March 11 - March 17

Our sweet Sister Clyde will be going home on Thursday.  She has several medical problems and will need to take care of them in the States.  We all met at OutBack for lunch.  They offer a great lunch special with soup, salad, and main entree.  I had the chicken wrap (suggested by Elder Victor) and Paul had steak.     

Elder & Sister Hoskins, Lewises, Victors, Chans, Hathaways, Aki, Tai, Sister Aki and Sister Clyde

Sister & Pres. Aki, Hathaway, Sister Clyde, Tai, Hathaway, Chan, Victor

Mary Ann Clyde

Paul is such a sport and takes care of all the laundry.  He's ironing a sheet cover we got from Sister Clyde.

Here he is helping me clean out her apartment.  He's the best companion in the world.  He makes my life very good.

Walking to the temple we pass by a park and here is a worker cleaning up the leaves.

Sometimes we see the Elders running around this small park getting their exercise.

On our way home one day we came across this Lamborghini   Must be here waiting to pick up a child from school.  

As we were walking up to the temple, we decided it had been some time since we had taken some pictures here.

Brother Suen does a great job of keeping it looking beautiful.

Saturday we decided to head over to Shenzhen to see if we could find WalMart and look for fabric at the market.  We had to ask many people and found some really helpful young men at the train station who were able to head us in the right direction.  Actually it was not as hard to find as we thought.

You can't see it but Sam's Club is behind me.

We just had to walk across a large field and we were at the Coco shopping center which had a Sam's Club in it.

Paul trying some tasters but there were many he passed up.

We had lunch at KFC in the mall

They have a great subway system

After leaving Sam's we went to find a WalMart and it's outside the B Exit

It's in the ground floor of this building and is quite large.  Too bad we didn't need anything.  We did buy some really good pineapple.

We went back on the train to where we started.  Paul took off and walked over to the Best Western where we are going to stay during shutdown and I went to look at fabric at the big and spacious building.  We decided it was a good idea that the Chans went to pick up the painting for the Kellys.  We might have a hard time finding it.

Connie, are these colors way too bright for the quilt.  I don't think I am going to be able to pick anything out.  When you enter this shop, which is quite large you have tailors  and sellers on you every minute.  It is very hard to just look around and get a feel.  I just wanted to leave.  We had a fun day and got home about 5:30. 

We had a few changes today in Sacrament meeting.  Pres. Tai came to make the changes.  He released Paul Sequeira as 1st Counselor.  Paul has done a marvelous job and has been in over three years.  Brother Wen was sustained as 1st Counselor and Elder Watkins as 2nd Counselor.  The Watkins have moved over form the Peninsula 2nd Branch to be with us.  They are mental health missionaries for all of Asia missionaries.

Sunday we met with Elder Bingham.  Brother Lythgo, from Camarillo,  saw his picture on facebook and recognized him as the son of a college roommate.  So here is another picture of him.

After the Block, we had an 8 year old baptism.  Everyone was so excited for Michelle.  Sister Victor is her Primary President and I am her CTR teacher.

She was baptized by Elder Castleton and confirmed by President Collins.  I was privileged to give the Holy Ghost talk and Joy (her first Primary teacher) gave the baptism talk.

Michelle and her Mom, Yessie

Fe, Yessie, Joy, Michelle, Mar Jean &

After the baptism we had a wonderful Branch dinner prepared by Letty and her crew.  They do a great job and keep us all happy.

Sister Collins is back in town for a few weeks from South Africa.  We are all so happy to see her.

Michelle and the Lewises

President & Sister Collins

This morning we watched the Saturday night session of the River Ridge Stake conference.   We received some good instruction.  Pres. Snow reminded us of the obligation we have to the children of the rising generation.   He spoke of two things.  The first was work.  You cannot be truly happy without work to do.  You should learn it early.  It teaches commitment, discipline, stick-to-it, tired after working, thrift, learn and understand, pride, joy in hard work, follow through and industry.  We are now getting ready to watch the Sunday session.