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Elder Norman, Elder Chamberlin, Ted, Elder Charles and Fanny Chan (from Vancouver, Canada)

Brother and Sister Wong, Brother Wong was the bishop for Kowloon Tong ward when I was serving in the 80s.  Brother Wong's mother joined the church the same time Ted's mother joined the church.

Elder and Sister Jerry James - Elder James taught Ted's family back in the 60's.  This is his third mission back to Hong Kong, They serve in the mission home.

The four honored couples for the evening event.

Well, the area President Elder Funk and Elder Wong are back, they got in early in the morning around 6 a.m.  I got to say hi to Sister Funk but did not see both Elders at all.  They came into the office and have a departure lunch with the outgoing Executive secretary and wife, Elder and Sister Whitman.  Then I assume they went home to sleep.

Ted and I was hoping to at least visit with them to get an idea of what we will be doing but it didn't happen. We checked with other missionaries in the office and was able to help out, Sister Norman who is taking over Sister Whitman's job was overwhelm so Ted was able to help her streamline some of the duplicate files.  I was able to help Sister Lee (Mental Health Specialist) who was busy with interviews with missionaries who were struggling with either mental health issue or emotional issues.  She was asked to compile a cooking certificate program for local members in the every day branch so that the Relief Society can help them improve their skills into to get better paying jobs.  I was able to help her organize her files and put them into a excel sheet so she knows what she has, hopefully I could help her finish the project.

I walked down to the 9th floor and met our niece Ashley Chan, she used to live in Windsor Park Condo, in fact she was the one who helped us get the condo and managed it for a couple years while she was at the Y.  She is now working for the church as a facility manager helping to acquire land for buildings in the Asia Area.

Then I walked down to the 3rd floor (got to get as much steps as I could if we were going to be in the office all day!), Paid our deposit and met the President for the every day branch, Ted and I were ask to speak in the wards for November, we will be speaking on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the second week.  President Kendell asks that we switch our talk a little bit during each day but hopefully we can give the "almost" same talk with different audience. No topic was assigned so we could just talk about "us"!

We left the office around 4 pm to take the 182 bus (I am writing this out so I could remember who bus to take) to Kowloon Tong where the Temple and the new chapel is for a special dinner and testimony for the three new Elders that returned to Hong Kong to serve and the Chamberlin who will be leaving.  This event was organized by Edward Lai who also served with Ted under President Wheat.  Initially it was just for their group of missionaries and that he expanded it to include pass missionaries who served, We had a wonderful turnout, I met Sister Loong (Wong) who taught our family back in 1976 and Brother Bill Shum whom I taught.  It was so fun to see everyone!  After dinner we had a wonderful testimony meeting for almost 2 hours!

Sister Wong (Loong) and me.  She said she will put me in touch with Sister Lee who also taught us.  Sister Lee lives in Melbourne.Austrialia