Week 71: Have a Bite of Fruitcake

This week has been quite the blast. But before we begin let's give a shout out to Sister 서 for her translation of this week's Discover poem. She thought it was weird but she did it anyway. What a trooper 

So yeah, this week started with me singing "Fruitcake" after losing in the Family Home Evening game, and it's just been increasingly Christmas-y since. Like we headed out near the Olympic stadium to give Elder Alban a taste of winter (he is so not ready) and met a really cool doctor we gave the Book of Mormon a few weeks ago and he's been reading it during his breaks at work. Isn't that cool?

The stadium

It's so pretty

 

District meeting was all about Christmas and Light the World. I love Lighting the World. We have little scratch-off calendars and I send a video to our lovely recent convert every morning. (I say lovely because he tends to read these emails)

 

Speaking of Light the World, on day one the other elders made a bunch of apple pie cake things and we took them downtown to give out to people. It was so much fun and we showed a bunch of people the New York vending machine thing which they all just died over. We even gave some pie to the street vendor by us. We'll try to get some pictures of that. We didn't get pictures of the kids who came by carrying a fridge past us mid activity. So you'll have to imagine three high school students trying to lug a big ol' 냉장고 and then some foreign missionaries running to help them cross the street and get the behemoth into a little restaurant. It was so fun. 

And yeah, we also accidentally walked into a bar which we thought was a quaint cafe on the Water day, and we got free tea. That was interesting. Almost forgot about that one. Ummmmmmmmmmmm yeah. Pics to come. Hope you light the world good!

Best Wishes,

Elder Newton