So Many Highlights this Week

We enjoyed our 75^th week as Missionaries this last week and like the previous seventy-four it was a GREAT WEEK IN HONG KONG!!!

We started the week with a visit to Tai O on our P-day with Chatterton’s hoping to see a pink dolphin. Mom had hopes of seeing one and is disappointed in my lack of faith that pink dolphins exist. We ended the day playing games and were glad when Elder and Sister Salmon joined us.  It was a lot of fun, Elder Salmon is pretty sure Elder Gong will be called into the Quorum of the Twelve.

Tuesday, we and the Ferguson’s, who are coming home the first week of April, had our farewell lunch with the Asia Area Presidency. Elder Funk was curious as to whether or not we would make it home in time to see a spring baseball game. Karen replied that we had new grandchildren that are a higher priority.

We had dinner that night with Bishop Jimmy Chan and his wife Jo. They are a wonderful couple who I am sure will visit us in Utah. Jimmy and Jo will continue to be a strong asset of the Church here in Hong Kong for many future years.

We were assigned to speak in the every-day Branch this week which means you speak every day. So, we were the speakers in a Sacrament Meeting every day this week. We think that by the end of the week we knew our talks all too well and so did the Jones and the Jensen’s who had to hear them every day this week.

We went to the Temple and completed our last assignment as Ordinance Workers Wednesday night and after Officiating our last endowment session President Ng thanked us for our work and released us.

The next morning, we attended our monthly session as patrons with the Area Presidency. That night we had dinner with the Crockets and enjoyed the evening.

Friday, all the Senior Missionaries sang a farewell song to us at lunch time. Elder Ferguson wrote the lyrics to the toon of the yellow brick road. Sister Sellers accompanied on the keyboard and it sounded great. One of the blessings we have received while serving is making so many new friends.

That night we met Joyce Chan, her three children and their spouses at the Temple to do sealings. You would think that seeing the blessing of four generations come into the Church would be as good as it can be, but we learned this to be short sighted. We brought several family names that needed some work done including my grandfather’s brother Lane, and they brought some family names including Joyce’s grandparents on both sides with all their siblings adding potentially multiple generations of converts to the Church. It also allowed their family a chance to help us with our family. It was an indescribable spiritual experience and an incomprehensible way to end a Mission.

Heavenly Father truly saved the best for last.

Our visit to Tai O fishing village was fun.

I captured this pose of Lynn standing under a blow fish.

We love our friends Jimmy and Jo Chan.  It's been so wonderful spending time with them during our mission. 

Our last evening to serve as Ordinance Workers in the Hong Kong Temple

Highlight of our mission.  We spent the evening doing sealings with the Chan family.  This is the family that Lynn baptized in 1973.  We were so blessed to reconnect with them while were were here.  We've spent time in the home of Grandma and Grandpa Chan who are now in their 90's.  We've gone to lunch together with members of the family.  We were at the Temple Marriage of Rita and Alvin (couple on the left).  We went to the baptism and Lynn stood in the circle to confirm Lance's son a couple of weeks ago.  What a way to conclude our mission doing sealings for their and our family names.  Lynn Baptized 1st and 2nd generation  Brother Chan's.  Now being a part of ordinances for the 3rd and 4th generation,  and even their ancestors!  It doesn't get better than this.
Left to right:  Rita and Alvin,  Tracy and Lance,  Misty and Sheldon,  Us,  and Joyce.