July 31, 2008

Hey Parents How are you? Im doing pretty good. This week has been the same old stuff, lot's of contacting, lot's of studying, and some teaching. Our investigators are doing pretty good. Our two with baptizimal commitments are okay. One of them is kind of being difficult and we may have to move his date back a week or two. He is so stubborn sometimes it's frustrating. He says that he knows that the book of momron is true but he says that he doesn't believe in Joesph Smith yet, we keep telling him that it is impossible for the book of mormon to be true with out Joseph Smith being a prophet because he translated it but i don't know he is a pretty trippy guy. He has been praying about it everyday for the last couple of days so hopefully he will get an answer soon. Our other kid that is getting baptized is still amazing. He didn't smoke for 3 days straight but then yesterday he smoked 1 ciggarete which was kind of a bummer but he promised he wouldn't smoke before we meet him again tomorrow. This week we had a combined district meeting with our zone and it was pretty fun. There are now two missionaries in my zone that are younger than me which is pretty crazy, it still seems like i'm a greeny. At the meeting we found out that Elder Bednar is coming in August to speak to us and the Seoul mission and i'm really excited about that it should be really cool. Haha i'm a little nervous though, Elder Bednar is pretty intense he will probably beast us. Um lets see i don't think much else really happened other than that.. Haha i think every week i have less and less to say because it really is just the same stuff, i have been taking progressively less pictures too because i have seen everything in ì‹ ê°ˆ so i there is nothing that is worth capturing anymore. It sounds like things are going pretty good at home. Mom i am excited to see how school goes for you i bet that will be fun. If Stacie goes on a mission will she wait until January to go? That will be crazy for you to have two kids on a mission at the same time, maybe she will get called to 한국! That would be tight. How is work going Dad? Is it super slow or are you doing okay? I don't understand why the economy is so bad all of a sudden, it definitely wasn't great when i left but now it's horrible. Haha i'm sure Barack will fix it when he takes office though eh Dad?? K so i don't really have much else to tell you so i will answer you questions now Mom. Nick wrote me a way good email last week and it was super good to hear from him, i know you will probably read this brosif so thank you that ment a lot to me. I am still with Elder Dryden and it's going pretty good i guess. We get along just fine and we haven't fought at all but it's just a lot different from what it was like with Elder Andersen. Elder Andersen was super intense and energetic and he made me do stuff so i always felt like i was progressing, but Elder Dryden is way chill and quiet and he doens't make me step out of my shell ever so i have had to motivate myself to progress. We are working hard though so i guess that's all that realy matters. I already talked about our investigators so won't go into that anymore but i can't exactly figure out the schooling system in Korea. Supposedly the kids are on summer vacation right now but they all still go to academies to study everyday. The academies are ridiculous, during the school year the kids go to school from 8-3 and then from 3 till like 10 they go to the academies and study more. So the kids all say it's summer break but they still study just ast much during the school year. I think their colleges are similar to ours as far as semesters go but the college students are the same way as the highschoolers, they all still go to college and study for like 8 hours a day even during the summer. Haha i always try to tell our investigators that they need to chill out and have some fun during the summer but they don't listen to me. I don't know how they do it i would go crazy studying as much as they do. Well that is about all i have to report for now so i think i will wrap this up. I love you though and thank you for the emails in prayers. Your amazing and i'll talk to you next week.

Love Elder Musso