Shopping

We like to go shopping at the different "wet markets".  There are good fruits and vegetables and interesting people there.

Here's a short video: At the "Wet Market"

This "silver fish" advertisement at this restaurant looks delicious, doesn't it?  We're sure that you realize that Silver fish are actually bugs.

Elder Chandler likes the fact that watermelon don't have a ridiculously high price like Japan here.

At the "wet market" the meat shops are everywhere and they are all outdoors.

Would you like a garbage can hooked on to your bike?

Or how about a big basket?

Also, here are a few delicacies from our indoor shopping market: 

Now we are at TST

Across the street there is the Chungking Mansions.  This is an Indian shopping center which also has some pretty good Indian restaurants, too.  All through this area are Indian men on the streets handing out business cards and trying to get people to go to their restaurants, buy their homemade suits, etc.

We've had a few rides on these mini-buses.  They always have wild fast drivers.  One of the van's routes from the Adventist hospital is going down a steep hill at a breakneck pace.  It is interesting that all the bars that people can hold onto in that bus have been ripped off or are hanging on only by a little bit because of the wild rides.

Here we are at another real mall.  The malls here are really big and beautiful. Our grandchildren would enjoy the malls here, too. We actually just came here to find a good hamburger and fries.

Of course the jewelry stores have the ever present thick gold jewelry. 

Anybody need anything at 7-Eleven?

Chocolates sound good, also.

The children and families were having a wonderful time ice skating there, too.

Here's another short video: At the Mall

Success at last!

We were so happy because they even have milkshakes which are very hard to find here.

The little children especially make us miss our grandchildren

Here's a few more photos to finish out the post. Here's one of some of the Chandler family home evening family with President Page who is leaving soon.

Here's another of a sweet sister who was baptized last Sunday. Elder Taylor baptized her and Elder Chandler confirmed her a member of the church. Elder Chandler also conducted the baptism, conducted Sacrament Meeting, conducted Priesthood meetings, presided and presented a family home evening message at our family home evening and also had interviews with many of the sisters the same day.  We have a new Branch President, President Smith, but he travels frequently so Elder Chandler still has most of the responsibilities for our Branch as he is also the only counselor right now.

She wanted to bear her testimony at the baptism and she said that one of the reasons she wanted to have the lessons and then join the church was because of the sweet peaceful spirit that she felt when she attended church here which she said she had never felt before.

Here's one we forgot to post earlier.  Thanks Aria for the beautiful picture you drew.  Thanks for the candy, too!

Have a great day and a great week EVERYBODY!!!!

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!