Week 56 response

새해복 많이 받으세요! Receive many new year luck! Doesn't translate well, but that's the word for word translation. ;)

It sounds like you had a fun New Year's party! I still know nothing about either of those movies you watched! Maybe next year. :)

We didn't have any fireworks here. They may be saving them for Chinese New Year, 설날. That is supposedly a very big party. I barely missed it last year. I was a few days late... It is reportedly bigger than the American Christmas. We will see. They definitely have holiday spirit saved up from December. I look forward to it. I think it will be on the 19th of February. I don't know anything about our plans except that we clean apartments on that day because there is no one to talk to. The apartment needs it, so I am grateful. :)

The ward went to the top of a nearby mountain to say a prayer and watch the sunrise on New Year's day. I was sick and so stayed in bed the whole day, but I'm better now, so I think it was a good trade. Also everyone came back with sores and near hypothermia from the steep climb and windchill added to the negative temperatures (Fahrenheit) at the peak. No one said it was fun. Koreans really put a lot of emphasis on suffering together. I suppose there are a lot of reasons they survived the Korean War. I suppose technically still surviving... That's the message the Korean War Memorial here says. I haven't heard anything about the situation up north, but everyone still wants unification. It's just part of their subconscious and culture. I don't know, but it may be what the Germans felt about Berlin. That ended. 

Thank you for the reminder that I only have 11 months left. I have 8 transfers left. That is just not very long, and I am really focusing on not letting any moment get away from me. I will talk more about college as time goes along, but now I do not think is the time. ;) 

It's always a pleasure to hear from you, and I hope you keep doing well. I'm glad that we have something besides a Kia (all the Koreans will hate me now), and I'm glad Dallin has a car. Is it safe, though? ;) 

I hope you all made New Year's resolutions and look back at them regularly. There is really nothing of any consequence at New Year's except those goals. That was the focus of our Christmas conference... held in very early December. Make goals. Write them down. Figure out how to make them happen. Do it. I hope those goals motivate you. They sure motivate me. :)

Press forward with steadfast faith in Christ.

Best wishes,

Elder Jones