Hong Kong

Dear Family, It has been another whirlwind of a week. Or more acurately, two weeks. We met up with the Carli, Jeremy, Miles, and Penny almost two weeks ago in Thailand for just a day, after which they took off for Phuket and we stayed in Bangkok for Char's temple seminar with 30 return missionaries. (That week is covered in detail in Char's letter.)  We returned home a week ago, Sunday night, at the same time that the Diquattros arrived from Thailand. So we met each other at the baggage claim in the airport Sunday night around 11pm and took two taxis home and moved in (all of us) into our apartment. These first two pictures are from our day in Bangkok together. We visited a market, did some elephant riding and toured the canal markets by boat. I included just a couple of pictures from that day.  Here, Miles is making friends with the local snake. And here we have Jeremy and Carli aboard an elephant. Monday morning, we were happy to hit the streets with Penny. First stop was ou...

 Dear Family, I am becoming more forgiving that my missionary children's letters began to fade and become less frequent in the closing months of their missions. I'm not sure what it was for them, but life here seems to have gone into overdrive, even our Sundays have been over booked. My apologies for going silent. This last month has been the most intense of my time here. I think for Grandpa, he was slammed in the beginning months, but for me, it is these last 2-3 months. The last letter I wrote was a re-cap of the Returned Missionary Temple Seminar held in Bangkok at the end of April. That was an amazing experience, and when I got home from that I jumped right into planning the next one which was held the week of June 10th. The thing about this Seminar is that in too many ways it is a one man show-me being the one man! It's like planning an international girls camp without a committee or assistants no-one to brainstorm with, no one to bounce ideas off of, no one to puzzle ...