I Don’t know how to describe the celebration here, but this video might help. Make sure your sound is turned on to grasp the sheer quantity of explosions that welcomed the new year.
Many superstitions surround the coming of the new year, and fireworks and noise are believed to keep the bad spirits away so they will not bring bad luck to people in the new year. While many do fireworks just for fun, it is still a good “multimedia” reminder that behind the facade of happiness lies a need for the Savior and freedom from bondage to empty traditions and superstitions.
Just like their fireworks, misplaced hopes and beliefs soon go out with a bang and need something else to fill the void. Please pray for us and the missionaries here who are working hard to bring knowledge of a Savior so that the people might drink of the living water and never thirst again!
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14