On Saturday, June 14, we had a JB Branch Activity.  The whole branch came out and we flew kites.  It had rained the entire morning, quite hard and we were concerned that few would show up.  By 5:30 PM, we had over 60 members, non members and investigators out with their kites.  The only problem was there was no wind, no breeze, nothing.  The adults ran all over the place, keeping the kites up as long as they moved, but we had a difficult time.  We still had a great time.

 Everyone brought a kite with their kids.  This is Sister Annie with her son.  They brought their "minion" kite. 

 Sister Eunice is in the checkers shirt and Sister Melanie is in red.  Sister Eunice was in charge of this Primary activity.  She is the Primary President.  We home teach Sis. Eunice each month.  She comes over to our apartment and we make her breakfast.  She stays for a couple of hours and we have a wonderful time talking together.

 Here is Sister Melanie again, who was just released as the branch Relief Society President.  The most wonderful lady ever, Sis. Amy, was just sustained as the new Relief Society President a few weeks ago.  She is the sweetest lady in the branch and we just love her.  Her good husband was made the 2nd Counselor in the Branch Presidency.  Bro. and Sis. Kurup are great members in our little branch.

 Here is the cutest sister in the branch.  We brought some kites and just gave them away to some of the children in the branch.  The elders helped everyone put their kites together and we just stood around (or just sat there) and supervised.  I'm good at that.  As long as we show up, the members are happy.  They won't begin an activity or start a meeting unless we are there.  It's kind of silly, but that is how things go out here in both branches.  It was a very humid day, after our morning rain, and we just sat there sweating and enjoying the others running around.

 Here is Elder McCarthy with the blue tie and Elder Smith with the pink tie.  Elder McCarthy is from New Zealand and has the funniest accent.  I usually cannot understand him at all.  Elder Smith is from American Fork, Utah.  They are such hard workers and are doing a great work here in the Johor Bahru branch.  They are our English speaking missionaries, who primarily find people who speak English who are from India or the Philippines.

 This is one of our wonderful Zone Leaders, Elder Earl.  He is also from Utah.  An ice cream man pulled up on his little moto and ran his bell and everyone came running.  He served ice cream cones with chocolate, strawberry and "durian" ice cream.  Just like the real durian, the ice cream stank so badly.  Everyone still enjoyed the cool treat.

 This is our other Zone Leader, Elder Fabiano.  He is from Florida and goes home in August.  He is so fun to be around.  Elder Earl and Elder Fabiano are our two Chinese speaking elders in the Johor Bahru branch.  They have had a baptism a week ago and have another one scheduled in a few weeks.  We love Elder Fabiano.

 Here is the most kites up at one time, with all the dads running their little hearts off, trying to keep the kites up.  We were there for about 2 hours and there was not one bit of wind the entire time.  You could feel a breeze, here and there, but nothing more.  If you didn't keep moving, your kite came down.






Our final picture is the beautiful sunset as we closed our activity.  We had a great time with our little Chinese/English branch.