Time'a Flying

This was a busy week in some respects.  On Monday, we went with a Rotary Club from here(KK) to visit 3 schools where we gave glasses to needy students.  These are Catholic schools for the poor(I think).  It was a most enjoyable day.  We met lovely people from the Rotary.  In the pics the tall Indian man is a Dr. Abraham, who is the District Governor of E. Malaysia and Singapore.  He is an ENT specialist in Singapore.  There was a Dr. Akbar who is the optometrist who did all of the eye exams on the kids.  We rode with him to all of the schools.  We also rode with Fatima(in flowered top in pics).  She is a rotarian and businesswoman here in Malaysia.  She offered us the use of one of her cars while we're here in Malaysia--she owns 5!  She doesn't like taxis.  She took the role of ordering our lunch later when we went to an Indian restaurant in Penampang.(In honor of Dr. Abraham)  She ordered the favorite food of Malaysia--Fish head curry.  Oh yes, we ate fish head for lunch.  It was quite good.  I didn't like the mutton she ordered.
We were suppose to start our visits to Sis. Lennie and Bro. Musa who live in kampung Baru on Monday evening, but a torrential rain storm came and we could not even get in there with Sebastian in a taxi!

Wed. was another first for us also.  We have a branch missionary correlation every Wed. evening at church. We usually ride with Kate after she leaves work.  I baked a cake for everyone for snacks at church.  After the meeting, Kate went to some house where she picked up a bunch of food to have shipped to her brother who has just oopened up a restaurant in their hometown-Lubuan(an island).  We also had the sister missionaries with us and before she took them home, we went to Sis. Christine's house to offer our condolences because her mom died the day before.  Our first Malay funeral.  OH BOY!  Sis. Christine lives in a kammpung and the whole village was at her house.  She took us inside and in the middle of the room was her mom in a casket.  It was made of lovely wood with a glass on top.  All of her mother's personal belongings were placed around the casket in bags so that thet can be burned.  All of the pics in the room were turned backward to mourn.  Sis. Zafar(missionary) was so worried because she had on a red blouse which is bad for Chinese funerals.  After we left the funeral and took the sisters home, Dad and I rode with Kate to take the food for her brother  to a shipper.  We met his truck in a really scary part of town and delivered it to him.  Kate told us that he use to be a loan shark!

Thurs. we were able to visit Sis. Lennie and Bro. Musa and teach them.  Good meetings!  They're so humble.  Kate has arranged for 2 of Sis. Lennie's children to have their pallets repaired.  They're really bad.  A rotary club in KK has arranged for doctors here to do this in 2 weeks!

Fri. we met the Elders downtown to buy them a washing machine.  Theirs quit working and the mission office asked us to buy them a new one and just deduct the cost from our next month's rent.  No problem.  We decided to spend a little time downtown while we were there.  We ate at a nice place in the mall on the 4th floor called "Secret Recipe".  Mostly Europeans eating there.  So nice and delicious and guess what, no sign that said "do not spit".  Kate called us while we were there and we met her and visited while she ate lunch.  She helped us purchase some name tags for our first FHE on Mon with the young single adults at our apartment.  I'm excited. 

I've included some pics of our apartment and our visit to the schools.  Hope you enjoy.
Love Mom and Dad