October 23, 2008

Hey Parents! How are you? I'm doing pretty good. This last week was a bit of an adventure but it was good, and being a senior companion so young has already proven to be a huge learning experience. We haven't had any serious problems yet as far as completely not understanding people which is good and hopefully we won't have any in the future either. My new companion is a stud though. Haha he is really quiet and kind of geeky but when we hit the streets he lays it on people! Usually when i contact i just like to hang out with kids and get to know them and shoot the breeze for a while before i talk about the church, but he just goes right into it and always bears solid testimony. It has been really fun to watch. We don't have a ton of investigators right now, well we did until last week but we had to drop 6 investigators. The last few missionaries that served here did things a little bit strangely so it seems like all of the investigators that we were meeting with my last companion weren't progressing at all so we dropped all of them. Anyways back to my point about not having lots of investigators, we have been doing a lot of street contacting and stuff which is okay but it definitely gets old after a couple of hours. We went to a university in our area a couple of days ago though and met some really cool kids so hopefully that will be good. I think one of the hardest things for me to do is a missionary is to stay positive after people tell us ë°”ì˜ê³ ë“ ìš” (i'm busy for your information) or ë¼ì„¸ìš” (i can't really translate that, there isn't a word for it in english but its messed up!) on the street when we try to contact them. Praying always helps though haha and i usually like to tell my companion after something like that happens that the people are sons of our Heavenly Father and he loves them just as he loves us, i know thats really cheesey but it helps. Oh Mom you asked about the soccer game that we had and it was really fun. We got straight up smoked but it was still a good time. Some of the guys one the other team were amazing. This one guy that was playing midfield would drop like 50 yard bombs right to peoples feet every time he got the ball, it was incredible. They were all old and slow but they play every weekend together so they were good. Haha they all smoked like 4 ciggarrets at half time and they had a bunch of beer for after the game. Only in Korea would you see people getting drunk at 7 in the morning! My feet did fine too, i still can't shoot with my right foot but i can run around on it fine which was good. Haha my ward was pretty dissapointed with the new missionaries though, neither of them have ever touched a soccer ball so they put them on the bench the whole time. My ward is pretty intense i love it. Mom you also asked about my appartment and roomates. I'm still in the same appartment but the korean elder transfered too and Elder Folsom got a new comp. The new kid is way cool and we have a good time. I didn't really learn how to cook any Korean food from elder ê¹€, i watched him make my favorite soup once but i haven't tried it out yet, it will probably be a mess. Lately pretty much all we have been eating is rice and sea weed. It's gotten pretty old im not gonna lie. I have done pretty good with the food up till now but i have really been missing american food lately. Our bishop gave us a 100$ gift card to a wal-mart type of store though so we should get lots of food today. You asked about my P-days as well mom and yeah they should be on thursdays throughout my whole mission. Oh and i never did apply for the absentee ballot, i never had enough time on the computer and it probably wouldn't have gotten here in time anyway. Haha from the sound of things though Obama is doing just fine with out my vote. I can't believe the elections are already in a couple of weeks, it seems like they were just barely doing the primary votes. Mom the last question you had was about the definition of Musso and my blood type and yes i have used both of them. Our grandpa made me a korean name according to the definition of Musso and its 권성조(gwun sung jo) and he is pretty excited about it. He doesn't even call me Elder Musso anymore its always elder Gwun. I have talked to a few people about my blood type and thats always pretty funny. My blood type doesn't match my personality at all though which doesn't make sense. Haha Koreans are crazy about it they think that it totally defines who you are. Supposedly Japan is way into it as well and during world war II they even made up battle groups according to the soldiers blood types. Well thats all of your questions Mom and my time is about up so i think im going to wrap this up. All is well in the land of an hundred rice bowls and i hope everything is going good at home. Thank you for all your prayers and support, you're amazing. I love you and ill talk to you next week!

Love Elder Musso