HOPE THEY CALL US ON A MISSION.

A fun and frustrating week all at the same time for us!  Monday was so fun.  We had our 1st FHE for the young single adults here.  It was at our apartment, but we're going to have the next ones at church because no one has a vehicle and the walk up the mountain to our apartment from the bus stop is a killer.  Dad and I did it once @ 2 weeks ago and said "never again".  They were so hot and and exhausted when they got here.  Our sweet David Chong came last by himself and had to get by the monkeys at the trash dumpsters.  I think that he is a little afraid of them.  We understand that they can be aggressive at times (if you have food).  Dad and I ordered pizza from Pizza Hut for them and had it delivered.  It took me 2 days to order on line because our phones and address are the same as the Davises whom we replaced.  It took an act of congress to get it registered in my name.  It's now registered in Miss Gloria!  They do not care about last names here. 
We went shopping and bought fresh pineapple and watermelon, I had made a jello cake(miss, miss U.S. jello) and baked oatmeal cookies, which they call biscuits!  All cookies are biscuits.  They loved the pizza and cookies.  We played some of the minute- to- win- it games after our lesson.  They loved that also.  We had one young man who is investigating to come.  President Curdy was able to take many of them home afterwards.  Also Sebastian(taxi) came and took the rest home.  His little brother and sister, Adrian and Laura were part of our group.  Laura is an identical twin.  Her sister Elsie works at KFC and can't come to church very much.  When you work for KFC here you must stay in their hostel for their workers.
I took pics and made a poster and put on the bulletin board at church.  It was the buzz at church today.

We had a mess with our phone in the office on Mon.  TM(telephone Malaysia) cut off our phone service for non-payment.  We have not received a bill since arriving.  We've asked at the apartment offfice about mail, but they answer "yes" to anything and everything.  Kate paid it over the internet for us and had it reconnected.  We talked to our apartment manager about it and low and behold the workers here came up with a TM bill for Nov that's about 2 weeks overdue.  Mr Soh (manager) had them scared to death.  They discovered enough English words to say "You tell him I give to you!"  Kim, I hope Dad's license and , Kellie,  I hope my pics make it to us.  So far, we have neither, but maybe mail is just sloooooow!  The only mail we seem to get is our monthly letter from Bro. Zenger!  Oh, well, life goes on.
Tues. was a bust.  Our missionary meeting was so unproductive and haphazard.  We are all very concerned about a young elder in W. Malaysia who was hit by a car on Monday.  He is in an induced coma after a 7-hour surgery to repair his torn aorta.  Both of his arms are broken, one wrist broken, femur in one leg broken badly, and possible hemmoraging in his brain!  Our mission held a fast for him on Wednesday.  Please remember him in your prayers.
On Wed, we met missionaries downtown for lunch at Kenny Rogers Chicken.  We also skyped with Jenny and Andy.  Sooooo good to see ya'll.  Wed evening we went to branch correlation.  I included pics of Kate and Sisters at this meeting. 
On Thurs. we were invited to dinner downtown with Jennifer Liew and Francis(not members).  Jennifer speaks impecable English.  She is the director of Cheshire Homes here in the state of Sabah.  She is a workaholic.  Francis lives in Kuching(in south E. Malaysia).  He is the Deputy State Attorney -General.  He is a very knowledgeable lawyer here.  He has the most interesting story.  He grew up in a kampung here.  When he was very young he contacted some disease that left him crippled.  He moves with crutches very slowly.  Cheshire Homes took him in and helped educate him.  He dedicates a lot of his time and funds to helping the poor!  He and Jennifer are our humanitarian partners in KK and Kuching.
Friday and Saturday we were here in our apartment.  Sebastian has gone to the temple for a week and we don't like to use other taxis.  We were climbing the walls by Sat. afternoon and Kate to the rescue!   She called and asked if we wanted to ride wqith her to look at a resort that she's checking out for some clients.  It was a lovely place way out in Penampang.  We had scones, cheesecake, and apple pie on the veranda served with nice china.  Kate loves that and we love treating her because she takes such good care of us.  She also took us to a museum of headhunters, but it was closed.  They have actual heads that were collected by this famous village chief.  Dad was so disappointed that we didn't see them.  She's going to take us back one day.  After that we went to one of their famous beaches here.  I took a pic of Dad and Kate where you can see a bit of the sunset.  It's truly gorgeous.
Today was church as usual and I taught only one lesson(last of Isaiah-YEA).  I had all sisters in my class, except for Dad.  They're all so sweet and I got them to relax and start talking.  It was fun.  We were asked by the Area Presidency to take pics of certain groups at church today and send in for them to use in training sessions, hence the church pics today!  Enjoy--I do.
Tommorrow is another week and our second FHE, and I'm excited again.  I'm going to feed them chicken biscuits(our biscuits) and some fresh fruit.  We going to play church pictionary for fun.

We have a nice new taxi driver who took us to church today.  His name is Spaniss and he drove us from the airport on the first day we arrived here.  He remembers us!  He's nice and the cheapest so far.  He's taking us tommorrow to run errands and go to church.

Love all of you with all of my heart and if I could give each of you the best thoughts of my heart it would be to read Mosiah 4:14&15.  I am learning to love the scriptures as I never have.  It's actually pleasant to not have tv.  Even Dad doesn't miss it.  Although last night we watched a DVD--Sabrina, which I've seen so many times.  It was given to me by my new friend,  Mary Anne Teo. 
Kiss our grandbabies for us.      Love   Mom &Dad