Monday, April 21, 2014

 Here is a sweet picture of my beautiful bride on our 40th Wedding Anniversary.  We had big plans on April 19th to go bowling with our elders and all the YSA in our District, but no one showed up.  Then we planned to go out to eat for our anniversary, but we got stuck in a traffic jam.  We did end up teaching our first Seminary class in Malay with 8 kids.  So we celebrated our anniversary by getting online and making up our Gospel Doctrine and Seminary lessons in Malay.
She is as cute as ever and we now begin our next 40 years together.  I don't know how she puts up with me.
 The next day, April 20th, is our Easter.  Here in Malaysia, no one celebrates or even knows about Easter.  Even at church, they welcomed everyone to Easter services and then all the talks had nothing to do with Easter.  We couldn't find a ham in a Muslim country like this, so we had some ham lunchmeat and cut it up over a baked potato.  We colored two Easter eggs (brown, of course, since we are in Malaysia) and our yummy can of Spam, which is getting tastier all the time.  A sweet sister gave us some rolls and there is our Easter dinner for 2014.
We see these signs almost weekly at our local Tesco (like Walmart) store, but don't even pay much attention to them anymore.  We love their "phonetic" way of spelling.  In the top wording, the hard sound of "c" is with a "k", since their "c" makes the "ch" sound.  (Bimbit means "mobile)  The bottom wording is with their other unusual sound "sy" which is their "sh" sound.  All the other consonants are just like our sounds and it's fun to read words like "farmasi" (pharmacy), "aksesori" (accessory), "akademik"
(academic), "butik" (boutique), "mesej" (message) and our all time popular one, "kredit cad" for (credit card).

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