This week I met an old friend that served as a Missionary here at the same time I served. His name is Robert Lo, and he is currently serving as a Sealer here in the Temple. He is from Hong Kong and has lived in Hong Kong all his life. He is an artist and came to the office to pick up a painting that was in the Art Exhibit we helped with a week ago. The piece that he exhibited is a painting of Lehi’s Dream. It was one of the most admired paintings in the show, it received a lot of interest and generated a lot of dialogue about the Church. Robert has a gallery in the New Territories and invited us out to see more of his art and meet his family. We are looking forward to that and are happy to reestablish another relationship here in Hong Kong.
Also, this week we talked to Salt Lake about expanding the capacities of our current opinion leader data base functionality. We are hoping to add processes that will allow us to manage our current and future relationships better. Salt Lake responded with a green light so we have now committed to a project that will take months to complete. We hope and believe that our effort will make a significant improvement in building not only more, but stronger deeper friendships with influence makers outside of our own Faith.
Other than the Area Presidency, most of the office personnel that attended General Conference have not come back yet including Tom and Annie, so the office was still quiet. We spent a lot of time this week working with Meltwater and trying to become more familiar with it. We also cut and spliced a syndicated article provided to us from Salt Lake regarding the Easter initiative. We published it in Mormon Newsroom here in Hong Kong on the English site. Finding Lasting Peace through Jesus Christ
The Area Presidency immediately held a meeting with the Area Seventy this week. It’s always fun to see the Priesthood strength of these General Authorities who are natives from the countries they serve. As I watched them gather I wondered if all the Area Presidencies around the world return to their respective assignments and the week after conference call all the Area Seventies together in their respective areas and share information and direction from the First Presidency.
This week we also experienced the results of the work we did with the Southern China Morning Post, one of the most widely read newspapers here in Hong Kong. There were two articles published with a video as well. I am going to attach the links so that you can read them and watch the video.
We hope all of you will have a great week, we know we will.
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