Another month quickly went by and many little things happened.

Da hanging out with the youth at Chik-fil-a

FF went with the sister missionaries door knocking




Betty treated us to lunch and met with Gloria and played with baby Keirin

Edmond and Angela celebrated their 25 year anniversary by going to the DC Temple and then stopped by to see us! 

Below are photos of FF 'glamming up' to look beautiful for her senior photo




And these are the photos of FF's senior photos. 
During the last week of Summer, no tax day for back to school, the moms and kids went shopping and lunch.
A lovely new couple moved into our branch, Eriene and Conrad. We get to see them get married in the DC Temple
FF and Abbey attended a financial class. FF volunteered and answered questions
Da cooked burgers at a youth activity and Jennifer brought one back to Abbey at the door!
Abbey and I had a chance to visit Chen mama and Sister Chong with Mia Liu.
One of Abbey's favorite things to do at home is hop on the swing chair to study and sometimes relax, and even fall asleep on it. 
We invite the youth over to our home quite a bit and they really enjoy the company with each other. 

We also had lunch with Henri Ly and really nice to catch up with him

When FF gets lazy, she gets inventive. She tied two bed sheets together, and using the gag in our stairway, tied one end from the top floor stair base and dropped it all the way down to the top of the basement. With cardboard to keep the backing stiff, she uses it as a chute to transfer her dirty laundry from upstairs to the basement, close to the laundry room!
Abbey accidentally trashed Michelle's Hawaii flag she made, so FF and Joanna took it upon themselves to make another one!

We invited Eriene and Conrad over for dinner and FF cut into a cake from banana bread, added candles for Conrad's birthday
Recently, Max and our family have been taking walks around the neighborhood as a way to maintain good health.
The 2026 school is quiet different for FF. She is also taking some college classes at Montgomery College. She's taking courses at both Rockville and Germantown campus. Her friend, 
Abbey's boss, Cornell, caught some crabs to give to us for dinner. It was delicous!
Mom and FF did some cleaning before school started. They cleaned and moved almost all the boys things out of the room to the basement storage. They converted the room to seminary study room.

Da's work took some professional headshot photos. This one turned out the best. 

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大家好!

It's been another fast week. In the last couple of days in Macau, Francis accepted a baptismal date, and his best friend Ronaldo, who had invited him to church when I had first gotten here agreed to move his earlier to be next week on June 6th. Just this past Sunday they passed their interviews and will be baptized this upcoming Sunday! I have loved my six weeks since serving in Macau and I look forward to seeing them both grow in the gospel.

Since Thursday I've moved out of Macau and am living on the Island in Causeway Bay to serve the Victoria 1 Branch. Instead of seeing families and old grandpas on the street we run into businessmen, shoppers, and tourists, and helping support the six new missionaries in our zone has made the work feel completely different. During a study this week I found this scripture. "And any man that shall go and preach this gospel of the kingdom, and fail not to continue faithful in all things, shall not be weary in mind, neither darkened, neither in body, limb, nor joint; and a hair of his head shall not fall to the ground unnoticed. And they shall not go hungry, neither athirst.” (D&C 84:80.)

One of the things I hope to do is to show this faithfulness and to continue the culture of diligence I have learned from my leaders in the past. It has been a joy to see the Lords hand in the past fourteen months and I feel privileged to have met so many people that have shown me what it truly means to consecrate all of our efforts in this holy work.

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