My absolutely favorite place to eat, here in Malaysia, is the "Kenny Roger's Roasters".  No one here has any clue who that is, but there are lots of pictures of Kenny Rogers all over the restaurant.   We eat there about once a month or so.  It is quite expensive, being about 30 RM per person or $10.  Most places are only 5 or 6 RM, which comes to about $3.00 a meal.  We love to splurge every once in a while.
Our American places to eat are McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and Subway (relatively new).  They get old, after eating there weekly.  We don't cook that much at home.

Here are Elder Sheranian, with the cute smile and Elder Jackson, who looks like the guy in "Laurel and Hardy"  It was Elder Sheranian's birthday, so we took him out for a nice meal.
He is really a great kid and a hard worker.  He will be leaving us this coming Thursday and transferring up to Kuala Lumpur.  He is not happy with that, since they speak mostly English there and he loves speaking bahasa.

 Here is another picture of our famous duo.  Elder Jackson is out just a few weeks and is doing very well.  He is speaking bahasa better every day and doesn't get nervous, too much.
After this big meal, they both wanted some dessert, so we took them out to get some ice cream at McDonald's.  It has a limited time offer of "blueberry sundaes".  They are to die for. 
Elder Sheranian turned 20 years old.  We sure love our missionaries.  The amazing news is we got another set for bahasa and 4 elders for the Chinese.  We will now have 10 elders here in JB.  Wow!

 Another "tender mercy" of the Lord in our lives.  This is a picture of our Proton Saga, which is all cleaned up and ready to deliver back to the Pacific Rental Company.  We have rented it for the past 8 months for 1550 RM a month or about $550.  It only holds 3 missionaries in the back, even though we have squeezed 4 into the car, with the smallest elder laying over the laps of the other three.  The worst part of this car was it had no pull away power.  When we had just 2 big elders in the back, we couldn't get over the speed bumps.  Seriously!

 Linda took a picture of me in the right driver's side of the car.  You can see that I have to almost duck down to get into the car and keep my head from touching the top.  It is totally weird, having the drivers seat on the right and driving on the left side of all roads.  When driving down their freeway system, they have 2 lanes on the left, 2
lanes on the right, then 2 frontage roads, each with 2 lanes.  That makes 8 lanes, all going different ways, with moto's getting in your way and no one following any signs or speed limits.

 Now comes the "tender mercy".  The church decided to give all the senior couples a brand new car which is purchased and owned by the church.  Here is our 2013 Toyota Innova.  It is an 8 seater and is so amazing.  Now, instead of paying 1550 RM a month, the church is asking us to pay 492 RM, which comes to $150 a month.  We are saving so much money and the Lord just keeps blessing us here in Malaysia.
The only rule, that was stressed to us very strongly, was since this is a church vehicle, we must follow all church policies.

 The first big policy is that we CANNOT transport any members, only missionaries.  We really don't take too many members around, but some of our senior couples become the branch busses and drive people everywhere.  We occasionally drive people around, but not that much.  Now, we can hold 6 missionaries in the back and, if needed, we could squeeze a few extras in.  Here is a front seats.  I love connecting the "bluetooth" and keeping my iphone in my pocket and just press a button the dash and speaking to people over the stereo system.  It also plays all the music on my phone.  So cool!

 I didn't even know that Elder Sheranian took this picture, but it's a great shot of me driving over to one of our service projects.  That's why I'm in my dress down shirt.  We helped Sister Melati moved.  She is 6 months pregnant and her husband works in Amsterdam.  The only weird part, while driving on the right hand side, is the turn signals and the windshield wipers are opposite.  So every time I put on my turn signal, my wipers start going and I have to remember that the turn signal is on the right side now.
Love the new car and the new car smell.

 This is Brother Patrick.  He is Sister Madeline's husband, who is currently out of work.  He is not a member, but was very kind to us while visiting his wife and family.  Six months ago, I was privileged to give Sis. Madeline a blessing, so she didn't lose her baby as the doctor's feared.  She delivered the baby C-section prematurely, but the little girl is in good health now and I got to hold her and play with her.  She was born in July, about 2 months early.  This picture is Bro. Patrick cutting open a coconut, machette off the top and pour out the coconut juice inside.  I didn't try it, wanting to keep my fingers.

My final picture this week is our wonderful Bro. Gema.  Here he is with his 36 staples across his gut, after the doctors removing the 17 1/2 pound tumor.  The doctors gave Bro. Gema a 50/50 chance of living, and with his great faith, the fasting and prayers of the Saints here in the Masai and JB Branches, and the mercy of the Lord, he is doing so very well.  He followed us, this past week to two appointments, bearing his testimony and encouraging others to stay active.
Bro. Gema is our best advocate with bahasa.  He told Linda and me that he will no longer speak English to us, at the end of Dec, since we are speaking bahasa so well.  I hope he's kidding.