We had a great family home evening with many members and non members in the Masai Branch with Leonard and his family.  He leaves for his full time mission tomorrow and will be serving here in the Singapore Mission after returning from the Philippines MTC for two weeks.  We had an outside testimony meeting and then, of course, some great food.  Here is our wonderful branch president, Pres. John (in the green shirt).
One of my most favorite dishes, that his wife makes, is a sweet and sour chicken.  It is "sangat sedap". (very delicious!)

 This is sad picture of the garbage just tossed off to the side of one of the buildings.  We were thinking of making this one of our service projects and clean it all up.  We still have to convince our elders to help us.  In Singapore, it is very well kept up and beautiful on the entire island.  In Malaysia, it is a little different.  We saw much of the same thing when we picked up our son from Peru, when he ended his mission a number of years ago.  Every home that we have been in, here in Malaysia, is beautiful and well kept up.  The sweet people are so proud of their homes and it is always a treat to visit our members in both our branches.  Just sometimes, you come across scenes like this.  It is difficult for a housing complex of hundreds of people to try to control the outside of the building. 

 This is a classic picture of me trying to continue my quest for greater patience.  We purchased a small cabinet for the JB Branch.  It will sit up on the podium and will hold hymn books inside of it and the headphone receiver will sit on the top.
We could have purchased it for 89 ringgit, all assembled.  I chose to get it for 75 ringgit and build it myself.  Just like a box from Ikea, back in Utah, you open the box, get out all the pieces and read the directions that have no words, just pictures and arrows.  I'm trying to look at the tiny pictures with my magnifying glass and kept my cool after two hours of working on it.

 We love our missionaries.  This is the third time Linda and I visited the Johor Zoo.  The place is pretty lame and most of the cages have nothing in them.  When you see an animal, it looks underfed and we all sweated like crazy.  On the far left is Elder McCarthy from New Zealand (I don't understand much of what he says with his accent), then Elder Takin (a native Malaysian).  In the middle is our short but cute elder, Elder Robins, then Elder Ferguson and Elder Smith on the end.  The two Zone Leaders could not attend with us due to a teaching appointment.  These are the greatest kids ever.

My final picture, this week, is the normal lines at the Jusco Food store.  You usually have to wait in line for 45 minutes to an hour before you get checked out.  You would think they would get more checkers, but it has never happened yet.  It gives us a chance to visit with people.  We usually go to Tesco Food store with the missionaries each week on our P-day (Monday).  Then, when we are done with driving them around and getting the majority of our groceries, we go to Jusco, where they have great meats and a wonderful supply of fresh fruits and vegetables.  For the three and half weeks without a car, as it was getting repaired, we went to Jusco because they have taxi's right outside the front entrance.  You just pull up your grocery cart and load things in the trunk of the taxi and get back home to our apartment.  If you look right in the middle of the picture, you will see a Chinese lady in bright yellow.  She tried to "butt" in line, but the Malay gentleman in the white shirt in the front of the picture, let her have it.  After some arguing, she got into another line.