Mid Level- Old Area Office

We had forgotten to upload this little video showing before the typhoon hit the other week so we thought we would add it just to show you a bit of the wind.

Last Saturday we went on the world's largest out door covered escalator system.  You can read more about it if you click here:  MID LEVEL ESCALATORS

We were going to see Sun Yat-Sen museum

You will want to read this link so as to see why we would want to go there: Museum

Why there's Dr Sun Yat himself.  Oh wait, maybe that's Elder Chandler. Several of the "elder" Elders who were with us used this chapel in their missionary days.  We understand that some of them even lived here in the building. There are some unique classrooms here, too.  We forgot to take a photo of one of the rooms which is a walk-in-safe. Elder Thong (pronounced Tong) talked about how he taught a Sunday School class in there. Anyway, this photo is where the chapel  was in the building.  It is really pretty and ornate and even has two fireplaces in this room.

The preserved the baptismal font was a favorite spot among the missionaries.  Sister Thong really likes it because she was baptized here.

This cute couple is Elder and Sister Thong.  

Here's Elder Chandler relaxing on the veranda there.

Here's the view from the veranda.  Don't you just love the colors on the buildings?

There was too much light behind these stained glass windows in the building to get a good photo but we took it anyway.  When our church built our new building, they took some of the designs from this one and recreated them inside our new building. 

This might be a good place to throw in this photo of our office building.  It doesn't show the inside that was mentioned, but it's a great photo of the outside.  We were stuck in traffic on the bus and had this perfect photo opportunity.  It is really unique and beautiful and really stands out from the other high-rise buildings. Because of the unique architecture, people sometimes just walk in from the street to find out what kind of building this is.  The guards in the building usually call Elder and Sister Thong to come and speak to them since they speak the language and then the Thongs usually come and give them a tour and tell them about the church.

Here's another unrelated photo but got thrown in, too, because the table setting is so beautiful.  The Area Presidency had a lunch for the outgoing Hong Kong temple presidency and this is how we decorated the table for them.

Here's one more unrelated photo we took from our office building looking out at the men putting up the bamboo scaffolding across the street from the office building. Don't you think it looks like kind of a dangerous job?  The scaffolding is still growing and getting higher and higher.  We'll have to take another photo of it one of these days.

We've also had several new senior couples come to serve here in the last little while and some of you might recognize this sweet couple.  This sweet couple is Elder Blaine and Sister Kathy Ferguson. They lived in our neighborhood when we lived in Sandy, Utah like forty years ago.  We hadn't kept up with them but have seen them occasionally through the years. We're so happy they have come to serve here as volunteer missionaries in the Asia Area Legal department. Elder Ferguson previously worked as a lawyer at the Utah State attorney General's office.
We wish you all a great week and hope you are planning to serve a mission or a senior mission in the future, too!