To bring in the new year, we had something called the "New Friends Party" on the night of the 31st. This party was for people that had been baptized within the last year, to help them get to know the church members and missionaries better. So missionaries and church members from several cities gathered and had a great meeting with songs, speakers, performances (we did our Christmas play again...) and a dinner of burritos and sushi to finish off the night. I don't know how the quality will be, but here's a picture^^
Other fun things this week:
-For our children's English class this week, we decided to do a life-size game of chutes and ladders to help learn adjectives. So there was a giant gameboard that we made with your chutes and ladders, and then each square had an adjective that the child had to use in a sentence. We seemed to overlook the fact that kids are little balls of energy when we came up with this idea so there was adjectives and ladders and kids flying all over the place, but they had fun and we can only hope that they remember their adjectives~
-I have something that I have named the "ramen curse" that has plagued me my entire mission. So in Korea, there are dozens, maybe hundreds of types of ramen that are very delicious and very cheap. But despite that, we are always told by our mission president's wife to limit your consumption of ramen, mainly due to the fact that there is very little nutritional value. So I don't eat it often, but there are days when we don't have much other food or we don't have much time, so we will have a quick lunch of ramen and maybe some rice. But my "ramen curse" is that every single time I choose to eat ramen, somebody decides to take me and my companion out for lunch immediately after.. Every time.
-We had an appointment to go visit one of our church members and eat lunch with him this week. So we met him outside his apartment and headed inside, and both me and my companion were quite perplexed when we walked inside and there was a woman that was not his wife making food in the kitchen. This woman is also a member of our ward, which confused us even more. So both my companion and I sat there wondering if we were just not remembering correctly, but I was 99% sure that they were both married to different people(and they had different last names so I knew they couldn't be siblings). So my companion and I were both very confused and a little worried, but we just acted normal and figured that we would figure out what was going on eventually. So our church member (I don't know if he could sense the confusion in our eyes or has had to explain the situation several times before) turns to us and says "go ahead and take a seat, I want to show you a picture." He then brought out his family picture and proceeded to explain that that the other woman from our ward had married the brother of his wife, so they were sibling-in-laws and both families lived together. So, we breathed a sigh of relief and had a great lunch together~
I hope you all enjoyed your 2016 and are looking forward to a bright 2017. This is my last year as a full-time missionary, and I am so grateful for the opportunity to represent Jesus Christ in Korea, even if it doesn't last forever.
Happy New Year everyone!
-Elder Bigelow
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