May 13 - 19, 2013

For Mother's Day Yessie took this picture of the girls at the Hong Kong Temple on Saturday when we did our little tour.  These are our girls from Peninsula 3 Branch

Shannon, Megan, Michelle, Guillan

Saturday evening late Kim and Laura Bergeson arrived in Hong Kong.  Sunday we met them at their hotel on HK Island and had Mother's Day brunch with them.  From there we took them on the MTR (train) to Church at Peninsula 3.

Monday we met them at the Dr.Sun museum.  That was quite an adventure for Paul and I.  We left the apartment at 8:40 and walked the promenade to the HSBC Bank where I recovered my ATM card which got eaten by the ATM machine the week before.  We had a hard time remembering and actually being available to pick it up until Monday.  From there we continued our walk to the Star Ferry where we caught the ferry to Central.  From there we walked to Queens Way and up the hill pass the mid-level escalators.  It was too early in the morning and they were all coming down so up the hill we trudged to the museum.  It took about an hour and the humidity was really high.  My head was completely soaked by the time we reached our destination.

From their we came down the hill to the Wan Chai Bldg. where we showed them around.

Kim, Laura and Paul in the foyer of the Wan Chai Bldg.

We went up to the 9th floor to see if Tim Fife was in and sure enough he was in town.

Dora joined us in this picture.  She is the secretary for this floor and has been so very good to us in  getting supplies etc for the Branch.  

The Big Yellow Ducky has been in the Harbour for a few weeks.  Not sure of the significance of it but it is very popular.

We all walked to our apartment along the promenade

After taking them to our apartment we went back to Wan Chai and had dinner with Tim at a Thai resetaurant.

Walking home from the temple to catch the MTR we passed this business and they had their gate open so Paul got a picture with these great looking cars.  It's foggy because the lens fogs up every time we come out of a building.  

While looking for a place for dinner Tuesday we ran into a bunch of couples who are on the Fun for Less tour with the Bergesons.  Two couples know people we served with in Palmyra and one couple is the brother of Christy Corbet in Camarillo.  Very small world.  We took the Bergesons and the Weeks back to the temple for the 7 pm session and sealing session and then they checked into their new hotel after we got back from the temple.  We took a taxi home.

One of the India brothers Paul worked with all week.

Bergesons and Lewises leaving the Hong Kong Temple after doing sealings.

Wednesday morning we walked over to their hotel to have breakfast and see them off.  Their tour guide did a devotional before they left. He had sent out a challenge about where in the Bible is their reference to China.  Paul found it by googling on his I-pad  Isaiah 49:12.

What fun it was for us to have them here for a couple of days.

This is the India group who were with us all week in the temple.  One couple had been to the temple 20 years ago and all the rest received their own endowment on this trip and were sealed to their families. 

Friday night we had tickets to see the BYU Young Ambassadors at a theater out by our Church.  We first had dinner in our apartment with the Hoskins and Elder Victor.  She has been sick all week.    

On the way home from the performance we ran into a family who are friends of Michelle and Yessee's.  They came to Michelle's baptism a couple of months ago and Angela came to our Primary class..

Elder Victor struck up a conversation with this lady.  Turns out she is an artist and was sharing some of her work with him from her iphone.

Three Elders and one Presidency member at the performance.  Elders Hoskins, Victor, President Tai and Elder Lewis waiting to get in to our seats.

Sister Ho and her Sister.  Sister Ho is our coordinator on Fridays

Sunday was quite a day.  Paul woke me up at 12:40 to say I had an email that asked if I would teach the GD class.  I was happy to do so but waited until morning to be sure I had the right lesson.  

Arcelli will be learning for home and her husband on Friday.  She has done so much in the Branch.  She will be missed but we are all so happy she is going home. 

Mar Jean, Arcelli and Janet

We had a baptism today after the Block.  Yuli has been coming for sometime.  She is from Malasia and accepted the invitation to be baptized.  

MJ, Eva, Yuli, Nova, Mercy, Guillan and Megan

Elder Bingham, Yuli and Elder Ford

It was a great week with a new member joining us.  Pres. Collins is off for two weeks on business and getting his son into the MTC.  This Sunday we will have a HK and International District Conference. Elder Neil Andersen will be visiting.  We are all very excited to have an Apostle of the Lord visit Hong Kong.