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Sajikkol, Seoul, Korea,
August 18, 1929•
Dear father and mother*
I was so glad to get rour letters this week,
one on Monday and two on Thursday-, The lasher should have come the
week before, but the post office sent them on to Wonsan.
about the airplane activities also came ana were
I guess the airplane trip must be very expensive,? bu
wofcth it to avoid the discomforts of the desert.
The papers
Interesting.
t.
lost
came
rour i#etter
time to save the rice was received fheh weohad had one good
rain followed by another long dry spell and everyone was again in
grave anxiety.
Thursday evening rain becan
illince and keot ur> till
afraid they were going to
nearly noon yesterday til]
too much.  I suppose the rice will be all right in this part of the
country now, but I understand that in the south it has already dried
up.  In that section this is the third dry season in succession.
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I   send my kodak pictures  to a mission school
kodak department in the  south  to be developed.     The  last I   ordered
were a month  or more  in coming,   and I had written to  see  if they had
been lost.     When they  came,   a  note accompanied  them  saying that  the
v/ater  supply  in the  town had  failed,   and  on account, of  that  they had
been unable  to do anv work.   <=^"****sy/y^Afy^yyAAa*-at*^ cr£ yyjttAty>
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Among these pictures is a set taken at Yongsan
church before the new building was finished. It is where I attended
all last winter and preached my first Korean sermon. There is a
picture of the Supyokyo young people taken on the boat trip given by
Miss Edwards\ one of a lantern seller on Buddha's birthday; and one
of the old gate at Suwon taken on our way to Chungju, when I went to
visit Bruce Hunt this spring.
The
gladly received, out I have
the exchange will become a
be some left for the 91ty 1
one who gave so liberally,
the building was going on:
a stand still during
hundred dollars for Sinsuili church was
not taken it to the bank yet, hoping that
little better.  I am sure now there will
Ission.  I hope the Lord will bless every
I wish I could tell you right now that
but Wun moksa is still away, and things are
he hot season.
->My teacher 3aid a few days agio he thought this
was the hottest year he had known in thirty years because of the
prolonged drought, without any cooling clouds or rain.  If that it so,
it is very encouraging, for I have not suffered at all, nor thought
about its being particularly hot. But I have Oeen  favoring myself by
not going out during the day; and by studying and sleeping on the
porch I get all the benefit of the shade and breezes.
one excursion out
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with  Sang Chlk,   my teacher's  son,   to the  scientific museum on South
Mountain.     But when we  got there,   we  found  one building wa3 temporaril;
closed and  the  other was  closed  ever" Monday.     But we "had a  good walk
along the mountain road,   stopping at a   spring famed  for its  good,   ice-
cold water;   and  then we went down to thd Japanese  shopping street  for
a   si$it  see.     There we  found  one attractive  ice  cream  store,   and I
suggested  going in.     We    ;ot a dish  of
exa1
of others,
Degullei  in
rig a  dlsi
of  "ice-water
as