We had the wonderful opportunity to have 2 dear friends come and visit us here in Malaysia.
Ted and Kaye Davies, from Spanish Fork, were on a Southeast Asia holiday and decided to spend a few hours with us.  What a great honor.
Ted was one of the greatest bishops I served with up at BYU and Kaye works in the finance dept. at Nebo School District.  We made arrangements to have them come for part of a day, but their plans changed and we could only have them with us for 2 hours.  We went out to a breakfast cafe with them and enjoyed our time together.

 Their trip began as they flew into Changi Airport in Singapore last Monday, then they stayed with some friends in Singapore and toured the sights there on Tuesday.  Then on Wednesday, we visited with them from 8 AM to 10 AM.  The Davies had their neighbors travel with them, Roman and Ann Takasaki.  It was fun talking to them about our mission and the many differences between here and back in America.
They had a driver come pick them up and then they headed off to Melaca, then to Kuala Lumpur and finally they ended up in Bangkok, Thailand.

 This is a great picture of one of our torrential rain storms that we have almost daily, always around 5 to 6 pm.  All through April and May, it rains daily for about an hour and floods everything and everywhere.  This is looking out our little back patio and yard.  When you pass through the gate, it leads to the large swimming pool in our apartment complex.  We did swim the first few months of our mission, since it's 85 to 90 everyday here, but now, we just stay inside and exercise to one of our videos with the air conditioner running.  So nice!

 Almost all the hotels and stores and especially, in all government buildings and banks, you see these pictures hanging inside of them.  It is the king and queen and son of Malaysia.  The government is similar to the British form, where they have a king and queen, but the prime minister really runs the show and is usually seen on TV and in the news.  The only time we have ever seen the king and queen was once on TV, at the National Day events, when they appeared for a few moments.  Still, the people love their monarch and revere him by hanging his picture in their places of business.

 This is Yan Hao's clay car.  This little 5 year old, that I teach every Tuesday and Friday, is the sharpest little guy ever.  We have received hundreds of books from our grandson and other books from local schools back in America.  He has read them all.  He is here to learn better English, but he is very sharp.  So, I went out and bought modeling clay.  Every Tuesday, we build something in the clay, take a picture and then on Friday, we write a story about it.  This has finally held his attention and he loves to play with the clay.  His car is called "Shakespear" from Saturn.

 I had to add these last two pictures.  This is the typical road, in front of all the shop lots or "kedai's" here in Malaysia.  There are thousands and thousands of little stores and markets and little shops.  Our two church buildings are within these shop lots in two different cities in Johor.
During the day and in the very busy shop lot areas, this is the typical driving and car parking that goes on.  It drives me absolutely crazy.  If a person wants to go into a shop and purchase something, or if a person needs to stop by the bank and make a deposit, you simply pull your
car up to the front of the shop and park it, right in front of another parked car.  If the driver of the vertically parked car needs to get out, they simply begin honking their horn until the owner the the car behind them hears the horn and comes out to move their car.  They park this way everywhere.
Sometimes, you can't even fit between the cars to get through the street because they double park, then triple park and sometimes even quadruple park.  How stupid are they.  The elders tell me to try it, but I just don't have the nerve.  When a delivery man drops off water or supplies or equipment to any business, they just pull their lori up in front of the store, blocking the cars that are already parked there and unload their stuff.  Now, to drive down the road, you have to go around them in the other lane.  The fun part is when another store is across from them and a driver does the same thing, completely blocking off the road.  You just have to sit and honk you horn until they move; if they move.  So frustrating.  And, you may ask, where are the police?  They drive right by it and ignore it.