking wet because it's raining like crazy outside but other than that im really good. Im still in ì‹ ê°ˆ which was kind of a bummer at first but im over it now, this next transfer will be amazing. This past week was really good, our investigators are doing way good and we picked up a couple of new ones that seem like they will progress really well. We gave a kid named ì´ìŠ¹ìž¬ a baptisimal date for August 16 and he was totally cool about it, haha his biggest worry about it was the day of the week that it is on. He really is amazing. I don't think i have ever mentioned him before but he is 25 and he is going to college to be a mechanical engineer. It was pretty crazy how we met him actually. We were contacting in the down town of our area a while ago and we ran into a guy with a ping pong paddle in his hand so i started talking to him about ping pong. We talked for a little bit about that and then i started to tell him about the church and he didn't really seem interested so we gave him a pass along card and told him to give our card to someone that wants to learn from us. We always do that to people that don't have any interest and nothing ever really comes out of it. A few days later though we were walking down the street by our house and this guy yelled at us from across the street and started asking us about our program. He said the he was friends with the guy we met and that his son wanted to learn from us. So we met his son and he has been doing so good ever since. He is a smoker and we taught him the word of wisdom last week and he has been cutting back 2 cigarettes a day and saturday he will be done for good he says. He told us yesterday that he has a testimony of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith and it was so cool. His little sister is coming back from studying in Russia for a year this weekend and so we are going to start meeting with them together and i have the feeling that she will get baptized too. There really have been so many little miracles that have happened in the last 3 months that i have been in Korea. I was reading in Alma the otehr day where Ammon and King Lamoni run into Lamoni's father while they are on the way to get Aaron out of jail. As i was reading this i though wow that is a really big coincidence that they just happened to run into the king and because of that he ends up converting to the gospel and so do thousands of his people. The more i thought about it though, and as i looked back on some of the extraordinary things that have happened to me i realized that there really aren't any coincidences in missionary work. Every cool thing that happens really is a blessing from Heavenly Father even if it is something as small as someone giving a pass along card to their friend. Let's see, other then that i don't really have much to report about the week, oh yeah there was a typhoon this weekend though and that was pretty crazy. By the time it got to where i am it turned into just a tropical storm so it wasn't super windy but it poured rain all day friday, saturday, and sunday. It was pretty fun but it made contacting really hard. Supposedly there is a bigger one coming again next week so we'll see how that goes. I'm running out of time here so i'm gonna answer your questions Mom. We find out about transfers on the saturday before transfer day so we know who is coming and who is going. Transfer day is always on thursdays and everyone that is transfering goes to a big subway station in Seoul to meet their new comp. It was so cool last transfer when we went, haha when we walked up there was just a see of white shirts and the middle of the station. I bet it really freaks the Koreans out but it was way cool to see. Everyone in the mission has P-day on thursdays except for President and Sister Burton and the APs. I don't know why but their P-day is on fridays. I cant really think of anything that i need as far as a package goes, i think i am doing good. I will let you know a little bit later if i need anything though. Well parents i need to wrap this up my time is about gone but thank you for the emails and the prayers. The work here really is going amazing and it's such a blessing to be able to watch peoples lives change as they are converted to the gospel. Haha the language is still rough but i think that i'm getting better slowly but surely. I love you and i will talk to you next week!

Love Elder Musso