Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone! Wow it's crazy to think a year has already passed by. It feels like just yesterday I was celebrating Christmas in Hofu. Time flies when you're having fun! It's always a special experience to be serving the Lord during this time. Although most people don't celebrate Christmas here, everyone knows it and likes it. I think that's because of the light of Christ and His influence.

This week was chill! Did a lot of prep for Christmas party and stuff! We made Christmas cards for the members to introduce all the missionaries! We also made all the members cookies and cake. The Christmas party was way good! We had a ton of less actives and potential investigators! Also some nonmembers also brought their friends! Pretty big success I think! We had a cake making contest for the party and my team got second haha.

It's been good just getting to know a lot of the members! They are so nice and feed us a lot! We're teaching two recent converts after baptism lessons and it's so cool to see the faith of new members. We got to do a lot more work though to get all the ones that went less active back to church!! We also had a baptism this week that Elder Arpellida did. It was this 8 year old boy, but his parents are kinda less active so the missionaries taught him! Way awesome, way good kid.

I got to Skype my family today and that was way fun! Miss you all!

Love
Elder Lim

-Skype with fam
-firefighters cause Elder Arpellida set off the church fire alarm...
- Christmas party, our cake
-Elder Curtis as santa
-random people that an eikaiwa student brought to the party
-our Christmas card picture
-got to see some young men from Itoman ward, miss those guys
-meal with members
-忘年会
-another meal with a member












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