Got catch in a Protest Parade - December 11, 2016

The work in the office is starting to pick up.  We prepared a 10 minutes report presented to Elder Evans.  He gave us some suggestion to improve on our presentation for next Tuesday to the Area Presidency.  We are not back to the 10/f in the CAB (Church Adminstrative Building) in a little cubical.  We don't have much privacy but it is workable.  We have our monthly meeting with the FSY planning meeting on Thursday and we are getting very good at using the PVC software to conduct meetings.  We are very excited as we now have a venue to hold the event - the date is set for Aug 7 to Aug 12, 2017.  I was able to add the new Admin to the FSY website after a few email to the States. I will report next week on our trip after visiting the camp site.

Saturday, December 11. P-day

We have a short P day on Saturday in the morning, pictures will be on a separate posts.  We went to a Book of Mormon play put on by the Aberdeen Ward on the Hong Kong Island Stake.  We thought we had enough time to catch a bus but didn't realize that it was a min bus. We switched to taking a cab but then got caught in this protest.  Normally, it would take us 20 mins in a taxi but it took us 25 mins just to get out of the protest's matching- 3 blocks long!!

We got to the chapel 5 mins late but luckily we didn't miss any part of the performance.  The title of the play is "Book of Mormon across 1000 years".  The writer of the play was very clever, writing a play that little kids could take part in.  It started with a little girl telling bedtimes stories she had heard when she was little to her grandfather who had fallen ill.  They portrayed the stories of Nephi, Moroni/Mormon and the Brother of Jared.  The play finished at a scene in the waiting room where the departed was being judged, each was asked what they know of Christ, each described what they know of Him, until the grandfather who fell on his knees to worship the judge - who is Jesus Christ.

Then we had a wonderful snack party afterward - the snack party here is a full course dinner!!

We found ourselves on the Star ferry late one night, this is what they show at the TST pier at night as part of the night show:

This is just the beginning of the protest parade:

Paper border on the bulletin board at the Aberdeen Ward!!

Picture with Moroni, Mormon, Becksteads, Nephi, Annie Wong and Bishop Jimmy Chen

Picture with Julia and her family who stopped in Hong Kong for 3 days visit then onto Vietnam.  Julia was so nice to bring us some vitamin from the States!