Week 71 Happy NEW year!!!!

February 18, 2018

This week was awesome! It was Lunar New Years which is a huge deal in Korea!!!! like really really really really really really huge! Everyone goes to their hometown and visits their parents! Which made missionary work nearly impossible! We couldn't meet with investigators and there were literally no one on the streets! The street by our house usually has thousands of people and we counted 6 people... it was pretty crazy! But none the less we were still able to get 2 new investigators and have some fun experiences! 

1. Monday was not Pday... but we had to deep clean our house and still email. And we spent a lot of time outside proselyting! 

2. I'm sure I have told you but there is a professional basketball player who is meeting with our zone leaders and he also gives private lessons to people. So me and my comp challenged him to a 2 v 1 and winner gets free pizza. Well Elder Tippetts thought he had a hernia so didn't play so we did a 3 v 1 with his students. He won. 14-12. I was super super super mad. But he agreed that the two little 15 year old Koreans were not the same as my 6'2 collegiate athlete companion. So we have a rematch scheduled for tomorrow. 

3. We had to go to the hospital Wednesday to get Elder Tippetts checked out. Turns out it wasn't a hernia at all, just a mental issue. 

haha his dad and brother had hernias so he psyched himself out and thought a pulled groin was a hernia! haha 

4. We had pday Thursday and went to the Korean Folk village again! I love that place and it is so cool!!! Then that night we had dinner with my favorite member in Gangnam! 

5. We did a lot of planning and preparing! because...

6. Saturday we threw a New Years party for our ward! We had games and a musical performance and it was a really good time! We had water pong, eating a bread with no hands off a string, dizzy golf, a chopstick competition, ping pong juggling and a badminton game! We also played a traditional Korean game that is similar to sorry! 

7. Yesterday was a good Sunday and we had a fun time at church and a good meal with a Very nice member! We all got to share a message and it was super good! We shared a message on the atonement!

4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

I truley know that Christ suffered for us! I know that we all make mistakes in this life and that we all fall short. But through HIS stripes we are healed. What are his striped? The blood coming from every pore in the garden of Gethsemane where he suffered for all our sins, pains, sorrows. The beating he took from the Pharisees. The whip on his back. The crown of thorns on his head. The nails in his hands. The nails in his wrists. The spear in his side. Christ suffered so much for us. So that we can be healed and happy.

Elder Goon