Local cuisine with Sister Chrissy

Sister Chrissy and her children Joash and Jocelyn love to take the missionaries out to eat the local cuisine. They take all of us to the local places. Some are very nice and others are very interesting. We went to an Indian restaurant and had a rice dish that had seafood, it was very good but it it very interesting when you are eating small squid tentacles with the suction cups on them.

Indian Restaurant

Open air kitchen (see orange shirt in the top of picture above)

Korean Bar-B-Que ( they  cook your food at your table for you)

Sister Chrissy, Jocelyn and Joash

Korean Bar-B-Que (pick your food at buffet and cook your own at the table

Santos Island 27 June 2014

We had a very nice day at Santos island, loved the Aquarium.

Full size replica

Mirlion, symbol of Santos Island

FHE July 7, 2014

We ha Monday night for the Single Adults, our attendance varies but this week we had a great turn out. Sometimes we get very rowdy and I'm afraid one of these nights they will ask us to leave but so far we are OK

We had 22 in attendance tonight. A lot of missionaries and members with 2 investigators.

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Couples Conference June 2014

Mission Couples

West Malaysia Zones

We have a Couples Conference every 3 months in Singapore. We only get 90 days on our Passport stamps so we must leave the Country every 3 months to get our Passports chopped. We have Zone Conference and Couples Conference at this time and we can stay in Singapore an extra day to see the sites if we want to pay for the hotel.
The conferences were great, very informative and spiritual. This time there are 18 missionaries going home, when they shared their testimonies before going home it was such a special experience. There are also 4 couples going home before our next conference so they each had a presentation on their experiences.


On our extra day we went to Santosa Island. It is an amusement park and has a great aquarium. We had a very nice day, starting with a ride on the MRT. We rode the Trolley over to the island, a great view of the area and the interesting architecture of Singapore.

some of the beautiful building in Singapore

Our ride to the  island

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There are always many ships around Singapore

Zone activity

Our Zone consists of 3 Districts Penang with 10 missionaries including us, Ipoh with 6 missionaries and Sitiawan with 2 missionaries. We have 2 Sisters, 12 Elders and us.
We have Zone meeting once a month where we all meet together. Penang is on the North then Ipoh (2 hours away) and Sitiawan on the South of the zone (4 hours from Penang) so we usually have Zone meeting in Ipoh. Last month every one traveled to Penang for the activity and Zone meeting. We had 8 Elders staying at our place on Monday night and then went to the beach for the activity. They had a lot of fun at the beach and then we had a wild FHE that night at our home.

The beach at Batu Feringghi

High density housing

There are a lot of people in a small area. The island has many high density housing units that are called "blocks". The units are very small, about 25' by 20'with one bedroom, a small living room, kitchen and the bathroom is just big enough to turn around in 5' by 5' with a shower, sink and toilet. It makes me appreciate the open spaces at home. There are parks and huge trees so it doesn't seem so crowded until you get down town Georgetown.

Inside the building

Living room in Sister Iswari's unit

Dragon fruit

We enjoy the Dragon  fruit, it comes in two colors. We like the red better than the white because it has more flavor. They are both very nice. This is the Queen of fruit in Malaysia, Mongosteen, very nice. We like it very much.