Here are 4 pictures that were sent to us from Payson, Utah, just 5 blocks from our home back in America.  The church is putting on the Moroni statue onto the top of the Payson Temple.  Our daughter, Rebekah, sent them to us, showing her 4 kids on the bottom two pictures (Jacob, then Karey, then Kaley and Jared on the right).  I wanted to add these to our blog, so we would remember the date and the time, while on our mission in Malaysia.  We have been on the Payson Temple internet site, following the pictures since we arrived.
To think that this beautiful temple will be so close when we get home, and the best part, is it is right next to a Wal-Mart, about 5 blocks north.  Now, that will be the two places we will spend the most time at.
Our week has been very busy here in Malaysia.  We had a young man from the Philippines show up to church on Sunday and made the assumption that he could just stay with us before having a job interview.  We didn't know that the

 interview was on Wednesday and Thursday of this week and that we were allowing him to sleep in our apartment, feed him and drive him to all these appointments.  His "auntie" just assumed it would be alright.  He also needed RM 2,000 for the first interview, to begin paperwork on a "work visa" so he can stay in Malaysia.  By Thursday, we found out that this entire interview was a "scam" and some people were just trying to get RM 2,000 from him.  He was getting the money from fast offerings, but he didn't receive it yet and it was a good thing.  There is a lot of crime and dishonesty here, which is probably the same anywhere.  This young man, Alyzon, then had to get on a bus and return to his aunt's home about 2 hours north of us.  Sad situation.
Secondly, we took our dear friend, Brother Gema to the hospital for a CT scan.  They found a very large mass attached to his right kidney.  He will need surgery and they will find out if it is cancerous or not.  Brother Gema is a great

 leader, here in Johor Bahru.  Many Iban families follow him each week to church and everything revolves around Brother Gema and Sister Eta, his wife.  They are a super family.  The amazing thing here, in Malaysia, is their health care system.  If you want to go to a private "klinik" or to your own doctor or specialist, you have to pay quite a large amount.  But if you use the government doctors and hospitals, it cost very, very little.  A doctor's appointment to a specialist is RM 200.  Going to the hospital and seeing one of the government doctors is about RM 3.  Having a baby C-section cost Sister Madeline about RM 50, because she went to the government hospital.  The only problem is if you have an emergency or immediate need, you will have to wait you turn and follow an appointment schedule according to the governments plan.
Brother Gema needed an ultrasound first, scheduled in Aug.
Then his CT scan was scheduled Sept. 24 and the follow-up was Oct. 24.  He could have been dead by that time.

While all of this is going on with Alyzon at our house and taking Brother Gema to the hospital, we had another missionary transfer since Elder McCown went home to Idaho.  Elder Tan is getting a new "greenie" from China who doesn't speak English, only Chinese.  That should be fun.  Also, we are still working on the Manila Temple Trip in Dec.
It was all going well, then we had to cancel it because of passport concerns, then we worked that out and were on again, and now we had more problems with the records and schedules and temple patron housing.  What a mess.  I think we are back on, but I'm not sure.  With all this, we have to get the flash drives working for General Conference in 3 different languages, arrange for another special conference next week (Asia Area Stake Conf. Broadcast) and I'm writing, almost daily, to Elder Gong, the President of the Asia Area Presidency of the 70 for our District Conference, Nov. 9th and 10th.  It is crazy busy around here.  My new word, added to our list of 450 words now, is "gila gila".  It means "crazy".