Elder Scott Snell:

March 1, 2009
Hey 가족,
That is family in case you were wondering. Look at that I have been in Korea for almost a year and I have got it down eh? ha ha don't worry my Korean is better then that. It is a beautiful day. After a week of a lot of rain and knocking on apartment door after apartment door, the sun came out and we have a couple of numbers. We will See how they go. Today Elder Rowley and I jumped on our matching bikes (except his is red). Anyway we have a couple of beaches that are quite the bike ride away so that is our goal today. We already made it this far in good time we decided to stop and drop you a line. Two blocks is a lot farther then you think;-) I will send you some pictures of our adventures. My investigator with a baptismal date is doing good, he is really solid. I am amazed some days. We are just working on getting a date where we can get some people there. It shouldn't be too long. I got the news yesterday that my Branch President will be going out of town and so will the first counselor in two weeks. So of course the burden of conducting the meeting and presiding over the meeting will fall upon the 2nd Counselor, right? Guess who the 2nd counselor is....ha yours truly. Talk about weird, I am only 20 yrs old. Well actually 22 in Korea. I love you all and miss you tons. Give Murphy a pat on the head for me. 사랑해!!! Elder Snell

March 9, 2009
This week was a good week. We are starting a break through down here in my little area. It has taken me the whole time I have been here but I think it can work. We had a really good lesson yesterday about member missionary work. I really hope it gets them fired up. We are starting teach the lessons to a part member less active family. I would be happy for the rest of my mission if I could get them to come back to church. Its been about 5 years. On top of all of the missionary work we of course still find time to have a little bit of fun, cause everyone knows you are doing something wrong if you are not having fun. We started by our Bike trip last week. We had a goal to see 4 beaches before we came home. Well that is the last time we use a sight seeing map as a real map. We accomplished our goal and we also had to throw the bikes under a bus to make it home, maybe I will start working out. We also had to clean up the church land and do a little spring cleaning. After we were finished we had all of the these weeds that we had to get rid of, so we thought it was a good excuse to make a fire pit. I know I never even finished the one I started at home but we did finish this one and we are probably the only missionaries in Korea that have a fire pit right outside their front door. It was really nice to have a marshmallow that wasn't cooked over the stove. Today's adventure, I went back up the mountain. I am in a little bit better shape then I was the last time I did it and it was a lot better this time, if you don't count the snow. If you look at the mountain from down here it doesn't look like much snow. It was a beautiful day and it still is. We didn't see snow until near the top. One elder finally bought some shoe spikes cause he was sick of slipping around. He is from California and didn't wear very good shoes. It was clear this time and it was beautiful, you could see the whole island. On the descend we decided to take another path not really knowing where we would end up. It ended up being the expert trail and practically straight down and snow like crazy. I got sick of falling on my butt so I broke a plastic bag out of my back pack and just sat down. I am now soaked but it was a lot of fun. The trail was really beautiful and was really nice after we got past the snow. It was a lot of fun. I love missionary work more and more every day. I love you all and miss you tons. Elder Snell

March 16, 2009
This week was a really good week. We spent a lot more time concentrating on members and not as much getting out and talking to people this week. We have a less active that we were able to get a lunch appointment with her and give her mom who has dementia type thing a blessing. My Korean blessings are still a little rough but she was really happy when we finished and the less active really appreciated it. We have been meeting with these two ladies in the ward whose husbands are not members so there is not too much support there. We had some real good lessons with them and it was really good to see them come out to church. We are meeting with another less active family that hasn't been to church in years. We found out through some records that we have that it was the youngest daughter's birthday. You know how I am with birthdays and I like to make people happy, so we went out and bought her some sweet socks like the ones I sent home minus the farting dudes on them and just some really girly stuff. Which by the way is really hard to do with two 20 year old males who don't have any sisters. Then we dropped in on them to surprise them. They were really surprised and the Mom was really confused why we were there. Well we told her it was for 유리's birthday and the color drained from her face. She had forgotten. She felt really bad and was really glad that we had known, otherwise this little girl wouldn't have had a birthday. We made her night and we stayed and played games and had a lot of fun with them. It was a huge relationship builder. And last but not least, yesterday at church I was the Presiding authority. Talk about pretty big stuff eh? I was really pretty nervous cause all of the other priesthood brethren were out of town at a meeting. So I had to lead, and Teach and give a talk and yeah it was great. It actually went really well. I took the sacrament first and felt all important. Then when we finished that and the Branch president's sons this morning just decided to ride their bikes to church with out telling mom. She was having some problems controlling her kids without Daddy's help. So I told her that we would ride our bikes with her kids back to the house and make sure they got home safe. Well, we did that and I don't know how those kids were planning on getting home cause they ended up walking their bikes up a lot of the hills. Anyway, we got them home and then we had to get them ready and out the door so they could help their mom on the farm. She had a lot of stuff to do and no husband to help. It being the Sabbath and all, we hadn't planned on helping but..... I was feeling an ox in the mire Sunday. We ditched the ties and rolled up our sleeves and got to work. I think I will have to dry clean my suit now but it was worth it to see how thankful she was. I had a great week and I really don't want to leave this island, but I have a feeling that my time here is running out. I love you all and miss you tons. I love you, remember the church is true. Elder Snell