Picnic on "top of the world"

This last week our Branch said goodbye to our former Branch President, Rick Page who is moving back to the U.S. with his family and hello to our new Branch President, President Smith. How is that for a great bulletin board?  The Filipino sisters made it up in just a couple of hours before church. They are really creative and amazing.

We also took a group photo of some of us who were there at church on Sunday

On the 4th of July even though we had to work at the office we still found ways to celebrate.  Do you like our red, white, and blue?

That evening our Area President, Elder Funk, and his wife invited the senior missionaries who work at the church office building to a 4th of July picnic on top of the office building to celebrate.

Here's a cool reflection of our building off another building.

The patio is just below the steeple on the back side of the building. It is just off the Funk's apartment.

Of course, we all had to take photos.

The reflection at night was pretty, too. 

The rest of the photos are a bit of this and that. Here's a photo taken from our office on the twelfth floor of the top part of the new hotel building that was started a few months ago which is directly across from our office building.  It is kind of scary to watch some of the workers putting up the bamboo scaffolding so high in the sky, too.

We're always taking photos of Hong Kong as it is always amazing. Actually, the boat in the background is a gambling boat that goes out of Hong Kong harbor every night and when it is thirty miles out, the people can gamble.  The boat is out all night and comes back into the harbor the next morning.  That doesn't sound like a fun thing to do to us.

This Banyan tree is behind the temple and worth a photo, we think. (No, it's not our car, we've forgotten what it's like to have a car!)

The young lady next to Sister Chandler is Allie, a student in our English class.  She is getting ready to serve a mission to Temple Square in Salt Lake and so she went through the temple on Tuesday. Her parents are on the left and her older sister on the right is a returned missionary from Australia. Ellie has already taken the ACT and did well and is working on getting ready to take the IELTs test for her English proficiency as she wants to be pre-approved to go to BYU Provo when she returns home from her mission. It was wonderful to be in the temple with her and her family and many members of her ward.  Elder Chandler was able to officiate the temple session, so that was pretty special for him and for them, too.         We hope you have a great day!