Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Sunday March 13th
I woke up this morning and it was really polluted outside. I spent about 75 mins on Skype with Grandma Davis. Gary and Pam brought her to their home so we could Skype. Grandma was pretty impressed with the technology.
Today was F & T meeting and we had some very powerfully testimonies given, it was a great meeting. Last Wed - Fri was the SE Asia Women's Conference in HK. One of the Sisters in the branch that attended the conference got up and told a story about how she had been a missionary 20 yrs ago in HK and had baptized a lady. She wanted to find her and meet up at the Conference, so she sent a friend in HK a yellow sticky note with just the ladies name and 20 yr old address + her email address in BJ. After about 2 weeks the yellow sticky note found its way to the lady in HK. She sent an email back that said, I don't know who you are or why you are looking for me - but might you be the Sister that taught me the Gosple?" So of all the possiblilies of who could be trying to contact her - she thought it might be her missionary. So when Sister Barton was in HK for the conference she was able to meet up with the women she taught and baptized 20 yrs ago. This ladies son is now on a mission - his mom had him write an email to Sister Barton from the mission field thanking her for teaching their family. This lady has brought 7 members of her family into the Church and has another son preparing to go on a mission. They got to attend the HK Temple together. Sister Barton said every family member constantly thanked her bringing the Gospel into their lives.
After church it was very windy and all the pollution was gone, so I walked home -it was sunny and warm, a bit windy. I changed and went for a really long exploration of the neighborhood. Found an April Gourmet store about 5 mins from the house. They have a nice selection of fresh meat and reasonable prices, $4.50 for a Duncan Hines cake mix. Also found the WuMart - I guess that is a knock off on Wal Mart - its a big store with lots of good stuff - much closer than the real Wal Mart. Also found one of the other apartment building I was shown when here house hunting. They teach fencing in their gym + they have a climbing wall. But i think it was for residents only.
See ya later
Today was F & T meeting and we had some very powerfully testimonies given, it was a great meeting. Last Wed - Fri was the SE Asia Women's Conference in HK. One of the Sisters in the branch that attended the conference got up and told a story about how she had been a missionary 20 yrs ago in HK and had baptized a lady. She wanted to find her and meet up at the Conference, so she sent a friend in HK a yellow sticky note with just the ladies name and 20 yr old address + her email address in BJ. After about 2 weeks the yellow sticky note found its way to the lady in HK. She sent an email back that said, I don't know who you are or why you are looking for me - but might you be the Sister that taught me the Gosple?" So of all the possiblilies of who could be trying to contact her - she thought it might be her missionary. So when Sister Barton was in HK for the conference she was able to meet up with the women she taught and baptized 20 yrs ago. This ladies son is now on a mission - his mom had him write an email to Sister Barton from the mission field thanking her for teaching their family. This lady has brought 7 members of her family into the Church and has another son preparing to go on a mission. They got to attend the HK Temple together. Sister Barton said every family member constantly thanked her bringing the Gospel into their lives.
After church it was very windy and all the pollution was gone, so I walked home -it was sunny and warm, a bit windy. I changed and went for a really long exploration of the neighborhood. Found an April Gourmet store about 5 mins from the house. They have a nice selection of fresh meat and reasonable prices, $4.50 for a Duncan Hines cake mix. Also found the WuMart - I guess that is a knock off on Wal Mart - its a big store with lots of good stuff - much closer than the real Wal Mart. Also found one of the other apartment building I was shown when here house hunting. They teach fencing in their gym + they have a climbing wall. But i think it was for residents only.
See ya later
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Our neighborhood
Friday, March 11, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Neighborhood grocery
This past week I have been in KL for meetings. I flew back to BJ today and got into BJ in time to go to a branch pizza party at a big pizza place in BJ. The branch president lives in my building so I called him and we went to the party together. He is a retire Air Force pilot, now working for Boeing in BJ. His wife is not back yet either, so we are both baching it for a few weeks. I will be coming back to Houston on April 8th. We are planning to Bless Anna and Jeff's new one on the 10th, assuming he is born by then. Today was warm in BJ, the snow is all melted. Tomorrow is District Conference - we have a evening adult session.
Zhu Hai Photos
We took a boat tour of the harbor to see the lights of Macau at night, it was pretty.
We had tgo go under this bridge - there are tons of islands in hte area. They are connected by bridges.
This is a photo my collegue took
This the place we had dinner, a replica of the Summer Palace in BJ.
The head table - Mom is sitting next to the head of development projects at CNOOC. This was her first banquet. We had 12 courses and not one Sea Cumcumber.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Mean while in KL
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Batik shirts for dinner tonight
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