Dear father and mother:
baji^
Jum
co.id, beour,
23, 1929.
Aq
I write the
te it reminds me that your
wedding anniversary is not far off.  I wonder what you will do this
year.  Maybe you will take another one of those new drives which
you have been so successful in finding lately.  I hope you will
have a good tine.  I got a letter from Bro. Brannan this, morning
in which he said that he would not start the language class at
Wonsan until July 8, because he had.been delayed in moving. He
has been sent to Wonsan for a year during the furlough of the three
missionaries who have been there. He and Bro. Swinney are the only
ones who will be there this coming year.  We had planned to leave
here this coming Saturday, but now I don't know whether we
so soon.
Ivorrises Liavz
to
Tuesday -
rill
r  *we'
I mean
sacher and me
He says the f*ains may start soon, and we should
get off before then. We have not had any rain yet, and-the situation
is very serious.  Another week of drought will mean that no rice can
be raised this ^ear.  The paners this week stated that two hundred
thousand people in China had died from starvation, so P'-yung vong
pie me.
TVi
hot
condition of these people
to imagine v.-hat, it mav be
.s pitiful enouph in cood
th
crops fail.
Iv best  friend at vung Pyung,
i*ner
[ent  on
J my  first  country  trin,  Kim "^unp! Wha n,   wa s  eighteen yea.rs  old  last
\Tuesdav*   and  I   sent him a  cloth-bound  cobv  of Pilgrim's Progress in
/Korean,   and wrote him a   letter,     ^wo davs  later I   P*ot a. replv in
Iwhich he  thanked ^e as  onl^ a Korean can.    He  is a  ver^r  earnest
'Christian,   and  voung as he
is one ot
ieiders in the church
wile, and
t o f;e th e r n
Tuesday was also
Thursday was his birthday; an
rith Wun moksa and his wife to
-Y.M.C.A.  I'll tell you'what we had and
We had a room to
five courses, semi-foreign style. Firs
, eggs in it. On the side was a plate wl
I jam. Then they brought in plates with
salad, beets, cucumbers; this was folio
potatoes, and gravy; then came fried c
I think one other vegetable; finally we
Everything was in very ample quantities
tat the present exchange would be 45d in
the birthday of mj teacher's
d so I invited both of them
eat dinner with me at the
then tell you the price.
ourselves, and,served us in
t was a soup with meat and
th roll, butter and .strawberry
excellent fried fish, potato
wed by beef loaf, boiled
hicken, asparagas, slaw, and
finished off with ice cream.
I paid a yen a plate, which
American money.
as we can afford sucl
things,
But as easili
we cannot keep up with the Koreans/ While I was waiting for a
to confer with Wun moksa about the arrangements for She dinner in
Han moksa's honor, he invited Mr. and Mrs. Norris and me to dinner at
his house.  It was at one o'clock last Wednesday; and when we arrived,
besides the four in Wun moksa's family, we found Miss Edwards, Mrs.
Maynor,^Margaret Billingsley there. He had had the dinner sent over
from the Y.M.C.A., and it was about the same a3 we had there the next
day, with the addition of apples and bananas. Wun moksa Is as kind
hearted as the day is long and 3eems to have an inexhaustible energy;
it is a privilege to be associated with him.
cret to
We had to leave Wun mok3a s early
the Foreign Church, where the examinations for our third term home