A to Z Full Throttle Missionaries

Friday lunch with all Asia Area office missionaries. We're saying goodbye to the Johnsons who are being transferred to Timor-Leste (AKA East Timor), to open up a humanitarian presence there. We all feel a part of that effort, and it's bitter sweet to see them go. 

Blue Moon over Hong Kong. Taken outside our apartment building, on the promenade after one of our long days.

Elder and Sister Johnson pointing to their new assignment. They'll be great!

For a Mormon Newsroom article, interviewed new Hong Kong Mission President and his wife - President and Sister Lam

Training Hong Kong PA Council on creation of Infographics and Video production.

Dinner out with the Tong's, my former mission companion and his wife. They treated us to Peking Duck. Wonderful, delicious evening.

After dinner "get to know you" magazine game with Public Affairs Council- Kowloon Tong Building

An abandoned village in the hills above Sai Kung, an area I used to work when I was a missionary 40 years ago. These few buildings are surrounded by mountains, vegetation, and wild cattle.

Meet Natasha, one of the next members of the Church. So grateful to have Mandarin-speaking missionaries to take over when we can only go so far sharing the gospel. There are others but we don't have pictures of them (yet).   

These are the Gurkha Guards that keep us safe 24 x 7. A small army of them surrounds our apartment / hotel complex. What? You don't have Gurkha guards at your house? 

Doin' the dirty work. Getting ready to host the new mission presidents' seminar, had to try out some recipes and give feedback to the chefs. Left to right: Me, Sister Whitman, Elder Whitman, Sister Van Wagenen, Sister Inouye, Elder Inouye, Scott Ludlow (legal intern), Carly Ludlow. 

Prepping for a dinner we created for the Hong Kong National Public Affairs Council