Herro!!!

From: Scott Clawson <clawson.scott@myldsmail.net>
To: clegmaker <clegmaker@aol.com>
Sent: Sun, Nov 4, 2012 6:58 pm
Subject: Herro!!

Hello everybody!
So I've deemed it appropriate to copy my letter to President and send it home to you, there's nothing too crazy, but I think it'll be helpful in answering some questions to everybody!

Hey President,
During personal study this week, Elder Hunter has printed off a bunch of talks for me that helped him out at the beginning of his missions, so I've been reading a lot of those. They really have helped just to stay motivated and focused. I'm sure you understand better than most how tough it is for new missionaries seeing that you get more every six weeks. It really is tough to stay motivated and keep from letting tiredness get the better of you, but I know its definitely doable.
We have the same investigators as before. All 3 of our investigators seem to be progressing, one more than the other two, but progressing nonetheless. Our most progressing investigator has been actively coming to church for months and we're just making sure he has all the lessons taught to him because he is going to be baptized the day that you come visit 계산 ward! The other two are doing well but haven't come to church yet. I feel they'll get there, they just need a little more time.
Training seems to be going well. Korean is coming along and everybody has been telling me that I'm good at it for some reason or another. I was able to pass off first lesson last friday. It was tough, but I'm proud of myself for passing off. My district leader has told me that because of my skill with the language, he is going to be very tough on me with pass off. Not so much in my meticulousness with the language, but in my ability to keep things simple, and teach people not lessons. I'm super grateful to him for that and am excited to continue to pass off as time goes on. Elder Hunter is awesome and works soooooo hard. He's a great trainer and I am deeply thankful that we could serve together.
Thanks so much President!
Elder Clawson.

How is everybody?!?!  This week has been tough, and a lot of work.  I'm going to just say what comes to mind when it does so this email is probably going to seem all over the place, but hey, that's missionary work.  So, that Chakham place you talked about mom, thats whats called a 고기 부페, or meat buffet.  I don't eat enough in Korea apparently.  My companion, Elder Hunter, justs puts food away like it's nothing, while I just sit around and eat a little, and everybody's like "what's wrong, do you feel sick" no I just eat like somebody who is normal and doesn't eat copious amounts of food by some inexplicable means.  So yeah I don't eat enough still hahaha.  With regards to the cold cereal, AWESOME IDEA! I was actually going to talk about that in this letter.  Fun coincidence right?!?!
But more about my companion I guess.  He's from Alpine, Utah, but lived in Cleveland before that so he likes the Cleveland Indians.  He plays baseball and post mish will probably go play at this school in Hawaii.  Again, he eats a lot of food, is a way good guy and really doubts his skills with Korean, even though he's super good.
Mom, about Gangnam style that you emailed about last week, so yes I have heard about it, but there are some things about your story I need to correct.  So Gangnam is an area in our mission, and is a pretty affluent area.  The guy who made the video is a comedian, and he was actually making fun of Americans and American music with that video.  No one in Gangnam really dances like that for the record as well hahahaha.  The song is making fun of American songs like California Girls by Katy Perry, that song New York by JayZ, Beverly Hills by Weezer, and so on and so on.  He figured Korea didn't have anything like that so he would make a song on his own.  Turns out to be way more successful than anything else that was serious.  Go figure hahahaha.
On Saturday we had our first service project, which was pretty interesting.  We were moving like 5 tons of coal blocks from one place to people's houses in this kind of poor area of our area.  I never recognized it before, but the way that we have service projects organized back home in hillside ward is unreal!  These people were okay, but it could have gone soooooooooooo much faster if we had our leaders back home in charge of it, not to mention the youth from back home.  They decided to make this stupid long assembly line to move the coal instead of just having people carry it which I guess is kinda reasonable.  The problem was that in the harder uphil parts, they had the young women and young men.  Now one thing to know about Koreans is that they study hard, every last one of them, but not one of them has lifted a weight in their whole life.  They had to keep taking breaks so they could rest.  Also when they took breaks they just had everybody stop instead of just some people at a time, which I think would have been better just so they could have work going on all the time, and said assembly line was a little crowded in the first place.  Anyways, it was a good service project, but a touch of Hillside organization would have cut the time in half.
Saturday we also had this singing thing we got to do.  We were singing Hark all Ye Nations for this meeting thing of what nature, I'm not sure but we sang nonetheless.  Another thing about my companion, he cannot sing.  I say I can't sing, but man it is hilarious to listen to him try and sing.  I was singing tenor cause I can kinda do it alone, and pretty decent when there's people around me, and there wasn't too many singing it so I decided to do so.  My companion was singing melody and there was this one time we practiced and as soon as he started singing everybody just started laughing pretty much.  Bless his heart for trying, but it definitely was hilarious on multiple levels.
Another thing about Korea, there are a lot of cars and I don't think people change brakes very often.  I seriously want to change like half the ward members brakes but I don't think anyone has tools so I'm not sure how well that would work.  If I get a chance to I'll let you know, but also, I'm not sure if Hyundai's have weird brake systems or something, if so, let me know.  Fun fact for you guys, Hyundai, means modern day so next time you see one bear that in mind!  Also Samsung makes cars here, I'm pretty sure it's just Hyundais with different tags on them though.  They have Kia and Daewoo here too, but let's be serious who takes daewoo seriously as a car manufacturer, Heaven knows that I don't.
BOSCO!  That's a big bummer about Mitch Luker.  I'm gonna guess that he wasn't wearing a helmet though so take that as a warning for yourself!  If you ever ride a motorcycle without a helmet, I may come home from Korea just to slash said motorcycles tires.  Hope everythings going well for you bud.  I'm not sure when your having your surgery on your other shoulder, but let me know and I'll pray for you bud!  I'm a missionary, my prayers have special powers hahahaha.
MOM, you did not buy a cello, no pics no proof. I'll believe it when I see it!  Also I played guitar for the first time in Korea yesterday, I suck now hahaha.  I guess I can buy a guitar and play it while I'm here though!!! How exciting is that!  Really exciting for me in case you didn't know.+
Also, today we're playing football! American football!  Kinda excited/kinda confused on how to feel because everyone apparently takes it way too seriously here.  I mean I'm a good athlete, but there's two guys who have scholarships at BYU when they get home, and I think 2 with scholarships else where.  It might get a little too serious for my preferences, but we'll see how that goes.  On that note, Mom!  Something that would be way amazing for you to send me would be my soccer cleats.  They have cleats here but they're all way expensive so that would be sweet.  I think they're in my closet on top of the lower hanger bar thing.  Don't rush it, but they're pretty light so weight shouldn't be too much of a problem.
The work in this area is tough, but it is moving forward.  I've heard mixed reviews about my zone actually.  I've heard that everybody wants to be here but I've also heard that it's like the hardest zone in the mission, I'm kinda confused on what to think, but will work hard nonetheless.  There is nothing I've ever done that is this tiring, but that's okay.  I know the harder I work the more blessings I, and my family for that matter, will recieve.  I'm excited for my first baptism to come, but even more excited just to get to know the people of Korea.  Side note, Kimche is okay, not bad, not good, its just kinda there.  I wouldn't choose to eat it but its a cultural thing so I guess I will.  I know that as I continue to strive to help these people that I will see blessings from my work.  I love it here, but it is getting cold.  I guess I'll have to buy a coat soon hahahahaha.  I love all you guys and stay safe!

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