This was at the Ward Christmas party. One of the gals got a cute bow as a gift and used Elder Harper as the model.............Not sure he was so happy about me taking his picture or posting it in the blog :)
Emma gave all of the Elders Christmas ties alike. Do you think they like them? What a hoot!
Elder Harper was helping Sister Kim print some pictures for the fun Christmas gift that our District was giving President and Sister Simmons for Christmas. Sister Kim is in her authentic Korean dress. This is on Christmas day.
The Sister Missionaries from our District, Sister Du and Sister Kim were at our home for Christmas, along with the President's assistants, Elder Worthen and Elder Hunstman for a great turkey dinner. Had a wonderful day with them. Wasn't the same, though, as being home with our family :)
The book for President and Sister Simmons was finally completed on Christmas night, thanks to these 3 young women. The book was a replica of the Golden Plates and "The Harbour Beaches" is our Zone area. It turned out beautiful. A lot of cutting, pasting, and time was put in for a wonderful result in the end!
Elder Harper is always such a good sport in the games we play at FHE. The lipstick game definitely was a fun game and of course, Elder Harper kept making mistakes and got a lipstick dot every time he "screwed up." Needless to say, he was the guy with the most dots! What a fun evening! (Oh, and I got to paint the dots!)
On New Years Eve several of the students came to our home to make Chinese food for us. Here we are making dumplings. Quite the little skill to make them! Filled with a meat mixture....dampened with water around the edge and folded uniquely to make different patterns in the dumplings. They are put in boiling water to cook. Quite the challenge to learn to eat Chinese food, but I can do it because they are willing to eat American food!
The Elders are waiting patiently for the food to be put on the table.........do they really look patient?
Well, the final result was a table full of wonderful Chinese food. Great food........great company. Turned out to be a wonderful day!
Spent some quiet time with Emma, Georgina, Reggie and Elaine after the party. Reggie will be going back to China this week to start her career after graduating from the Uni here in Sydney. We will really miss her!
In the courtyard at the church. This was taken the Sunday before Reggie left for China.
Pictures taken at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney on January 2nd. Official New Year's day in Sydney. Just a little crowded at the Zoo that day, but we had great fun. You can see the fantastic view in the background of Sydney and the Opera House.
Sister Eivers is one of the older members of our Ward here. We've been over to visit her a couple of times. Such a sweet lady.....and quite the character. Insisted on feeding us dinner when we were there this time. She hadn't been to church for about 2 months. We hadn't met her until December. She fell off of a ladder in her back yard. No one found her for a couple of hours. She was unconscious. Really, really was injured and is finally back on her feet and doing better.
Our Zone meeting is held about every 6 weeks. Everyone is in this picture, except the Byrams who were taking friends back to the airport the day of this picture. Great district and lots of baptisms and success happening in our area. Great missionaries to work with!
We had a Zone P-day that was held at our apartment. We had lots of fun playing games and eating wonderful food that Sister Simmons prepared and brought over. All in all, the funnest P-day we've had since arriving in Sydney!
Newest member to our ward. Georgina was just baptised on January 17th. She has been investigating the church for a couple of months. She told us the very first time we took her home from an FHE, that it was the most wonderful time she had had since arriving in Sydney 2 years ago. She is enjoying her new church family here in Sydney!
Life here in Sydney is very hectic and busy. Sundays are always a very busy day for us. We have been working on ward records this week and completing sheets with all of the Chinese students with pictures. We will be distributing them to not only the Bishopric and auxiliaries, but probably to the ward members, as well.
We had ward members over here for dinner tonight. We have the Fleet Missionaries and Assistant Missionaries here tomorrow night, after going to Windsor in the morning to see the sand sculptures. We've been told that they're really unique and beautiful.
Sunday will be a very busy day. We will be leaving for church at 9:00. Will get home about 2:00. Ward missionary meeting here at 3:00. Then have 20 of the Chinese coming at 5:00 for a movie and eating. WOW! I think I'm tired just thinking about it! Thank heavens we have a P-day on Monday. The only thing is they're coming over here again at 1:00 to have dinner together that day. No wonder Elder Harper and I are gaining wait. Just got to quit having so many parties!!!
Gonna check off and go to bed. Big weekend! Hugs to everybody. May 2012 be a special year for each one of you. We sure love you and miss you!
Elder & Sister Harper
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