Adventures in Life: Christmas 2012

Merry Christmas from South Korea! This will be our last Christmas in Korea and for me it was a rough day. No, I didn't forget the reason for the season, the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, it was just too quiet for me. For the past few years we have had a house full of people on Christmas day and we didn't today. I already told Jim that we will have to host Christmas at our house next year! Of course we need to have a house first but I am sure that we will by then. We spend the day playing games and watching movies, even took a nap. I didn't even cook a big Christmas dinner as we just snacked all day long. I think after a few days of fruits, veggies, candy and cookies it is time to change the diet!

I forgot to mention that on Christmas Eve after chapel my mom and I helped with an outreach that our chapel does every year. The chapel wraps up cookies and passes them out to the girls that work in the clubs outside of our gate. It is a great opportunity to spread the love of Christ with others and too see their faces light up when they receive something without asking. A lot of the girls that work in the clubs don't know what they have signed up for as they sign contracts thinking that they are going to be modeling or some other kind of job when in reality it is to sell drinks to soldiers. Sometimes they are lucky to get out of that job but most of the time that doesn't happen. There have been times when soldiers fall in love with these girls and in order to marry them have to pay off their contract! Please pray for these young ladies!

Here are some pictures from our day today.

This is Christmas Eve after services. Zane got to pick one gift to open.

What is this?

A remote control truck! He ran it all over the house last night. He will have to wait until the snow melts to run it outside. Thank you Aunt Chris, Uncle Jason, Anthony and Logan!