P-day a day early? Or a three days weekend!

Well we encounter the first Typhoon in Hong Kong, actually over the last week, we have had Typhoon 1 warning but it didn't materialize into anything, but this recent one if for real; started Wednesday with "Black rain" and then slowing moved from a T1 warning to T3, then T8 today, Cyclone Haima is coming in from the Phillipine and make landfall around noon, I have to say the Hong Kong Observatory was spot on when they said the heaviest rain and wind would start around noon, the rain and the wind came down hard right around noon, I took a short video for you to enjoy, you could see the rain coming in side way, I could hear the wind right thru the window!!!  The thing about this is that the air is still very warm, there are only limit bus for transportation, and MTR also slow down on their schedule, if we were to go any where, we will have to call Taxi, since most things are closed (school, stock market, stores), there is really no place to go, so we are going to enjoy some netflix today beside updating my blog!!!

We had a busier week.  We started to get some names memorized for the local leader (in Chinese), there are six stakes and quite a few bishops for us to get to know, I make up a chart with pictures and names below it so I could at least half intelligent when we meet them - putting names to faces.  We are working on training material for the couple and logical person who will be in charge of FSY (For The Strength of Youth) program, it is a program like the EFY program and has proven record for countries outside US to be successful with the youth.  We were going to have meeting with them on Thursday but had to cancel because of the Typhoon!  Hopefully, we can get another meeting schedule for the next week.  I find members in Hong Kong are very busy and Sunday seems to be a day they are willing to give since they already in Church.  We finally get hold of Sister Lo (Suzanna) on the phone.  She was very hesitant to meet any other day other than Sunday!

We also got asked by Elder Wong to accompany him to mission tour this week, Elder and Sister Thong usually helped out but Elder Wong asked us to come help him on Thursday, We are so impressed with Elder Wong and the missionaries, Elder Wong is a great teacher and motivator and the missionaries are so great.  In this particular tour, the Elders provided a musical number that I recorded.  The music is written, composed/arranged by Elder Arnett of Vancouver, Washington.  Elder Ledingham and Elder Earls sang.  Elder Wong love the song so much he recorded it (that's why I recorded).  He wants this song sung at his funeral!!!  Elder Wong was so impressed with me because I know how to use his Iphone to record the song when the young missionaries did not!! I have to confess that I could not take the credit; if Brenda did not teach me how to use it to record our talk, I would not have helped Elder Wong!  Thank you, Brenda!  I would share with you the song but I don't know how to upload on here. If you know how to do it, please let me know!

This looks like my wind shield when I am driving, but it is just out of my window.  See closely you can tell the rain is side way!

Later this evening, we invited Charles and Fanny Chan to come over for pot stickers and congee, they live on the 15th floor so we are not breaking mission rule to be out on a T8 day!

This little egg ball is my favorite!

Met Sister Viazzo from Pleasanton, California, Alex Tang is her Stake Counselor

This is an old clip of the ferry, the deck has been pushed out and more buildings, no more rickshaw anymore, but I thought it is cute to see when it was like before!!!