This is Yan Hao.  He is our little 5 year old boy who we teach every Tuesday and Friday.  He is a very intelligent little guy and is just like any other 5 year old.  He sits for the first few minutes of the lesson, then gets fidgety and then becomes a bit more difficult to control after the first half hour.  He gets a bit confused with the short "e" and short "i" sounds and has a problem saying the "v" sound.  Beside that, he can do all the phonics rules and reads at a first grade level.  He is full of energy and quite a cute little boy.

 This is Yan Hao and his mom.  She is a great mother, who comes everytime with Yan Hao.  She sits right beside him and makes sure he is behaving himself and doing the work.  The first time we had Yan Hao over, I used M & M's for a reward.  That was not allowed because it was too much sugar.  I then changed over to "stickers" for a reward, and Yan Hao will do just about anything to get a sticker.  He does so very well because his mom takes notes on all the phonics rules and then re-teaches him when they get home.  They live on the eleventh floor of our tower and we are on the 1st floor. 

A very funny experience happened to us last night as we were out visiting and teaching.  We had an appointment with the elders at a less active sister's home just about 5 minutes from us.  It was at 5 PM.  We arrived and introduced ourselves and then the elders gave a brief lesson and we left.  This sweet sister was baptized in Dec. 2010 and has 6 children, but her husband is not a member.  She would take a taxi to come to church, but has not attended for some time.  The odd part of the lesson was when she was asked to give the closing prayer.  She stood up, went over to a book case and got out a very tiny notebook.  Then she sat down, opened the notebook and read the prayer from her notebook.  The elders didn't know what to say and were somewhat disappointed in the whole visit.
After that, around 5:30 PM, we came back home and tried to find Brother Brian and Sister Melanie Chee's address for the GPS unit.  We used "google maps" on the computer and somewhat found the right place.  We left and were suppose to be there at 7 PM.  The computer said it would take 25 minutes.  We would have plenty of time.  As we got closer to the town of Skudai, we missed the exit.  Out here in Malaysia, they hang their freeway signs directly over the exit, with no other signs before that telling you that your coming close to the exit.  We miss exits all the time until you memorize the roads.  Now we are heading west and just kept going without the GPS or knowing where we were going.  So Elder Meister takes over and tells us to "trust him".  We were so lost and ended up near "LegoLand", a very large amusement park some 50 kilometers away from where we are suppose to be.  We called Brother Brian, who laughed when he heard where we were.  He told us to use the GPS unit and find Bukit Indah, which was in the GPS.  This crazy GPS machine will not allow us to put in addresses, for some reason.  It just says, "No match found".  So now we are heading back, after going all over the place under Elder Meister's "trusting" directions.  We were laughing so hard and now it is 7:30 PM and we still have no idea how to get there.  Finally, we come into the town of Skudai and found the Tesco store parking lot, where Brother Brian would meet us.  We finally got to their home at 8 PM, an hour late.  We ate a delicious cold Chinese meal, but it still was really good and Sister Melanie was very patient and calm, after making all these dishes and us not being there on time.  Now here comes that hilarious part.  As we finished eating and giving a brief message from the scriptures, I went out and got the GPS unit so we could enter this exact location for the future.  When I came back in everyone is talking about all sorts of things around the table while I stood off to the side.  The conversation changed over to "subways".  Sister Melanie mentioned that they now have 2 subways in the local area and that Singapore even has one.  I thought they were talking about the underground railway system called the MRT in Singapore, which is a subway.  I began talking about our experiences on the MRT and how packed it was with people and how fast it travels.  All the time, after several minutes of various body gestures on how tight we were packed in the MRT and how the train moves so fast, Elder Meister leans over to me and tells me that they are talking about Subway Sandwich Shops.  My face turned bright red and we laughed till we cried.  Sister Melanie just keep talking about the Subway stores while I was talking about the MRT Subway in Singapore.  I was totally embarrassed and Elder Meister couldn't stop laughing his head off.  Brother Brian and Sister Melanie really couldn't understand why we were laughing so much.  I don't think they got it.  All the way home, which this time took us only 20 minutes, we laughed and laughed so very hard.  I am so stupid.  After we got home, I got a call from Elder Meister, asking if they could "follow" us tomorrow to City Square.  I told him, "absolutely not".  He began laughing again and then I said, "of course you can go with us, but we are not going to Subway".  I actually thought that Malaysia had put in a few underground subway systems in this area of Skudai.  They barely have running water.  I have no idea how I got off the subject, but it was very funny.  Linda is glad to know that there are some Subway Sandwich shops around here.  The only thing is they only serve chicken and turkey meat on their sandwiches, since pig meat (ham) is not allowed in Malaysia.  We'll have to try it sometime.