Recent Happenings

Work has been good lately. I have been working on a binder project that is more clerical than legal but very interesting. I review all of our emails, documents, etc for a country and decide what is legal advice / important and then place in a categorized binder. The fun part is learning about the Church’s growth / legal problems throughout Asia over the last 5-10 years. So far I’ve done Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Cambodia (which also included Vietnam). Lets just say the work moves in mysterious ways.
On the social front I went to the beach with the YSAs on Saturday. Swimming in the ocean in HK still kind of feels like I’m breaking a rule a rule or something. Whether that’s due to the nastiness of the water or the lingering effects of the Missionary Handbook I’m not certain but its strange. We had a nice time but I had to bail early to go home and do laundry and another couple errands. I invited everyone over in the evening though to watch a movie so they let me depart in peace.
Friday night I took a trip down memory lane. I pulled out my Missionary Weekly Reports (letters to mission president) from my mission and read through all of them. I had never done this and it was a lot of fun. It brought back so many memories of places, investigators, companions, etc. After reading them I wonder if my mission president debated whether I was retarded at times, but I did get a few good jokes in. Even made myself laugh seven years after writing them. I don’t know how it was for other people on missions, but I usually struggled what to write in these.
All in all, life has been good lately and I’m excited for my mom’s arrival in just over 24 hours.
The two pictures are of the beach and a cemetery I passed on the drive back to town. It’s a good illustration of how real estate in at a premium in HK. You can’t even get a good-sized piece of land to be buried in. In fact, I’ve even heard that now it is mandatory that every gets cremated in Hong Kong.