Here is the newest edition to our Masai Branch.  President John and his wife, Sis. Alan, had their 5th baby girl.  Her name is Joyee Juffi anak John Korea.  They liked the Christmas carol, "Joy to the World", so they wanted the word "joy" in her first name for the month of December and for the Christmas season.  She weighed 3.4 kilos.  Lots of dark, black hair.  Both mom and baby are doing great and we had fun visiting with them and holding Joyee.  They have already nicknamed her, "JJ".

 Our Masai elders wanted another "P-day" outing and invited us to visit this government building down near City Square, which is near the border of Singapore and Malaysia.  It was quite a neat looking, old building, but we could not go inside to see the interior.  The building itself sits up on a hill overlooking the southern part of the city.

 It is almost impossible to get a picture of Linda.  She hates when I take pictures of her.  I always have to sneak one in, when she is not quite looking.  I happened to catch Elder Capener, with one of his "cheesy" smiles.  I took a bunch of pictures of the government emblem right above Linda's head.  It is two tigers, symbolizing royalty.  Right along side of Linda is a smaller cannon and a really big cannon.  The elders had fun riding them and playing around them.

 Here is Elder Capener dumping the rain water out of the smaller cannon.  Elder Egbert (red head) and Elder Spurrier are behind him and Elder Bester is leaning against the larger cannon.
We had fun getting down to the City Square area and then, trying to find our way home using the GPS unit.  After 21 months in Johor Bahru, we are definitely running out of things to see and do.
Everyone mentioned that the trip to the government building was really "lame", but the company was the best.  We still had lots of fun.

 This year, we attended the JB Branch Christmas party.  Here is our recent convert, Sam, playing the part of Santa.  The kids loved him (or maybe loved getting the presents that he handed out).
We had about 84 people attend the social, which is a huge success.  Many of the people who came were non-member investigators.  That was wonderful.  The evening began with our branch president, Hong Min Tan, giving a brief talk on Christmas and then I gave two short video clips.

 Following the video clips, the elders got up and sang a beautiful Christmas carol.  Our two new elders are right in the middle of the group.  Elder Lebanon is from East Malaysia (Kuching) and next to him is Elder Reynolds from Houston, Texas.  Elder Lebanon's dad is in the Singapore Mission Presidency.  The really bizarre thing is he is also our Masai Branch president's nephew.
President Lebanon Ero is President John's uncle.

After the elders sang, we all got up and had a really great feast, put on by the RS.  We had turkey, ham, pork and all kinds of Chinese and Malay dishes.  It was great.  Following the food, we went back into the chapel, moved all the chairs to the sides of the room and played 3 games.  Here is Elder Lebanon and Elder Spurrier right in the middle of the fun.  Lastly, Linda read the poem, "Twas the Night Before Christmas" where the words "left & right" are used a lot.  Everyone then sits in a big circle and moves their presents left and right until the poem is over and then opens that gift.  Our sweet Chinese people had a difficult time moving the presents left and right, but we all ended up with a fun gift.