This blog was inspired by Lian's call to the mission field as a full time missionary, and so the website address renejenny-mission.blogspot.com. Now that she has completed, I will post thoughts, events, activities related to my spiritual life.
It was just a sit-down dinner for the members. The Primary sang some Christmas songs.
I like this picture of Suzie and her husband.
Dinner was provided. We need only to bring a dessert, enough for another family. We made chewy brownies and in return we got to fill our tray with the leftover shrimp crackers. We love shrimp crackers!
This was such a good idea, to share the Christmas cheer with our Senior Sisters who couldn't come to church meetings because of their physical and health situations.
We met at the Relief Society room before dispersing in 4 groups to visit the respective designated Sister. Our group got to visit Sister Brown. We took with us dinner (that was already prepared by some of the sisters for this evening) and ate with Sister Brown. We sang the carols that she chose. In our group, we sang "Joy to the World" and "Silent Night". Each of us take turn asking Sister Brown questions (that were already printed out) about her life, etc. We ended with the visit in presenting her ornaments.
This activity also foster closer relationship between the visiting sisters as well!
Fellow-shipping for the night continued at Sister Paul's residence. The 4 groups gathered back at Sister Paul's home instead of the church.
This is my favourite picture of the evening - mother and daughter!
I am so happy that I got to go to the temple with Sister Rebecca, Britton and Sylvia. It has been over a year since I went to the temple on the 8 May 2009.
Relief Society Monthly Meeting (it was called Enrichment meeting before). I was happy that Sister Anna and Sister Caithny came, otherwise there would only be the 3 of us from the RS presidency.
Maybe the sisters have gone for the spring break. Officially, spring starts tomorrow the 14 March 2010 and we have to set the clock 1 hour ahead at 2 am. I have changed the time in our home at 5:30 pm today, so that I can go to bed the right time!
Today, Sister Lorrie taught us how to grow tomatoes. I am not a gardening enthusiastic. In fact I was trying hard to keep myself awake during the lecture.
I liked this part.......... We were also celebrating the birthday of the Relief Society, which actually falls on the 17 March, with a cake.
Sister Lorrie ordered a cake but when she went to Dairy Queen to collect, they said there was no order. However, that disappointment came with a blessing. We got a different cake - Turtle Pecan Cluster - for half the original price. Sister Lorrie paid $12.50 instead of $24.99. 1st time I have eaten this - it is yummy! I love it!
Bring a dish from your mission, where you served in the military or an ethnic dish to share.
Mike & I had talked about showing/writing the name of the food on card and the country origin against each dish , but Mike & I didn't do it. I wanted to take pictures of the dishes but I didn't do it either. I didn't even take a picture of my Malaysian curry chicken dish or Mike's Scottish marmalade cake. I wonder if anyone care. I think people are more interested to eat! So why waste our time writing and displaying food names!
Perform a talent as a family or as an individual.
This is fun! I believe each of us are blessed with talents. And I also know that we won't know until we have tried.
The following are some of the pictures I took. Singing- Brother Carlos & his family
Playing the Musical Instrument - Flute - Brenta and Gabby
Singing - Sister Liane & her beautiful angels,
Storytelling - President Owens. You should hear his cowboy story!
Teamwork - Corina on the piano and Christina singing "My Heart Will Go On"
Playing the Piano - Sergio & Jose. Have you ever seen anyone playing with his back towards the keyboard? That was a surprise and fun to watch!
Teamwork - The 2 young women singing and Tyler playing the electric guitar.
Singing - Brother Eric sang a song that is passed from generation to generation in his family. Isn't that special?
Tape dancing - It was not the kind of floor for tape dancing. Someone placed a piece of paper but the paper kept moving backwards. But anyway, Zachary did a good job!
Yours truly did her thing - dancing again! For a change, no fan this time. I haven't practised this dance for the past 5 years and I thought it would be an appropriate dance since it is about ethnic dish tonight. I did a Malay dance and it is called "New Malay Love Song" (direct translation from the Mandarin title of this dance).
Last but not the least, Mike blowed his bagpipes. He played 3 tunes: Scottish "Bruce's Address, Irish "Minstrel Boy" and American "America the Beautiful".
The sound was too much for our young Joseph & Zachary - ears.
It was a successful evening. We enjoyed the food. We enjoyed the talents, whatever it was. Most of all we enjoyed the fellowshipping. We appreciate the spirit of participating and contributing.
