Macau

We're on our way from Central Pier in Hong Kong to Macau, about 40 miles away, by turbojet boat.  It takes about one hour.  Macau is the gambling capital of the world but we aren't going to gamble.  

We are going with John Bell, Academic VP of BYU Hawaii.  BYU is trying to increase the Asia percentage of students there in Hawaii.

This the street in old Macau where the Church has been for many years.  Macau was a Portuguese colony and the old part still looks that way.

There are many scooters in Macau as shown by those parked in front of the Church.  The Church name is in English, Portuguese, Cantonese and Mandarin.

There are apartments above the church.

A very short walk from the church is the Lou Lim loc Garden which has been there for many years.

The park is an oasis in the middle of the most densely populated city in the world--650,000 people in 10 square miles.  That would be comparable to Salt Lake Valley having 25 million people.

Beautiful murals of sort of a water color in the museum in the park.

This is the back side of water like you see in Jungle Cruise in Disneyland.

We were there to teach the young missionaries how to facilitate self-reliance groups.  This is the group we taught.

John Bell speaking to leaders about the changes coming at BYU Hawaii.

This is a close as we got to any casinos as they are mostly on the island and we were on the peninsula.

Here are some wonderful senior missionaries who will be going home soon.  They have all served for 18 months except for two of the couple who served for a year.  They served in the Area Office, mission office, and some were temple missionaries.  All missionaries for the church are volunteers who pay their own expenses and receive no compensation from the church.
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