August 14, 2008

Hey Parents! How are you? I am doing good. This week has been really good. Can you believe i am already 1/4 of the way done? I was trippin out pretty bad about it yesterday i'm not gonna lie. Haha it seems like everyday i am here i don't want my mission to end even more. When i first got here i was looking forward to time going by fast and getting home and starting my real life but now i just want to be a missionary forever. It definitely stressful at times and it's always a lot of work but it's so much fun and i really have never been happier. I used to laugh at Elder Andersen when he told me he will probably cry on the airplane home but now i'm starting to realize what he meant. Anyways enough of that, haha 18 months is still a long time. On tuesday we had zone conference and it was so good. President and Sister Burton focused on the Savior the whole time and it was really powerful. It was all the way out in ì¸ì²œ though and it took us 3 hours to get there and back but it was still amazing. Our baptism is still on for this weekend and it has been a battle getting everything ready but it always is. Haha the week before a baptism everything that could possibly go wrong always does. One of our investigators is really solid and he is pretty confident about everything but the other one is a little nervous. He has a testimony and he did realy good in his baptisimal interview but he is just scared of enduring to the end i think. It should be good for him though because he is really taking the coventants seriously. All of our other investigators are good. We gave another one a baptisimal commitment for the 30th so we are excited about that too. Haha once again this guys only concern with getting baptized was the day of the week that it was on because he had to make sure he wasn't working. We really have been soo blessed to find such amazing investigators lately. Other than that i don't have much to report about the week. Haha oh yeah i reached a big milestone in learning Korean this week though. I had a conversation on the phone for like 10 minutes in Korean and understood almost everything the person was saying and i set up an appoinment to meet him. Haha this may not seem like much but Koreans are insane on the phone and it's so hard to understand them. The language is still coming along, slowly but surely. Learning Korean has given new meaning to the term line upon line precept on precept. Korea is amazing though i love it, haha i think i am going to start praying that Stacie will get called here. That would be tight. Oh wow i almost forgot, Whitney is having a boy?? I'm so stoked, i'm not gonna lie i wanted it to be a boy all along, he will be such a stud. It's a bummer that i won't be there to see him born but it's cool i guess. What are you going to call the baby if you name it Hudson though? Haha Huddy? I think you should name him Seong Jae or Jung Sup after some of my homies here in 한국!Whit are you starting to get big yet? You need to make sure to send me some pics of your belly that will be funny. Anyways i don't have much else to report besides that so i think i will answer your questions mamma. Yes Koreans say their last names first. and yes i am Musso Elder. All korean names have 3 syllables and the first one is their family name. There are only like 5 or 10 that are really common and there are only a couple hundred last names in all of korea. The most common ones are ê¹€ (kim) ë°• (park) ì´ (Lee) and ì • (jung). Then the last two syllables are their first names but we never really say just their first names. I guess that Koreans only say first names when they are talking to their friends or family but we almost always say both names. I already told you about ë°• but yes its very common haha and every korean is obsessed with Park Tae Hwan. They were pretty bummed that Michael Phelps beat him though. The Olympics have been really fun though, everyone here is extactic about them, haha and yes Dad we try to use the olympics when we contact. I think i am going to try your approach about the people being family with Michael Phepls though, haha i liked that one alot. Our next transfer is on September 4th so today we are half way through this transfer. The next 3 weeks should go by way fast though because we have Elder Bednar and interviews with President Burton still. I already covered the baptisms but i will fill you in on all the details next week. Well i am about out of time so i am going to wrap this up but i miss you and love you! Good luck with school Mom (haha i could start calling you grandma, how does that sound??), i am sure your going to do awesome. THank you for your prayers everyone and i'll talk to you next week.

Love Elder Musso