Hooray for week ten!!!!  This letter arrived today and I copied the header of this email in with the text because we can easily tell how excited Scott is by that subject line!  Ready to gooooooo....  Can't wait to talk to him next week, and yes I would be ever so slightly tempted to fly to San Francisco just to catch a glimpse.  Well, maybe a little more than a glimpse.  Love that boy so much and I miss his smiling face.  So incredibly grateful for the choices he has made in his life, for his willingness to serve the Lord and to share a portion of his life with the Korean people.  They have no idea what is coming their way.  =)


From: Scott Clawson <clawson.scott@myldsmail.net>
To: clegmaker <clegmaker@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Oct 16, 2012 7:57 am
Subject: Week 10, LAST EMAIL FROM THE MTC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

인녕하새요 !!!!!  Google translate - "Hello" 
Last week in the MTC! I have less than seven days before I get on a plane and head to San Francisco and then Korea! That being said there's a whole lot of bitter-sweetness going on here what with missing all the other missionaries that will be going to other missions as well as the younger transfers. Regardless I'm way excited to head to Korea, plus I'm one of the 7 of 37 missionaries that are flying to Korea that gets to go on Korean Air!!!!!! Basically Korean Air is the equivalent of PanAm, but with Korean people! It's so crazy, they have like a college program for people who want to become stewardesses which is nuts! You have to be fluent in at least Korean and English, you have to be Korean of course, and if you're not pretty enough or fit their exact definition of attractive, they'll tell you to either go get plastic surgery to "fix" something, or just kick you out of the program. It's way cool and nice from what I understand though. Soooooooo excited about that.
Also, since we are getting our lay over in San Francisco as opposed to LAX, that means I won't be able to see anyone, though I'm not entirely sure how likely that is in the first place. With regard to the phone thing however, I have no preference whether its a prepaid phone or a verizon phone, which ever one is more easy for you guys! I'm way looking forward to talking to everyone, so make sure that everyone is in the same place so I can talk to more than just a few of the family! I'll be in San Francisco from I think about 10 am to 1 in the afternoon, so plan accordingly! I'm only supposed to talk to family from what I gather which is kind of a bummer but I know it'll just be that much better if when I get home I can talk to people for the first time in two years.
Also, I won't be sending an email for the next two weeks from what I understand. Tuesday more or less doesn't really exist for me so I most likely won't be able to email next week because I'm pretty sure the P-day in Korea is on tuesdays as well. Also big side-note, DearElder services only work whilst in the MTC, so in the future just email me and I'll try to get back to you. Speaking of getting back to people, Nolan and Sasha, I did get your letters, and they were awesome. As the case may be I got them like 8 weeks ago but I kept on forgetting to say anything about it in my emails. I wrote back but I may have put the wrong addresses so if you never got a response I apologize for my suck at putting addresses on letters, however they didn't get returned to me, so if you didn't get it, I recommend going on scouring the globe in search of my letters.
On the note of letters, family, I'm aware I'm terrible at writing letters, it's a fact, it's basically like at school how I'd just would never call people because I forget things like that which tend to be kinda important, however today I have a firm resolve to write home! It will happen! Also we're only supposed to write on P-days so that kind of inhibits me in the letter writing game as well.
Bosco, I'm putting you on blast real quick. You better go to Lindsay's wedding reception! I want a picture of you and "me" so that at least part of our awesome yoohoo, seeds, bugles companionship can be there. While I may only be in two dimensions, I'll still be able to smile in a picture from what I gather. Let's be real here, I would probably be more fun as a cardboard cut out than as an actual person. Okay, blast moment over, thank you for your time.
Also there's this one Elder here in the MTC right now that's also learning Korean, looks sooooooo much like Kevin Davis, and acts like him pretty well too. So weird to be around him, half the time I catch myself calling him Kevin. It's sooooooo weird hahaha.
Oh yeah! Last tuesday, we had our weekly devotional as usual. You know how you'd think that after General Conference there wouldn't be a GA at the MTC for a while? Wrong. Elder Bednar came and talked and it was so cool! Usually he comes and kinda rips into the missionaries for a little while, they have a bunch of talks they play on Sunday nights of him doing that. This time he didn't though, he taught us his way of how he likes to try and pick apart and recieve revelation from the talks that he hears at conference, or really anywhere. Basically it goes in 3 steps.
1. Doctrine
2. Invitation to act upon doctrine
3. Promise blessings that come as a result of the doctrine.
It's really cool because you know he was also talking about that just so we could do better in our lessons with investigators. Pretty much, that's exactly what we're supposed to do when we're teaching, and it's so amazing how so much and so little can change from the time that someone is taking the lessons to the time that they are long time members and have been going to chuch for years.
I'm pretty low on time, so I think that I'll try and spit out some Korean really fast, also my spelling is terrible, so I apologize for weird translations.
저는 한국에 가는 것을 기데합니다! 저는 한국 사람을 사랑합니다 그리고 그들에 방사하고싶습니다.
저는 열오분을 사랑합니다
클아슨 장로님

Google had a hard time with this one and so did we...  Basically we got "I love the Korean people.  I'm glad that I'm going to Korea."  Something in there was "radiating", we weren't really sure what, so we took a little literary license and just left that out... 

At least to start off with, I am glad that when he is up and about, I am pretty much sleeping and while I am up and about, he will mostly be sleeping. I like that. Some kind of peace. There is a dateline between here and there. He will leave Provo on Monday October 22 and arrive in Seoul on Wednesday October 24.
Also, my phone can follow the weather for a handful of cities and I have added Seoul to that list - of course I am interested in the weather there.  When we were shopping before he left, his list of suggested items to buy included an umbrella.  He absolutely did not want one, but eventually conceded that maybe he might use it.  I really have to wonder if he ever will...  However, today it is raining in Seoul and the high is 57 degrees.