Saturday, January 24, 2015

 Our very handsome Presly, standing behind his mom & dad.  Presly is our 2nd missionary that we helped prepare, going to Toronto, Canada mission today (Jan. 25th).  We had a farewell pot luck dinner for him this past Friday and it was quite the surprise to see his non-member parents come out.  They were so proud to take a picture with their son going on a mission.  Many of our Masai Branch members fellowshipped Presly's mom and dad very well.  We are proud of Presly and wish him the best on his mission.
 Now that our time is coming to a close, our members are inviting us out to eat with them for a last time.  We were invited to eat at the Seoul Garden Restaurant, with Jeff Lee and his wife, Cheryl.  Here is their little boy, Hyrum, chewing on a straw.  You can also see the beautiful Muslim ladies, sitting in the booth next to us, eating their lunch.  The place we ate at was quite popular, with every booth filled with people. 
It was a very large "buffet" meal, with a different twist to it.  You get your plates and go to the buffet section and take all the raw meats and vegetables you want.
Then you bring the raw food back to your booth and place the food either into the bowl of fish broth or on the side circular griddle.  There were all kinds of squid, octopus, fishes of all types and a few nice bowls of raw chicken.  We went right for the raw chicken.  You also bring back lettuce and cabbage, mushrooms, tomatoes, lotus root, crab, oysters and clams, and drop them into the broth to cook.  I really liked the fried tofu stuffed with some kind of meat and vegetables.  The only normal part of the meal, was some ice cream that you could scoop up in a bowl and eat.
It was a unique experience.  We went back only once to get more meat to cook, but our hosts went back about 3 or 4 more times.  Jeff Lee brought back noodles and more greens and mushrooms and all sorts of fishes to drop into the soup mix.  We just watched.  It was very kind of Jeff and Cheryl to take us out to eat.  We ate well and really enjoyed ourselves.

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