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May 29, 2008

Hey Parents! How are you? I am doing pretty good. Sorry about the email last week, i don't know why it didn't work. Wow this week has been another crazy week. This one was even busier than last week! It has been good though. We had zone conference and interviews with President Burton and they were both really good. For zone conference we went on a hike up in the mountains and it was soo amazing. We got to the top and you could see out over Seoul it was way pretty. My interview with President Burton was good except he seems to think that i am an amazing missionary because Elder Andersen and the zone leaders like to talk me up and make me sound pretty sweet. Haha i try to tell him that he will be disappointed when Elder Andersen isn't my companion and i can't do anything but he doesn't listen to me. Lets see other than that, we it was just the same old stuff this week. We taught 33 lessons and did a bunch of street contacting too. Street contacting isn't my favorite thing in the world but i guess that its better than knocking on doors all day. We have only knocked doors once the whole time that i have been here, i guess we aren't going to be doing it much at all because no one lets you in. Lets see, our investigators are all doing pretty good. Ryan is still amazing, he had his baptisimal interview last night and passed so he is ready to go. We were originally planning to baptize him on the 7th but we might have to do it on the 8th because he needs to come to church one more time before he can get baptized and this sunday he can't come because he has to take his mom to a hospital in Seoul because she is super sick and her doctors think she might have cancer. So we will probably just have the ì¹¨ë¡€ì‹ after church on the 8th. We went and talked with the little girls dad on sunday and he said he wants them to get baptized so we set their baptisimal date for the 7th. We were pretty excited but we are still a little bit nervous because we don't know how their mom feels about it. The dad seems all for it, and he said that he wants to get baptized in july when he will have sundays off of work but i guess we'll have to just wait and see what happens. Other than that nothing too exciting is happening, we are teaching just a bunch of other random people. Haha we had a pretty cool experience this week, well actually we have pretty cool experiences every day so i guess this one was a really cool experience. On Saturday night we had an appointment with this new college kid at 8pm and waited for him for a while and he never showed up. We had a goal to get one new investigator and we were planning on him becoming one. So when he punked us we only had like 30 minutes before we had to be home and i asked elder andersen as we were walking out of the church how we were going to get our new investigator. He said he didn't know and then i told him ì‹ ì•™ìœ¼ë¡œ which means with faith. Haha i was really kind of just joking around but right when we walked out of the church and we started to go down the stairs there was a kid walking up the stairs. We said hi to him and told him how handsome he was (haha thats our usual approach to people, they love to be called hansome) and we started talking to him about our english/ book of mormon program (i don't think i've ever told you about this before but when we meet most people we teach them english for 30 minutes and then we teach them about the church for 30 minutes). It turned out that he was really interested so we took him into the church and introduced the program and taught him a lesson about the book of mormon. We got a return appointment with him for a couple of days later and so he was a new investigator. Little things like this really have been happening all the time. It's so amazing how the Lord provides ways for us to meet our goals if we just exercise a little bit of faith. I really am so blessed to be in ì‹ ê°ˆ right now, this place is amazing. Missionary work is definitely work, haha i really don't think i have ever been this tired in my entire life, but it's so worth it everytime we meet with our investigators and see the progression they are making. The language is still rough of course but i seem to finally be making a little bit of practice with speaking at least. I still can't understand anything but i did my final pass off with the AP's today and that went really well. Haha i am now a certified teacher of the lessons in korean. Well parents my time is up so i need to run but i love you, and i'll talk to you again next week!
Love Elder Musso
P.S. The pictures are from the day we played soccer and the other one is of me getting attacked by a dog. Haha actually that dog is our homie, it lives right by our church, we live in the ghetto huh?

May 15, 2008

Hey Parents How are you? I am doing good. I can't believe that its already another p-day, the days are starting to go by really fast. So as you know my zone is playing soccer today and i am so pumped! Haha i really have been feining (i don't know how to spell that) for it. My companion has an italy jersey to so we are both gonna wear them, it should be pretty legit! Umm lets see the last couple of days have been pretty interesting. On monday we went on a hike with our ward after we got off the phone and it was so amazing. Those pictures that i sent are from that. Korea really is so beatiful once you get out of the city. Koreans are pretty hard core about hiking, haha all of the ward members showed up in their full hiking outfits and stuff it was funny. Anyways... Lets see nothing else really cool happened on monday. On tuesday we had district meeting and it was really good. My district is so tight i love it. After district meeting i passed off the second lesson to the district leader (i don't know if i told you about the pass off program or not but we have to pass off vocabulary and scriptures and the lessons to the district leader) and after that we had some teaching appointments. We went to the 2 girl's house that were supposed to get baptized on sunday and we taught them the commandments. It was wierd because the dad is always there with us when we teach but this time it was just us, our ward mission leader, and the 2 girls because the dad was at work. After the lesson the girls mom came into the living room and told us that she searched about the church and google and found a bunch of dirt on the church about polygamy and stuff. She freaked out for a little bit and our ward mission leader talked to her but she said that her girls weren't getting baptized this week and she would think about it, and maybe they could get baptized in a few weeks. I was pretty frustrated at this point im not gonna lie. It seems like everytime something is going good, satan comes in and ruins everything! It was really wierd because we talked to the girl's dad about it on sunday night and he said that he wanted his girls to get baptized, and he would help them go to church every week and stuff but then his wife just tripped out. We'll just have to wait and see what happens i guess. Yesterday though we met one of our investigators named Ryan (haha we give all our investigators american names because we can't ever remember their Korean names) and it was amazing. We were talking to him about prayer and about the questions of the soul that the Book of Mormon answers, and he said that everytime he read and prayed about the questions he got answers. So we asked him if he thinks the Book of Mormon was true and he said that he knows it is for sure. It was so cool! All of our investigators are reading the BOM and some of them think it is true but none of them have ever been so solid. Ryan's amazing i love him. He has had a hard time with coming to church because he studies English all day everyday (it's a long story but he wants to get a job and he applied and they told him that he has to speak english better so all he does is study) but we got him to commit to coming to at least sacrament meeting every week. We'll see how it goes, but if he keeps getting answers to his prayers he should be getting baptized within the next few weeks. Hmm thats about all that has happened in the last few days since i talked to you, but i attached some pictures for you. Dad how cool is the harley crew?? Haha sorry the picture is a little shady because i took it from a long way away but it's still awesome. They know how to keep it real in 한국 just like we do in america! I hear guys on harleys all the time because our apartment building is right next to a busy street it makes me happy. The picture of us at the temple is from saturday. I forgot to tell you on the phone but it was our wards monthly temple day so we went with them. It was way cool but we had to wake up at 4 in the morning to get to the 6:00 session. The temple is tiny but it's so cool how it is right in the middle of the city. Its super loud and crazy while you walk up to the temple but right when you get in it's quiet and peaceful like always. Anyways my time is about up so i need to go but i miss you and i hope everything is good back home. Pray for me, haha i could really use it Korean is insane! I'll talk to you again next week! I love you

Love ë¬´ì˜ ìž¥ë¡œ

A message from another sister in the mission! May 8, 2008

We have the best mission in the whole world and love all that serve in it. Look at these two---who wouldn't want to serve with them! As a senior missionary couple, one of the most rewarding parts of our assignment is to inspect apartments to make sure they are clean, safe, and healthy, and that the spirit is dwelling there. Actually, we think the missionaries do more for us than we do for them! Elder Musso is Elder Anderson's new companion and was only in country one week when we went to visit. They will be outstanding together.