Advent Calendar

Hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your December! Our church is putting a lot of effort towards helping everyone around the world remember Jesus Christ (and the example he showed) this December (found at mormon.org). And in Asia, they even created an advent calendar, that contains ideas for ways we can serve others. Each day, you scratch off the number, and the calendar talks about one way that Jesus served others, followed by a specific suggestion for how we can serve today. And as we scratched off the very first number on the first of December, the calendar told about how Jesus fed those that were hungry. And of course, the challenge was to "deliver food to the missionaries." I'll just say that there are 200 people in Suji who all saw that on December 1st and I'll leave it at that...

Also this week, my companion and I started teaching a children's English class. There are a lot of members of our ward in this area that have kids that all go to the same school, so they came and brought several of their friends to a free English class taught by us. Keeping 15 children under control is a little bit complicated when you are speaking a language that they do not understand, but we focused on learning English through lots of fun games. We played a game where each letter of the Alphabet was written on a piece of paper, then I would announce a word, then the kids would have to pick up the papers and get in a line to spell the word. They had a blast, but I noticed something quickly that one of the adult Korean men called the "Korean Disease". That is, the need to be organized and have a system. I gave them all of the alphabet cards, and they laid them out in perfect alphabetical order, and did the same when it was time to clean up. Those kids were the cutest though, it was so much fun.

This week, our investigator 이정수 (Lee Jeong Su) passed his interview and got accepted to a very prestigious high school, so he has a little bit more free time now. And he had a lot of questions about baptism, so we invited him to watch a baptism with us that happened yesterday

 in our building. He has a Buddhist religious background so a lot of it was very new to him, but after he remarked that it seemed like a very special experience. So we're excited to keep working with him, he's super cool~

That's it for this week, I had some cool pictures but it's not quite working so I'll leave it at Have a great week everyone! Go check out mormon.org!

Love, Elder Bigelow