This week began with a special Christmas Family Home Evening with all the Senior Missionaries serving in the Area. The Seller’s, who were in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for ten years, were in charge of this activity and with Sister Marian Sellers playing the piano we all participated in a group sing along. We sang all the Christmas songs Karen and I know and then some we did not know both traditional and spiritual, and I must say it was not that bad and I enjoyed it a little bit.
A group from Salt Lake working in Church publishing visited us this week as part of a world-wide tour of all the Areas of the Church. The purpose is to introduce a new approach the Church is taking to protect the integrity of published products. In addition to the Church’s visual identity we are now including proprietary developed fonts, light and color schemes, and patented style guides to protect the integrity of future Church published products. Going forward it will be much easier for you to determine whether or not what your looking at or reading has been produced by the Church.
The temple reopened this week after being closed for three weeks, so we were able to attend our Wednesday evening assignment and again for our first Thursday of the monthy morning session with the Area Presidency.
Thursday morning after the session we gathered across the street for a Testimony meeting and an official welcome of the new Missionaries that have arrived since our last Thursday Morning meeting with the Presidency. This included Elder Randy and Sister Teddi Jones, Elder Stanley and Sister Carol Parry, and Elder Allan and Sister Arendje Whidden. The Jone’s will be serving as the Branch President of the every-day Branch, the Parry’s are legal, and Whidden’s are the Mental Health Couple.
We worked in the office and had another good week from our cubicle, we also had a fun play day. Elder Thong and I were the first to ever ride the Ocean Park Mine Train roller coaster with Virtual Reality Goggles. It was really fun to have this pioneering experience as a missionary, it connected me to my pioneering ancestors. Elder Thong is from Singapore and Sister Thong is from Hong Kong and were called from Seattle where they will be returning after their Mission. They met while attending school at BYU Hawaii and he is currently serving as the Area Financial Auditor. We have become good friends and will miss the daily association we share with them as Missionaries. Developing new life time friendships has been another wonderful perk allowed us by serving here in Hong Kong.
Ocean Park with Elder and Sister Thong
We went to lunch with Thongs to the "Jumbo Floating Restaurant" in Aberdeen. We had Dim Sum. A little scary having Chinese people make your menu selections for Dim Sum, but we survived!
FHE with the Senior Missionaries. Dad and Eder Thong trying to make music with the pop bottles. They did pretty good!
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