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.
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.
