An exciting month for us.....

What fun June has been......full of great family events at home and fun with friends here in Hong Kong!

June 5th was our 51st wedding anniversary!

 

We look a little different now, but are still crazy about each other!

 

 

David was so cute on our anniversary.  Somehow he sneaked out without anyone noticing and bought red roses for me and hid them in various refrigerators.  Then after church, he gathered me and all the others around, gave me the roses and then sang “The Rose” to me (a’capella!) while everyone else oohed and ahhhed.  I love that man!  So does everyone else around here!  Someone made a video of it all, but I can't seem to download it, so you will just have to imagine how sweet it was!!

 

On June 6th, our beautiful little granddaughter Rhiannon Towers was baptized.  We are so proud of her for making this important commitment!

 

 

Then came my birthday.  Even though I never listed a word on Facebook about what day I was born, the word got around and I have never had so many birthday wishes, flowers and gifts!  I felt very loved!

 

 



This is Yani, an Indonesian sister from Saturday family, who gave me these flowers.

  

These are Sisters Amor, MaryAnn and Shirley from Tuesday Family, with their flowers for me.

Everyday the message board was full of birthday wishes, like this one from Wilson, one of our few men.

 

 

 

My best birthday present arrived a day late
                        ...Little Lillian Blythe Jasper...our 21st grandchild! 
                                                                                      How blessed we are!

 

 

 

Here in the Hong Kong Victoria 2nd Branch we continue to have fun....and eat.....

........and eat .....                                                     and eat..... 

and eat...... 

and eat......

 

 and eat.....!   Is it any wonder we don't lose weight?  It'sa good thing we walk a lot!

President Smith and David making waffles.








The popcorn popper extraordinaire!  We showed the movie "Meet the Mormons" and David made popcorn!  It was a hit!!...(Both the movie AND the popcorn!)

Our sisters love  to dance and love it when we will join in! 

These sisters are doing a traditional dance to celebrate Philippine Independence Day.

We play crazy games.....

 

Our sisters LOVE to take "Selfies"  Here I am with with Sister Mary Ann while we were waiting for Relief society to begin.

 

 

Probably the hightlight of the month was the Father's Day Party put on by our Saturday Family.  I hurt my knee and couldn't walk so I wasn't there, but David said it was so funny that his face hurt from laughing!  When he showed me the pictures, I couldn't even recognize our beautiful sisters!! 

 

 

 

The few fathers we have were recognized with flowers. 

 

 

Sometimes we get serious.....  One day we did a service project....cleaning the kitchen drawers!

Another day we had a Baptism of an Indonesian sister named Ling Ling.

 

 

We were excited that one of our former Cambodian missionaries, Kong Phean and his family came to the Hong Kong Temple to be sealed.

Another of our Cambodian missionaries, Long Saret, came to Hong Kong for training for his finance job in  in the Cambodian Serivce Center.

 

 

On our P-Day we prepare lessons and talks for the coming week.

 

Sometimes it unexpectedly starts to pour with rain.  If you forget your umbrella, it only takes a minute to get this wet!

 We are so lucky to live in a city full of culture and entertainment!  Here are the great things we were able to fit in in June.

 

 

We decided we needed to go to the Chinese Opera while we are here.  This production had lots of acrobatic parts which were really enjoyable.

 

 It's way too hot to spend time outside, so all our outings have been indoors this month!