Hello everyone! This is an awesome time of year, especially to be a missionary! I love Christmas so much. This week was pretty sad in our stats... but it was an awesome week!
On Wednesday we went out to eat with a Less Actives husband and a member. They took us to eat Living octopus and raw fish! There was so many different varities of raw sea food! IT was so good! With the living octopus you put the chopped up tentacle into your mouth and it suctions to your mouth and starts moving around! It so weird! You need to fight the octopus in your mouth! Its wild! But it tasted super good! It was the best because Elder Birrell hates seafood! haha
Thursday we had our District Leader Training Meeting again! It was fun to see a bunch of my old companions. Elder Snyder, Elder Youngblood, and Elder Avila! It was a really spiritual meeting and I learned a lot! In the meeting Elder Schupp got up and shared a really good testimony about receiving revelation for us and our districts. I felt the spirit pretty strong and it was a really good testimony. He focused a lot on the fact that we need to really seek for inspiration. After we came home and studied and then we went out and proselyted for a bit and went to meet Kim dong gyoo( One of our investigators who works at a restraunt with his wife) and he was drunk with his brother but we invited him to our Christmas party and showed him the Light the World video. While we were Proselyting I was walking and I kept feeling like I should take with this one guy that was smoking by the hospital, but it would have been really awkward and I kept telling the spirit nah, no, lets no do that, etc. But finally I stopped and talked to him and ended up getting a contact and giving him a Book of Mormon. So super cool! Remember always follow the Spirit! :)
Saturday was a very busy day! We woke up and played soccer with Ryan. After we came home and studied and then went to play soccer with E Sung Hyon (one of the kids we are teaching at church, he has a baptism date for January 7th) at a Elementary school by his house. After we had to meet Yoo Jay Young (My Korean Father) for lunch and then went to English.We had a pretty good turn out at english. After English, Yoo Jay young and Mr Won stayed for 2 hours talking about church, business, and other stuff.. haha so we were able complete our studies during that time. Then we got some Fried Chicken and ate really fast before we had to meet Joe Day Hyon and his family for our family night. The family night went really fun! We played Uno and ate snacks. But during the message the kids wouldn't pay attention and were really noisy, plus he was tired and I didn't feel like it went the way I wanted it to.. :( but that's OK. He asked some good questions and I think he has some potential! I am excited to keep hopefully meeting with him! :) He was asking questions about why we don't believe in just Heaven and Hell, and why we believe in the three kingdoms. Luckily I had just memorized 1 Corinthians 15: 41 in korean. (its talks about the three kingdoms) So I shared that with him and seemed to answer his questions. He didn't seem to have a lot of interest about plan of salvation, he already knew most of it I think. So we are going to try baptism and the Book of Mormon next time!
Sunday was a super fun day! It started out kind of bad because no one came to church and it was super flippen cold! Haha but then it turned out really awesome! We went to Nampo to do caroling! We brought Brother Pac Myong Ho and he played guitar for us! We were playing down in the subway area and there was a lot of people and it was really cool! Me and Elder Haskell were Giving giving out Book of Mormons that were wrapped up in wrapping paper as presents, with a questions to the soul paper inside of it! Really cool we made a lot of people smile! And gave out 38 Book of Mormons! Also I was handing out little presents my mom gave to me to the kids! We are going to do it again on Friday! Oh and on the way to the Daesheen Church we rode on bus 70...Which was the CHRISTMAS bus! He had this thing decct out with christmas lights and everything! The man was dressed as Santa! We gave him a wrapped up Book of Mormon and said Merry Christmas! He then gave us presents, and as we got of the bus he announced on the intercome that these two young men have the Christmas Spirit about them, and god bless you! He was a really nice and happy guy! Super fun day! Felt the Christmas Spirit! I love being a missionary during Christmas!
This was a super awesome week! I want to share the message that I shared at district meeting with you guys! I wrote this talk about Christs life as a way to help us remember what he has done for us and what we can do for him in return is to follow his example!
2017 years ago the Virgin Marry was visited by an angel. The angel said to Mary, "Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women" (Luke 1:28)A couple months later, in a cold little manger in Bethlehem, our savior and redeemer of the world entered in to the world. Shepherds came to glorify on high the magnificent event that had just occurred and to worship
"Love one another even as I have loved you"(John 13:34).
"Ye are the light of the World, let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven"(mathew 5:14-16).
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Mathew 11:28).
Among the countless sermons and parables our Lord Jesus Christ gave, he still found time to do the countless acts of service and love that he he miraculously performed. From healing lepers (Mathew 8:2-3), Paralytics and sinners (Mathew 9:2-6) to the blind seeing, and the lame walking (Mathew 21: 14) the Deaf heard (Mark 9: 25) and the Dead lived again. The Lord Jesus Christ, our king on high, didn't spend his time thinking of himself or looking inwards, he spent all of his time, thoughts and energy on others. Healing the sick, forgiving sins, serving others, teaching about salvation, and so on.
However he was "despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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" (Isiah 53: 3-5)
After being betrayed by one of his own disciples, he willingly took upon himself the pains and sins of the world. Crying out to the father
"Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt".
Upon finishing the most painful thing a mortal has ever experienced he came out to find his beloved Apostles asleep not even able to wait for him. Only moments later Judas his apostle, with an army of Roman Soldiers, approaches and mockingly kisses our savior on the cheek. Bound up and beat, he is taken to be tried by an illegal court. Spitten upon and humiliated he is sentenced to death. Trial after trial, he is moved from one city to the next, everywhere he goes people mocking, spitting, and beating, until he is sentenced, by his own chosen people, to death upon the cross. Stripped and humiliated he is scourged. In agony and pain the Roman guards mockingly worship him and put a crown of thorns upon his head. Weak and exhausted but still needing to bear the weight of his cross he is forced to walk to his death. Nailed to the cross that sat on Calvary, he cried out to the father "Forgive them for the know not what they do" (Luke 23: 34)
Up until the last moments of his life he is always looking outwards. Even as he was beaten, mocked, and whipped for doing the work that was given to him by his father, only striving to serve with love and care, he was rejected and mocked. This Christmas season lets do our best to remember our Savior and try and share his light! Each one of you have the light of Christ about you. That is a gift we all received when we entered into the world. Do your best to nourish and grow the light and use it to brighten other people up!! I love you all! And I love this work! I am so blessed to be able to be a missionary for my Lord and Redeemer during the CHRISTmas holiday!
Merry CHRISTmas
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