Valentine's ball

Hello to the best folks I know anywhere in the world.  We seem to be getting so routine here in Malaysia.  Dad has finally gottten control of his projects--closing out several of the ones that were going on when we arrived here and getting familiar with the whole process.  It's like starting a new job--it just takes a while to learn.  I just do basic church work.  We have our own FHE with the YSA and I help Kate with Relief society.  We were so excited to get a new Branch Presidency on Sunday, but it didn't happen.  Time in Malaysia doesn't seem to matter, things take forever to happen.  It gets frustrating sometimes.
On Monday we had our Valentine's Ball.  There were about 30 people there and we had fun dancing,playing games, eating, laughing, and talking.  Here are some pics--

This is in our Chapel/Multi-purpose room.  We had almost the exact same number of boys and girls!

This is the "paper dance"--start dancing on a large piece of paper and every 2 minutes fold it in half and continue dancing!  This is David Choong and his partner( in the backgroung is Prres. Fausto and Leslie)

Sis Harrison(one of 12 kids!!) and Sis. Goodwin could not help participating!

This is Peter Wong and Ervinna.  He is the 1st Counselor in the Branch Presidency--21 years old, works for abx, and is planning on going on a mission.  He is amazing-one of my favorites!

This is Larius a recent convert--dancing with Elsie(Laura's twin sister and Sebastian's sisters)  Elsie works a KFC.  Larius loves church and is doing BAGUS(good).

The Winners of the paper dance!! Pres. Fausto and Leslie

Adrian(our branch mission leader and Evie Jane, who looked just adorable!

This is Caroline, sister to Adrian, Laura, Elsie, and Sebastian!  She's one of my favorites also.  She is so smart, speaks excellent English, is a wonderful student, and loves church.  This is her friend Bosco who is a classmate from school.  Elder Wsright zeroed in on him and started teaching him about the church.  He even went up and turned the music down so that he could talk to him!  You know how that settled with me--tidak, tidak, tidak!(no no no)

This is Herlina(purple) and Kiko with Sis. Howard.  Kiko has started a new job and was exhausted.  Herlina is a new convert and doing well.

We had long stemmed red roses for the guys to give to the girls and ask them to dance.

The girls at this table are the biggest oinkers at the dessert table!!  They put about 10 desserts each on plates!  I later saw them bag them up to take home!

Here's the ole faithful Bunny Hop led by David Choong!  The man behind David is Pres. Curdy(Branch Pres)

Last but not least are two old, tired missionaries!!

Kate caqme back to town and we rode with her on Wednesday night to our meeting a church.  I missed her so much.  She has been out of town for almost 3 weeks!  She went to Tawau for Chinese New Year with her husband, then to Bali for work for a week, then to KLfor another week of work.  She loves it though.  She came over last night after church and we cooked dinner here together.  She taught me how to fix Chinese nooodles.  She just jumps right in!!
On Thursday, Dad and I went downtown with Pres. Francis to talk to one of the govt. officials at City Hall about and Adopt a Highway program.  They know Bro. Francis and agreed to assist us in this effort.  In fact, I think that they were excited.  We're suppose to do this the last Sat. in March.  We told the Branch Council about this on Sunday and they were going to have photographers, newspapers, and tv there.  They are now excited to participate.  They love having their picture made!!
On Friday, we made another excursion with the Sister Missionaries on the bus to teach Sis. Avey.  She has missed 3 Sundays at church and we were worried about her.  We met her at Roslina's little "hocker stand" on the way up the hill to her home.  Roslina is a new convert also--she's Herlina's sister(purple dress at dance).  Roslina served us "Jack friut" while we were there.  Never seen anything like that in my l;ife.  It was really quite good.  Sis. Avey said that she would come on Sunday and she did!

I forgot to tell you that when we met Bro. Fraqncis at church on Thursday to go downtown, we drove up to church and someone had knocked down the security gate!  I had been rammed and we thought that it was maybe vandals, but come to find out it was the neighbor in the house beside the church.  The wifwe said that she and her husband had a fight, he stormed out and rammed into our gate.  Take a look--

It has been sent away to be fixed.
Well, we'll chat again next week,  I LOVE YOU    MOM