The Yans': We finally have assignments!!!

The afternoon of my last post, we have an appointment with Elder Wong at 3 pm but he was so busy with meetings that we did not meet with him until almost 4:30; It was worth the wait! He assigns us to work with communication (same as public affair but it is communication within the church to church members). There are six Stakes in Hong Kong and there has not been a communication specialist for the last two years, The Chamberlains had been focusing mostly Public Affair for Hong Kong and Taiwan so now we will be working with the Becksteads with them focusing on Public Affair and Ted and I do Communication. Our second assignment is working with the YSA in Hong Kong. Elder Wong would like to 100 couple married!! Lol, we are going to be modern day match maker in the 21st century!!! Any one has ideas we can accomplished this and has worked with YSA , please send us an email!!! Our last assignment is to work with the Norman (and eventually might assume) the assignment of working and putting together the FSY, For the Strength of Youth, activity (EFY in the Hong Kong and Taiwan) for 2017. Elder Wong's final comment is that all these can change any time!!!

Well, I am so glad we now at least has some thing to focus our energy on. We spent Friday morning finding out how many ward there is in Hong Kong and see if we could visit each of the ward, We have not been assigned a ward to attend and Elder Wong wants us to visit each ward to see and get a feel on where we think we should go. I got contacted with one of the employee who is also a committee member for the upcoming YSA convention in November, we hope to attend their meeting this Sunday in Kowloon Tong. In the meantime, I joined their YSA facebook group and I am very impressed at the activities they have!

We also spent Friday morning at the immigration office to get our Hong Kong ID, Ted was able to get his ID but they would not let me because my name has changed and they want either my naturalization papers showing my name change or the ORIGINAL marriage certificate. We are so blessed with modern day technology; I was able to get hold of Florence, my sister, thru facebooking with Ada, then Florence went over to my house and with Melissa Davis' help, we facetimed and was able to find my marriage certificate. Hopefully, once I get that in the mail, I will be able to get my HK Identification and then onto getting our travel permit into Hong Kong!

David and Jennifer flied into Hong Kong and stayed with us Thursday and Friday night. They have a humanitarian trip planned in a couple weeks into China but decided to come a week early so they could make a scenic trip to Japan with some friends. We had a nice visit with Jennifer's brother and sister-in law, we had our first Dim Sim lunch since our arrival to Hong Kong. We were so stuffed!! Luckily, we were busy in the office so we didn't get too tired after the full meal. I also learned from Sister Orton on how to process missionary application - she is in charge of inputting all of Asia's missionary papers and getting them ready for the area presidency to review and then submit them to Salt Lake for processing. The Ortons will be here for another 4 months. Elder Orton is a retired Urologist and Sister Orton is a nurse.

We left the office early to travel to Discovery Bay for a farewell dinner with the Chamberlains before their departure tomorrow morning. The senior missionaries here love Mexican!! We were so stuffed we shared only an order of fish taco and it was expensive!! $150 HKD which equals to just over US$20!! I will probably not visit this place very often, however, the companions were great and we got to walk around the small place that was filled with foreigners and it was not very crowded, it feels like we are back at the states! We missed our ferry with the big group coming home in the evening because we over spent on our Octopus card (the ferry ride was $40 each way!!!).

Took the bus to the Central pier #3 to catch the ferry to Discovery bay, saw this Ding Ding going to Kennedy Town where I was born and raised as a teenager.

Twin tower, this one is on the Kowloon side, the other one is across the harbour on the Hong Kong side, you will see it below.

I love the sound of the birds as we walked off the ferry and on the way to the restaurant.

The ferry passed this mansion: It is the resort for the Hong Kong Disney, sorry for the blurry picture, the window was up and it was misty.

Discovery bay, on the top of the mountain is big "Buddha" and to the left of the housing project I was told was the church, The church has a small English branch here that meet in a school for domestic workers who work for wealthy Expat.

Everyone that went: From left to right: Ted and me, Sister and Elder Orton(medical); Elder and Sister Chamberlain; Elder and Sister Roberts (legals), Elder and Sister Chandler (Self-Reliance) and the new missionaries, Elder and Sister Beckstead (Public Affair)