I hope you all had a great Christmas and found some great opportunities to serve others! I had a great 2nd Christmas in Korea, being a missionary on Christmas is the best. Since Christmas was on a Sunday, we had a combined church meeting with the ward that shares the building with us, making a congregation of about 300 people. I was able to participate in the choir, and I loved celebrating the reason for the season with all of the church members. Then after that, my companion and I went with some other missionaries and visited church members and sang Christmas songs with them for the afternoon. The only problem was, every house we visited insisted on giving us food before we left, so our bags got heavier and our arms got more full as we continued from house to house. Then at night, we were invited to a church member's house for dinner. And it turned out that they invited both of the American families in our ward, so we had an almost American Christmas party to finish off the night. I've enjoyed lots of love from the Suji ward members, we even got some new socks to replace ours that inevitably get holes in them.
Other things this week:
We also had a combined Christmas party on the night of Christmas Eve, complete with a play done by the missionaries- We wrote a play about missionaries that went to find the baby Jesus on the first Christmas. It's in Korean, but I tried to include a link so you can view it if you would like~
We were also able to start meeting somebody new this week, his name is 최석원 (Choi-seok-won). He actually used to be a pastor in a Christian congregation. But he felt like churches were all about money and gaining influence, and the churches weren't able to help him with the problems he was having in his life. So he came to us with a desire to both learn English and to have some of his spiritual questions answered, he's a super nice guy.
I hope you all have a great week, and I'll check back in next year!
Love,
Elder Bigelow
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