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Dad the KL city kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798301328638176472noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749036.post-19684358453402034312022-07-27T00:15:00.026+08:002022-12-12T20:22:46.024+08:00Experiences, lessons learned & personal revelations received during the Covid19 pandemic <p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>To be started soon, whole new experience and lessons! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Postdated comment: The 'soon' took over a month because I realized my frequent updating of my Facebook page and responding to many comments distracted my attention! </b></span><b style="font-size: large;">I've finally started and officially <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/pfbid02mYbnVtTxbdvnY5rq5RwAUeToNn333v5EQRzdXH97AKEdk6c4CiEBDi5dE2JKmFhUl">announced</a> in FB that I would stop my regular posts until I've completed my other important goals of my life!</b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>17 Sep 2022, </b></span><b style="font-size: large;">1.10 pm in Kuala Lumpur</b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzfBb0mMMmO65peFfd3CIEFs5sP7BBjMmbdqE-eYcxSDo5rRkWCsxvWn4ZCiV2le0Rdx6--gOqIQBDQjIZdK6oL3G6wt7mOKYhMH3l_Ew-fx9lenKaMrIXMQvfdVVnTt7_JQSlFtV-nzW96uDyP7DKp2nNoeKoW758c_BJJuiacMuAHpB0A/s308/spirit13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="308" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZzfBb0mMMmO65peFfd3CIEFs5sP7BBjMmbdqE-eYcxSDo5rRkWCsxvWn4ZCiV2le0Rdx6--gOqIQBDQjIZdK6oL3G6wt7mOKYhMH3l_Ew-fx9lenKaMrIXMQvfdVVnTt7_JQSlFtV-nzW96uDyP7DKp2nNoeKoW758c_BJJuiacMuAHpB0A/w400-h362/spirit13.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>My complete COVID era experiences continues from this post to share My Consciousness to my Family and Friends whom I've always loved and cherished.</b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Inspiration made me post this photo in Facebook on the day before:</b></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXtREyTiknvfBepJmB6o19-LIIs9icc-8OZDpu5P-xThLZJex9smBmkKLaqy7IgqQ2i-C5eUW-HFK_X5OqQAmZlrTCfJqLhAd9Ktp11JQyszdwYgGCa_gHIC7ajp1cFP6wMf-GyCwusJ7zYG-h0OR_R5k5dlrlzR4zT10gSTYYuJM-_2HtOA/s1167/spirit11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="825" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXtREyTiknvfBepJmB6o19-LIIs9icc-8OZDpu5P-xThLZJex9smBmkKLaqy7IgqQ2i-C5eUW-HFK_X5OqQAmZlrTCfJqLhAd9Ktp11JQyszdwYgGCa_gHIC7ajp1cFP6wMf-GyCwusJ7zYG-h0OR_R5k5dlrlzR4zT10gSTYYuJM-_2HtOA/w452-h640/spirit11.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>So my account of what I've learned during this unprecedented era of my life begins here. The above newsprint copy that was published on Wed June 11, 2008 has relevance to my life in Malaysia that influenced me to this day to become a writer of truths of life, as I investigate it using what I refer to as God given gifts of my life i.e. being given a Body Mind Spirit for my Human Consciousness.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>To be continued progressively from this date onwards, with constant error corrections, until I completely uploaded what has been in my Consciousness throughout our Pandemic era! (Copy this link </i></b><b style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2022/07/blog-post.html">https://bit.ly/3xwxdd4</a> </i></b><b><i>to return here for the forth coming period of time as I won't be 100% active in Facebook until I've achieved to publish my first official book for real!</i></b><b style="text-align: center;"><i>)</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Continue I will, to note that I had moved the family where the children were all born in Kuala Lumpur, to Singapore for the four younger boys basically for better education and a brighter future. The older two girl were already sent to the US earlier for their education. It was the year 2006 when we decided also that Singapore's <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2006/03/pictorial-account-of-moms-journey-to.html">hospital</a> was the optimal place for my wife Geok Lee to receive treatment for her diagnosed breast cancer. Even before this, Singapore was an <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2005/09/singapore-my-second-home.html?fbclid=IwAR0KKBIgVslzZ2TUlc3z_Y3EZalYco1y2kgkjPTOGwA8SA-7uBgEqqG6QNU">attractive</a> place as a home for our family where I had many friends from school who have already migrated there.</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>We fought the cancer battle for 7 years before the mother of our family passed on to be remembered <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2012/10/touching-lives.html">here.</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Let's move on quickly to lessons learned during the pandemic. A key to learning more was finding a source of true information to even pay or subscribe to it monthly with a sample of a video below with reference to how truths were distorted my mainstream media as well as online media that would restrict truths being revealed to the public such as YouTube:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uwtbn0_b9fo?start=1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://itcgroup.blogspot.com/2005/08/church-press-print.html#av">Click here</a> to see a compilation of videos I've collected that will share the news that mainstream media have been hiding from the world!</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>I do break my silence in Facebook now and then simply because it's my interaction tool with over 2.4k Family and Friends. Interaction is a topic of my research on the subject of Human Consciousness and devoted this website to explain its power <a href="https://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2021/09/civil-society-at-work-before-and-during.html">www.PowerOfInteraction.info</a></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="812" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsunfu.chong%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02K2Gri79Gra4mwg55JhY3qdcketPRXz36XdJNWbnVq12AssWNRBj1P8g89itWwCzEl&show_text=true&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>To be continued...</i></b></div></div></span></div>Dad the KL city kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798301328638176472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749036.post-35445353754842546712022-01-29T02:05:00.041+08:002022-07-07T23:24:18.296+08:002022 A new year for the world still with the COVID-19 Pandemic<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>25 Jan 2022</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #030303; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The Church Historian's Press has released a new volume of the Joseph Smith Papers that includes color photographs and color-coded transcriptions of the Book of Mormon's earliest manuscript. This is the first complete photographic record of what remains of the original manuscript.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vmCbyPga78g?start=1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>21 Jan 2022 published on Youtube<br /></b></span><span color="var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color,var(--yt-spec-text-primary))" style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Muslims and Latter-day Saints: Understanding One Another - Full Broadcast</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BcyyYWRl7yw?start=1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Elder David A. Bednar and Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosted a discussion on Islam at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, on Tuesday, October 19, 2021.
The two Apostles encouraged followers of the faith to better understand the similarities and differences they have with the globe’s 1.8 billion followers of Islam. They also introduced a brochure that outlines the similarities and differences between the two faiths. Watch the full broadcast above.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I was not aware of this event last year but somehow as a long-time writer of journals, I seem to be often 'lucky' not to miss important or relevant events in my life. Let me share a few links from my past journals to appreciate the relevance of <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2013/03/doing-lords-work-on-internet.html#md">Elder Bednar</a> and <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2013/11/met-real-nice-guy-at-church-in-melaka.html?fbclid=IwAR2U_KSuBQcZ1FSFFIevYhZhiZajQiQ6etlpcB0l2kebl-sfhu7Zn-FsAQA">Elder Gong</a> to me in my life.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">22 Jan 2022</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Church News <a href="https://www.thechurchnews.com/temples/2022-01-22/locations-of-churchs-265-temples-six-maps-240436">Publication</a> on location of the Church's 265 temples across 6 maps</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi24n2JmMRvDYNXoxN-5t-VLWKg2jInbjTKh4bCSFkiwyZbqGFxcs2DEr0t75AVT2zFAHsd2qT4G1gDhCTvBtKMTseZS0cJ0iZx8AAqFOF841FDEFNakt8cDrHKcQdYMEuLf28D1mJA3ux2hRJ5ZVdXW7UJcHhmbbBwqM5liUvnLDX00TTAgg=s784" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="784" height="421" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi24n2JmMRvDYNXoxN-5t-VLWKg2jInbjTKh4bCSFkiwyZbqGFxcs2DEr0t75AVT2zFAHsd2qT4G1gDhCTvBtKMTseZS0cJ0iZx8AAqFOF841FDEFNakt8cDrHKcQdYMEuLf28D1mJA3ux2hRJ5ZVdXW7UJcHhmbbBwqM5liUvnLDX00TTAgg=w640-h421" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303;"><span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #030303; font-size: medium;"><b>Going into the third year of the Pandemic, reading this publication gives me spiritual calm. Seeing Australia, Singapore, and Malaysia on the map triggers off unforgettable spiritual memories even from the USA for reasons shared in <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/01/reunions-after-my-mission-service-years.html">this journal.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="sd"></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Sunday 29 May 2022</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">My Thoughts & Feelings of Life on Earth today. Family & Friends are my true Joy!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><b style="font-size: large;"><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlvw19uACXxvceQv0W07ZUaCMKUo_B76cEkEdOP0Cw1oCyPSQADeRFro7g4IiCVU2NTakxWJV6OnklDM9Rr1sfFh_d5QKyDaqN4EjVgpnR2qQt4JkOw-l7IttCNJh5VpXEU9GRscdafKLjDpLBCW8GFBNS2rs-H88rc0CJE1LD2kJPjHDjQ/s2001/ghost6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2001" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlvw19uACXxvceQv0W07ZUaCMKUo_B76cEkEdOP0Cw1oCyPSQADeRFro7g4IiCVU2NTakxWJV6OnklDM9Rr1sfFh_d5QKyDaqN4EjVgpnR2qQt4JkOw-l7IttCNJh5VpXEU9GRscdafKLjDpLBCW8GFBNS2rs-H88rc0CJE1LD2kJPjHDjQ/w360-h640/ghost6.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>As one who has been writing journals consistently since 1979, I felt impressed to read this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/01/reunions-after-my-mission-service-years.html">spiritual journal</a> of mine first before I add my latest thoughts and feelings on this day here.<br /><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>(Note that it will probably only be finished late as I've got a full day with firstly Church that I will attend at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/pfbid02MPhTzffxGGv9VhvH7rBBiwL6mRfdipyZs21aC9cAbUZwLJ4KtvqpNuXm5CY2mdVLl">new building</a> in PJ following which I will be attending a Hari Raya function of my old schoolboys close by!)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2021/09/civil-society-at-work-before-and-during.html">BODY</a> <a href="https://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-power-of-reason.html">MIND</a> <a href="https://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2021/10/power-of-purpose.html">SPIRIT</a> has been the tripartite 'Nature of Man' I started focused research about after my wife passed away in 2012. It was something personal that I embarked on based on my personal life experiences as well as deep research beyond my own knowledge of the world's philosophy, science, and spiritual teachings. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>One very important goal I've kept in life or held a 'balanced' approach to my research was to avoid 'personal biases', especially in two subjects that can disrupt peace in communities or countries, namely Politics and Religion. I hold sacred or respect the choices of others in these sensitive, meaningful as well as emotional topics of life.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="476" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsunfu.chong%2Fvideos%2F1344921689350346%2F&show_text=false&width=351&t=0" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="351"></iframe><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>My intention to embark on deeper research to help teams/companies perform more optimally in business actually began in <a href="https://itcgroup.blogspot.com/">2005</a>. By that time, I had already achieved a number of breakthroughs in my management consulting business for local and international companies.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>The COVID-19 pandemic raised new Consciousness levels in my life with new questions to challenge me to increase my OPT Optimal Thinking & Performance to even higher levels. From last Friday to Sunday today, over the 3 days, I was touched by the following experiences:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>Friday</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>Two long phone calls came to me. They covered paranormal experiences from 2 friends. One was about the Devil and the other about his struggles in life to finally find answers based on Spirituality. Link to the devil story <a href="https://bemoreknowhow.blogspot.com/2021/03/more-mystical-stories-including-miracles.html?fbclid=IwAR3WSteOFD1hTSQ0h-f3_iPDZ9cuU9nnbIJUQc48tMsKiNcLk9RO5LtTDLk#dv">here.</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>Saturday</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>I was spiritually touched to remember to visit 'Kam Fatt' restaurant to meet old friends and view the total renovation of the place. <a href="https://talklanemedia.blogspot.com/2019/04/no-more-blues-for-blue-boy-mansion-in.html#kf">Link</a> to my experience with Kam Fatt of his life and after he passed away.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>Sunday</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>I decided to attend Church in PJ instead of my usual attendance in our KL Church. When they opened up Church for all to participate in our last District Conference, somehow I was never informed especially for the unvaccinated. After a 2 year lockdown, it was wonderful to meet old and new friends there. One of the reasons for going to PJ was also to attend a Raya celebration in the home of a Muslim friend with all other friends from our school. I only have time to share a few photos below to later put them all in the latest Microsoft "Sway" media as done for my family activities <a href="https://familylane2022.blogspot.com/2022/03/prarie-haifeng-wyatt.html#pt">here.</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>My life seems unbelievably busy but also unbelievably happy so I never complained at all. I just have to constantly & optimally plan my time well in my head, without a diary, that is how flexible I've lived my life to be able to do many things like 'Superman' haha</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>PJ Church photos in the new District Centre:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgHIjSMzZqjWB_Q61PSrwmBZs5JdVMzxv92gFTDQ4-822tG5UxVr4GV3Ny8lzd-kpwFkcyV4QBD-NtWupPb04PzRR0mEJOwwjmPY_uEhM8kusl7UTQfCB8-DCt5QcRRo6VSozpjwPQrFYpqARos3yKeIEg1G0IBE-ZGrKmhFYMcT-mVNTvg/s2048/1May22-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgHIjSMzZqjWB_Q61PSrwmBZs5JdVMzxv92gFTDQ4-822tG5UxVr4GV3Ny8lzd-kpwFkcyV4QBD-NtWupPb04PzRR0mEJOwwjmPY_uEhM8kusl7UTQfCB8-DCt5QcRRo6VSozpjwPQrFYpqARos3yKeIEg1G0IBE-ZGrKmhFYMcT-mVNTvg/w400-h300/1May22-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="1280" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigl_oeDbwFgOX-Xbf7zZielf5cVsU2CgVhfkiHXWQk6AtGL4Kk9fkaaBeJt1LAgBzaGGLGvbb6m_HjpW84s7OCYUlckZCoIZh4eQbYGI_k6ABpRii18xDcVgM953jKyrTpDIt-mQ9nYgqqzqgo-8Wvoig4SkjXOuTaJR29VAtG9OSMDIk8bA/w400-h189/sji13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b>Another schoolmate took this pic!</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">I made a statement when I started this post, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">"<span>Family & Friends are my true Joy!" Coincidentally, I came across a research study from Brigham Young University that affirms this. Read about it <a href="https://thepulse.one/2022/05/31/study-suggests-risk-of-death-from-loneliness-may-be-greater-than-obesity/?fbclid=IwAR1ODP4gsau68-hpuGkryP4nCz8bh5EY0V4k0EJ_m2IvRsEsEki0zrGJ7TU">here. </a></span></span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>That's all Folks. From the busy Mr. <a href="https://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.com/2015/12/test.html">TalkLane</a> for now!</b></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>To be continued... "Akan Datang!" </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqzRYwC4OMW03VTVnWcPebmVWcRhuY4kx4ZDMhiMNHGVcA4fO28S3-VMsG-TUCULGNZX96T_6rYkkcuo6uZAQ-7pCHLBa8_qd6L1OWTC1I42KrLsgcxOBwkK3qV173MGq70OachF8ByZ2wJbcswyFwIHVgW5od-DQ33mgRl6v6s9zMOHikg/s2048/1May22-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1538" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihqzRYwC4OMW03VTVnWcPebmVWcRhuY4kx4ZDMhiMNHGVcA4fO28S3-VMsG-TUCULGNZX96T_6rYkkcuo6uZAQ-7pCHLBa8_qd6L1OWTC1I42KrLsgcxOBwkK3qV173MGq70OachF8ByZ2wJbcswyFwIHVgW5od-DQ33mgRl6v6s9zMOHikg/s320/1May22-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>... a continuation of my thoughts during the Pandemic era that started <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2021/06/bringing-it-all-together-during-covid-19.html#bg">here.</a></b></div></div></span></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>On my 'Happy Friday' less than a week later, I got to visit another home related to school again:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div id="mr"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8O-XM_ThDjUWUB2XY7XZgGk-DgKT7s7Y-f1CZPP0Bb5zJN_aKkPbAqa5T023pQDSqomLH55Y0nNaJcj0ivPHDjWujU5l6Xk6TvVdmr2i3Q6tk6nMYTBY-_jxvzX-Swzf5WP4SSKvG-eMshvnfSXJKhN-5-MyHRjUImqPSmu6iu7mscTBeQ/s2048/sji15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8O-XM_ThDjUWUB2XY7XZgGk-DgKT7s7Y-f1CZPP0Bb5zJN_aKkPbAqa5T023pQDSqomLH55Y0nNaJcj0ivPHDjWujU5l6Xk6TvVdmr2i3Q6tk6nMYTBY-_jxvzX-Swzf5WP4SSKvG-eMshvnfSXJKhN-5-MyHRjUImqPSmu6iu7mscTBeQ/w400-h300/sji15.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>I did not attend the funeral of the husband of Mrs. Gonzales as it was during the Covid period when the body of any deceased would not be present but immediately buried. James Edison and I planned to visit her home later and had Mr. David Fernandez accompany us on Friday 3 June 2022. She attended our class reunion in 2018 and gave us a short speech recorded <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9n9HIFzjBw&t=1081s">here.</a></b></span></div><span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Memory of James Gonzales (1939-2022)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcPdchn18MzMStbxbK8U78WjsbvgzZhZcf9D49878xFRtYy-LgCRidpxZTvMtZl6YnzuW_ctpb_Hr57KMv1xX8l1tQnVsXqVNCuFgbLmCHmW0F1T00u1mGyF4x5V9Bskmx4TcNb9o_dfG5uYAgpN6GaozWIS5c221TICclUFsHTbDEeGkWww/s692/sji16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="692" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcPdchn18MzMStbxbK8U78WjsbvgzZhZcf9D49878xFRtYy-LgCRidpxZTvMtZl6YnzuW_ctpb_Hr57KMv1xX8l1tQnVsXqVNCuFgbLmCHmW0F1T00u1mGyF4x5V9Bskmx4TcNb9o_dfG5uYAgpN6GaozWIS5c221TICclUFsHTbDEeGkWww/s320/sji16.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A good account of his distinguished life can be read here published by <a href="https://aliran.com/thinking-allowed-online/james-gonzales-1939-2022-outstanding-johannian-teacher">Aliran.</a></span></span></div></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Dad the KL city kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798301328638176472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749036.post-24013851680242551342021-06-27T17:28:00.044+08:002023-03-15T13:09:11.253+08:00Bringing it all together before and during COVID-19<div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Before the Pandemic era.</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Some Memories & Events</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Facebook shared an auto memory from the past which I like to share as an introduction to this post. It triggered my consciousness to create this post.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>This memory is of my second son Shuan, finishing his two year voluntary <a href="https://goo.gl/rTQqPO">mission</a> in England to return back to Singapore, with a stopover first to visit my second daughter in Boston.</b></span></div><div id="fb-root"></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="826" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsunfu.chong%2Fposts%2F10226984914988365&show_text=true&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It reminded me of why he served a mission to follow his older brother Han, who followed his older sister Su, where maybe my joining the Church as the first in the family to do so may have started the chain reaction. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RImEX1zeus8?controls=0&start=1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I used the photos he had sent to me in his weekly emails home that I transferred to journals starting <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/07/mission-letters-home-from-elder-shuan.html">here</a> that ends <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/07/mission-letters-home-from-elder-shuan.html#bt">here</a> for example. I then used it to share a voice recording above of a long entertaining talk by Cleon Skousen who also explains how it is possible that a Savior could pay for the sins of everyone on earth, consistent with the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ. The scriptures can be found in this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html?fbclid=IwAR1o2JBHIUmOCHPgQ-KyBMgSPJ2LNECTFHX8X7rT8xANJAtLjz24-oHr0gw#vd">journal</a> where the above video is shared. Transcript of his talk can be read <a href="https://josephsmithfoundation.org/audio/the-meaning-of-the-atonement/?unapproved=198304&moderation-hash=ef94b859d23d7cbb62afe8aee1b80018&fbclid=IwAR04tWFjzs1OiOeUldgcutJ8By_dcMWuXTUPGgu41p8conMLi7dFFxhIpk8#comment-198304">here</a>.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The original video of Cleon Skousen with his voice used is shared below:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1pjKxWgtK6M?start=111" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Now I didn't need Cleon Skousen's talk and scriptures shared to know that Jesus Christ is real or that he really atoned for Man's sins. All I had to do was to exercise faith in the Savior, keep his commandments and receive personal revelations direct from him which happened over 40 years ago recorded in my Spiritlane journal that starts <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html">here</a> to be continue to this day. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Now FaceBook uses something called "Pattern Recognition" which in a more technical term from the computer science world that uses algorithms or computer codes to read and record the behavior or interest of the human user. The objective is of course to direct advertisements that match the recorded interest of the user so that the advertisers paying FaceBook would get more positive sales responses. It is a Win Win situation for everyone including the ordinary FaceBook user like me who enjoys all the benefits or the features of using the social network for free! However I don't just depend on FaceBook media alone to store or share my well researched information of life or human consciousness especially of my own! I have my own online journals that has no advertisements to share my own discoveries like an understanding pattern recognition subject found <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2021/02/2021-first-post.html?fbclid=IwAR0DuxHTe7jf96crztz1Jqzy0OgQcMtFKgKyTSHkU0kMwkqynolrCnyp5RM#kg">here.</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Now why did I explain all of the above? Well it's simply my<a href="https://habitlane.blogspot.com/"> habit</a> since young to learn good or useful things that benefited me and later always shared freely with family & friends. They are therefore free of charge and will not have any distracting advertisements common in social media sites today or have algorithms that will lead the reader to a post by a sponsored customer of FB.</b></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>From my old journal, I could recall the visit of a newly called Apostle of the Church, Elder Neal A Maxwell, that I got to meet during my mission days while serving in Singapore. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCgTkj2ASvjbO9a-2Tdw5gyHRxU-wNLsvl462TjW6SdGuRcmzwHfqeR_oQ9eW2kK4nUSfBAbRxlTyvNOSbUqsVJ3pexMLMV5jpWcPMBX9AsuXxjGGQEUqzMMYTwUCNYeQ5sJx1/s582/scan14b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="382" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCgTkj2ASvjbO9a-2Tdw5gyHRxU-wNLsvl462TjW6SdGuRcmzwHfqeR_oQ9eW2kK4nUSfBAbRxlTyvNOSbUqsVJ3pexMLMV5jpWcPMBX9AsuXxjGGQEUqzMMYTwUCNYeQ5sJx1/w420-h640/scan14b.jpg" width="420" /></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The exact day of the event recorded in my book journal is 27th Aug 1981.</b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0rYXlUS4Qa9vUcHyAGCOtWBEuM4t6kFSYSK0ZRU11zCWY6sDyAha43zv90JYXYwhV82zidqA5woTe_Esmz5cKZiTH4-OhC-Hx_qdTt9ZI2xoIjIiPTXbiZdBXzuJ_R-kh3-Ze/s502/spencerWKimball-calling.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="397" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0rYXlUS4Qa9vUcHyAGCOtWBEuM4t6kFSYSK0ZRU11zCWY6sDyAha43zv90JYXYwhV82zidqA5woTe_Esmz5cKZiTH4-OhC-Hx_qdTt9ZI2xoIjIiPTXbiZdBXzuJ_R-kh3-Ze/w506-h640/spencerWKimball-calling.jpg" width="506" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>He was called by the same Prophet of our Church who had issued me my mission call, President Spencer W. Kimball who greatly influenced me to write journals as per this article of his <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1980/12/president-kimball-speaks-out-on-personal-journals?lang=eng&fbclid=IwAR3j2fuulHry0oofYYMma4vzRFkCCje3013v7QkPltAhBjpJjsO2ZHVNvFE">here.</a><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/94QY9BipQZo?start=1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Elder Maxwell is indeed a spiritual and eloquent speaker who highlighted the important restoration work of the Prophet Joseph Smith.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzQIyKnJnc24Zlu023ncW0yql-lPQPS9vFK2_exSmed9aIG-O6yQRLy3DeyrAEZW0hcIMCLoGITihQ-AEr_z67XpvjXnMiQ6FUYOLpPzK9E3A_vuSHZ_TEui6fN2OdGYGkv4mB/s720/Journal-miracleOfForgiveness.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="528" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzQIyKnJnc24Zlu023ncW0yql-lPQPS9vFK2_exSmed9aIG-O6yQRLy3DeyrAEZW0hcIMCLoGITihQ-AEr_z67XpvjXnMiQ6FUYOLpPzK9E3A_vuSHZ_TEui6fN2OdGYGkv4mB/w470-h640/Journal-miracleOfForgiveness.jpg" width="470" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The prophets of our modern day seem to continue the great work of the Savior in preparation for his second coming. President Kimball's book and life touched me immensely in my own life that I brought this old book for a talk I gave in KL branch shared in this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2022/04/test-apr-20.html">journal.</a></b></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmh8CxhiatTFOWhoIbjgv7yvc3ri1YpvtAsLsheLH93bqaMiLnzRTv_RjKPWb74fqSqb1yc_heOR9RTgAQ1SjWfa702gxMtzGvz7eEvLXxTw619rXQuzbA9Z_y6mBwkQzgo8vR/s4864/P1080734.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="4864" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmh8CxhiatTFOWhoIbjgv7yvc3ri1YpvtAsLsheLH93bqaMiLnzRTv_RjKPWb74fqSqb1yc_heOR9RTgAQ1SjWfa702gxMtzGvz7eEvLXxTw619rXQuzbA9Z_y6mBwkQzgo8vR/w400-h300/P1080734.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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She gave birth to her 2nd daughter Anya in April, just over a month after the world became locked down!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div id="bg"></div><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Beginning of the Pandemic</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Now the pandemic came as a surprise in the first quarter of 2020, in the month of March as recorded in my <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2020/04/first-2020-familylane-post.html">familylane journal</a> My journals and book writing project slowed down as more time was spent on deeper research in the Body Mind Spirit (EQ IQ SQ) of Man's tripartite nature that I had configured. At best, I could share all the journals of my life, which is ongoing all the time anyway with updates, collected at <a href="https://abacuscloud.blogspot.com/2018/01/photolinks-to-story.html">www.AbacusToCloud.com</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>This book caught my attention from my library as it covers the Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament as well as in the Book of Mormon which includes the teachings of Isaiah. Reading Isaiah's teachings in the Book of Mormon was like going through a "Desert" stretch that I found difficult to go through in 1979 when I first joined the Church. It was like having a preference to read the New Testament instead of the Old and when reading the Book of Mormon, I would read through the "Desert" stretch quickly with a desire to get to the other stories that I could understand better!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Like a miracle, this book came to my attention during the Pandemic! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivolqtX0le4QInlb7uY9bKcSv8MlX22JNwVbf10OOD5GBNqnI2FBALgZezumW6KMJYZQjhs5VH8L5wHujlWukskC-uoepTTzhW-XbcwjDl-fh2wqUXLaFlGi8w6I_xqiTHB8fg/s960/LastDays-journalphoto.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivolqtX0le4QInlb7uY9bKcSv8MlX22JNwVbf10OOD5GBNqnI2FBALgZezumW6KMJYZQjhs5VH8L5wHujlWukskC-uoepTTzhW-XbcwjDl-fh2wqUXLaFlGi8w6I_xqiTHB8fg/w480-h640/LastDays-journalphoto.jpg" width="480" /></b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Then with online technology, I could find the video below and update myself of the work and life of Avraham Gileadi from his website at <a href="https://isaiahinstitute.com/">www.isaiahinstitute.com</a><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/187942085" width="640"></iframe>
</b></span><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://vimeo.com/187942085">Isaiah Vignette 5 - Avraham Gileadi</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/latterdaymedia">Latter-Day Media</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixA-17CGKtgr8DwQW2ImMBAyWINuDa6VBg2dUu8qK9mS1rliJ1lhJavmmSA1YH4KcxEU9VkqUtkIlSlVMRUEMsZyfyft9oF4PVuPRdOzAm1-4BkMEagkRUsPIciV3NAwpgiybD/s2048/Planted2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixA-17CGKtgr8DwQW2ImMBAyWINuDa6VBg2dUu8qK9mS1rliJ1lhJavmmSA1YH4KcxEU9VkqUtkIlSlVMRUEMsZyfyft9oF4PVuPRdOzAm1-4BkMEagkRUsPIciV3NAwpgiybD/w480-h640/Planted2.jpg" width="480" /></b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>During the pandemic, I had definitely more time locked down at home or in my office library to be inspired to pick up books I wanted to reread that further enlightened me during this unprecedented era of my lifetime!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiog9gl2AgzhZa6-I6WS-n7rkh33EZu31QRsekzBBgKVVe-4xzqExyg2LvVFbkyI692PLR5DTwLb75vxD5T7sp9dmF6UGiw-HxpC746PxJxgjylOOF221F1f0cp7YGL360Ec1x/s2048/office1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiog9gl2AgzhZa6-I6WS-n7rkh33EZu31QRsekzBBgKVVe-4xzqExyg2LvVFbkyI692PLR5DTwLb75vxD5T7sp9dmF6UGiw-HxpC746PxJxgjylOOF221F1f0cp7YGL360Ec1x/w400-h300/office1.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBqaFt9IzYVXynWiu2RtJ0_FtwsLM6t_nOCz0Y_xpptvwHsV8ww1STqucQt_f7pMgV9ikBZ0z3NJc4Hh42JabkGzNDQ0b-b4ktuyVXBvWotEsqszD183jofzv7fVmqgBRMA9dK/s2048/office2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBqaFt9IzYVXynWiu2RtJ0_FtwsLM6t_nOCz0Y_xpptvwHsV8ww1STqucQt_f7pMgV9ikBZ0z3NJc4Hh42JabkGzNDQ0b-b4ktuyVXBvWotEsqszD183jofzv7fVmqgBRMA9dK/w400-h300/office2.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Everything was like 'OPT Optimal Performance & Thinking' sequence for me before and during the Pandemic! I can design/customize anything to suit the season of our times. I had acquired the ability of pattern recognition in reading as well as in receiving my personal revelation to guide me in understanding spiritual truths. </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>On COVID-19 vaccines, from my memorable experiences as a child of always being sick with fevers at a young age with doctors giving me different colored medicines and even coming to our home at night to sponge me with water to reduce my high fevers, I learned early to avoid taking these chemicals. I even suffered from boils going to early elementary/primary school where there were no medicines given to me. I just pierced the boils when they were large enough to burst to squeeze out the puss!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>From then onwards, I just found my own way to be healthy by eating well, being involved in all types of sports or exercises for physical health, and always emotionally happy to be surprised from adolescence to my mature years, I became immune to common coughs, colds, fevers, etc! I mustn't forget the power of <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html">spirituality</a> that I had acquired just as I turned twenty-one too!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Combined experience with all the knowledge I had acquired in my education, with years of personal online research on the topic of 'Human Consciousness', I had many never-ending 'Aha' moments to guide me through life! The simple habit or acts of '<a href="https://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2021/09/civil-society-at-work-before-and-during.html">interaction</a>' I discovered in my research were a big part of my source of 'OPT' skills way beyond my real natural self!<br /></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>22 Sep 2021</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I was 'set apart' as 1st counselor in the KL Branch Presidency by President Royce Tai from the District</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>26 Sep 2021</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>First Young Men's zoom meeting</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDk6RzYxl5ErCCspvlszyjFvM6ZbhAobsPSnb-HUx-9I-D0hYIkB4yiUpPElX4h8JqbhydvaOYqgQp6jLGf180haC6xcy7mIFVN-XvidJUZ3UypB8UJdI2mM7VXdAarONMBea3/s1354/26Sep2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="1354" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDk6RzYxl5ErCCspvlszyjFvM6ZbhAobsPSnb-HUx-9I-D0hYIkB4yiUpPElX4h8JqbhydvaOYqgQp6jLGf180haC6xcy7mIFVN-XvidJUZ3UypB8UJdI2mM7VXdAarONMBea3/w400-h170/26Sep2021.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div id="ls"></div><b><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Last Quarter of 2021</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Several events occurred in the last quarter that would prepare me for an expected awesome new year of 2022. I as 1st counselor and my 2nd counselor who were non-Americans was released by the District and the new ex-pat members in the branch were called to replace us.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Having the privilege to have read online the latest in our Church Handbook of Instructions and noting the changes that have occurred since our latest Prophet, President Russel M. Nelson was called to be the Church President, I could appreciate the change. The branch presidency role has altered since I was called as Branch and District President many <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2011/09/leading-with-spirituality-and.html">years ago</a>. They are to spend more time with the Young Men & Women of the Church and in KL branch, from the photo above, most were children of the ex-pats in our branch. For the adult men and women, the Elders Quorum President and Relief Society President would be the ones overseeing them.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Now I have all my life been busy with Family, Business & Church. With the changing world and conditions, the roles in my life have been changing over time recorded <a href="https://itcgroup.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2005-08-09T12:03:00-07:00&max-results=400">here.</a> Thus in just the last quarter of 2021, I got myself <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2021/06/birthday-celebration-for-fei-and-ern.html#av">ready</a> for the new era of my life from 2022 onwards.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div>Dad the KL city kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798301328638176472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749036.post-81331542113625499162021-05-06T09:44:00.030+08:002021-12-29T04:21:29.382+08:00Happy Birthday to my Mother<div id="fb-root"></div>
<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Dear Ma,</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Happy 100th Birthday today which is relevant even though we had a <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2007/11/story-of-two-weddings-birth-and-funeral.html?fbclid=IwAR3w3aD18La51BhyoE4YpvyBBOk3__KTvdlNvq4hkxbEOAheqfViWgTkPB8">funeral</a> for you when you passed away at 60 years old for three main reasons. Firstly, you chose to accept the Gospel and to be <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/05/to-face-family-at-home.html">baptized</a> at your own will, so we share a common belief that Man(including woman) still lives on after death as a Spirit being until the resurrection. This is to take place during the prophesied end days of our world which seems closer today! Secondly, as space and time is still measured by Man on earth, it makes sense to me that you would be celebrating your 100th Birthday today as I'm still alive on earth following earth time now in Kuala Lumpur. Last but not least, today is a Thursday which I've designated to be my <a href="https://consciousnesslane.blogspot.com/2021/04/deep-learning-change.html?fbclid=IwAR1qPqI78OW7JyXaqTuhQ3sLT36fEiFjTqFXU6WoDVUlr1lgNsWMb6gYUNI#dy">Deep Thinking</a> day so I remember your birthday and like to share my heart with you and some thoughts. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>In August last year of 2020, I solved the mystery of where the black and white photo of you and I was taken at, who kept this photo since young till today. </b></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcoGqhwOWmbYNdFYnhLjI0ZTZdXCe9wq8qBbldWKHEw0ApL6cBU6mMcEnHcKfzfgdXWmgBiXeC38aRz6xnQ_31MNjLEmJtogJAwr6Srn88ZQlle624sx5EScYd7LPmAW5v-R5n/s2048/mother-sf-growth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1533" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcoGqhwOWmbYNdFYnhLjI0ZTZdXCe9wq8qBbldWKHEw0ApL6cBU6mMcEnHcKfzfgdXWmgBiXeC38aRz6xnQ_31MNjLEmJtogJAwr6Srn88ZQlle624sx5EScYd7LPmAW5v-R5n/w400-h300/mother-sf-growth.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10224139078004219" data-show-text="true" data-width="500"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyviJoEebLvYt-69UXlOCAlHCt1mKo-no88wCOfkE0_oO-5PQV7-gHZn1OSO_dze9GP4e8vVfqr8Y0lJJ5kJKERG-i_U7a5spOzbYFoKWk3BxkD7nu6va-PdVJ7x-8xI6_bka/s1782/P1100491b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="997" data-original-width="1782" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCyviJoEebLvYt-69UXlOCAlHCt1mKo-no88wCOfkE0_oO-5PQV7-gHZn1OSO_dze9GP4e8vVfqr8Y0lJJ5kJKERG-i_U7a5spOzbYFoKWk3BxkD7nu6va-PdVJ7x-8xI6_bka/w400-h224/P1100491b.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>More details of the day trip to the island can be found in my Facebook post <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10224182108079944?fbclid=IwAR2W-ZtBXY9xrxyX8G7j5kqX5mt8UmdO5bX45_HM6Lf_ntIxvf0LF4TrQiM">here.</a></b></span></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10224139078004219" data-show-text="true" data-width="500" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10224139078004219" data-show-text="true" data-width="500" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The ability to unravel this mystery happened in the most unique time of my life and that is during the world COVID-19 pandemic that started in early 2020. Before going to Melaka, I went up to Penang to visit Moon Lean, my oldest sister.</b></span></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10224139078004219" data-show-text="true" data-width="500" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-kK4MpN34pRh6Fv7xylxyaWiKNstveIxR-T6ctAVsKoWT3iRPLpKFP1TAc8bkwROcacvG0xALxqDVKSf377gbn4VU_w2vYSAmLhUOra7NjTkEhquL5gUDYpaXAc0Reb4biRWT/s5472/Penang-2020-Covidbreak.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-kK4MpN34pRh6Fv7xylxyaWiKNstveIxR-T6ctAVsKoWT3iRPLpKFP1TAc8bkwROcacvG0xALxqDVKSf377gbn4VU_w2vYSAmLhUOra7NjTkEhquL5gUDYpaXAc0Reb4biRWT/w400-h266/Penang-2020-Covidbreak.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I was visiting with my former mission companion David Soon whom you know. We were serving in <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/06/meeting-my-foreordained-missionary.html">Malaysia/Singapore</a> in 1980-82 with a unique opportunity as pioneer missionaries who were able to visit our parents, now and then! </b></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6FAaAaXAuBcg6JokSTQihvStHbmJ9ZS1nsRdwZMqy2z7nllkVn-yfsFt7xjQsJhY_WylFU53r42bKnHPvDjfjGXh1LhHo4eS2CwhgnieZlXUKIlQxPsfZeqFouxHPDMdz6nh/s2048/DSC07245b.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx6FAaAaXAuBcg6JokSTQihvStHbmJ9ZS1nsRdwZMqy2z7nllkVn-yfsFt7xjQsJhY_WylFU53r42bKnHPvDjfjGXh1LhHo4eS2CwhgnieZlXUKIlQxPsfZeqFouxHPDMdz6nh/w400-h266/DSC07245b.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It was through sister that I got to know my mystical cousin Ong Chin Hooi who has psychic powers who had passed away on 12 Nov 2019. Since young I had always heard about the mystical things that Penang island seem to possess but living in the modern city of Kuala Lumpur, I was too preoccupied with my life to find out more. In my latter years, I took time to discover and recall to create a special journal to cover this aspect of life found at <a href="https://bemoreknowhow.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-challenge-for-human-race.html#bk">Be More, Know How.</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I know you are aware of these things, being born in Penang but following Pa with his well educated western background, I guess you are less exposed to the experiences as compared to oldest sister who lived there all her life since birth.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDEwdsErDMk2If62nqYo3WRHUPyjtt_ut2vtGqQJrcWx9FSYEDzsX8ESxFS7OPrwLb9o5DvSfyfPVS733M59gwbV53JvBKVWbduQYPQAHIT3xb9VE7FMiSsGLmWRAzI67G4j8G/s4864/P1110222.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="4864" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDEwdsErDMk2If62nqYo3WRHUPyjtt_ut2vtGqQJrcWx9FSYEDzsX8ESxFS7OPrwLb9o5DvSfyfPVS733M59gwbV53JvBKVWbduQYPQAHIT3xb9VE7FMiSsGLmWRAzI67G4j8G/w400-h300/P1110222.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>After Penang and then Melaka, I decided to go camping Aussie style with my Malaysian friend you've met in Geelong...<br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtOelmHJmMYv9M9OyEuMnhuiQXGSa81-GwAHyNaLmuF74N1TLqf-9_a7qsqahnv3NchvHmUxYKfz2ZeVW5Vmv4QDtYvKzlD2cHC8TbiCCjy6SJYdlfwrIzdxhLfEtaorRQadx/s732/family-8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="732" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidtOelmHJmMYv9M9OyEuMnhuiQXGSa81-GwAHyNaLmuF74N1TLqf-9_a7qsqahnv3NchvHmUxYKfz2ZeVW5Vmv4QDtYvKzlD2cHC8TbiCCjy6SJYdlfwrIzdxhLfEtaorRQadx/w400-h274/family-8.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Remember your trip to visit me in Geelong during summer of 1978? Tong Leong my 'sifu' seated closest to the camera who taught me everything about outdoor life in Australia is seated closest to the camera. He had become a citizen of Australia and decided to go on a "Malaysia 2nd home" program where he could live in Malaysia with his family.</b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZRYCMue7ifBF_0DLdBE-VYpb3IWscMC6ObAlqXL787Hcge0aueat1l2Wded4vvazHbc-fQfD2q0-Y4rh5QtZ5iu5McVKpCqBgswuyC-qK205d_qbPix3_vIrw1pvCnU6FWdkm/s732/Airport-SubangInternational-friends-19770222.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="732" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZRYCMue7ifBF_0DLdBE-VYpb3IWscMC6ObAlqXL787Hcge0aueat1l2Wded4vvazHbc-fQfD2q0-Y4rh5QtZ5iu5McVKpCqBgswuyC-qK205d_qbPix3_vIrw1pvCnU6FWdkm/w400-h274/Airport-SubangInternational-friends-19770222.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Standing 2nd from the right is his younger brother who was my outdoor buddy for bike riding, camping etc who is also from the same school together in St.John's. This pic was taken when I left for Australia for my tertiary education in Feb1977. I am always close with my friends and have a habit of organizing reunions in small numbers or large groups as shared in this <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-letterblog-post-of-sharing-my.html?fbclid=IwAR3kIeW9z08jIify-vBPQAbB_IHNrKu_f3bdZpiBlB9xsa-DOqwBERXCuZI">journal.</a><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGDd9t_7Ov_udHi0egqBVEqm8VOo42s76ov0w7RxvtFhPq11gD7CTXrg47BagBGwYEsj5iw-gltJMIJPpn1tkNcC8kKjI0CZESIBBae0Erdr3KEIJYEKBxupYGNYrswxCn5qlk/s1600/Collumbarium-Mandai.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1600" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGDd9t_7Ov_udHi0egqBVEqm8VOo42s76ov0w7RxvtFhPq11gD7CTXrg47BagBGwYEsj5iw-gltJMIJPpn1tkNcC8kKjI0CZESIBBae0Erdr3KEIJYEKBxupYGNYrswxCn5qlk/w400-h268/Collumbarium-Mandai.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>As you are aware, the mother of our family Geok Lee or my wife passed away on 6 Nov 2012. I'm sure you would run into her somehow in the spirit world. I don't hear or receive vibes from you as much as from her until lately when during the pandemic, we all seem closer to the other side of the veil as we call it. From Geok Lee, the strongest connection was during the disappearance of the MH370 recorded <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-body-mind-and-spirit-of-man.html">here.</a> </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6O9RWn9c3rzwm8GrtWQ-PvzwdhV_STNWDQBTvWwKg3yeXUvgzmjmuPYeCqJsWcFBpt3Qvk0ElB31z172Ws6lvOIEQiiC9JBGCLMb6X7fDdufjlrN0qYjzA6EfX130YN6qG3B8/s2024/anya7-1stBirthday-17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1518" data-original-width="2024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6O9RWn9c3rzwm8GrtWQ-PvzwdhV_STNWDQBTvWwKg3yeXUvgzmjmuPYeCqJsWcFBpt3Qvk0ElB31z172Ws6lvOIEQiiC9JBGCLMb6X7fDdufjlrN0qYjzA6EfX130YN6qG3B8/w400-h300/anya7-1stBirthday-17.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Well from my side, you have six grand children and two great grand ones as of today! Under the Lord's guidance and the Spirit of Elijah, family history work and seeking our ancestors has made good progress. Today technology has definitely advanced greatly to make everything that was once impossible become amazingly possible as shared in my family journal <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-spirit-of-elijah.html?showComment=1378732194834">here</a> with Geok Lee.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjINn-GrrYfJEklRLfAsen-kFOoIYMfjPg2ZjVxkB7Ld8CRkRahE5LuFRYs1VXa3-R3VG56dO_0SseYAiPKQ_slz6XVAjYnQ7BzrnSk3os5j6jlbWbxibeARlvoAEJsYjHCs1aX/s1247/temple-spore.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="1247" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjINn-GrrYfJEklRLfAsen-kFOoIYMfjPg2ZjVxkB7Ld8CRkRahE5LuFRYs1VXa3-R3VG56dO_0SseYAiPKQ_slz6XVAjYnQ7BzrnSk3os5j6jlbWbxibeARlvoAEJsYjHCs1aX/w400-h150/temple-spore.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>At the last General Conference of the Church on 4th April 2021, which happens to be Geok Lee's birthday too, it was announced that a Temple of the Church will be built in Singapore! We used to have to take a plane to fly to a Temple of the Church to participate in temple ordinances but no longer once the temple is built in Singapore! In the temple, I always feel there is just a thin veil separating the living from the dead. Everyone in Singapore and Malaysia were overjoyed to hear the <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2021/02/2021-first-post.html?fbclid=IwAR1TCpdLowJ_FKEdu8rg3noZ8m_NMKZJRYy8i1GG9jQafgH23s3nqfloBBE#bd">announcement.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8qipY89QaFxLM_qLzQdAwOi8dfrvSPbtdfAU7eKTKk9EFlGSCQDljgloP2Ngj5Jemjj_hjzyLd_oMDLssHCiWcDqkvXfYVMu1d2qPTFaZkM1453bR4VQLBoE4C_1Mz5rl7_jp/s471/198104-zklbranch-CannonsReplaceStokers-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="471" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8qipY89QaFxLM_qLzQdAwOi8dfrvSPbtdfAU7eKTKk9EFlGSCQDljgloP2Ngj5Jemjj_hjzyLd_oMDLssHCiWcDqkvXfYVMu1d2qPTFaZkM1453bR4VQLBoE4C_1Mz5rl7_jp/w400-h293/198104-zklbranch-CannonsReplaceStokers-2.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I am grateful that without any persuasion from me when I came home from Australia in Feb 1980 to inform the family that I would be serving a voluntary 2 year mission for the Church, you choose to take discussions from the elderly couple missionaries to prepare to be baptized.(KL branch photo dated April 1981)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhfvIG9n1cOYxUjFGmsrdM6BPpBfEZm8zITX49lGZ0FNSB_C5qn9pFpMZAM7Mw7FkOy19TBAbScQsvXy-FJwH8cn9W0dP93DzNK5568xGrjK5f4YlSAMVHED6vZNUK0TKP29AX/s1024/mother-sf-home-klAirport.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhfvIG9n1cOYxUjFGmsrdM6BPpBfEZm8zITX49lGZ0FNSB_C5qn9pFpMZAM7Mw7FkOy19TBAbScQsvXy-FJwH8cn9W0dP93DzNK5568xGrjK5f4YlSAMVHED6vZNUK0TKP29AX/w400-h300/mother-sf-home-klAirport.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>This photo is dated 30th April, 1981 recorded in my early life <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/05/to-face-family-at-home.html">journal</a> that has a copy of your baptism certificate too.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzJ8tHR-NCwsDSvY21kyP3g3nDMlBmuB8yNSEImoLy0GmO_8iNlWch2AjLHxfX3nn0q7otnUdfcVkSL1VeDrX6_luLid6LkUxKkJtP0RhguFwt_9oq_lSmm9ZIATZnF8Hj-ls/s731/GL-mother-19Jul1982-MsiaTrip.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="731" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUzJ8tHR-NCwsDSvY21kyP3g3nDMlBmuB8yNSEImoLy0GmO_8iNlWch2AjLHxfX3nn0q7otnUdfcVkSL1VeDrX6_luLid6LkUxKkJtP0RhguFwt_9oq_lSmm9ZIATZnF8Hj-ls/w400-h274/GL-mother-19Jul1982-MsiaTrip.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Love you very much Ma and happy to know we can all be together again one day with <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2012/10/touching-lives.html">Geok Lee</a> too.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>God bless!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Boynie/Sun Fu/<a href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=%22Dad+the+KL+City+Kid%22&start=0&filter=0&cad=h&fbclid=IwAR3G_ArfZfjYFSM_6kfWvG0ebhsciRbNQBrmMvKJVbEipb2negWi7sSnBYY">Dad the KL City Kid</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>In the year 2020, the church members world wide focused on the study of the Book of Mormon <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/come-follow-me/individuals-and-families?lang=eng">online</a>. In 2021 the focus is on the study of the Doctrine of Covenants. Watch the video to learn why the study of the two books are important:</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c9bH3mfmhwI?start=0" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBGwcCYpJdudod6hd7Jcv0npxgC90p5v67W_9ggxpjDpVq7Rg-5LXBK2tekrGAwgDa0ibu-grkfOkJel0DjEcAmTx_30M8CDAzhLtYKHXWyOdRxS_95t3awT1YXUPzqDHAaJU9/s1243/7+Feb2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="1243" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBGwcCYpJdudod6hd7Jcv0npxgC90p5v67W_9ggxpjDpVq7Rg-5LXBK2tekrGAwgDa0ibu-grkfOkJel0DjEcAmTx_30M8CDAzhLtYKHXWyOdRxS_95t3awT1YXUPzqDHAaJU9/w400-h346/7+Feb2021.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Rushing out to shop in the city on Sunday morning? What's happening Sun Fu Chong???</b></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The answer is simply my excitement in life at this time of our world pandemic that allowed me to be lost in time where I could do more Thinking and some thing else that came to me as a personal revelation at the start of the new year of 2021, I was continuing to be Seeking as I've always been doing in my life time explained in a special Consciousness journal I created <a href="https://consciousnesslane.blogspot.com/2021/01/as-man-seeketh.html">here.</a> So the simple answer to my gross error was I was too busy engrossed in my seeking activities of my research and wasn't thinking about normal schedules of the week as the lockdown totally freed my mind from them! I actually experienced what my research was informing me. Quantum physics has shown that <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332625345_Quantum_Consciousness_Spirit">space and time</a> are illusions of perception! (Note: Underlined words when clicked provides more meaning or elaboration)<br /></b></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I am blessed with verified knowledge & personal experience from the <a href="https://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.com/2011/07/introduction-fastlane-is-about-mind.html?fbclid=IwAR3XO13l2TA2zwGqUqE74bha9vRl1S-wb9EPYXo1JyRFf7XMStm9zPtLJd8">past</a> and<a href="https://bit.ly/30qrynt"> present</a>. I am blessed with a vision of the future that is deemed spiritual, the S of BMS. B is body with feelings/emotions that assist with memory in the limbic lower area of the brain while M is for the Mind, the processor or creator of principles & systems found in the upper brain or cortex area or even outside the brain as per the phenomena taught by Descartes.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>How one domain interacts with the other can only be fully known when Scientists and Spiritualists agree on what is the truth of Life or maybe simply answering the question, "Who Am I?" We are moving into the 2nd year of lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic that is still not under control in Malaysia and many parts of the world. More people are accessing the internet in this era of time when physical activities of people interaction or travel has been very much restricted.</b></span></p><div id="kg"></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>When there is less physical activities in my life, I tend to become more *intellectual and spiritual*. Allow me to briefly share some continued miracles in my life that occurred online and even offline just in the past week of this February month. My intense focus on unraveling the mystery of Human Consciousness led me to find a Dutch man named Michael Rogge through his website entitled, <a href="https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/">MAN and the unknown.</a> He has produced over a thousand video clips shared in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSoPLkmWb7wLC3OXDWCietA">YouTube.</a> Photos can be found in <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/12350343@N04/">Flickr.</a> More on this new special friend from Holland later.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Let me begin first on the series of things that were happening in this February month including finding this Dutchman... Well we have all heard of the term algorithms used in computers. With my research on human consciousness, I'm discovering they're talking today about algorithms in our brain in neuroscience too. The basic definition of an algorithm is simple: a step-by-step set of instructions for solving a problem or performing a task explained simply<a href="https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/computer-science/algorithms/1/"> here</a>. From this basic principle, it has led to amazing creations or inventions by Man for example in areas of our concern like <a href="https://uofuhealth.utah.edu/innovation/blog/2015/10/10AlgorithmsChangingHealthCare.php">healthcare.</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>In the month of Feb 2021 for the Chinese new year celebration of the Ox year, Malaysia was under the most extreme conditions of an emergency lockdown by the government. More time was spent indoors where I have noted earlier, from the past year experience, I become more intellectual and spiritual!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Example of the series of events how computer algorithm led me to interact with what I believe to be a set of algorithms in my brain follows: </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>1) Some conversations on the net via WhatsApp on the passing of an old school teacher named Mrs Kang at 82 years of age led me to create a <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-letterblog-post-of-sharing-my.html#kg">memorial post</a> for her though she never taught me in my old school of St Johns but she was senior enough that most students knew who she was. The family had opted to have a private wake as well as burial since we were under emergency MCO where only family members could gather. Information was circulating in the various old school WhatsApp groups that enabled me to pick up sufficient content to complete the memorial post. I did find out that the family were using the funeral parlour near my home in KL but due to the family request that it should be attended by family members only where it was a time of SOP from the government with the emergency MCO in effect, I humbly complied.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>2) I decided to visit the <a href="https://www.malaysia-traveller.com/kwong-tong-cemetery-kuala-lumpur.html">Kwong Tong cemetery</a> nearby where they have the Pagoda columbarium where the ashes of my father and sister are kept. </b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaj-3dW0afJGc2M6jeET3DUBR12r6csAiJ5TvR9gNbo6U5jmc-7QgqbJcggZHf1X1k9wpfXqQ_n3-WyZAPtfGHX0DyCxwGGhhDylcXeCTWnlIMnOmypdY_VUA7BYihtMh-mvn5/s2048/crematorium1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaj-3dW0afJGc2M6jeET3DUBR12r6csAiJ5TvR9gNbo6U5jmc-7QgqbJcggZHf1X1k9wpfXqQ_n3-WyZAPtfGHX0DyCxwGGhhDylcXeCTWnlIMnOmypdY_VUA7BYihtMh-mvn5/w400-h300/crematorium1.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>When I went home, something started happening to tell me it's occurring again. What is that one might ask? I could answer in two ways. One is that I'm living up to my Chinese given name, 山福 Sun Fu or Mountain of Luck. The other is I've broken the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine">Enigma code</a> where I actually watched a movie on this topic during the pandemic year of 2020 about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game#:~:text=The%20Imitation%20Game%20is%20a,The%20Enigma%20by%20Andrew%20Hodges.">Alan Turing</a>! So I seem to be able to continue unraveling or solving puzzles of life that others can't seem to do it but I could.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Well personally, from living for so long and doing my best to record my life as one who was always <a href="https://consciousnesslane.blogspot.com/2020/12/james-allen.html">Thinking</a> a lot on my own since young to later go out to <a href="https://consciousnesslane.blogspot.com/2021/01/as-man-seeketh.html">Seek</a> for the answers, I consider myself really lucky to be endowed with both! What actually happened when while my mind was focused on this sister who died so young, a friend of hers from school who lived in the neighborhood when they were young and later met up again as adults in Australia later on in life, connected to me on Facebook out of the blue during the Chinese New Year celebration! A <a href="https://www.oneworldmemorials.com/blogs/news/whos-at-home-in-your-closet-stories-about-cremation-ashes-at-home">paranormal</a> incident perhaps? If I had the time, I could add this to my <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-of-7-continuing-into-2011.html?fbclid=IwAR1mUQLtMk2H_s6vJHUk-_cdKqs23bU5Y-Klz4vYvDXYqGsuxVrqeiu5JrM#al">Story of 7</a> journal where I have been too busy in life to update it with all my miracle stories when they happen!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I had the chance to ask her so many questions interacting with her online almost daily! She helped me fill in all the blanks I had when I tried so hard to help my father, who passed away first and then this youngest sister who had been living out on her own most times as an adult! She did go to Australia and met this old friend too for a couple of years before returning back to KL! I was in contact with my father all my adult married life and have this <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2008/06/reflections-on-fathers-day-with.html?fbclid=IwAR0kWkX8fck35URtsxaZQ0XoBknjgRLzZg1Bpx6rjc7Kv_krQZPjDwgpM90">special journal</a> to record my meeting with him a year before he passed away. I had bought an office on the same floor as his, after starting my own <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-memory-of-steve-jobs-and-dads.html">business</a> that began with a small room at his office, so I was never far away over the years.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>3) So this Chinese New Year of the Ox, was the first that I was really locked down on my own away from my family members outside Malaysia who were also locked down at the start of 2021. The pandemic in 2020 only started after the Chinese New Year and I had visits in KL from my oldest daughter and husband earlier from the US and then the four boys came up to visit me from Singapore later. My second daughter was expecting her second baby in a few months so we didn't expect her to travel that year. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>However, being the Chinese New Year celebration, I could still move around the city and was invited for dinner for the Eve as well as on the First day of Chinese New Year by close friends to help me feel the Chinese New Year spirit! With all the children outside Malaysia, we have always been getting together online for various celebrations or special occasions. Here is my <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2021/01/first-2021-familylane-post.html#ox">journal post</a> of how I traditionally ushered in the New Year of the OX, offline and online!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Now let me refer to the Dutchman mentioned <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2021/02/2021-first-post.html?fbclid=IwAR3p0m5a7V5jda_ExzBptS-QjF6S7lNA3B3wFKkFMJym5hmgseYgw_KrNOI#kg">above</a> named Michael Rogge. I came across his <a href="https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/">website</a> that got me excited as for the first time, after so many years, I found someone who was interested in sharing his online work on the same topic of Human Consciousness with the difference that he is 91 years old. This is over 30 years more experience in life than me. He has also traveled the world where he had filmed his travels of the past to convert them to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSoPLkmWb7wLC3OXDWCietA">YouTube</a>, over a thousand two hundred of them!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X3RgTqynpEg?start=1" width="560"></iframe></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I could even find a video of Kuala Lumpur he recorded in the year I was born! Isn't that cool? I have also embedded the video above, compliments of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/michaelijsbrand/videos">Michael Rogge</a>, in my Independence Day <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2007/08/merdeka-or-indpendence-day.html">journal post</a>. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Soon we began to exchange emails regularly where he responded well to my usually direct questions to him. I informed him that I did visit Rotterdam and Amsterdam in my early years where I could share this <a href="https://explorerlane.blogspot.com/2021/03/european-adventure.html#hl">travel journal</a> of mine with him. I had the good fortune to start travelling the world since I was 18 years of age and while he was using a movie camera in his travels, I didn't have that privilege in my younger days but I had the camera. To me these photos or videos(later life) capture the feelings embedded in my Consciousness that when I go through them years later, it augments my memory in life to link everything that happened to this current day to really be able to answer the question "Who am I" without the need for a third party to inform me or to start seeking for the answer in my advanced years!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Though I didn't get the opportunity of using imaging technology in my younger days, I'm most grateful today that in 1977, I opted to study computer science as a major in my business course in Australia. That allowed me to learn a technology that eventually revolutionized the world that I could share with my own family when I came of age to start my own IT and consulting business. It helped me achieve many breakthroughs when I chose to become an entrepreneur early in life. Today in my young sixties, I can connect with the world to learn and continue to share as much as I know or understand, organized by my <a href="https://transpersonalpsychology7.blogspot.com/2020/07/my-story.html?fbclid=IwAR0DtPfdGJ32prPu1iGqoeqVnzqmXShgcbj3Wr0dECkRe2vQN9GshbMklQI">own</a> algorithm just as how Rogge did <a href="https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/musings.html?fbclid=IwAR2ugF7ArEUOx3iESfOtuA0Ib39hIHa7ByjE06sxKhEg8dv_EYqt3J6oe3A">here</a> using technology, amazingly in his nineties! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>To find Michael Rogge after so many years I know is not by chance as it was already in my algorithm mentioned above. I have been reading his amazing writings on the topic of Consciousness of our mutual interest since the start of our Chinese New Year! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="sg"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I had let my pattern recognition of algorithms, explained <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2021/02/2021-first-post.html#pr">below</a>, to do the work of first reading his voluminous subjects put together like a concise encyclopedia on Consciousness, from research and experience of his own! We started to also regularly write to each other where I'm the one asking him questions and he has responded well. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="qs"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>There were the first two important questions I felt impressed to ask him that I felt if he were to inform me, I would be able to comprehend or get an idea of his Consciousness. First I asked if he was ever married and raised a family and second was whether he was spiritual or follows a religion. He answered negative on both to me and to be fair to him, I introduced myself as a family man and spiritual man who is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He did acknowledge that he did follow <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy">Theosophy</a> until 1958. On further scanning the web I could learn that "The purpose of Theosophy and the aim of Theosophists is again to revive interest in these fundamental truths of religion which lie beneath the ritual and external forms, the picturesque and man-made garments with which they have been clothed." (<a href="https://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/christ/xt-meek2.htm#mystery">Ref</a> : From this reference, I can see that Theosophy isn't so much of a religion but an academic way of attempting to explain the many religions that are found in the world!)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UY0phC91Vg4?start=1" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I watched this video to have a clearer understanding of what Theosophy was about and yes it is an academic exercise to explain religion! He also mentioned his interest in the Indonesian practice of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subud">Subud latihan</a> with an excerpt of his email as follows:<br /><br /> "As my grandfather was minister in Surabaya end of 19th century and his sons were also staying in Indonesia I’m saturated with stories about life there. I’m also reading a lot of its past history. Chinese played an important part in its development. I helped introducing the Indonesian practice of the Subud latihan in the West in the fifties. One of the latest books I bought is on the phenomenon of stone ‘rains’ in Indonesia. There are a number of accounts of suddenly stones coming down indoors in houses from two meters’ height. Also Theosophy had its biggest lodge in Indonesia, with Chinese. Indonesian (president Sukarno) and Dutch members. I was myself a onetime member until 1958. "</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It is interesting for me to read that the name "Subud" is an acronym that stands for three Javanese words, Susila Budhi Dharma, which are derived from the Sanskrit terms suśīla (good-tempered), buddhi, and dharma.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The meaning depends on the context in which they are being used. The original Sanskrit root words are defined differently than Pak Subuh indicates:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Sanskrit</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Suśīla: "well-disposed", "having an amiable disposition", "good-tempered".[4]</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Buddhi: "intelligence, mind, reason".</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Dharma: the Law that "upholds, supports or maintains the regulatory order of the universe".</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Pak Subuh</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Pak Subuh gives the following definitions:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Susila: the good character of man in accordance with the Will of Almighty God.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Budhi: the force of the inner self within man.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Dharma: surrender, trust and sincerity towards Almighty God.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It is interesting for me to read the above as years ago when I started my research in 2003, I derived my own 3 word definitions with some elaboration <a href="https://familylane.info/3pillars/">here.</a></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div id="pr"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Soon I was ready to use my technique of computer/brain algorithms mentioned <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2021/02/2021-first-post.html#sg">above</a> to analyze the Consciousness of Rogge in relationship to mine. These algorithms derived from computer science is equivalent to the brain science of psychology named as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition_(psychology)?fbclid=IwAR0yEtgp5cxSQGeav4PfJK4dlUh7rRXg4IzOX72WBrp1Cx1EgsxlUbiG_T0">pattern recognition</a> that I believe I am also using. In my life long learning habit, I came across something science is still discovering further in self-organization in the realm of molecular biology known as Biomimetics or Stigmergy explained in more depth <a href="http://indecs.eu/2011/indecs2011-pp39-55.pdf">here</a>. (<a href="http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Stigmergy-Springer.pdf">stigmergy</a>) </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>With my pattern recognition connecting with algorithms on my computer that leads me to my own information database, plus my latest awareness of molecular biology, I could scan all the information Rogge has shared in his website <a href="https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/musings.html?fbclid=IwAR3FnpRfgSEF8ZG_L6Gky714A5B3Vh0AemSxup9UMOpzpD5uSPwXhFdNAOA">here</a>. He seemed to have similar interest with me for deep knowledge where he has continued updating his site even in 2021 when he turns 92! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I knew he had written a lot on Science and shared a lot of information on different religions. He particularly singled one he named as "<a href="https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/christmyth.html?fbclid=IwAR0QwILz3mWpXa1wU5dYt7Kps6rEaS-FH4q3-s3NLmQ9GgR62zpca8k7gMU#CONCLUSION">Christian Myth</a>" that shared the roots of 2 other major religions of the world which is Islam and Judaism. He also shared another page entitled, "<a href="https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/psymove.html">On the psychology of Christian Movements</a>" where he shared a 3rd party negative hypothesis of the founder of our Church named Joseph Smith. He was apologetic to me on email saying, "My apologies once more if I have offended your belief " and I wrote in my reply email, "I respond to you quickly to know that my Consciousness today is such that I can't be offended by anyone easily especially if it is about religion. Thank you again for sharing such straightforward and sincere answers or commentaries as that is optimal for me to learn from you, of your life as well as Holland that I just passed by in the winter of 1976 to know it was a most unusual country but never had the chance to return!"</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>From his response to my two questions <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2021/02/2021-first-post.html#qs">above</a>, his answer being that he was never married and neither did he follow any religion, it confirmed my feelings that he was an atheist or one who does not believe God exists. It also explained his lack of appreciation of a long term relationship with a real human being as a marriage partner in life. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>After spending time scanning his volumes of scientific writings, reading in detail several of them, I would like to share this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Goldstein">link</a> about a very smart Jewish woman named Rebecca Goldstein. She is a highly educated academician, born from a family of conservative Jews and became an accomplished author of non-fiction and fictional books. She became an interest to me due to my interaction with Rogge as both are very intellectual and seem to regard themselves as atheists. I've observed that the people of the western world who are more advanced in science and technology with their intellect somehow believe less that there is a God or spiritual beings compared to the Eastern world. A Jew can still believe in God and the Savior like this Jewish woman sharing on this <a href="https://youtu.be/eilWJr8ygLI?t=21">video.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Having said that, it doesn't mean intellectuals do not believe in God. They may or may not. My research included finding a most unique information philosopher with his knowledge shared <a href="https://www.informationphilosopher.com/lectures/">here.</a> He also has one of his books in pdf version found <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bob-Doyle-2/publication/332593721_Great_Problems_in_Philosophy_and_Physics_Solved/links/5cbf666a299bf120977ac46b/Great-Problems-in-Philosophy-and-Physics-Solved.pdf">here.</a> He teaches that there was a creation phase but no creator. Now read this <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/FINDING-MY-RELIGION-Bruce-Lipton-cell-3302382.php">story</a> of a cellular biologist who believes there is a God with his detailed explanation in a long pdf file found <a href="https://www.sfsu.edu/~holistic/documents/biology(2)-1.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0RPi4sYoUfhbEdebCsEohHN9ln_XQr_H92QlaOs_hxqyDBIGlzvTUV6Xw">here.</a> Latest science in a video of <a href="Epigenetic VGood explanation by 2 hosts presenters on youtube https://bit.ly/3rsGEUQ">epigenetics</a> explains greater understanding and limitations of the DNA. There was of course a rejection of the evolution theory by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejection_of_evolution_by_religious_groups">religious groups</a>. In short, Rogge's position as an atheist from his point of view in light of the great controversy in the world whether there is a God who created the world or not is of no surprise. Nor would his decision not to be married as not believing that God exists would certainly make marriage seem an unimportant act.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div id="it"></div><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I don't consider myself an intellectual or an intelligent person in as much as I can read and figure out intellectual principles using my intuition or algorithm that I created myself and with sufficient repetition can even memorize them. As I was the youngest in my family with a large gap in age with my siblings to interact with, I had much time alone to be an <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249986320_Sociological_Introspection_and_Emotional_Experience">introspective</a> person. As I grew up and found similar age of friends at school to interact with, only then I felt more a complete or whole person! Little did I know that this interaction habit of mine with others some how increased my personal knowledge and capabilities acquired from other human beings.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I like to note that those who interacted with me could be positive agents for me and themselves. However, now and then there will be the negative agents who I believe due to lack of control of their own personal emotions chose to disrupt or challenge my peaceful life. I noticed that in the long run, they hurt or sabotage their own lives, self-esteem or relationships. Law of Karma seems true like truths taught in many religions of the world that I study and respect. Laws of the universe are after all definitely basically true and consistent with variations only due to the Consciousness of the master teaching them during the time of the world when they lived and the followers who may have slightly distorted or misinterpreted the original teachings if there was no systematic or technical way of preserving them for time and eternity.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="pt"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It took many years later before I learned how to interact with the Spirit or non-visual personages. I started late as my focus from young was on intellectual education. When I was about to finish it, I <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html">started</a> to explore spiritual education. I was so impressed with the new pattern of learning that I continued to work on it to apply it in my personal life and later for my family to clock over 40 years of knowledge and experience at this time of writing. The video below explains about this "pattern of light" :</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="//players.brightcove.net/1241706627001/default_default/index.html?videoId=1834376766001"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I also felt I could work or interact with gadgets, equipment etc. that are man-made including computers linked to the modern science of Quantum Physics today that I have been researching. I was just amazed how an ordinary person like me could do so many things successfully at my own pace. I truly am genuinely or humbly amazed of my accomplishments, knowing fully the weaknesses of the Body and Mind that I have. Just work hard and Never Never Give Up was my belief thanks to the examples of many close to me.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It prompted me to have the desire to learn even more to call it my life's continuing personal research that could help others do the same once I have perfected it myself in knowledge & practice! I know that is possible as all my life, I've been sharing and teaching others to perform and be better and they did! I know as I'm always connecting with them whether in person or online as another long time habit of mine. It led to findings I call the tri-partite nature of man due to my constant interaction activities in these 3 areas given Chinese sounding acronyms as follows:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">First there is my Body (EQ) important for relationships or feelings</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioBuNaf_Aykj3OyBi4u574D1kUKRf75WVXwRyRTUSUIwzb1gYhK1o5wy8s3B_P17OUsqSFuT9audOaxZBqzj7-LuAyDc2sqCUt4KqVX6cS7f9jYZHXqypqNMHHnTNbcr06UIixow/s728/dualism-merge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="728" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioBuNaf_Aykj3OyBi4u574D1kUKRf75WVXwRyRTUSUIwzb1gYhK1o5wy8s3B_P17OUsqSFuT9audOaxZBqzj7-LuAyDc2sqCUt4KqVX6cS7f9jYZHXqypqNMHHnTNbcr06UIixow/w640-h235/dualism-merge.jpg" width="640" /></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">WEI is the acronym I use to represent my strength in "Western Eastern Interaction" relating to people of both worlds to establish good relationships.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Second is my Mind (IQ) important for reasoning or logic</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaR1EKOrbbIougY2N48MnCHIwP35u0gW4IxwK37s9H7Qi1T7x4u76mv_sSGeWhTxP1e_9lggVrqhTnDGVlC-fX1gSF2sOT0ks-sSOfkdmJzPoxS9jL8P14BK8nW0C5bEvyrmPVqA/s728/dualism-merge2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="728" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaR1EKOrbbIougY2N48MnCHIwP35u0gW4IxwK37s9H7Qi1T7x4u76mv_sSGeWhTxP1e_9lggVrqhTnDGVlC-fX1gSF2sOT0ks-sSOfkdmJzPoxS9jL8P14BK8nW0C5bEvyrmPVqA/w640-h235/dualism-merge2.jpg" width="640" /></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">CHI is the acronym I use to represent my strength in "Computer Human Interaction" relating to algorithms.</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Third is my Spirit (SQ) important for faith and openness to find true purpose of life.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK9C8yjLHVe1wL82M1G7UieoeMT2M68knLBdAAfwKbK2YVqRvhUUnv5M4esVn5ZRtM50tOheEO-7ZprJfh4rdus0CqgKyFJE6GubHr0An2DfV8Py5CuM6RG9wO66eR2DH_x5ZCzQ/s728/dualism-merge3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="728" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK9C8yjLHVe1wL82M1G7UieoeMT2M68knLBdAAfwKbK2YVqRvhUUnv5M4esVn5ZRtM50tOheEO-7ZprJfh4rdus0CqgKyFJE6GubHr0An2DfV8Py5CuM6RG9wO66eR2DH_x5ZCzQ/w640-h235/dualism-merge3.jpg" width="640" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">SHI is the acronym I use to represent my strength in "Spirit Human Interaction" relating to divinity and purpose of life</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I use the word 'interaction' as found in physics where the fundamental interactions, also known as fundamental forces, are the interactions that do not appear to be reducible to more basic interactions. There are four fundamental interactions known to exist: the gravitational and electromagnetic interactions, which produce significant long-range forces whose effects can be seen directly in everyday life, and the strong and weak interactions, which produce forces at minuscule, subatomic distances and govern nuclear interactions.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I acquired very good Western Eastern Interaction(WEI) experience, having been born in Malaya just after independence from the British to have travelled frequently between both worlds. With my Computer Human Interaction(CHI) skillset, I have been able to keep up with technology and the fast-growing information that comes with it. Last but not least, I'm grateful for the wonderful years of Spirit Human Interaction(SHI) as a priesthood holder in my faith and my interaction with many people of different faith and religions, to appreciate more of what we have in common than our differences.<br /><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://familylane.info/3pillars/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="1149" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Mo0JWCUpLcERMzaYcX2oIXbUOsuoPqMAKcXaN-pttF7bgf1gFUsU2-FD3TuKN4PeO57EeE9SMosr365TQHT0wA-Poasp7_XAd8uHbWJTeRv2G0TBhK4ywLPxT9oHozMgPE8d/w400-h208/BodyMindSpirit3.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1sf-472jZy9Ln_8FdzHidgwTSg0ZQ7AhrTQqnYnc9dr0/edit">Click here</a> or the photo above to see how my photo pattern figured things out!</b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">17 Mar 2021</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My Dream state and Interactions with Michael Rogge</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>A very unusual day indeed where after I share some brief content on this day, it needs to be continued in my Transpersonal Psychology website. It will be more appropriate to share my breakthrough experience of figuring out the algorithm or pattern recognition of the mind of this very intelligent Dutchman that has captured my attention since a few days before the Chinese New Year celebration.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I create this simple chart to help me be more aware of the time, event and our ages, his being more relevant, of our similar activities in life with relevant links given to his shared history online that I have read where possible.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My Age Rogge's Age My year/s Rogge Year/s Event </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>13+ 41+ 70s 70s Me - Karate, Roge - Taichi</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>19+ 57+ 1977 1986 Studied Computer</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>39+ 67+ 1997 1996 Used Internet</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>48+ 77+ 2006 2006 Used YouTube<br />61+ 91+ 2021 2021 First met online </b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://wichm.home.xs4all.nl/amsterdam1.html">Rogge's early years in Amsterdam</a> (<a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2007/08/merdeka-or-indpendence-day.html">My early years in Kuala Lumpur</a>)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9A134A7027ECB650">Video profile of his life's achievements </a>(<a href="https://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.com/2015/12/test.html?fbclid=IwAR10_lYxvY4D2WoIG7Xra8dal0lxvQQciu32Vmm7jADkTEEiOWR5OP6RRrE#dm">Life's achievements of tripartite nature</a>)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSoPLkmWb7wLC3OXDWCietA">His YouTube videos in one account</a> (Mine in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/fastlaneinfo/videos">Account 1</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/FamilylaneInfo/videos">Account2</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/SunFuChong/videos">Account3</a>)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It was the Easter weekend and our Church General Conference would start on Saturday 3 April at 10am Utah time which would be 12am or 12midnight on Sunday 4 April in Malaysia and 6pm on Saturday 3 April in Amsterdam. I figured out this time zone differences for reason that I did send an email to Rogge informing him of the 10am Church conference session in Utah so that he could click the link that I sent to him if he was interested to watch, being the Easter weekend too.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="bd"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">4 April 2021</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">General Conference of the Church</span></b></div><div br="" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10226314321663951" data-show-text="true" data-width="500"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10226314321663951" class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>My Happiest Day! A Temple of our Church has been announced to be built in Singapore!!! https://bit.ly/3mlKzSM</b></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/glKPnRSXTkY?start=24004" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It's my happiest day not only because the Lord's temple is going to be so close for all of us living in Malaysia and Singapore, as announced by the Prophet in the above timed-video, but also Geok Lee's birthday is on <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2016/04/on-moms-birthday-today.html">4 April</a>. Whether she is alive or in the spirit world, she is still <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2012/10/touching-lives.html">touching lives</a>!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/glKPnRSXTkY?start=6697" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The blessing of having the General Conference during this pandemic Easter weekend is we could get more people around the world to participate in the online conference. I was touched to hear and see the faithful saints from around the world, young and old, speaking or singing that brought tears to my eyes when I watched the above timed-videos!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">
<div id="rv"></div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">26 Apr 2021</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">April 26-May 2 Doctrine and Covenants online lesson</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with a dream that quickly disappears. I might want to pick up my phone to read our online weekly lessons if I can't go back to sleep immediately and I did exactly that to capture what exactly happened and what personal revelation I received as follows:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Extract from Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>By President Russell M. Nelson, from April General Conference 2018 (<a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2018/04/revelation-for-the-church-revelation-for-our-lives.29?lang=eng#29">Ref</a>)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>"Pray in the name of Jesus Christ about your concerns, your fears, your weaknesses—yes, the very longings of your heart. And then listen! Write the thoughts that come to your mind. <span style="color: red;">Record your feelings</span> and follow through with <span style="color: red;">actions</span> that you are prompted to take. As you repeat this process day after day, month after month, year after year, you will “grow into the principle of <span style="color: red;">revelation</span>.”</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMZV1scoYo8WDX1cJNnfsVmNP3xIBljKDey2lLJ0ZTwcexvKNuFZqptkDdCrqoT_O9VXEKh-A1e-a1yZgTPa50i2e_8-ziig3gs-HtynLUBo9XR42BI_sSN0HpAdeXmeWL26S-/s592/Revelation-2018-04GeneralConf-Nelson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="592" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMZV1scoYo8WDX1cJNnfsVmNP3xIBljKDey2lLJ0ZTwcexvKNuFZqptkDdCrqoT_O9VXEKh-A1e-a1yZgTPa50i2e_8-ziig3gs-HtynLUBo9XR42BI_sSN0HpAdeXmeWL26S-/w640-h258/Revelation-2018-04GeneralConf-Nelson.jpg" width="640" /></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>(Screen shot from my phone)</b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs65pzNPo1u252q_AeNP3dB1xtx40BOsLc-NnWmcvY18fnbdimDMOjcLtZatqxKOLfA1xOFzEbt8n5ezouwfwwhJVDNjuM-BdyKi9FqIY66GWgsPkmxpJLbrF6Sgt-oDovo_la/s1365/Revelation-2018-04GeneralConf-Nelson-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1365" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs65pzNPo1u252q_AeNP3dB1xtx40BOsLc-NnWmcvY18fnbdimDMOjcLtZatqxKOLfA1xOFzEbt8n5ezouwfwwhJVDNjuM-BdyKi9FqIY66GWgsPkmxpJLbrF6Sgt-oDovo_la/w400-h196/Revelation-2018-04GeneralConf-Nelson-2.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>(Got out from bed to use my PC as there are more tools I can use to create this post to record what happened early Monday morning of 26 April 2021 at about 4am according to my computer screen shot)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It was exactly what I did since I joined the Church over 40 years ago to learn about <span style="color: red;">writing</span> paper journals that were converted online <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html">here</a> under the Spiritlane name I had chosen to later in the year 2021 include all the other journals I had written over the years in a collective website in line with latest technology available at <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html">www.AbacustoCloud.com</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>As you repeat this process day after day, month after month, year after year, you will “grow into the principle of revelation." were the key words I read in bed on my phone to get up and update my latest journal online with my PC, to <span style="color: red;">record my feelings and actions</span> to follow. I am also reminded why I've been blessed for so many years for things I have <span style="color: red;">acted</span> out as recorded <a href="https://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.com/2015/12/test.html?fbclid=IwAR0yx2J8ZRUzZwauosfyUPt7DGS0xWuza2IqWPq83sHK4TD14m6k345T_tU#dm">here.</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It all started with just these two screen shots of what I read from my phone in bed early on Monday morning!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnRKeiXOYmJUR5Wu-B5uGZ_HOWquuvBMIf0R0L3nOn51pvd_SKdoKLAorP_E7Ag_uDw3PwMuf90vzm5xPaY6HkOEArIg-IpMb2DhnnDgdnZ6-2pFCuIr7tm8cl0jN3vdST6yEG/s2048/Revelation-2018-04GeneralConf-Nelson-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The schedule for reading the Come Follow Me lessons for the year 2021 is found <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/come-follow-me-for-individuals-and-families-doctrine-and-covenants-2021">here.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">10 May 2021</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">May 10 - 16 Doctrine & Covenants online lesson</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; 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font-size: medium;"><b><br /><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTt1Wup-7Gs5bupDWBAj_BA3IRVQj57XpMP7azCF4zZNA7R5_uQP3CJ34z0siewAZJj0TnugoDzGJyMAUTDre82VdAGrsJPVPByzRPnhsx-ZHaw_-mgGxDp3SniZosLFlmpmz2/s2048/Revelation-2018-04-FalseSpirit2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTt1Wup-7Gs5bupDWBAj_BA3IRVQj57XpMP7azCF4zZNA7R5_uQP3CJ34z0siewAZJj0TnugoDzGJyMAUTDre82VdAGrsJPVPByzRPnhsx-ZHaw_-mgGxDp3SniZosLFlmpmz2/w360-h640/Revelation-2018-04-FalseSpirit2.jpg" width="360" /></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>These spirits mentioned above is covered in another journal found <a href="https://bemoreknowhow.blogspot.com/2021/03/more-mystical-stories-including-miracles.html#sp">here.</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">17 May 2021</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">May 17 - 23 Doctrine & Covenants online lesson</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>During the pandemic era of the world that started in Malaysia since March 2020, MCO Movement Control Order was enforced in Malaysia like most other developed countries in the world. 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I have used the time well to update my ongoing life journals to even <span style="color: red;">organized</span> them in a collection of websites found at <a href="https://abacuscloud.blogspot.com/2018/01/photolinks-to-story.html">www.AbacusToCloud.com</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsqZXWgbs78a4dfgMtkYJPwwx8iZUFGSprVbnGMbl1wRg9ka4S9Gz_yO06zzS8vsQyCOpBmRqMtc55Yz9kknPgRRiJlp3crfuj_OGQPDB46j0LqigFApnl8cD5zwSWe6XeQEWS/s2048/Revelation-2021-04GeneralConf-Nelson-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsqZXWgbs78a4dfgMtkYJPwwx8iZUFGSprVbnGMbl1wRg9ka4S9Gz_yO06zzS8vsQyCOpBmRqMtc55Yz9kknPgRRiJlp3crfuj_OGQPDB46j0LqigFApnl8cD5zwSWe6XeQEWS/w360-h640/Revelation-2021-04GeneralConf-Nelson-4.jpg" width="360" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br />Key word is ORGANIZE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/tg/church-organization?lang=eng">Click here</a> to check in our Gospel Library App in our scriptures what ORGANIZE means in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://abacuscloud.blogspot.com/2018/01/photolinks-to-story.html#og">Click here</a> to see how I could ORGANIZE my websites to share my true life experiences.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div></div>Dad the KL city kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798301328638176472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749036.post-64357889417641662952020-04-03T22:50:00.035+08:002021-12-29T04:20:01.332+08:002020 first post <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>
This first Spiritlane post in 2020 promises to be shorter in the number of words in a page by use of more hyperlinks, photos & videos when compared to previous posts of the past. The main reason for this change is that I need all the spare time to complete my first book to be available online as planned. I wrote to my late wife about it as mentioned <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2019/12/37th-anniversary-on-eve-of-2020-on-22.html#dr">here.</a><br />
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It will still maintain a long tradition of mine to share honestly feelings and thoughts of my heart and mind respectively. This is in line with the trend of the modern world of today that calls it transparency.<br />
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This post is timely as the General Conference of the Church is happening this weekend. 2020 is a significant year for the Church as it is the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Church by Joseph Smith, the <a href="https://youtu.be/1xVw6PsSinI?t=1">Prophet of the Restoration</a>. I feel the spirit very strongly to write this Spiritlane post at the end of the first quarter of the year 2020. Note that I am not an alarmist. My Consciousness is based on the <a href="https://familylane.info/3pillars/">tripartite nature</a> of Man I have perceived had two of its parts rattled very quickly as we moved into the new year.<br />
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For the Body part, was the Corona Virus or COVID-19 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/trumps-flags-tougher-coronavirus-curbs-live-updates-200330231121941.html">pandemic</a> that occurred and the Mind part was the sudden change of the <a href="http://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-politics-freedom-and-harmony-in.html#po">politics</a> or government in Malaysia. I was silent in my own written journals other than making a note or two to chronologically keep a record of the events. I felt that they were all already well covered by the press and the social media groups so that my further commentary or thoughts was not really necessary.<br />
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Before the sudden change of government in Malaysia and the outbreak of the COVID-19, late in the year 2019, I was preoccupied with the law and politics as well as living/health conditions applied to a community in the city of Kuala Lumpur, highlighted in a special website I created at <a href="https://talklanemedia.blogspot.com/">www.BlueBoyMansion.com</a> Fortunately, many of the important and urgent matters were resolved before the local and international crisis began. I considered it the Lord's blessings as I was working round the clock tirelessly. I knew I had the Spirit with me in heart and mind to help solve different problems and challenges that arose as well as to give me the energy to move with swiftness.<br />
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When a "lockdown" was implemented on <a href="https://youtu.be/DcFgeiu-mI8?t=1">18 March</a> 2020 for two weeks and later extended to April 14, I made myself useful indoors, actively organizing things that were neglected in the past:<br />
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Much of the neglect to organize physical things was plainly due to the transformation of technology from the physical to the digital where most information could be kept in computer disks and today even in the cloud as the following photo depicts...</b></span></div>
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However, that is only a lame excuse as we have not become a paperless world yet so we need to continue to organize our papers, books and things that we or I use! As a metaphor, we are still physical beings who have not become back to a totally spirit form yet so matter still needs to be organized around us! To me I was a spiritual being born to have an earthly experience and I have learned so much.<br />
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On Sunday 29 March of 2020, the KL branch conducted its first Online Fast and Testimony meeting due to the "lockdown" where the Church instruction was for all members to stay home.<br />
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I felt inspired to share my personal testimony on Facebook for the first time giving a <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html">link</a> to my testimony shared in my journal, the night before our online meeting.<br />
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On Monday 30th March 2020, exciting things were happening to me through the internet:</b></span></div>
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This is not an official presentation from the Church but shared by a member diligent in his studies of the scriptures and observant of the events that has been happening in the Church.<br />
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Watching it made me connect the dots to know why President Nelson has been acting rather boldly recently in his communication online.<br />
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"The Lord will return to the land that He made holy by His mission there in mortality. In triumph, He will come again to Jerusalem. In royal robes of red to symbolize His blood, which oozed from every pore, He shall return to the Holy City (see <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/133.46-48?lang=eng#p46" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Doctrine and Covenants 133:46–48</a>). There and elsewhere, “the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together” (<a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/isa/40.5?lang=eng#p5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Isaiah 40:5</a>; see also <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/101.23?lang=eng#p23" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Doctrine and Covenants 101:23</a>). His “name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (<a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/isa/9.6?lang=eng#p6" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Isaiah 9:6</a>).</b></span></div>
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He will govern from two world capitals: one in old Jerusalem (see <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/zech/14?lang=eng" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zechariah 14</a>) and the other in the New Jerusalem “built upon the American continent” (<a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1.10?lang=eng#p10" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Articles of Faith 1:10</a>). From these centers He will direct the affairs of His Church and kingdom. Another temple will yet be built in Jerusalem. From that temple He shall reign forever as Lord of Lords. Water will issue from under the temple. Waters of the Dead Sea will be healed. (See <a class="scripture-ref" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/ezek/47.1-8?lang=eng#p1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ezekiel 47:1–8</a>.)"</b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>
On the eve of General Conference, I received an email from the Church screen captured below:<br />
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Wow, this is going to be an inspiring conference as remembered in my more detailed or wordy account shared just before the April 2018 General Conference found <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/03/by-small-and-simple-things.html#lc">here.</a></b></span></div>
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Enjoy and I hope the sharing of my simple testimony of the Savior, that he lives and will come back to us again can inspire you to find eternal meaning and purpose in your life, even a greater knowledge of eternal truths. This General Conference will be broadcast live in a special way that we will not have the usual audience of max <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=lds+general+conference+hall+capacity&oq=lds+general+conference+hall+capacity&aqs=chrome..69i57.12025j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8">capacity</a> of about 20,000 people in the conference hall as in previous years due to the lockdown. <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/?lang=eng">Click here</a> to watch it or know the timing of when it will start. (Postdated comment: As this journal was written live as conference was proceeding, the link to watch the video was changed after the live conference ended to be viewed historically by <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/general-conference?lang=eng">clicking here</a> instead.</b></span></div>
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The writings below are made after the end of the Sunday morning session of April 5th US time:</b></span></div>
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In the April 2018 General Conference mentioned above with the link, I shared my experience of predicting a topic that would be covered before the conference itself by publishing my prediction on Facebook before watching the conference.</b></span></div>
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This time round, I had no intention to repeat the prediction feat again but nevertheless felt the impression that it would be something to do with the 2nd coming of the Savior. For some reason, I was reviewing videos on the First Vision by the Prophet Joseph Smith. I decided to share publicly in Facebook as comments in two posts that I made found below:</b></span></div>
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This video was shared in the comments section in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10222786187582804&set=a.1184799099665&type=3&theater">Facebook post I</a> dated Sat 4th April 2020 at 20:48</b></span></div>
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This video was shared in the comments section in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10222699274050020">Facebook post 2</a> dated Sun 5th April 2020 at 18:34</b></span></div>
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President Russell M. Nelson ended the Sunday Morning session of General Conference as the last speaker. Towards the end of his talk, he explained about proclamations issued by the Church in the past and announced that a 6th Proclamation of the Church was being released this General Conference entitled, "The Restoration of the Fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A Bicentennial Proclamation to the World" He then played a prerecorded video found below, to read the Proclamation. The session ended by inviting all members to participate in a worldwide solemn assembly and Hosanna Shout.</b></span></div>
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After the conference session ended, I found the proclamation document online <a href="https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/multimedia/file/restoration-proclamation-2020-april.pdf">here</a>.<br />
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On the following weekend after Conference was Easter celebration and I made this comment on my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10222856594902943">Facebook page</a> where I had shared about the Easter online celebration by our Church, "<span face="" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #1c1e21;">In my 7 year research on the deep topic of Human Consciousness, Caroline Myss whose book I read, "Anatomy of the Spirit', which shares her skill as a medical intuitive person in her life in this Easter Video seem to suggest she is awakening to understand the Savior and his purpose. Listen to her speak sincerely here </span><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F34HsDcf%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR114UbUyYFhy3fGgq1yRUXQ45_99zA3YQ3MtHGbwQPYfxrx27LnSKsA_Rk&h=AT04DnsyKqFixZ-JaByX-D-XYUA0ldCl5CEUBBEmnTD_CwfWeABxGO5Fs3e3vIyRCBeDLbAKAcbi4JTmsMWNm1cs7vlESXCZcYG4aiDVlpUVkLUxr1zXmUXe95tZnAQ4ow" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: #f2f3f5; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/34HsDcf</a>"<br />
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Why I was inspired to share this comment is that most Western writers who are science based tend to write with a style of being politically correct to classify their context to be Spiritual in nature instead of mentioning the Savior's name. I'm glad when I started writing this Spiritlane journal just over 40 years ago at this point in writing, I shared my testimony about Jesus Christ with an introduction found <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html">here.</a><br />
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How powerful and timely indeed that the bold proclamation document of the Church was released to the world! In my Familylane journal post, I also made a first post in 2020 announcing current and future additions to our family that can be read <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2020/04/first-2020-familylane-post.html">here.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Besides Caroline Myss, others I had covered in my research whom I was inspired to check out of their views during this pandemic of the world is <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2014/04/easter-weekend-in-malaysia.html?fbclid=IwAR04rqP7J7nWEqWhoNziWA9UysGmUZN4DQVWMNcoi7C8tPPJeDxh4kkR_cs#gary">Gary Gustav</a> who created a long video with his wife Linda to present their views <a href="https://youtu.be/rJooGsXqCcU?t=1">here. </a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Since members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sustained President Russell M. Nelson as the Church’s 17th president two years ago, he has logged well over 115,000 miles — traveling to six continents, 32 nations and territories and 49 cities.</b></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>He has met with members in large and small settings — often addressing them in their own language — and with world leaders. He has also reached out to victims of crime, comforted those grieving and acknowledged dozens of children.</b></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The goal of the 95-year-old world religious leader is “to build bridges of cooperation rather than walls of segregation.” It is the kind of outreach that touches entire congregations and individuals at the same time. It is a ministry that inspires the masses to look forward. “There is much more to come,” said President Nelson of the work, the 16 million Latter-day Saints and the global church he leads.</b></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>This documentary highlights President Nelson’s worldwide ministry, his outreach to world government and religious leaders, his focus on the rising generation, and his ministry to the one.</b></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #030303;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>It first aired on KSL-TV in Salt Lake City on April 5, 2020:</b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PizwXIeW5RQ?start=1" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Post-dated comments on 20 May 2021: My thoughts after watching all the travelling done by President Nelson to cover the world is that maybe the prophet knew that the Covid-19 would lock down the world by a pandemic that is still widespread today preventing any air-travel around the world!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">12 July 2020</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Church talk for zoom meeting</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2naCH3BtIR4" width="560"></iframe></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="ly"></div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Monday 17 Aug 2020</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>With partial MCO still in operations, I had time to view many relevant videos about our world pandemic to find this interesting video of one of our Apostles being interviewed online :</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RIYafkjQVn8" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I was truly surprised that I could find an Apostle of our Church rambling in an interview to appreciate his shared experience on this season of COVID-19 pandemic that allowed us to have more personal time like I had to view more videos as depicted below:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PauA-0j0us0?start=1" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>So I didn't feel guilty to lay on my deck chair to watch more YouTube videos way past midnight but look at this video below I happened to come across!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/twfZYSV_Xwo?start=1" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Wow.. I was wondering is this my lucky streak or continued personal revelation I've been receiving all my life even without the need of COVID-19? The producer/owner of the video Jodi Stoddard had changed the authorization of sharing the video to only through the original YouTube video found <a href="https://youtu.be/twfZYSV_Xwo?t=1">here.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>My OPT Optimal Performance & Thinking seem to be kicking in more in these humbling times! Optimal is the best one can achieve and it is not a state of perfection. There will always be the objective and subjective interaction or forces existing. Finding Jodi Stoddard video's is one thing but how about finding this book in my possession?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRCQRgttT-G5ef1iuZ70ueuO7C8lGHnSv4PFQBxFIm_-E9soqIB9k-OpmFi78xZw8itEXQ8MU-u0DNYYXtMbJBby5ZaNEeJ2pn2c42vX9SPruBgllVzelY281V547T2xFRAHE/s475/LastDays-journalphoto3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRCQRgttT-G5ef1iuZ70ueuO7C8lGHnSv4PFQBxFIm_-E9soqIB9k-OpmFi78xZw8itEXQ8MU-u0DNYYXtMbJBby5ZaNEeJ2pn2c42vX9SPruBgllVzelY281V547T2xFRAHE/w268-h400/LastDays-journalphoto3.jpg" width="268" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Wow I read it cover to cover at a greater speed of understanding than when I first read Isaiah's writings in the Bible and that found in the Book of Mormon! A desert patch after reading the greener pasture like words in 1st Nephi to suddenly being hit by Isaiah's teachings in 2nd Nephi! With Gileadi's book, everything became clearer to me. Watch the amazing videos for a wake up call found at Isaiah Institute's page <a href="https://isaiahinstitute.com/videos/">here.</a><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">3 Sep 2020</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It was announced at the end of August last month, as we celebrated Malaysia's 63rd Independence or Merdeka day recorded <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2007/08/merdeka-or-indpendence-day.html?fbclid=IwAR0Cqd7fNX6Y3pt2Ify7DQ6Hd3aLLKPAAlQwGbrAKG6L-LP9jkFa4ioew4E#fg">here</a> in my journal, that the partial lockdown would continue to 31st Dec of this year. The continued lockdown conditions was not unexpected as world conditions of the pandemic has not improved or even worsened in advanced countries like the US.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I used the additional time of partial lockdown to spend quiet time researching on the internet as well as working on adding more content to my first book to be published. On this day I started early in the morning with an impression to search for some information that I had been looking for in a journal post written on a date over 41 years ago. <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/05/call-to-serve.html#cn">Click here</a> to go back to that journal post written in 1979 where I was overjoyed to be able to provide the missing information on this day. What a blessing and joy to accomplish something I've been trying to do for so many years!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">31 Dec 2020</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi76NGYDsqZwHBUZ6SFsO6giqBZBBTl_LoDJXcJerrqIUcPMr1OKiurwhFmt7fGP7yRKDT7TUfPe0bVOKHXnf6MqGy9gA3-EiKkWU4rPQ-wcaQ7Hput4B54BTwkOwYr_E2p4C4a/s580/brain5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="537" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi76NGYDsqZwHBUZ6SFsO6giqBZBBTl_LoDJXcJerrqIUcPMr1OKiurwhFmt7fGP7yRKDT7TUfPe0bVOKHXnf6MqGy9gA3-EiKkWU4rPQ-wcaQ7Hput4B54BTwkOwYr_E2p4C4a/w370-h400/brain5.jpg" width="370" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As a Man Thinketh by James Allen</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The Spirit continues to guide me in all I do which requires me to often pray, ponder and think especially when I am trying to write my journals. It's the eve of the new year of 2021. I have always been more excited on the eve of each new year as Jan 1st of each new year seems a bigger event than another birthday of my life!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I didn't want to spend too much time writing on my journals as I wanted to focus more on my book writing process. I had therefore only created one spiritual post for the whole year of 2020 for all my spiritual experiences that are noteworthy to record as found above. On this anticipation of the new year, something made me focus on James Allen's book as I decided to polish up what others had presented on his book of 7 chapters that has become a world classic! I decided to craft my own version on a new journal and post that includes a voice option to hear the words of the book that I created <a href="https://consciousnesslane.blogspot.com/2020/12/james-allen.html">here</a>.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>After finishing it, I read the 7 chapters several times and while resting during the day, I would listen to the recording and repeated it before going to bed where I could select which chapter I like to listen to, made possible in my new design of the online book. Completing the new online book within the day made me feel pleased of my technological skills working with computers and devices today. As I finished working on his online book, and thought about my own book, which would be a product of my 7 years of research on the subject of human consciousness, I was inspired to add on to what James Allen had done to inspire readers on how to succeed in life.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Why I felt that there can be more truths added that Man can further learn as James Allen's book was published in the early 20th century. I am writing my journal in the 21st century where so much has been discovered in the last hundred years to make the 21st century a technological and information world far different from the 20th century era, I therefore added another old theme, also recorded in ancient scripture, "As a Man Seeketh" in the same journal where I created a different presentation of James Allen's book but found in a different page <a href="https://consciousnesslane.blogspot.com/2021/01/as-man-seeketh.html">here.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>
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Dad the KL city kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798301328638176472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749036.post-73421459433779940702019-09-09T09:08:00.005+08:002022-05-28T23:56:19.148+08:00My Talk Assignment - Finding Peace by Forgiving others <p> <b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Postdated Notes after the draft below was prepared for a talk that was assigned to me a week before 11 Aug 2019 to give to KL branch. Due to visits by General Authorities and other local authorities, the talk could be given only a month later on 8 Sep 2019.</b></p><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />I started the talk only roughly following the guideline of the introduction I had written below and used the scriptures I had prepared that relate to the topic. I was the 2nd and last speaker so I had more time to fill than the 10-12 minutes allocated to me as it was 35mins past the hour when I stood at the pulpit to look at the clock. The first speaker, 'Khei', was a female single adult newer to the church baptized on 26 Mar 2016 when I was the Branch Mission Leader. She was given the title Finding Peace through Jesus Christ. She did well and she finished her talk within the 10-12mins.<br /><br />My introduction followed what was written earlier below and brought President Kimball's book to be a show and tell object.<br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib3-iPSaVwewfVKhJBYP-NoLS7BX3kH0-gHGI1MGmqPWQpC4JR14DRnd5NhjAevX1JFf4kwv2pt9cRgLkgrIlhy4_-pcwBcbGg5O7mN_OYvm5L8PxG4G544DPPcQNrzdpfkW3c/s1600/miracleOfForgiveness.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="528" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib3-iPSaVwewfVKhJBYP-NoLS7BX3kH0-gHGI1MGmqPWQpC4JR14DRnd5NhjAevX1JFf4kwv2pt9cRgLkgrIlhy4_-pcwBcbGg5O7mN_OYvm5L8PxG4G544DPPcQNrzdpfkW3c/s320/miracleOfForgiveness.jpg" width="234" /></b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I had planned to show the other book that impressed me very much also when I first joined the Church in 1979 which was Le Grand Richard's book, 'A Marvelous Work and a Wonder', who was an Apostle during the time of President Kimball. However, I informed the congregation that I had lost the book some years ago, probably loaned to someone else, so I brought another book out which was a Harry Potter's book to 'break the ice' that brought laughter from the listeners.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Now I know why I wanted to mention Le Grand Richards as he was a very powerful and convincing speaker, whose profession previously was a lawyer. His book was read by many missionaries, including myself, to give us ammunition in case any Christian pastor from another Church would negate our teachings or seek to challenge our doctrines in which I had already become well versed. Over the years, my knowledge of the Gospel had gone beyond what Le Grand Richard's book shared which was 1979 when I first read it. I could defend our teachings against any other religion should anyone choose to contend with me but I would usually avoid them as I know it would be a waste of time. In our modern-day, I could give them a reference to this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-years-of-research-on-anti-mormon.html">journal</a> that I wrote only many years later when I was helping another member to understand something that he wasn't clear about. <br /><br />Another reason why I would mention the name of Le Grand Richards was that this Apostle was known to stray from his prepared notes, even during the time when he would speak at General Conference time of the Church where they had teleprompters for speakers to read their prepared talk. Le Grand Richards would often time in the middle of his talk suddenly stray to talk impromptu, not following his pre-written text with the reason that he was following the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. This would drive the team of translators of different languages crazy. They thought they had his speech on their screens, that they could translate as he spoke following the teleprompter text to assist them in their live translation to others attending the conference or viewing live in other locations connected by satellite. However, it didn't turn out that way. Now I'm not an Apostle but I knew I would stray from my notes too when inspired by the Holy Ghost!</b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>So what happened was I did follow the introduction and read the important scriptures highting those from the Bible in Matthew was from the East as the Jews in Israel are geographically in the Middle East. What I quoted from Mosiah, which is from the Book of Mormon of the history of the Ancient Americas, is from what we call the Western continent. I expressed it in this way to highlight that the teachings were basically the same in the eastern or western part of the world.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Then I started straying from my prepared talk as I knew it wasn't enough to cover the extended time I had. I started emphasizing that there were two parts to the forgiveness principle of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Firstly the Savior truly suffered or paid for Man's sins through the act of Atonement, where he bled from every pore showing a great pain and suffering he had to go through to pay for Man's sins. So, therefore, we can find peace to know that we can receive forgiveness due to the sacrifice of the Savior for all of us. However, as read in the scriptures, we are also to forgive others for what they have done wrong to us.<br /><br />This was when the Holy Ghost took over what I should say and I informed the congregation that I would be telling them in terms of some short stories of my life where I found that it takes a certain kind of spirit, mindset or even a Consciousness to know how to forgive another of their wrongdoings or sins against us. I made the comment that it seems easier for us to repent to ask for forgiveness from a God whom we know loves us. It seemed really harder for us to forgive another who has sinned against us which the law of God requires of us in order for us to receive forgiveness of our own sins.<br /><br />I started the story of remembering I had come to Church late one Sunday for sacrament meeting and our District President Tolman was speaking. I sat outside at the couch near the door to be able to listen to the emphasis he was sharing to say the words, "I am sorry" often to his wife. It was funny as he kept repeating those words "I am sorry" emphasizing to the congregation that he would always say it to his own wife very often and encouraged the married man in the congregation to do likewise.<br /><br />So with his story in my mind, I shared an experience one day when I was driving our oldest son, with my wife, to his friends home for a party where he had a map on a piece of paper drawn by his parents. Our youngest son was with us too, following a decision we made that after dropping the oldest, the three of us would go for dinner together on that Saturday evening. I was driving and it was an unfamiliar area for us and I couldn't follow the map either. I was making wrong turns and was covering the same area several times but still couldn't find the home. It had gotten dark too.<br /><br />My wife eventually took the map and guided me to eventually find the home with a few more rounds. Now I realized why I couldn't find it as I was following a road that was straight but the map had the straight road with a kink in the middle that was not exactly straight like in the map that caused me to be disorientated. After dropping our son, I logically explained to my wife that the map was drawn wrongly or inaccurately but my wife insisted it was correct. So the exchange of words as to who was right and wrong carried on in the journey toward the eating place we had planned.<br /><br />I described vividly to the congregation in my talk that our youngest son sitting behind in the middle, close to us, had felt the tension in the air but was acting very cool as if there was no argument going on between us. He was doing his best to change the topic of our heated discussion. My mind was very aware of this. Finally, when we reached the destination for dinner and I parked the car, I told the congregation that I immediately went to the other side of the car to open the door for my wife. I then held her hand firmly as she came out, to cross the street together, with my son holding my other hand. I simply told her "Let's have a good dinner" and leave the argument behind us! My comment to the congregation was that we can immediately stop an ongoing disagreement that was going nowhere by just making a decision that we will move forward and forget whatever difference we were arguing about as it was not really important. This is a habit or a quick decision of the mind to move forward and not dwell to bring peace back immediately and we did have an enjoyable evening on that Saturday night!<br /><br />Then I was impressed to share my next story which was also about my wife and I. The inspiration must be to touch upon the relationship between husbands and wives. This has become quite a challenge in our modern world today when marriages are taking a toll with a high rate of divorces. (Post talk inspiration: I found this <a href="https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/legrand-richards/fringe-benefits/">link</a> to a talk by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeGrand_Richards">Le Grand Richards</a> that I have filed in my confidential consciousness/memory system online but had forgotten about it until writing this journal.)<br /></b></span><div id="tp"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br />So I related the story of a miraculous experience my wife and I had when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_B._Hinckley">President Hinckley</a> came to visit Singapore in January 2000 shared in this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-stone-cut-without-hands.html?fbclid=IwAR0nKwkmh7lTkr70tEPGqaqPzz-48M5cAEBTuZDzDcDGGLJ1hFTUOGfb5Ys#sk">link</a> to another journal post of mine.<br />I related the story that at that time of the visit, my wife and I were having some differences and click the link given to know what happened and it's significance.<br /><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHMrMXWUzLFG6rt5pxie3sCAxOzhQZSRy0jRXQ362sRQkgkkPebN3RMruWw2ghHlBa1MIAN8l4JurR6CDk96PudxXwYrQ3bvcBc9I_G83qWAY_yqQM16hCyOtgD89J9_tn3WsX/s1600/DSC02156.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHMrMXWUzLFG6rt5pxie3sCAxOzhQZSRy0jRXQ362sRQkgkkPebN3RMruWw2ghHlBa1MIAN8l4JurR6CDk96PudxXwYrQ3bvcBc9I_G83qWAY_yqQM16hCyOtgD89J9_tn3WsX/s320/DSC02156.JPG" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>This photo above is shared here as part of my 'postdated notes' about my talk after it was delivered. As I was leaving the sacrament hall, she came up to me to share what happened to her when she heard me talk about the gush of wind or something occurrence that came to me during President Hinckley's visit to Singapore. (click the previous link for details) She simply told me the hair on her arm stood up. As I talked to her more and her 2 daughters, I discovered her husband had also passed away some years ago due to cancer</b></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><br />I continued my storytelling, learned from my wife, who became a recognized storyteller while in Singapore during her 7 years fight against cancer since she was diagnosed in 2005. She won a top prize in a <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2010/03/mom-wins-story-telling-contest-in.html" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;">storytelling contest</a> in Singapore. I continued my stories to share my personal experiences with my wife about her last days at the hospital of the miracle experiencing a ray of sunshine coming down upon us at the hospital corridor as we expressed love for each other recorded in this <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2012/09/australia-here-we-come-but-it-wasnt-to.html#lv" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;">link.</a><br /><br />As I found that I had more time to continue speaking when looking at the clock, I was impressed to share some stories outside of a husband/wife relationship to mention the following true stories in brief, with lessons that I was tested to have a forgiving heart towards third parties who may have done something that would hurt me emotionally and even financially. They have become great lessons of my life's experiences to remind me of the truthfulness of the title of my talk assignment.<br /></b></span><div id="up" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><br />The first was the only emotional experience that troubled me in all my years of <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2011/09/leading-with-spirituality-and.html" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;">service</a> given voluntarily to our Church, where a humble prayer to my Heavenly Father calmed me down totally. A new convert to the Church suddenly took a position against my leadership in the Church by spreading rumors to members in my branch of false things I had done to him. He was new but most of the members were not. They knew me well since I served as a <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/06/mission-call.html" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;">missionary</a> in 1980 to later marry and start a family of my own living in the same KL branch.(<a href="https://vimeo.com/215553529?fbclid=IwAR3DBMWftnrFx3mdKDqHChjT0VQaNfI3e8Riai304J6AcTe_sMNX_Fok1q4" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;">Video story</a>) A few came forward to inform me what was happening and assured me that they knew what he had said was not true.<br /><div id="ft"></div><br />It was the first time to face such a personal attack from a member of the Church so I was emotionally affected as I was always kind to him and helped him as a new member in many ways. I knew I had to pray to my Heavenly Father and my prayer was very quickly answered after I thumbed open the scriptures to find a verse from our Book of Mormon shared at the bottom of this journal as I added it as a postdated note to remind me of the exact scripture revealed to me. Click this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2022/04/test-apr-20.html#bm" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;">link</a> to bring you to the bottom of this journal instantly.<br /><br />Well, one can be hurt emotionally but it was also my lot to have been hurt even financially by a trusted person misappropriating my funds. I only mentioned this one experience of mine briefly but not about another who subtly misused the trust that my millionaire friend had in me by borrowing a large sum of money from him with no firm security that he could provide, except that he was my good and trusted friend. When it was time to repay, and my millionaire friend was kind and patient not to assert any pressure, but the one in debt wouldn't even communicate with me or my friend!<br /><br />In these situations, I think Heavenly Father must be testing me to see how I would respond to these acts of selfishness which even criminal in nature. I expressed to the congregation that it was indeed a real challenge for me not to think evil of the guilty party or avoid feelings to seek revenge. I had to make sure bad thoughts would never fill my mind towards those who acted to hurt me for whatever reason.<br /><br />I silently thank them for making my life more difficult so that I could develop greater resilience and even creativity towards overcoming all kinds of adversity in my life. It did make my life tougher but the Lord knew I was a capable person to handle any situation. I have always believed that 'when the going gets tough, the tough gets going.' I felt the fear of financial failure or humiliation was the temptation that the guilty parties received from no one else but the same devil who would tempt every man to do anything evil instead of good.<br /><br />Time was running out when I just shared a few stories mentioned above in brief but not my after talk commentaries in this journal which I am concluding. I closed by talking about Le Grand Richards that I was aware in a talk by President Kimball from memory that as he had a habit of talking beyond the time limit, President Kimball would use his walking stick to touch his legs as a reminder to end soon. I looked back at the Branch President as I mentioned this so that he would be aware that I was finishing which I did with a closing testimony of the Savior and his Church today.<br /><br />As an after note, I regretted not to share the hilarious part of the story of Le Grand Richards and President Kimballs. When Le Grand Richards was asked by the prophet why didn't he follow his already written talk, he replied that he was inspired by the Holy Ghost. The prophet then reminded Le Grand Richards that he should ask for the inspiration of the Holy Ghost at the time when he was writing his talk!<br /><br />How could I do all that I've done shared above or achieved much in the temporal world of life though I know I'm not a perfect person in any way? I know the answer because I wrote a detailed account of my life for the past 40 years since I was accepted the Lord Jesus Christ by being baptized on 29 July 1979. The account starts <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;">here.</a><br /><br /><br /><i>To be continued...</i></b></span></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;">Post-dated Event:<br />Past midnight on 30 Sep 2019<br /><br />I type a note "to be continued..." above whenever I cannot finish a journal post especially when my life gets busy, as it always usually is, to be continued later. At this time of my life, my heart and mind are fully preoccupied with many ongoing spiritual experiences and pre-occupation with completing my first book to be published as well as a major <a href="https://talklanemedia.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR0xOmcAlSKIL4hIAtA9vbKNTkbTeE8iRWSrjPAC7lrxo4oj2qagMpfRsoU" style="color: #249fa3; text-decoration-line: none;">transformation project</a> I started in Kuala Lumpur.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Suddenly I found the perfect ending in an unexpected email from our Church Area Seventy, Elder Lai from Singapore with a transcript that contains an account of her experience at the time of the visit of President Hinckley to Singapore. I had shared it in my talk mentioned <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2019/09/finding-peace-by-forgiving-others.html#tp">above</a> and found in the transcript <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2019/09/finding-peace-by-forgiving-others.html#bl">below</a>:</b></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">Stephen C. K. Lai</b></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">to me, Fei, Sue, Han, Shuan, Ern and Ray,</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b>Attached herewith is a transcript of your mom being interviewed by Brother Mel Thatcher back in November 2001. Brother Thatcher was the first Church and family history consultant sent from Church Headquarters to SG to help the Singapore members to trace their roots around 1978. Geok Lee and I worked for Brother Thatcher on a very short job contract in November 1979. I worked for him for a month before leaving for BYUH toward the end of December while Geok Lee worked till end December. We were collecting data at the various Chinese clans as to how many genealogical records did they have (such as the number of books, dates from when to when, etc). As you know, your mom did not come from a rich family. And she was very hardworking to ensure that she would not be a financial burden to her family. At the time, Roy was already at BYUH.</b></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div class="gE iv gt" style="color: #222222; cursor: auto; padding: 20px 0px 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" class="cf gJ" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-collapse: collapse; display: block; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin-top: 0px; width: auto;"><tbody style="display: block;"><tr class="acZ" style="display: flex; height: auto;"><td class="gF gK" style="display: block; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; max-height: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap; width: 818.75px;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>How did I obtain the transcript? About 3 months ago, someone from the Church History Department wrote to me to inquire something from me. I then asked if he knew Brother Thatcher. He said yes, and I was given his contact information. I then corresponded with Brother Thatcher, and told him about the Church 50<sup>th</sup> anniversary in SG. He then mentioned about having an interview with Geok Lee which is now being archived in the Church History Library. He asked me to write in to get a copy of the transcript as it may have something related to the Singapore Church history. It took me a while before they released the transcript to me.<u></u><u></u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>I hope each of you will appreciate Geok Lee more than ever before. I also hope that her resoluteness in obeying God’s commandments, come what may, will be rooted deep inside you. And it will motivate you to remain faithful on the Lord’s covenant path. God bless you all.<u></u><u></u></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Regards,<span class="HOEnZb"><span style="color: #888888;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; letter-spacing: normal; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Stephen</b></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><b style="color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><br /></b></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;"><p style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>EDITED TRANSCRIPT: (Errors to continue to corrected by blog owner. Original unedited transcript is found <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JBwGJN0cfyaQU3h7XoPfBVnlE9jnlx3JPJXBG1rTy88/edit?usp=sharing">here.</a>)<br /><br />TABLE OF CONTENTS<br /><br />Background Page 1<br />Life growing up and education<br />Introduction to the LDS Church Baptism, 1977<br /><br />The Church Page 4<br />Callings in the Church<br />Meeting her husband<br />Marriage in the Bukit Timah chapel, 1982<br />Sealing in the Salt Lake Temple, 1983<br />Living in the Clementi Branch<br /><br />Family Page 7<br />Living with her in-laws after her husband’s car accident<br />Trying to share the gospel with her in-laws<br />Her father’s death<br />Furthering her education<br /><br />The Church Continued Page 10<br /><br />Leading the choir when Gordon B. Hinckley came to Singapore<br />Special experience with Gordon B. Hinckley<br />Her mother’s death<br />Closing remarks<br /><br /></b></span></span></p><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>CHURCH ARCHIVES / FAMILY AND CHURCH HISTORY DEPARTMENT</b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS</b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>THE JAMES MOYLE ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM</b></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><p style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>INTERVIEWEE: Thong Geok Lee Chong<br />INTERVIEWER: Melvin P. Thatcher<br />LOCATION: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<br />DATE: 2 November 2001<br /><br />T: I’m in Kuala Lumpur. My name is Mel Thatcher, and I’m representing the Family and<br />Church History Department. I’m now going to interview Sister Chong Thong Geok Lee Nepang. Sister Geok Lee, could you share with us something about your personal background, your family, growing up, how you came to join the Church, why you joined the Church, who is your husband, how did you meet him, who are your children, what callings have you had in the Church, and what experiences are noteworthy to you? So please go ahead.<br /><br />L: Okay. Thank you Brother Thatcher. My Mandarin name is Chong Thong Lee. Chong is<br />my father’s surname. I was born in Singapore in the year 1962, 4th of April. The place where I was born is now rebuilt into private housing area near Stevens Road in Singapore behind the country club. I cannot remember the country club name, but it is near Stevens Road. Their old name was called Kampong _______ which means a beautiful kampong, or beautiful village—in a wooden house that my mother managed to build together with a few other women from that kampong. In those days, you can just cordon off a piece of land even though it was illegal. But they were poor, so what they could do was just cordon off a piece of land, and they hired some carpenters to build a wooden shed.<br /><br />Four families lived in the wooden long house that was divided into four sections. I was there only for less than three years when my father bought a housing development, bought—what do you call that?—apartment or flat. We call it flat in Singapore, and it’s in Queenstown, Commonwealth Drive, block 95, and the unit number is 778. That unit still stands and is still there. My mom had passed away last year, and she was the last person living there, but now the place is vacant.<br /><br />Anyway, I basically grew up in that flat, and it was situated on the ground floor. So even though it was a housing development board—in short HDV—I lived there like a girl who lived in a kampong. I would play in the grass. I would climb trees. I would run around and play—sand play we call catching. Catching is like tag in America. It was a lot of fun<br /><br /><u>Chong page 3</u><br /><br />having a lot of neighbors. There were 100 units in that single block. So I had a lot of friends who were around my age.<br /><br />The language we used in those days conversing each other was Hainanese from the Hainanesefamily. If not Hainanese, we would talk to each other in Hokkien, which is the very common dialect being used in Singapore.<br /><br />I remember there was this big tree near the playground, and under that big tree they put two swings. They build two swings on metal frame, and those are very sturdy swings. They stood there until, I think, three or four years ago when they finally knocked down that structure. So I used to go home and swing on that swing of my childhood under that big tree. I think I was very close to nature, and I still love nature. I grew up as an ordinary girl.<br /><br />I think I was unique in the sense that my mother looked like my grandmother. Because I was the last of seven children, by the time my mother gave birth to me, she was forty- seven years old. So she could very well be my grandmother. I remember when I went to school, if my mom had to come and pick me up or to meet my teachers, my friends would say, “Why did your grandmother come instead of your mother?” [laughs] Yes.<br /><br />From my background, my parents didn’t have a lot, but I was not poor in the sense that all the suffering were by that time alleviated because my brothers were all working. Between myself and my brother Roy Tong, there was seven years’ gap. So by the time I went to school, a lot of them are already working. So even though I didn’t have a lot of things like luxury, but I was never hungry. I always have clothes. We only buy one piece of new clothes a year, which is during Chinese New Year. One pair of new shoes, and that’s about it. I went to school in [Farrer Park?] Primary School. Today the building is still there, but the name of the school has changed to, I think, Nanyang Primary School. It’s still along Farrer Road.<br /><br />I picked up Mandarin and English in school, in the Singapore education system, but my daily conversation with my parents were in Highlandese. I had a very good English teacher, [Mrs. Rachu?]. She taught English quite effectively, and I was able to pick up that language quite well. With good results, I was able to end up in a pretty good secondary school. In Singapore, the education system is very competitive. Is very result exam oriented; if you make your grade, you get to choose what good school you want to be in. And I manage to go to _______, which is Chinese Middle School.<br /><br />Now the building is there, but it’s being used as ministry of education kind of thing. I don’t know whether now they demolish it or it’s still there. It’s along Margaret Drive in Queenstown. I spent four years there. After six years of Farrer Primary School, I spent four years in _______, and then from there I went to Hwa Chong Junior College. Now on the third year of my secondary school, which means I was in sect three—we call it sect three—I was fifteen years old.<br /><br /><u>Chong page 4</u><br /><br />I think my parents had a lot of concern for me, which I didn’t realize they were having. My dad felt that I was quite a rebellious girl. A lot of time I think my way, but I always view myself as a good girl because I never did anything that was disastrous. I always had high value. I believe in honesty. I work hard in school. I was school prefect. I was active in the drama club. I loved to do Chinese dance. I loved to sing. I could play the recorder pretty well. So, basically, I enjoyed music.<br /><br />In the year 1977, when I was fifteen, I think my father called up my brother Roy Tong, who was at that time a missionary—he was on the last few months of his mission. When Roy joined the Church as a young teenager, he had long hair, and he played the guitar. To my father, he had a bleak future. But after he joined the Church, there was some very positive changes that happened to him. After he finished his army, he served a mission.<br /><br />Towards the end of the mission, my father called him and asked him to bring me to church. This I didn’t know. It was revealed to me only like in the year 1992. You know, I was thirty years old, and my father told me what actually transpired. So he told me that he asked my brother to bring me to church, and I had my discussions with the first two sister missionaries, Sister Joyce Quick and Sister Cynthia Fum. They taught me the discussions, and I was challenged to be baptized.<br /><br />Even before I was baptized, I was very actively singing in the choir. I think my mentor, Sister Doreen [Poh Choo Hong] Lim and Jon [Sunhock] Lim, they helped me have better understanding of music. We had even classes for music theory for free. We had to fork out our own money for exams. I passed a couple of exams and had certificates for music theory through Jon and Doreen.<br /><br />Anyway, I thought I was not going to get baptized because I was not a good enough person, but the missionaries told me you don’t have to be perfect to be baptized. They gave me the form to ask me to have permission from my father. I went home. I was surprised that my father signed the form without any objection. [laughter] Yes. So anyway, I got baptized into the Church on the 6th of August 1977. It was a Saturday. On the day of my baptism, it was drizzling, but the Spirit was strong when I was baptized. When I came out of the water of the baptism, I really felt good. My brother Roy Tong baptized me.<br /><br />Being the first Saturday of the month, they usually have the confirmation on the next Sunday. That was the practice in those years. So I had my gift of the Holy Ghost on Sunday morning. I remember my brother gave me a special blessing. He said that the Holy Ghost will help me study well for my coming major exams, which was going to be in 1978—the GCE [General Certificate of Education] O level exam, the British kind of exam.<br /><br />Anyway, after I was baptized, I became quite active. Actually, I have remained active all these years. I never quit going to church. One thing that helped me a lot in my English was I joined the seminary. We had home study program where we just meet once a week for two hours on Saturday. I remember the first few weeks was such a struggle for me<br /><br /><u>Chong page 5</u><br /><br />because every paragraph I had about twenty new words I had to look up in my dictionary. We had those booklets that we had to study on top of the scriptures that we had to study. So it was a struggle, but I managed.<br /><br />I was very fortunate to have Brother Dale Cox as our seminary teacher at one time. He was able to write in Chinese even though he didn’t really speak Mandarin; he spoke Cantonese. He served a mission in Hong Kong. So after he finished his mission, he came to Singapore to join his parents, President [Soren F.] and Sister [Fern M.] Cox, I think— if I’m not wrong. Yes. So he was teaching us, and he would write comments in the booklets in Chinese, which was really encouraging for me.<br /><br />I continued to be active, and I continued to serve in the Church. My first calling was junior Sunday School chorister. They had junior Sunday School in those days for Primary children on Sunday. I was very diligent because a lot of the songs that the children sang were completely new to me. We had the pianist Brother _______. He was a very diligent man. He used to practice piano at church, and I would arrange for him to meet me at church so that he could teach me how to sing those songs and lead the song in the junior Sunday School. [laughs] That was when I really took off on music. I really enjoyed choir; I enjoyed teaching the children the songs.<br /><br />By then, I should be like seventeen. I joined the Church when I was fifteen. I was seventeen, and then I was eighteen. I finished my junior college at the age of eighteen, and I came out to work hoping to save enough money to go overseas to do my architecture degree. I always wanted to be an architect. But, unfortunately, I didn’t manage to get into the National University of Singapore in the school of architecture. They put me into social science, and without proper counsel, I gave up that opportunity. It was either a blessing in disguise or whatever. We couldn’t tell today because, if I had gone to university then, maybe I wouldn’t have gotten married when I was only twenty years old. I would be still in the university.<br /><br />But anyway, the couple of years that I worked, I worked as draftsman in two different companies. The first one was a Swiss company, Luwa Engineering. The office was in a prestigious Shaw Centre in Scotts Road, at the juncture between Scotts Road and Orchard Road, next to the Lido Cima. I remember working there for a few months. I was able to see the building of the current Marriott hotel—formerly it was called the Thames. It was quite interesting to see how they built the thing up, you know. There was the crowning part of the building structure was the roof. It looked like a Mandarin or Chinese pagoda. So it was something interesting here. That environment was not entirely good because the few colleagues that I have, they were not using clean language. It was my first time being exposed to an environment where there was a lot of foul language, and I couldn’t take it. I was looking for another place to go.<br /><br />At that time, my branch president was [Brother Tong E. Boy?]. He was working for another engineering company in Jurong. He helped me get a job because, at that time, they needed a full-time adjustment in his office. So I managed to get a job and start<br /><br /><u>Chong page 6</u><br /><u><br /></u>working there and remained there for over a year. From nineteen I worked to twenty. [laughs]<br /><br />Yes, I have to backtrack a little bit to the year maybe when I was eighteen years old. I met a young man at a district conference in the month of either April or May in the year 1980. His name is Chong Sung Fu. That was the first time we met, but I just thought he had been awfully familiar face, and I asked him where he’s from. He told me that he was from Kuala Lumpur and he had been living in Australia for the past three years and studying in Deakin University in Melbourne. But I thought that I couldn’t have met him then.<br /><br />That was the first time we met, and we never really further our friendship or acquaintance until two years later in the month of June 1982. Out of the blue, he gave me a phone call. He told me that he had finished his mission, and he was going to visit somebody’s house. It was Jon Lim’s house. Jon Lim had just finished building his famous house, which is quite the talk of town among the Church members. He wanted to see that house. I think it was just an excuse; he wanted to take me out. But he told me he didn’t know how to get there. I spent about forty-five minutes on the phone trying to explain to him how to get there, and finally, I gave up. I said, “Okay. If you really don’t know how to get there, this Saturday I’m free. I’ll take you there.” That began our courtship.<br /><br />We like each other, I think, very much. [laughs] In a couple of months, in August 6th of that year, we were engaged. We were planning to be married in the year after, which was supposedly 1983. We were planning to be married when I am twenty-one. So I was at that time twenty years old. There was a twist of event in October of that year, 1982. On the 22nd, Sung Fu’s mother passed away. So in Chinese custom, if there’s a death in the family, you would have to have something good, like a wedding, within 100 days. If you do not have that wedding within 100 days, you have to wait three years. So both his family and my family felt that we should be married within the 100 days. Otherwise, we have to wait three years.<br /><br />So three years is a long time when we are 250 miles apart. So we had decided to follow what my parents and his side of the family said, that we would be married. So officially we were registered on the 22nd of December, but we had our wedding on the 15th of January in Singapore at the Bukit Timah chapel. For us, we considered the 22nd of December as our wedding anniversary because one year later we were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on the 22nd of December 1983. We were registered in 1982, December 22nd, and we went to the temple a year later. It took us a year because they had those regulations that if you don’t go to the temple within like three weeks or three months—I can’t remember—you just have to wait one year. So we did that.<br /><br />I think for the part that I got married so young, I think I was very in love. Today I think back about what I have done. I think I was really in love beyond reason; I just left my job, left my family, left my friends, left everything behind in Singapore and came to Kuala Lumpur. I was in for loneliness. It was very difficult at least six months to a year to<br /><br /><u>Chong page 7</u><br /><u><br /></u>adjust because, first of all, you’re got to adjust to married life. Second of all, I had no friends except for the friends that I had in the Church in Kuala Lumpur. Before I left, I was also taking institute because I had graduated from seminary. When we came here, there was some kind of combination of seminary and institute being taught by the missionary couple.<br /><br />The Church in Kuala Lumpur, at that time, was very small. We had a branch of, like, maybe fifty members. You know the attendance is about thirty to forty, and the majority was expatriates. I remember that before I left for Kuala Lumpur, the Singapore Branch, which I belonged to, was divided into Singapore and Clementi Branch. So I was in the Clementi Branch. Being divided, each person had to take multiple callings. At that time, I was the first counselor in the Primary and I had to teach nursery and sometimes, if the teacher didn’t show up, I had to also teach other classes combined. So it was quite a challenging calling.<br /><br />I enjoyed working with Sister [Lee Sol?]; she was very patient, and she was able to teach me a lot of things. Then when I came to KL [Kuala Lumpur], it was like the first time that I attended Relief Society because, when you are serving in the Primary, you just don’t have a chance to attend Relief Society. So my Relief Society experience are basically from KL, Kuala Lumpur. I had served in several callings as counselor in the Primary: as the president in the Primary, as counselor in the Relief Society, teacher in the Relief Society, and also as the president in the Relief Society. I was also at one time the Young Women president. My current calling is first counselor in the Relief Society.<br /><br />So I have lived here in Kuala Lumpur from 1983 until today. That is like more than eighteen years. I see Kuala Lumpur grow as a city, and I think I’m quite blessed because a lot of positive changes have been made to Kuala Lumpur, even though in comparison to Singapore, it’s lagging behind. Yet it is not—what do you call it?—it is not outdated. Things are still progressing. I think I have respect for Dr. Mahathir [bin] Mohamad, who is the prime minister of Malaysia, for his leadership and his visionary leadership, actually. He has great vision for the country. It’s just that I feel he needs a lot of people who share his vision. Hopefully the next prime minister will be able to continue in that light.<br /><br />I am also grateful for the prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, because he saw the need of the lower income group, and he provided housing, which I grew up in—the HDV flat. You know, it was more hygienic than living in a kampong where you have the light soil system. He made sure that children all went to school where they were educated. I felt he had done a great job for Singapore, and Mahathir had done a great job for Malaysia. I have benefited from both countries.<br /><br />My first child was born in the year 1984. She was born in the month of June on the 14th. Do I need to mention her name? I should. Her name is Chong Fei Min, and she is now seventeen years old. She is very active in church. She is the musical part of me, the<br /><br /><u>Chong page 8</u><br /><u><br /></u>extension of me. She plays the piano so wonderfully well, but she don’t feel that she has that talent even though she is really talented on the piano.<br /><br />Then my second child was born 1985, October 4th. Her name is Chong Su Min. Su has beautiful voice. She sings very well, she plays the piano, and she’s a gymnast. She loves her gymnastics. Su is quite different from Fei, but they are both as lovable. Su is now sixteen years old, and she kind of walked in my footsteps in the sense that she can draw. [laughs] I didn’t know I could draw until recently.<br /><br />Anyway, my third child came a bit later because, when I had my first two children, I lived with my father-in-law. My first child was born when I was living in Petaling Jaya in a house that we rented from Sung Fu’s sister. I couldn’t cope very well because I was never really taught the domestic skill. I was good in my study, but domestic skill is something that was lacking.<br /><br />In the year 1984, the month of March—I can’t remember the exact date, but it was during Chinese New Year—my husband had a near fatal car accident. At that time, he was just called as the branch president of the Kuala Lumpur Branch. He was on his way down from Kuala Lumpur to pick me up from Singapore where I spent the Chinese New Year. Because he had work, he had to go back to KL. He was heading back to Singapore to pick me up, and on his way there, he had a car accident. His Honda Accord crashed into an oil tanker. He was fortunate that the tanker was empty, and there was no major explosion; he was miraculously spared death.<br /><br />I think that accident kind of was a turning point in my life. I remember I used to complain about my husband being away from home too much because he was the branch president. Then when he met with a car accident, I realized how fragile life is, how dependant on God we are, that I had no right to feel that Sung Fu should belong to me, and that he should not serve God with all his heart. So it helped me be more patient when I had to wait for him—that he had to be gone a lot.<br /><br />Yes, because of his accident, my father-in-law felt that we should move in to live with him so that he could take care of Sung Fu. His second wife, a very nice lady—I would just refer her as my mother-in-law from now on—she took care of Sung Fu. She made Chinese herbal soup and chicken soup that was supposedly able to strengthen the body after a major accident. She took care of him, and she also took care of me at that time when I was expecting because I was expecting with my second child. Fe was only ten months old when the accident happened.<br /><br />We lived there, and I learned domestic skills from my mother-in-law. I learned how to cook, how to run a home, to shop and stock up food, and to plan menus. How to—lots of things to learn from her. It was a good four and a half years I lived with them. Of course, it was not a bed full of roses. There was some friction, but we were able to handle it. I think the most important thing I learned was that I had to practice what my religion taught me, that I have to be a good example of what the Church teaches, that I would not leave the place giving my mother-in-law the impression that Christians are not good<br /><br /><u>Chong page 9</u><br /><u><br /></u>people. It was very important. I have high respect for my mother-in-law. She is a wonderful woman. She knows how to be a wife, and a very traditional one. I learned from her a great deal.<br /><br />I also remember that I have to read the scriptures a lot because, being at home and having the intellect that I have, I think I was constantly yearning for knowledge. So I would set goals for myself every year that I need to accomplish something: reading the scriptures, attending institute, and serving whole heartedly in my callings were those things that kept me intellectually active, other than being physically active, with the rearing of my two daughters.<br /><br />In the year 1989, I felt we were ready to move out and live on our own. It was like I had been so dependent on my mother-in-law that if I never go out and live, I would never know whether I could make it. [laughs] We left my father-in-law’s house and moved out to Ampang Jaya. My father-in-law’s house is in [Tuas?], Kuala Lumpur, and we lived in Ampang Jaya for eight years. There in the year 1990, October the 19th, I had my next child, who is the third. And he’s my first boy. His name is Woon Han. It was such a joy to have him after five years, and not having a baby, I was all ready for another child, yes. Then two years later, I was expecting my fourth child Chong Woon Schwan, who would be born in November on the 8th.<br /><br />I have to backtrack a little to the month of May. My father actually passed away in the month of May. I was very sad. I will backtrack a little bit more to the month of February. I made a special trip back to Singapore feeling the urgency to see my parents. It was during that trip, after the Chinese New Year, that I had a heart-to-heart talk with my father. It was during that time that he told me about sending me to church because of my rebellion as a teenager. I was very sad that he kept telling me that he was going to die. I just felt that he was going to live longer than he thought he was going to live, but he kept telling me he was going to die. I was quite upset. I said, “Not you. You’re not going to die. You’re going to live longer.” So I was able to express my love for him. That evening, when I left waving good-bye to him at the kitchen door, it was the last I saw him. [crying]<br /><br />The kitchen was a special place because, when I was young, my dad worked in the coffee house. He would come home because he had late shift, and he would come home late at night. He would always fix noodles for me in the kitchen. I loved to eat the noodles that he cooked, and sometimes we had leftover rice. He would cook fried rice for me for supper. Chinese supper is we eat dinner and then we had supper. Supper is like 11:00 or 11:30 p.m., but those were the special times that I spent with my dad, eating together. One thing I know is that I knew even though my father passed away, that he was not all gone. I was sad, but I didn’t have a lot of regrets even though I couldn’t see him before he passed away. We have had temple work for him. The temple ordinance was performed for him a year later by my brother Roy Tong.<br /><br />Anyway, I saw him several times in my dream. He was not very happy in the dream, and he was not talking. He was not smiling until about six months later. Only I could see my<br /><br />Chong page 10<br /><br />father smile in the dream, so to me it was a consolation. [crying] It was a grieving period that I went through.<br /><br />My mom was to live on her own ever since my father passed away. I think she focus on the family because she still had some purpose of living: she had grandchildren. Her grandchildren were going to get married, so there was a lot of hope and joyful events for her to look forward to. We made sure that every happy event that we have in the family is celebrated with her. So that was the year 1992.<br /><br />In 1995, my fifth child was born on the 16th of June 1995. His name is Ern. We call him Erny. [laughs] He’s a special boy. When he was born, I was busy driving my children around, going to school—one to here, one to there. So he literally grew up in the van. [laughs] I would feed my children in the van on the way to pick up another child. He would have to drink his milk in the van. Sometimes I would bring his porridge to school, so I could feed him when my children are in school. So he grew up in the van. [laughs]<br /><br />Then in the year 1997, I was expecting my sixth child. The house that we live in, in Ampang Jaya, became kind of crowded. So we moved to our current home in Ukay Heights, which is just the next taman, which means the next garden. Just like we can even walk from our old place to our new place. Yes, so it’s called Ukay Heights. So the name is quite nice. The street name is Jalan [Beverly?]. So that house, number 18, Jalan [Beverly?], was the house that my father-in-law built, like, maybe thirty years ago when my husband was still a young preteen. So my husband lived in there before he left for Australia to study, where he joined the Church. So we have come one big round, you know? For him especially. So finally, he is back to his own home.<br /><br />By the time we moved to that house in the month of November the 2nd, which is exactly today, my last baby was born. He is Chong Un Ray, and he is my last. I’m quite sure that this will be my final child. I think during my progress in life, from having one child and to six children, I felt that I wanted to intellectually stimulate myself, especially because I have a very good Indonesian maid that I hired when my baby was born. She has been with me ever since Ray was born until now. She is a quite capable woman. She is quite young; she is less than twenty years old. So you can imagine, when she came, she was only fifteen. But we were fooled by her—her age, her looks. [laughs] So I have more time to serve the Church because of her. Yes, because she was there to care for my children when I had to just take off and see somebody.<br /><br />But I also have—in the back of my mind, I felt that I wanted to continue with my studies. I didn’t have a chance to further my studies, and that bugged me for a long time. So I took up some part time interior design courses, and I decided that I think I wanted to pursue it further. In the year 2000, I made a big jump, and I took it full time. It’s a great challenge, but my children are very supportive. I know I’m doing things—it’s not normal. It’s out of the ordinary, but I’m just going to do it for these two years. Then because it’s a credit transfer kind of system, I can hold onto my junior and senior year until when my children are a little bit older because, right now, I have the opportunity because I have a<br /><br /><u>Chong page 11</u><br /><u><br /></u>good domestic helper, and she’s not going to be with me forever. She’s going to leave next year, so I’m just taking the opportunity.<br /><br />I have a few highlights in my life. One of the highlights happened in the year 2000, January the 29th. I went down to Singapore to hear the prophet speak, so President [Gordon B.] Hinckley was there. In 1996, I was able to attend the Hong Kong [China] Temple dedication. I was a little bit upset then, to be honest. I’m speaking very honestly. Because I was not able to see the prophet personally, I was really not so happy.<br /></b></span></span></p><div id="bl" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"></div><p style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br />So the year 1999, there was this news that President Hinckley was going to come to Singapore to speak, to meet the Saints. Brother Lim called me up and said, “Chong Lee, would you like to sing in the stake choir? We would love to have Malaysian participation.” I was more than delighted to join the choir, and on top of that, he gave me the honor, or the privilege, to be the chorister for that occasion. I felt so spoiled that I should deserve a chance like that. [laughs] It was really a chance of a lifetime to be able to sing in a choir for the prophet of God.<br /><br />It was a unique experience in the sense that I was going through some difficult time in my life prior to this time. I was facing some personal challenges. I was questioning maybe about the meaning of my life, having six children. They call it midlife crisis, but I think it was more than that. It was some kind of problem that came up between me and my husband, but we were able to work on it instead of running away from it. So I felt I really needed to have some kind of spiritual experience to confirm to me that I was doing the right thing.<br /><br />I remember we were supposed to wear a certain uniform for the choir presentation. I didn’t get the message straight, and I had no uniform. I was really upset. If I didn’t have the uniform, then I wouldn’t be able to sing in the choir. Someone in the choir, Diana Lim, Bishop Lim’s wife, said, “Hey, you know what? I was inspired to bring an extra set of uniform.” She said something whispered to her that she should bring an extra set. She didn’t know for who, but she just brought it. I know it was really for me. Then I also know that it was the Lord’s way of showing me that He had a hand in my meeting the prophet, that I was able to stand up there and sing in the choir and to feel the Spirit so strong.<br /><br />The song that we sang was the first song that I ever learned from the Church choir. It’s “Oh, how lovely was the morning!” 1 It’s the First Vision. At the closing of that meeting, we sang, “God Be with You Till We Meet Again”2 I was leading the music and President Hinckley was leaving the stage and I think he must have heard my spirit crying. [crying] He turned around and shook my hand and he saw into my eyes and I think he knew that I needed that. He hugged me; I think he knew I needed to be hugged at that moment. It was<br /><br />1. Editors’ note: Chong is referring to the line from “Joseph Smith’s First Prayer” (Hymns, 1985, no. 26). 2. Editors’ note: “God Be with You Till We Meet Again” (Hymns, no. 152).<br /><br /><u>Chong page 12</u><br /><u><br /></u>a special experience because, to me, that was Heavenly Father’s arms, and He gave me encouragement to go on.<br /><br />Because of that visit, I had the reason to come down to Singapore to see my mom for the last time. It was the last time I saw my mom in life. [crying] In the month of March, my mother passed away. When I look back about what a great example my mom has set for me, the sacrifices she made for everyone of her children, for the love that she had for each one of us—she was a very talented woman. She could sew; she could cook; she was a carpenter; she fixed furniture; she recycled things; she was a great example. I view— from my conversation—from her that, at one point in her life, she went to six years of school in China, which is not very common for a girl. She went to six years of school, and she was actually selected to go to nursing school, but somehow there was a twist of fate. She never managed to go. So that was the thing she wasn’t able to do.<br /><br />After she passed away, that thing came back into me, [emotional] and it kind of reminded me that there were things that I wanted to do that I didn’t do—that I didn’t accomplish in my studies that I really wanted to do when I was young. I wasn’t able going for that goal, but I think if I had pursued my studies at a younger age, I wouldn’t have had six children. So now that I’ve had six children and I’m still going for my study, I think maybe it is better that way that I actually have my six children. I can not explain—I think maybe another ten years with them when I look back. But on the whole, I’m grateful for who I am.<br /><br />The main thing is the Church has played a very vital role in my life because that is the anchor of what my decisions would be about choosing to be a full-time homemaker. Even the fact that I speak English to my children, it is really Church related because I know that church is conducted in English in Malaysia. So I felt that to get firsthand gospel knowledge, I would use English to teach my children. To make it up, we send them to Chinese school. All my children are bilingual. The fact that we live in Malaysia—we have to in Bahasa, Malaysia. So they go, and they also learn.<br /><br />My two daughters have very strong testimony, and they go to early-morning seminary. So I think we are not perfect, but we live a life that probably Heavenly Father wants us to live. I am very grateful for all the examples that I’ve seen—the example of the expatriates who live in Kuala Lumpur Branch. From their example of service and from their example of overcoming their set of challenges, we learn from them. We view that this is the way to live, that the Church teaching is a good binding force in the family. For me—I don’t know about other people—for me, I feel that happiness or happy family is the by-product of an eternal family. Because of our constant pursuit of having eternal happiness, the by- product is temporal happiness. Happiness comes because of what we do that is God’s commandment.<br /><br />In my secular study, I’m being exposed to all types of religion—philosophy to expand my mind. It helps me understand other people. It strengthens my testimony. I know what the world lacks. In the course of study, I also learn how to paint. That, to me, is a form of<br /><br /><u>Chong page 13</u><br /><u><br /></u>expressing my spirituality. When I do my work, I have to portray beauty, which I think the essence of our religion is also about beautifying this world in many forms: in arts, in living, portray of beauty and positive influences.<br /><br />I hope that as a Church student in my class that I will be able to influence these eighteen- years-old, nineteen-years-old in a positive manner. So I think there’s more a missionary work opportunity for me now because I have come out of the close circle of Church member friends. I’m able to meet up with a lot of nonmember friends. I have nonmember friends in Singapore, but not here. [laughs] So this my life.<br /><br />T: Thank you very much.<br /></b></span></span></p><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I like to thank our Church historians for their great work for the benefit of posterity. My wife and I personally know Melvin P. Thatcher well who did the above interview. We meet him either at his office in Hong Kong or in Salt Lake City church headquarters and in this case when he makes a visit to our home city of Kuala Lumpur. I am glad to have become a Church historian in one of my callings today in Kuala Lumpur. It came about maybe due to my continuation to keep journals since I started when I joined the Church in 1979. My appreciation of the life of Geok Lee is shared in this journal of mine entitled "<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2012/10/touching-lives.html">Touching Lives</a>"</span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;">Notes prepared before the talk:</span><br /><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;">When I joined the Church in 1979, the prophet at that time was President Spencer W. Kimball. President Kimball was a businessman before he was called to be an Apostle. I had learned that before accepting his call, he wanted to clear himself of any sins he may have committed and somehow reached out publicly to all those he had dealt with him before in the business world if any had felt he had done something wrong or transacted unfairly, he would do something to compensate them for his past sins. I was touched by learning of this history and when I heard the voice of President Kimball speaking on voice tape or video, I was also touched with the special kind of voice he spoke in. I had learned he had suffered cancer in his throat and doctors enabled him to speak with some artificial device implanted on him where he had to speak with more effort or wind to produce a very husky voice that had a humbling effect to listeners.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;">He who wrote a book entitled The Miracle of Forgiveness of which my talk will use some extracts from his teachings in this “Must Read Book” with further sharing of some of my personal feelings and experiences.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>Chapter 18 “Forgive to Be Forgiven”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>Matthew 6:14-15<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;">15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;">The Lord must have considered this basic. He had long before made the same </span><span style="color: #212225;">statement to his people in the Western world through his great prophet, Alma, </span><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;">when it was given in comparable words:</span><span style="color: #212225;"> </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>Mosiah 26:31<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>30 Yea, and as often as my people repent will I forgive them their trespasses against me.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>31 And ye shall also forgive one another your trespasses; for verily I say unto you, he that forgiveth not his neighbor’s trespasses when he says that he repents, the same hath brought himself under condemnation.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>32 Now I say unto you, Go; and whosoever will not repent of his sins the same shall not be numbered among my people; and this shall be observed from this time forward.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>33 And it came to pass when Alma had heard these words he wrote them down that he might have them, and that he might judge the people of that church according to the commandments of God.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>Forgiveness Must Be Sincere<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b>The command to forgive and the condemnation which follows failure to do so could not be stated more plainly than in this modern revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My disciples, in days of old, sought occasion against one another and forgave not one another in their hearts; and for this evil they were afflicted and sorely chastened.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.7px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;">Wherefore, I say unto you, that ye ought to forgive one another; for he that forgiveth not his brother his trespasses standeth condemned before the Lord; for there remaineth in him the greater sin. I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men. (D&C 64:8-10.)</span><span style="color: #212225;"> </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;">The lesson stands for us today. Many people, when brought to a reconciliation </span><span style="color: #212225;">with others, say that they forgive, but they continue to hold malice, continue </span><span style="color: #212225;">to suspect the other party, continue to disbelieve the other's sincerity. This </span><span style="color: #212225;">is sin, for when reconciliation has been effected and when repentance is </span><span style="color: #212225;">claimed, each should forgive and forget, build immediately the fences which have </span><span style="color: #212225;">been breached, and restore the former compatibility.</span><br /><span style="color: #212225;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212225;">The early disciples evidently expressed words of forgiveness, and on the surface </span><span style="color: #212225; line-height: 20.7px;">made the required adjustment, but "forgave not one another in their hearts." </span><span style="color: #212225;">This was not a forgiveness, but savored of hypocrisy and deceit and subterfuge. </span><span style="color: #212225;">As implied in Christ's model prayer, it must be a heart action and a purging of </span><span style="color: #212225;">one's mind. Forgiveness means forgetfulness. One woman had "gone through" a </span><span style="color: #212225;">reconciliation in a branch and had made the physical motions and verbal </span><span style="color: #212225;">statements indicating it, and expressed the mouthy words forgiving. Then with </span><span style="color: #212225;">flashing eyes, she remarked, "I will forgive her, but I have a memory like an </span><span style="color: #212225;">elephant. I'll never forget."</span></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.7px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span>Do Not Judge</span></span><br /><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span>One man came in with his erring wife, and when she had been disciplined by disfellowshipment he taunted her, saying, "Now, how do you like it? You can't take the sacrament. Now don't you wish you had listened to me?" As this despicable husband was judging, it reminded me of the corrupt men who brought the adulteress to the Lord, whose soft answer puts all such accusers to flight: "He </span></span><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." (John 87.)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"><span>The scriptures are very strict upon the unauthorized judging. The Lord himself </span></span><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">made it clear and emphatic: Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. (Matt. 7:1-2.)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">The Lord will judge with the same measurements meted out by us. If we are harsh, we should not expect other than harshness. If we are merciful with those who injure us, he will be merciful with us in our errors. If we are unforgiving, he will leave us weltering in our own sins. While the scriptures are plain in their declaration that man shall have meted out to him the same measure that he gives his fellowmen, the meting out even of warranted judgment is not for the layman, but for proper authorities in Church and state. The Lord will do the judging in the final analysis.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #212225; font-weight: 700;">----------------------------------------------------</span></div><span style="color: #212225; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #212225;"><br /></span><span style="color: #212225;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div id="bm"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #212225;">3 Nephi 19:11</span><br /><span style="color: #212225;"><span class="verse-number" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">29 </span><span>For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of </span><a class="study-note-ref" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11?lang=eng&clang=eng#note29a" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #177c9c; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup class="marker" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a</sup>contention</a><span> is not of me, but is of the </span><a class="study-note-ref" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11?lang=eng&clang=eng#note29b" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #177c9c; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><sup class="marker" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">b</sup>devil</a><span>, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another. </span></span></span><br /></b></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div id="mk"></div><b><span style="color: #212225;"><span><br /></span></span><span style="color: #212225;"><span>(<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2022/04/test-apr-20.html#ft">Click here</a> to return to the paragraph on top where this scripture was referred to)</span></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-size: medium;"><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>December 2019</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Post-dated Event:</b><br /><b>Well, my stories never end! Only because of my Consciousness that picks up endless streams of information and personal revelations etc. while researching for my book in my CHI Computer-Human Interaction mode with my SHI Spirit-Human Interaction mode as well. Allow me to elaborate:</b></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMdCQKvb09wbY_ZoQ0MfyAiJLurbPoPANwQ95Rb7xmI-7PscsMvZHYFtDtq8IDA2ovgJsV-FEX9xPHrn9378-xzN2vRfokJ6FRjy-VZRDNH2b_fCGVemW4DGtBETmAHI2bXvv/s1600/HyrumSmith-July2019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMdCQKvb09wbY_ZoQ0MfyAiJLurbPoPANwQ95Rb7xmI-7PscsMvZHYFtDtq8IDA2ovgJsV-FEX9xPHrn9378-xzN2vRfokJ6FRjy-VZRDNH2b_fCGVemW4DGtBETmAHI2bXvv/s320/HyrumSmith-July2019.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>On 15 September 2018, a special visitor by the name of Hyrum Smith visited Kuala Lumpur to give a talk. During the year of 2018. I was focused on finishing my research and writing my future book on the theme of Human Consciousness. I was at the peak of being busy fulfilling all of my life responsibilities including that of Church callings.<br />(I was released as the Branch Mission Leader on the first Sunday of the year 2019 to be issued a new calling as the Content Editor of Liahona magazine for Malaysia as recorded <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/09/missionary-work-events-back-in-my-old.html#li">here.</a>)<br /><br />Now there wasn't much publicity or notice that this man named Hyrum Smith was visiting and it felt rather mysterious too as I was wondering was this a talk about the Hyrum Smith members know who was the brother of Joseph Smith where both became martyrs in Cartage Jail?<br /><br />I was late to attend the meeting that was held in the PJ Church building. Walking in to hear this Hyrum Smith speak I was impressed with the few stories he was sharing to note that he was certainly a leader in his business entity that he created where I knew from the linear planning diaries he is known for producing, he had merged up with Stephen Covey who was more focused on principle-centered leadership.<br /><br />I took the following photos after his talk:<br /><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GHPSKOlBv_p0ZjIgfSW1ktXTnqgEnXANMvD_kyYQV6v8G8l8wqWu80iqaHiK592jhmLhHILhvL-ylcRzOzaiigHFr81ZtsS6ESkOH1JLJ-F6Hixg5s4xeV0awAEzePh4mBxu/s1600/P1060533b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GHPSKOlBv_p0ZjIgfSW1ktXTnqgEnXANMvD_kyYQV6v8G8l8wqWu80iqaHiK592jhmLhHILhvL-ylcRzOzaiigHFr81ZtsS6ESkOH1JLJ-F6Hixg5s4xeV0awAEzePh4mBxu/s400/P1060533b.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7gHoSOd5_mfvnR5AMc0ef0MQFSi78ijTsyYrCclpPbNOBAh9evUJIF5drPAmpu0zmwmO8z0gGad7VH9m36SFCBQApF0c3ySwbWP76u3IdJvSFsHLsqGNlW5w90lL_1Kune6sS/s1600/P1060535.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7gHoSOd5_mfvnR5AMc0ef0MQFSi78ijTsyYrCclpPbNOBAh9evUJIF5drPAmpu0zmwmO8z0gGad7VH9m36SFCBQApF0c3ySwbWP76u3IdJvSFsHLsqGNlW5w90lL_1Kune6sS/s400/P1060535.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br />Much later in the following year of 2019, after I prepared and delivered my talk entitled above, "Finding Peace by Forgiving others", I discovered this <a href="https://www.deseret.com/2004/4/3/19821074/utah-businessman-now-back-in-the-fold?fbclid=IwAR1Tw3anGjhCCpYsK5zRnABDHh0S_cQuQFZuEIh8O5PYjfEdZxMAZdLxKX4#hyrum-smith-co-founder-of-franklin-covey-speaks-about-his-book-pain-is-inevitable-misery-is-optional-he-wants-to-help-people-know-that-repentance-is-worth-it">public story</a> of the repentance process that this Hyrum Smith I had met, a descendant of Hyrum Smith who was the brother of Joseph Smith had gone through. Wow, it was indeed humbling to come across this true story to read, reflecting the sincerity and true greatness of this business leader.<br /><br />Confession and seeking Forgiveness as a principle of Repentance is fundamental in the Gospel of Jesus Christ for all his disciples. The atoning sacrifice of the Savior or why it is possible is not really understood by a majority of followers who will do it due to purely as an act of faith and love of the Savior. My research found answers shared in my <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html?fbclid=IwAR0Zuf_ozfTN6ech2puZRdk-sB7E0pIoqzARvQS5OePIVgftKA8CsixSuyQ">journal post here</a> on the Atonement.<br /><br />It was another moment of my own Consciousness at work to put everything together. There is always a meaning and purpose in life as I am aware of in my own Consciousness. Finding this public story, that I wasn't aware of earlier, completed my understanding and appreciation of the process of repentance that it really requires great humility for the repentant especially for someone like Hyrum Smith who was a public figure with a merger in business to be public-listed. I am not a public figure as successful as Hyrum Smith though in working hard for my family in the business world, I have made some impressive breakthroughs recorded <a href="http://itcgroup.blogspot.com/">here.</a><br /></b></span><div id="fg"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVKFpfrefwZ4PT25oxcDVoa9qAvguw5bp8_NRvdAbMxKCHThALOk_Ga-ZhBnOhvk3eyR90fggdKKnDEdsesy3Jq8Xe8iPnyAIxE84d2Y1VdSquYGwmFw1b7HcoLtEcoZQr_9Aj/s1600/CIMG8472.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVKFpfrefwZ4PT25oxcDVoa9qAvguw5bp8_NRvdAbMxKCHThALOk_Ga-ZhBnOhvk3eyR90fggdKKnDEdsesy3Jq8Xe8iPnyAIxE84d2Y1VdSquYGwmFw1b7HcoLtEcoZQr_9Aj/s400/CIMG8472.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The above photo reminds me of a time when I had to repent and confess to my presiding Church leader and also to my own family members of whom I am the head of a Chinese family, of my own sins or transgressions. This is difficult for a Chinese to do with our lineage of ancestral hierarchy and pride of being the head of our homes in our culture of 5,000 years that the world acknowledges. Due to my long experience of Western-Eastern Interaction (WEI), my consciousness research helps me understand the phenomena of why I could be a different Chinese!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It was therefore not difficult for me to do as I am a transformed Chinese to know that it isn't about what culture, race or religion one comes from. I know I am a Child of God and since young, I was curious about everything and was unafraid to explore, seek and find the answer to my life's questions and I did find them by my own first experience! In my own research, I discovered that my Consciousness was more akin to being a <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology">Phenomenologist.</a><br />Due to my confession and acceptance of personal consequences, I could only witness my youngest son's baptism that was conducted by our good family friend from Africa.<br /><br />I never felt I was better than anyone else and was, in fact, a slow learner since young. I just knew I had to keep working on it and saw how I could transform in many different and significant areas of my life. This occurs as my Consciousness increased in content absorbed from my own personal experiences over time, age never being a constraint!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>When my youngest son was much older, ready to receive his Melchizedek Priesthood at Church, it was a privilege for me to be able to ordain him to the office of an Elder.<br /><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="670" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsunfu.chong%2Fposts%2F10217123330454915&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br />I knew life had the phenomenon of facing opposition and challenges to enable us to learn how to overcome them. There was even added opposition from my supposedly innocent/good friends where one would use the trust my wealthy friends had in me to borrow money from them to eventually not return the loan. Another would even unscrupulously 'steal' businesses I had built with my own toil, tears, and sweat.<br /><br />I had to really pray hard to be able to forgive them and I did so by not harboring any hate feelings nor wanting to take revenge on them. I just let them be and focus instead on my own challenges to recover or do the best to carry on. I could finish a 7 years intensive research on the subject I really wanted to unravel, which is Human Consciousness, to be able today to be ready to share my knowledge and experiences through the World Wide Web to update the Group Consciousness of the world on how to achieve OPT Optimal Performance & Thinking in individuals as well as in of organizations.<br /></b></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The result of Peace<br />My Consciousness has worked wonders for me in my lifetime. It could create a link of a number of people, as I have done below, to the name of Covey with the help of my discipline or habit of keeping all my photos organized and indexed as well as maintaining my personal journals downloaded from my Consciousness.<br /><br />It brought back memories of my early days in business where I had actually successfully promoted a Covey program in Kuala Lumpur, working with one of their early trainers/consultants.<br /><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwxIETxCx6gOFDwN4ptLRZ5KVfEeLt6c-i0pELPXzrEK14ZfkZv3TwotBz1-XT-xxnWIVI1Go03kq_Ndsb4D90Nkhuu8NpmDirj8CEZtwFbcsSrO8Qo38bBDE8XvmpT8v4H7u/s1600/DeeGrobergSep1993.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="732" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwxIETxCx6gOFDwN4ptLRZ5KVfEeLt6c-i0pELPXzrEK14ZfkZv3TwotBz1-XT-xxnWIVI1Go03kq_Ndsb4D90Nkhuu8NpmDirj8CEZtwFbcsSrO8Qo38bBDE8XvmpT8v4H7u/s320/DeeGrobergSep1993.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>He is Dee Groberg in 1993</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCdL_dCO5vklntBM2DtPOYFqqVCXelH7qDMKVxJuTBLqKSM_-NqqtlYRl2kUwQCoqLbOPLce_qZ16PEp60UZ9SslC2kjmNT5dcjGFp7BPjMRrGdO3lyB5lZRswGuKIA7m7C2z/s1600/DeeGroberg-Nov1988.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="732" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCdL_dCO5vklntBM2DtPOYFqqVCXelH7qDMKVxJuTBLqKSM_-NqqtlYRl2kUwQCoqLbOPLce_qZ16PEp60UZ9SslC2kjmNT5dcjGFp7BPjMRrGdO3lyB5lZRswGuKIA7m7C2z/s320/DeeGroberg-Nov1988.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>At his home in Sandy Utah. He is related to John H. Groberg, his brother seen in the photo below.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="ga"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZRx8eL594frzpOqRuX59tqefEpDYJ-kM0Q5E_DMzxJnV1kOiRNJw259H5GV3ilz5Yf0h0zlcnVlkgWGSn6wGuLVkQupOf65_PS0nCd28dT03ZMs0porcJm61EHpsGKEZb7ggl/s1600/200310-ElderJohnHGroberg-wife-SLCmission-Reunion-GeneralConference.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZRx8eL594frzpOqRuX59tqefEpDYJ-kM0Q5E_DMzxJnV1kOiRNJw259H5GV3ilz5Yf0h0zlcnVlkgWGSn6wGuLVkQupOf65_PS0nCd28dT03ZMs0porcJm61EHpsGKEZb7ggl/s320/200310-ElderJohnHGroberg-wife-SLCmission-Reunion-GeneralConference.jpg" width="320" /></a> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I met <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1068840920783&set=a.1068829400495">John H Groberg</a> with his wife in a Singapore mission reunion event before General conference on 2 Oct 2003 in Salt Lake City Utah. Elder Groberg was involved in speeding up the opening of the Church in East Malaysia as per the article below that I had written for our Liahona news in Malaysia.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpwkKwTI7pbf_MFO2ddUdhuTZPESEqi54-3XOoIZtlIqoF2oqPpq8JsKhAIoMKIIQvN1yg0-Sn3PZaJTSYGISu2yqeRlhsgGLJmI6j-4QJI-Xk7J5g0CdZplEdU8IS8HGzMg7/s2048/cimg0261.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpwkKwTI7pbf_MFO2ddUdhuTZPESEqi54-3XOoIZtlIqoF2oqPpq8JsKhAIoMKIIQvN1yg0-Sn3PZaJTSYGISu2yqeRlhsgGLJmI6j-4QJI-Xk7J5g0CdZplEdU8IS8HGzMg7/s320/cimg0261.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Present also was the mission president and wife, Robert W Houghton and Linda, who served in the Singapore Mission in the years 1988-1991</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNVzMZvVHqP_3ylmR6Eg5eQzf5ndNAQnU8RdWm-GC62lYDDQKQVFTITNZF2sap_5KABVYmvMzaSJ-jHUOjuVA1zQ8IssSnUgz7j1fiEhuWuzCpl3fHNodJnyGVBM29kidnjUE/s2048/cimg0251.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNVzMZvVHqP_3ylmR6Eg5eQzf5ndNAQnU8RdWm-GC62lYDDQKQVFTITNZF2sap_5KABVYmvMzaSJ-jHUOjuVA1zQ8IssSnUgz7j1fiEhuWuzCpl3fHNodJnyGVBM29kidnjUE/s320/cimg0251.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Victor Chen from Singapore was conducting the mission reunion event. He was called to be an <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2008/05/the-sustaining-of-church-officers?lang=eng">Area Seventy</a> in the April 2008 general conference of the Church.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Highlighting local missionaries serving in the Kuala Lumpur area today with some history of the early beginnings of the Church in East Malaysia. (<a href="https://spiritlane.info/liahonaoct2019/?fbclid=IwAR3BMxK3E1mTxzCpMnMy7fsAw0wraQ1LNGTRdH0tH-o9onKL7Hf5nEHL9R0">Online article</a>.)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>We see an increasing number of the local missionaries serving in Kuala Lumpur today, with several from East Malaysia. The work to preach the Gospel really took off in East Malaysia only after the dedication of the land to preach the Gospel, in both East and West Malaysia, that was conducted by Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, a member of the quorum of 12 Apostles, on 15 Aug 1996. Prior to that, reports the former Mission President Carl Warren & wife Laura (1994-1997), who has shared a written <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/power-of-purpose/history-of-the-church-in-east-malaysia/169864749737490/">History of the Church in East Malaysia</a>, Elder John H. Groberg of the First Quorum of the Seventy was sent to visit him in December 1994. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>In his own words, wrote President Warren, “Elder Groberg was instantly very much at ease, as he kept observing throughout the several days we were in East Malaysia, how much these native people reminded him of the Polynesian Islanders, that Elder Groberg had spent years living with, in several Church callings. He spoke the Islanders languages, and was truly an expert on the Polynesian migration from Hagar’s voyages into the Pacific, extending all the way to Indonesia and Borneo it seemed. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>With Elder Groberg’s very positive report back to Salt Lake, and his miraculous ‘vision’ that took place when the five of us had returned to Kuching from the ‘bush’, and while sitting in our Hilton Hotel room, trying to recap and summarize our findings, Elder Groberg had what I would term, a “vision”, that caused him to lean back in his chair, close his eyes, and it was so startling to the other four of us, that complete silence filled the room. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The net of his inspirational few moments, was that the window in time, that the Lord had just opened for us in East Malaysia, was going to close very soon, and we were under direct instruction to get to work in opening up the six proposed branches, three in the West in Kuching, Sibu and Miri, and three in the East at Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan, and Tawau as soon as possible.” The West and East referred to the island of Borneo where the two states of East Malaysia are located geographically. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3Y2M5rJDS5cyQ4Md77EP9xsCZe40z-rxsVMkqGXfSXnfhiSOn1n0z2oB0PjHkBMs_sLCqwpiiU9t8F_GNZYmGOg-xmJB0w-ACCGsxxdcIKltJUt3VLQ-QL5PmuK8E_9q2HFX/s1600/JohnGroberg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="604" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3Y2M5rJDS5cyQ4Md77EP9xsCZe40z-rxsVMkqGXfSXnfhiSOn1n0z2oB0PjHkBMs_sLCqwpiiU9t8F_GNZYmGOg-xmJB0w-ACCGsxxdcIKltJUt3VLQ-QL5PmuK8E_9q2HFX/s320/JohnGroberg.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Elder John H. Groberg is seen on the back far right of the photo with President Carl Warren siting on the front right with his wife Laura on the far left.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Standing on the far left is Elder Brandon Pendell who baptized a young Iban woman seen in the middle named Dinah Tampong. She was the first East Malaysian to be called to serve a mission and served productively in Singapore and West Malaysia. She is today Dinah Pendell, sealed to her husband Brandon with a wonderful family of three children living in the Utah.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>End of Article</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Writing this journal post has been a humbling experience for me to realize how amazing Human Consciousness is which I know is a gift of our Heavenly Father to us. It has helped me navigate my way to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ as best as I can, to face every challenge thrown to me and last but not least, to still be able to be positive or spiritual in finding true meaning and purpose of life!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Post-dated development:</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">28 Feb 2021</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQRYJ01YhY-qkHvpOeCBFaGWd5d4TYWqczlHPbGhuyRPJnhvn0ULFpe2ldCsIEOfw6q5UYM88DgriV8oO-MiiK2WII7-kkltSU65K9ynjk3-8oGCEJE5dh7KclIQUwK9Es-RS/s2048/DavidHatch2-2005June.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQRYJ01YhY-qkHvpOeCBFaGWd5d4TYWqczlHPbGhuyRPJnhvn0ULFpe2ldCsIEOfw6q5UYM88DgriV8oO-MiiK2WII7-kkltSU65K9ynjk3-8oGCEJE5dh7KclIQUwK9Es-RS/w400-h300/DavidHatch2-2005June.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>2015</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_WwyX7r4IrTzrbvoNBUBXf1eZG5to_XmWXaeQYhrcEnVtIn7hk8D2eJ6_QmkP3m3QAzmiEsmpb6rikGBi3MUN4R2Wq6cEoF3L2MrOocLD6dWKa9rTiFwDcY8HHe6Q-75EiL7V/s1905/DavidHatch4-2020Nov.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="1905" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_WwyX7r4IrTzrbvoNBUBXf1eZG5to_XmWXaeQYhrcEnVtIn7hk8D2eJ6_QmkP3m3QAzmiEsmpb6rikGBi3MUN4R2Wq6cEoF3L2MrOocLD6dWKa9rTiFwDcY8HHe6Q-75EiL7V/w400-h266/DavidHatch4-2020Nov.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>2020</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6M56ZsffHXjOF1CBkN0OOjoYUtfaKU4wtZsY6CQ315JMgwx1aLexAtivssZsj269gDLeqMyyOx9ON9fq3sSlAhjRh-R0j_5R_WRJxvUDBQLBk-egcckRWOGc-wrJkIrypdye/s400/DavidHatch1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="260" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6M56ZsffHXjOF1CBkN0OOjoYUtfaKU4wtZsY6CQ315JMgwx1aLexAtivssZsj269gDLeqMyyOx9ON9fq3sSlAhjRh-R0j_5R_WRJxvUDBQLBk-egcckRWOGc-wrJkIrypdye/w416-h640/DavidHatch1.jpg" width="416" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Glad to know my friends and families are safe and doing well in the USA during a <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2020/04/2020-first-post.html?fbclid=IwAR2NeaT7JNvZ34DcecuiTVqQca_PQZRYLc0YUkLAeOU9gYyjYNteEHH8nbw">pandemic era</a> of the World! I've also launched my website to share the knowledge and experiences I have accumulated at <a href="https://abacuscloud.blogspot.com/2018/01/photolinks-to-story.html">www.AbacusToCloud.com</a></b></span></div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div></div></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"></div></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1502727572285819667" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 590px;"><div class="MsoNormal"><div id="hs"></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>December 2019</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Post-dated Event:</b><br /><b>Well, my stories never end! Only because of my Consciousness that picks up endless streams of information and personal revelations etc. while researching for my book in my CHI Computer-Human Interaction mode with my SHI Spirit-Human Interaction mode as well. Allow me to elaborate:</b></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMdCQKvb09wbY_ZoQ0MfyAiJLurbPoPANwQ95Rb7xmI-7PscsMvZHYFtDtq8IDA2ovgJsV-FEX9xPHrn9378-xzN2vRfokJ6FRjy-VZRDNH2b_fCGVemW4DGtBETmAHI2bXvv/s1600/HyrumSmith-July2019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMdCQKvb09wbY_ZoQ0MfyAiJLurbPoPANwQ95Rb7xmI-7PscsMvZHYFtDtq8IDA2ovgJsV-FEX9xPHrn9378-xzN2vRfokJ6FRjy-VZRDNH2b_fCGVemW4DGtBETmAHI2bXvv/s320/HyrumSmith-July2019.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>On 15 September 2018, a special visitor by the name of Hyrum Smith visited Kuala Lumpur to give a talk. During the year of 2018. I was focused on finishing my research and writing my future book on the theme of Human Consciousness. I was at the peak of being busy fulfilling all of my life responsibilities including that of Church callings.<br />(I was released as the Branch Mission Leader on the first Sunday of the year 2019 to be issued a new calling as the Content Editor of Liahona magazine for Malaysia as recorded <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/09/missionary-work-events-back-in-my-old.html#li">here.</a>)<br /><br />Now there wasn't much publicity or notice that this man named Hyrum Smith was visiting and it felt rather mysterious too as I was wondering was this a talk about the Hyrum Smith members know who was the brother of Joseph Smith where both became martyrs in Cartage Jail?<br /><br />I was late to attend the meeting that was held in the PJ Church building. Walking in to hear this Hyrum Smith speak I was impressed with the few stories he was sharing to note that he was certainly a leader in his business entity that he created where I knew from the linear planning diaries he is known for producing, he had merged up with Stephen Covey who was more focused on principle-centered leadership.<br /><br />I took the following photos after his talk:<br /><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GHPSKOlBv_p0ZjIgfSW1ktXTnqgEnXANMvD_kyYQV6v8G8l8wqWu80iqaHiK592jhmLhHILhvL-ylcRzOzaiigHFr81ZtsS6ESkOH1JLJ-F6Hixg5s4xeV0awAEzePh4mBxu/s1600/P1060533b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GHPSKOlBv_p0ZjIgfSW1ktXTnqgEnXANMvD_kyYQV6v8G8l8wqWu80iqaHiK592jhmLhHILhvL-ylcRzOzaiigHFr81ZtsS6ESkOH1JLJ-F6Hixg5s4xeV0awAEzePh4mBxu/s400/P1060533b.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7gHoSOd5_mfvnR5AMc0ef0MQFSi78ijTsyYrCclpPbNOBAh9evUJIF5drPAmpu0zmwmO8z0gGad7VH9m36SFCBQApF0c3ySwbWP76u3IdJvSFsHLsqGNlW5w90lL_1Kune6sS/s1600/P1060535.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7gHoSOd5_mfvnR5AMc0ef0MQFSi78ijTsyYrCclpPbNOBAh9evUJIF5drPAmpu0zmwmO8z0gGad7VH9m36SFCBQApF0c3ySwbWP76u3IdJvSFsHLsqGNlW5w90lL_1Kune6sS/s400/P1060535.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br />Much later in the following year of 2019, after I prepared and delivered my talk entitled above, "Finding Peace by Forgiving others", I discovered this <a href="https://www.deseret.com/2004/4/3/19821074/utah-businessman-now-back-in-the-fold?fbclid=IwAR1Tw3anGjhCCpYsK5zRnABDHh0S_cQuQFZuEIh8O5PYjfEdZxMAZdLxKX4#hyrum-smith-co-founder-of-franklin-covey-speaks-about-his-book-pain-is-inevitable-misery-is-optional-he-wants-to-help-people-know-that-repentance-is-worth-it">public story</a> of the repentance process that this Hyrum Smith I had met, a descendant of Hyrum Smith who was the brother of Joseph Smith had gone through. Wow, it was indeed humbling to come across this true story to read, reflecting the sincerity and true greatness of this business leader.<br /><br />Confession and seeking Forgiveness as a principle of Repentance is fundamental in the Gospel of Jesus Christ for all his disciples. The atoning sacrifice of the Savior or why it is possible is not really understood by a majority of followers who will do it due to purely as an act of faith and love of the Savior. My research found answers shared in my <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html?fbclid=IwAR0Zuf_ozfTN6ech2puZRdk-sB7E0pIoqzARvQS5OePIVgftKA8CsixSuyQ">journal post here</a> on the Atonement.<br /><br />It was another moment of my own Consciousness at work to put everything together. There is always a meaning and purpose in life as I am aware of in my own Consciousness. Finding this public story, that I wasn't aware of earlier, completed my understanding and appreciation of the process of repentance that it really requires great humility for the repentant especially for someone like Hyrum Smith who was a public figure with a merger in business to be public-listed. I am not a public figure as successful as Hyrum Smith though in working hard for my family in the business world, I have made some impressive breakthroughs recorded <a href="http://itcgroup.blogspot.com/">here.</a><br /></b></span><div id="fg"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVKFpfrefwZ4PT25oxcDVoa9qAvguw5bp8_NRvdAbMxKCHThALOk_Ga-ZhBnOhvk3eyR90fggdKKnDEdsesy3Jq8Xe8iPnyAIxE84d2Y1VdSquYGwmFw1b7HcoLtEcoZQr_9Aj/s1600/CIMG8472.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVKFpfrefwZ4PT25oxcDVoa9qAvguw5bp8_NRvdAbMxKCHThALOk_Ga-ZhBnOhvk3eyR90fggdKKnDEdsesy3Jq8Xe8iPnyAIxE84d2Y1VdSquYGwmFw1b7HcoLtEcoZQr_9Aj/s400/CIMG8472.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The above photo reminds me of a time when I had to repent and confess to my presiding Church leader and also to my own family members of whom I am the head of a Chinese family, of my own sins or transgressions. This is difficult for a Chinese to do with our lineage of ancestral hierarchy and pride of being the head of our homes in our culture of 5,000 years that the world acknowledges. Due to my long experience of Western-Eastern Interaction (WEI), my consciousness research helps me understand the phenomena of why I could be a different Chinese!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It was therefore not difficult for me to do as I am a transformed Chinese to know that it isn't about what culture, race or religion one comes from. I know I am a Child of God and since young, I was curious about everything and was unafraid to explore, seek and find the answer to my life's questions and I did find them by my own first experience! In my own research, I discovered that my Consciousness was more akin to being a <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology">Phenomenologist.</a><br />Due to my confession and acceptance of personal consequences, I could only witness my youngest son's baptism that was conducted by our good family friend from Africa.<br /><br />I never felt I was better than anyone else and was, in fact, a slow learner since young. I just knew I had to keep working on it and saw how I could transform in many different and significant areas of my life. This occurs as my Consciousness increased in content absorbed from my own personal experiences over time, age never being a constraint!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>When my youngest son was much older, ready to receive his Melchizedek Priesthood at Church, it was a privilege for me to be able to ordain him to the office of an Elder.<br /><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="670" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsunfu.chong%2Fposts%2F10217123330454915&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br />I knew life had the phenomenon of facing opposition and challenges to enable us to learn how to overcome them. There was even added opposition from my supposedly innocent/good friends where one would use the trust my wealthy friends had in me to borrow money from them to eventually not return the loan. Another would even unscrupulously 'steal' businesses I had built with my own toil, tears, and sweat.<br /><br />I had to really pray hard to be able to forgive them and I did so by not harboring any hate feelings nor wanting to take revenge on them. I just let them be and focus instead on my own challenges to recover or do the best to carry on. I could finish a 7 years intensive research on the subject I really wanted to unravel, which is Human Consciousness, to be able today to be ready to share my knowledge and experiences through the World Wide Web to update the Group Consciousness of the world on how to achieve OPT Optimal Performance & Thinking in individuals as well as in of organizations.<br /></b></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The result of Peace<br />My Consciousness has worked wonders for me in my lifetime. It could create a link of a number of people, as I have done below, to the name of Covey with the help of my discipline or habit of keeping all my photos organized and indexed as well as maintaining my personal journals downloaded from my Consciousness.<br /><br />It brought back memories of my early days in business where I had actually successfully promoted a Covey program in Kuala Lumpur, working with one of their early trainers/consultants.<br /><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwxIETxCx6gOFDwN4ptLRZ5KVfEeLt6c-i0pELPXzrEK14ZfkZv3TwotBz1-XT-xxnWIVI1Go03kq_Ndsb4D90Nkhuu8NpmDirj8CEZtwFbcsSrO8Qo38bBDE8XvmpT8v4H7u/s1600/DeeGrobergSep1993.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="732" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqwxIETxCx6gOFDwN4ptLRZ5KVfEeLt6c-i0pELPXzrEK14ZfkZv3TwotBz1-XT-xxnWIVI1Go03kq_Ndsb4D90Nkhuu8NpmDirj8CEZtwFbcsSrO8Qo38bBDE8XvmpT8v4H7u/s320/DeeGrobergSep1993.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>He is Dee Groberg in 1993</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCdL_dCO5vklntBM2DtPOYFqqVCXelH7qDMKVxJuTBLqKSM_-NqqtlYRl2kUwQCoqLbOPLce_qZ16PEp60UZ9SslC2kjmNT5dcjGFp7BPjMRrGdO3lyB5lZRswGuKIA7m7C2z/s1600/DeeGroberg-Nov1988.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="732" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqCdL_dCO5vklntBM2DtPOYFqqVCXelH7qDMKVxJuTBLqKSM_-NqqtlYRl2kUwQCoqLbOPLce_qZ16PEp60UZ9SslC2kjmNT5dcjGFp7BPjMRrGdO3lyB5lZRswGuKIA7m7C2z/s320/DeeGroberg-Nov1988.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>At his home in Sandy Utah. He is related to John H. Groberg, his brother seen in the photo below.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div id="ga"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZRx8eL594frzpOqRuX59tqefEpDYJ-kM0Q5E_DMzxJnV1kOiRNJw259H5GV3ilz5Yf0h0zlcnVlkgWGSn6wGuLVkQupOf65_PS0nCd28dT03ZMs0porcJm61EHpsGKEZb7ggl/s1600/200310-ElderJohnHGroberg-wife-SLCmission-Reunion-GeneralConference.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZRx8eL594frzpOqRuX59tqefEpDYJ-kM0Q5E_DMzxJnV1kOiRNJw259H5GV3ilz5Yf0h0zlcnVlkgWGSn6wGuLVkQupOf65_PS0nCd28dT03ZMs0porcJm61EHpsGKEZb7ggl/s320/200310-ElderJohnHGroberg-wife-SLCmission-Reunion-GeneralConference.jpg" width="320" /></a> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I met <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1068840920783&set=a.1068829400495">John H Groberg</a> with his wife in a Singapore mission reunion event before General conference on 2 Oct 2003 in Salt Lake City Utah. Elder Groberg was involved in speeding up the opening of the Church in East Malaysia as per the article below that I had written for our Liahona news in Malaysia.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpwkKwTI7pbf_MFO2ddUdhuTZPESEqi54-3XOoIZtlIqoF2oqPpq8JsKhAIoMKIIQvN1yg0-Sn3PZaJTSYGISu2yqeRlhsgGLJmI6j-4QJI-Xk7J5g0CdZplEdU8IS8HGzMg7/s2048/cimg0261.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpwkKwTI7pbf_MFO2ddUdhuTZPESEqi54-3XOoIZtlIqoF2oqPpq8JsKhAIoMKIIQvN1yg0-Sn3PZaJTSYGISu2yqeRlhsgGLJmI6j-4QJI-Xk7J5g0CdZplEdU8IS8HGzMg7/s320/cimg0261.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Present also was the mission president and wife, Robert W Houghton and Linda, who served in the Singapore Mission in the years 1988-1991</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNVzMZvVHqP_3ylmR6Eg5eQzf5ndNAQnU8RdWm-GC62lYDDQKQVFTITNZF2sap_5KABVYmvMzaSJ-jHUOjuVA1zQ8IssSnUgz7j1fiEhuWuzCpl3fHNodJnyGVBM29kidnjUE/s2048/cimg0251.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCNVzMZvVHqP_3ylmR6Eg5eQzf5ndNAQnU8RdWm-GC62lYDDQKQVFTITNZF2sap_5KABVYmvMzaSJ-jHUOjuVA1zQ8IssSnUgz7j1fiEhuWuzCpl3fHNodJnyGVBM29kidnjUE/s320/cimg0251.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Victor Chen from Singapore was conducting the mission reunion event. He was called to be an <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2008/05/the-sustaining-of-church-officers?lang=eng">Area Seventy</a> in the April 2008 general conference of the Church.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Highlighting local missionaries serving in the Kuala Lumpur area today with some history of the early beginnings of the Church in East Malaysia. (<a href="https://spiritlane.info/liahonaoct2019/?fbclid=IwAR3BMxK3E1mTxzCpMnMy7fsAw0wraQ1LNGTRdH0tH-o9onKL7Hf5nEHL9R0">Online article</a>.)</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>We see an increasing number of the local missionaries serving in Kuala Lumpur today, with several from East Malaysia. The work to preach the Gospel really took off in East Malaysia only after the dedication of the land to preach the Gospel, in both East and West Malaysia, that was conducted by Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, a member of the quorum of 12 Apostles, on 15 Aug 1996. Prior to that, reports the former Mission President Carl Warren & wife Laura (1994-1997), who has shared a written <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/power-of-purpose/history-of-the-church-in-east-malaysia/169864749737490/">History of the Church in East Malaysia</a>, Elder John H. Groberg of the First Quorum of the Seventy was sent to visit him in December 1994. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>In his own words, wrote President Warren, “Elder Groberg was instantly very much at ease, as he kept observing throughout the several days we were in East Malaysia, how much these native people reminded him of the Polynesian Islanders, that Elder Groberg had spent years living with, in several Church callings. He spoke the Islanders languages, and was truly an expert on the Polynesian migration from Hagar’s voyages into the Pacific, extending all the way to Indonesia and Borneo it seemed. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>With Elder Groberg’s very positive report back to Salt Lake, and his miraculous ‘vision’ that took place when the five of us had returned to Kuching from the ‘bush’, and while sitting in our Hilton Hotel room, trying to recap and summarize our findings, Elder Groberg had what I would term, a “vision”, that caused him to lean back in his chair, close his eyes, and it was so startling to the other four of us, that complete silence filled the room. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The net of his inspirational few moments, was that the window in time, that the Lord had just opened for us in East Malaysia, was going to close very soon, and we were under direct instruction to get to work in opening up the six proposed branches, three in the West in Kuching, Sibu and Miri, and three in the East at Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan, and Tawau as soon as possible.” The West and East referred to the island of Borneo where the two states of East Malaysia are located geographically. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3Y2M5rJDS5cyQ4Md77EP9xsCZe40z-rxsVMkqGXfSXnfhiSOn1n0z2oB0PjHkBMs_sLCqwpiiU9t8F_GNZYmGOg-xmJB0w-ACCGsxxdcIKltJUt3VLQ-QL5PmuK8E_9q2HFX/s1600/JohnGroberg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="604" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3Y2M5rJDS5cyQ4Md77EP9xsCZe40z-rxsVMkqGXfSXnfhiSOn1n0z2oB0PjHkBMs_sLCqwpiiU9t8F_GNZYmGOg-xmJB0w-ACCGsxxdcIKltJUt3VLQ-QL5PmuK8E_9q2HFX/s320/JohnGroberg.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Elder John H. Groberg is seen on the back far right of the photo with President Carl Warren siting on the front right with his wife Laura on the far left.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Standing on the far left is Elder Brandon Pendell who baptized a young Iban woman seen in the middle named Dinah Tampong. She was the first East Malaysian to be called to serve a mission and served productively in Singapore and West Malaysia. She is today Dinah Pendell, sealed to her husband Brandon with a wonderful family of three children living in the Utah.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>End of Article</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Writing this journal post has been a humbling experience for me to realize how amazing Human Consciousness is which I know is a gift of our Heavenly Father to us. It has helped me navigate my way to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ as best as I can, to face every challenge thrown to me and last but not least, to still be able to be positive or spiritual in finding true meaning and purpose of life!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Post-dated development:</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">28 Feb 2021</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQRYJ01YhY-qkHvpOeCBFaGWd5d4TYWqczlHPbGhuyRPJnhvn0ULFpe2ldCsIEOfw6q5UYM88DgriV8oO-MiiK2WII7-kkltSU65K9ynjk3-8oGCEJE5dh7KclIQUwK9Es-RS/s2048/DavidHatch2-2005June.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitQRYJ01YhY-qkHvpOeCBFaGWd5d4TYWqczlHPbGhuyRPJnhvn0ULFpe2ldCsIEOfw6q5UYM88DgriV8oO-MiiK2WII7-kkltSU65K9ynjk3-8oGCEJE5dh7KclIQUwK9Es-RS/w400-h300/DavidHatch2-2005June.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>2015</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_WwyX7r4IrTzrbvoNBUBXf1eZG5to_XmWXaeQYhrcEnVtIn7hk8D2eJ6_QmkP3m3QAzmiEsmpb6rikGBi3MUN4R2Wq6cEoF3L2MrOocLD6dWKa9rTiFwDcY8HHe6Q-75EiL7V/s1905/DavidHatch4-2020Nov.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="1905" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_WwyX7r4IrTzrbvoNBUBXf1eZG5to_XmWXaeQYhrcEnVtIn7hk8D2eJ6_QmkP3m3QAzmiEsmpb6rikGBi3MUN4R2Wq6cEoF3L2MrOocLD6dWKa9rTiFwDcY8HHe6Q-75EiL7V/w400-h266/DavidHatch4-2020Nov.jpg" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>2020</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6M56ZsffHXjOF1CBkN0OOjoYUtfaKU4wtZsY6CQ315JMgwx1aLexAtivssZsj269gDLeqMyyOx9ON9fq3sSlAhjRh-R0j_5R_WRJxvUDBQLBk-egcckRWOGc-wrJkIrypdye/s400/DavidHatch1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="260" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA6M56ZsffHXjOF1CBkN0OOjoYUtfaKU4wtZsY6CQ315JMgwx1aLexAtivssZsj269gDLeqMyyOx9ON9fq3sSlAhjRh-R0j_5R_WRJxvUDBQLBk-egcckRWOGc-wrJkIrypdye/w416-h640/DavidHatch1.jpg" width="416" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Glad to know my friends and families are safe and doing well in the USA during a <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2020/04/2020-first-post.html?fbclid=IwAR2NeaT7JNvZ34DcecuiTVqQca_PQZRYLc0YUkLAeOU9gYyjYNteEHH8nbw">pandemic era</a> of the World! I've also launched my website to share the knowledge and experiences I have accumulated at <a href="https://abacuscloud.blogspot.com/2018/01/photolinks-to-story.html">www.AbacusToCloud.com</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><b></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div></b></b></span></div></div></span></div></div>Dad the KL city kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798301328638176472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749036.post-33166919984241676802019-02-03T05:27:00.005+08:002023-03-21T20:02:53.055+08:00Miracles, Synchronicity and Psychology<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Kuantan, an east coast city of Peninsular Malaysia is the original place where I first received inspiration from my late wife to write a book that is dedicated to her. It was also a time when I was experiencing some miracles or could that be merely synchronicity of events that occurred after the mysterious crash of a Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 that baffled the world to find the lost plane? This odd chance of finding a green plastic plane on the beach while pondering on the strange disappearance of the Malaysian plane and the coincidences of events that followed through after that was quite unforgettable, recorded in detail <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-body-mind-and-spirit-of-man.html">here.</a><br />
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When I write, my writing style tends to be very detailed or descriptive with a need to provide evidence that I am truthful of what I have shared with the support of links to my own sources as well as other independent sources. I also use my own photos and videos, as the actual party in the scene to witness the very event I am writing about. Using third-party photos, there is an increased risk of an error of interpretation even when a photo paints a thousand words as they say. The synchronicity of events that seemed to often occur in Kuantan happened just recently that helped me correct a gross error I had made of an old black and white photo not taken by me shared <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2007/11/story-of-two-weddings-birth-and-funeral.html?fbclid=IwAR3lAmBHdDo6R5-zoEEmxla3L55PCjCVYK03yl2fUTMdDz6XhG2pCeZgt7M#ke">here.</a> With a modern digital camera, the date of any event captured has the date taken automatically stamped digitally and saved with the image so the error mentioned could have been avoided.<br />
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The main reason for such an obsession to validate truth came from my pure science background at school. When I advanced to my tertiary education, I changed to studying business which encompassed economics, law, and accounting to qualify as a Chartered Accountant. At the same time, I felt doing a computer science major as well as my accounting major though it was not a compulsory option. I just felt it would be advantageous for my future to master something that others seem to struggle with.<br />
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In retrospect, I think the real reason why I picked up all the computer subjects that were optional in my business program was that I had observed then that the accounting or business studies students who took computer subjects at the university seem to fail them while those computer science students who took up accounting or economics classes seem to fail the business papers too. So it was more like a challenge for me that I would take up both as majors for my Bachelor of Commerce degree.<br />
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It turned out wonderful as I didn't know much about computers in the 70s as small personal computers were not available for us to play with it and learn about its potential. It turned out that these computers would penetrate every business the world over including homes later on. Neither were brain studies very advanced then to reveal what positive effect it would have on me for mastering two different skills sets that would somehow use both my left(logical IQ) and right(creative EQ) brain to enable them to perform more optimally as one integrated or holistic brain when I entered the job market. What was common in accounting and computer programming was that one had to be precise or accurate. We cannot lose account of even one cent in our accounting records else we would have a problem with the trial balance report. Similarly, one cannot mistype a single code in a computer program as the computer will reject it as a 'bug' or error when processing the programmed codes.<br />
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I've mentioned the IQ and EQ roles that science has attributed to our brain as the organ responsible for managing the process of our thoughts and our emotions. Science and general literature today influenced by politics in our advanced western world rarely mention or highlight the SQ or Spiritual part of the human being. The main reason I believe is one cannot see or observe the spirit to visually prove that it exists. I remember reading that some scientists even tried to measure the weight of people about to die to compare the weight of the body just before death and after with a most sophisticated or accurate weighing machine. They did discover a detectable slight loss in weight. However, they attribute it to a loss of moisture when the person passed away! The spirit could not be determined to exist even via the philosophical part of science as well, whether by way of epistemology or theory of knowledge which requires a consensus or correlation by scientists or via ontology which is more metaphysical about what is true or exists without a need of empirical evidence. (<a href="https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/engl257/classical/ontology_and_epistemology.htm">Reference</a>)<br />
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Journals covering Spiritual Experiences such as Miracles<br />
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So what do I attribute the SQ part of my life to be useful for and where does it exist in? As an academic student of science before and one who was preparing to be a professional accountant with a belief in accuracy, I had the third and last entity to learn, experiment and master! This was the SQ part I was faced with in 1979, the last year of my tertiary education. Like an accountant documenting financial information, I started documenting the results of my learning and experiment that started 40 years ago, at this point in writing, that is actually found at the beginning of this journal <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html">here.</a><br />
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It was truly a live experiment of my own life and how I did it and what happened to me has been recorded in the link I last shared above. I experienced a series of events that occurred that seemed coincidental to me. It was not a one-off thing that occurred because if anybody would take the time to read my true and honest account of my early experiences, the reader would surely believe either I must be the luckiest man on earth to have all those sequences of events to occur before me or I am really into something real and consistent, not a chance occurrence. Like any successful experiment, I had to be fully committed to it to carry out logical steps or procedures over a duration of time as defined<a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/science/high-school-biology/hs-biology-foundations/hs-biology-and-the-scientific-method/a/the-science-of-biology"> here.</a><br />
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More specifically, here was what I did with references to my relevant journal records. I investigated the Church for about 7 months to listen earnestly to everyone who had a for or against view. (<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/view-of-trained-pastors.html">Reference</a>) I needed to carry out experiments that were acts of faith on my part like getting baptized even before witnessing any miracle. (<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/05/baptism-challenge.html">Reference</a>) Now after the baptism, I would do my best to keep up with everything I had to do as a new member and the miracles started happening that I had not expected or wanted either! (<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/05/call-to-serve.html">Reference</a>) Though I didn't desire the meaning of my first miracle to me I had received enough inspiration from the experience to know there is a new dimension unknown to me previously that seems to be communicating to me and I needed to exercise more faith and give it more time to see where it would lead me to! (<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/05/to-face-family-at-home.html">Reference</a>) I started to experience challenges or chaos in my homefront but in these most challenging times of my faith experiment, I began to see the light. (<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/05/bird-story.html">Reference</a>) The light got brighter and I waxed strong with faith and obedience, receiving the confirmations I had desired in my faith experiment (<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/06/mission-call.html">Reference</a>)<br />
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My faith experiment that started in 1979 continued to this post today 40 years later. I became more creative as a writer with my <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2008/09/the-continuing-story-of-7-first-told-at.html">Story of 7</a> that was written much later. The Story of 7 would later reveal its purpose which was to guide one to think about the law of probability, even synchronicity that may have been involved but with the good possibility that I was experiencing miracles which I started expressing in my stories of 7 with a different meaning that continued <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-of-7-continuing-into-2011.html#ns">here</a>.<br />
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I have not really been diligent to record all the miraculous events of my life in that continuing 'Story of 7' post. I just didn't want to overemphasize the spiritual blessings I was receiving but I knew they were all an answer to my personal prayers. Also, there were too many occurring and I lacked the time to write every occurrence down in my blog journals. I was too active a person who went everywhere to connect with family, friends and meet new people all the time in any activity whether social, business, religious, recreational, educational and even political. (<a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2016/11/before-and-after-storm-of-bersih-5.html">Reference</a>)<br />
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The advent of Facebook provided me a quicker way than journals to record events with the compliment of connecting to family and friends conveniently. It was great for putting photos online that I or others can access easily and if there was a story to provide details I can link the Facebook post with my blog journals that became optimal for my journal keeping as well as indexing needs as every post has a time date stamp. When I needed to spend more time reading, researching and writing my notes to prepare for my book, I optimized my journal keeping by just using Facebook posts embedded in my journal by quarterly posts for each year so that my chronicles over time are still maintained as shared <a href="http://familylane.info/photolinks/2017/">here.</a><br />
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However, as a systematic chronicler, I would eventually find time to do it if they were relevant. I have done many already when it happened on a day that I had time to create a new day's post in my journal of that time period but I may not have time to include those occurrences in my special Story of 7 meant as a collection of events of synchronous nature in terms of psychological sense or even miracles in the spiritual sense. Language, after all, is man-made and Man can be so orderly, accurate and narrow as well as being chaotic, creative and broad. Controversies arise when laws try to force a language on people as opposed by people adopting the language themselves. (<a href="https://youtu.be/p93NCyV5Hws?t=1">Reference 1</a> vs <a href="https://www.liveabout.com/is-queer-a-derogatory-word-1410154?utm_term=Define+the+Word+Conscientious&utm_content=p1-main-2-title&utm_medium=sem-rel&utm_source=msn_s&utm_campaign=adid-55274cc1-aa58-4549-a546-873de5ed0dd9-0-ab_mse_ocode-29658&ad=semD&an=msn_s&am=exact&q=Define+the+Word+Conscientious&o=29658&qsrc=990&l=sem&askid=55274cc1-aa58-4549-a546-873de5ed0dd9-0-ab_mse">Reference 2</a>)<br />
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Why was I so busy to not write a consistent daily journal of everything that happens in my life? There are several reasons for this. The main reason is that it takes time to write and time was a commodity that got more scarce as I grew older in life of course. When I was really little, I had all day of course to just play and play, with ample time to explore anything without any expectations from anyone in terms of responsibilities assigned to me. As I grew up to go to school, I had to be responsible for my grades, which initially was a challenge to me as the educational system seemed rather rigid to me that didn't flow with the way my mind worked. Nevertheless, I had learned what responsibility meant from observing my diligent parents and my older siblings who all seemed to do well in education. I knew all it took was self-discipline and repetition to learn and master anything and from then onwards life really got busy for me as I wanted to learn everything that I wasn't allowed to when I was little as there were always limitations of my physical and mental self. In short, I never stopped learning, doing and writing in my life (<a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2008/06/reflections-on-fathers-day-with.html?fbclid=IwAR1WFdYQEzsroKK7WoYuMJGGK3sg6L1AO7wBU2o08J9Epou_PyduZhCJt2A">Reference</a>)<br />
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Freedom from limitations came rapidly as a teenager especially when I had learned the art of doing well to produce good academic results. Everyone was happy and I was given the freedom to do anything so long as I came home safe. That was when life really began to be busy for me as I sought to do everything. Well, what was everything? Besides the ability to study any subject, I wanted to play any sport available in school. Then there is this interest I had in making friends with anyone as I found out that everyone was different but when a friendship was established, we could become closer and enjoy doing many similar things together. I was well brought up to keep my standards but I never enforced it to my friends. Mutual respect was developed over time that they could do what they wanted and I need not follow them nor would I expect them to follow me either. That was a great formula to make friends with anybody in life and I did create an amazing number of friends from childhood to adulthood that became part of the reason for becoming busy. (<a href="http://groupemporium.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-beginnings-of-group-emporium-corp.html">Reference)</a><br />
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Soon I was to embark on to life with responsibilities not just for myself but for others too. I was given all kinds of leadership positions in class, in clubs, in any organization I found myself in so that took more time from me but I learned leadership. Of course, when I was old enough at 24 to find a wife for myself who was only sweet 20, which was a natural responsibility to fulfill as a man in life, it was no longer personal time alone that I could do what I wanted to. Furthermore, adulthood meant responsibility to earn not just for myself initially but for my family too. So it seems there are phases in life like when you are younger, you prove yourself academically to get more freedom as a teenager. When you are an adult, you have to prove yourself financially to get more freedom, not from your parents anymore but from society at large. The is due to the economic and political power one gets in our modern society of today. I was driven to be successful as an adult in whatever my hands touched upon and I was. This was in respect to earning money, solving problems or leading others in any type of organization. (<a href="https://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.com/2015/12/test.html">Reference</a>)<br />
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I did record many miracles in my life that were direct answers to my prayer after I prayed and miracles that happened to me when I didn't pray for them just before it happened. Living a life of belief or faith in God or living as if he lives has certainly made me more aware of his presence. I had gone past the phase of just a belief but I developed a real testimony of the existence of a God who humbly asks us to simply address him as our Father in Heaven in our prayers or communication to him. So the common address to a father, albeit a spiritual one, I began conversations with him very casually and hence often as if he was there to listen to me without the need for any ceremony or procedures when my heart and mind seeks for him.<br />
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As one who talks very freely and extemporaneously in life, with anybody whether king or pauper without fear or favor, I soon found myself in the later part of my spiritual life to develop a close relationship with diety with personal conversations with him. I could talk to him at any time when I was driving, pondering or at any moment I needed or wanted to as if he was there for me. I guess I had learned and knew a God would have the attribute of omniscience. From these regular conversations that were silent which can occur anywhere, I can now confidently infer, from writing this journal post, that it could be the reason why these miracles often happened to me. I must also note that these miracles were not just a direct act from God's intervention as often it is through another human being's action that was unexpected! (<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/08/car-story.html">Reference</a>)<br />
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Synchronicity<br />
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Spiritual experiences coming to me in a series was not something new to me but the term synchronicity was new to me as it was learned only in my life long learning process of reading about psychology to come across <a href="https://www.carl-jung.net/synchronicity.html">Carl Jung</a> recently who first created it. It is also referred to as Serendipity.<br />
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An interesting discovery in reading about Carl Jung is that he disclosed that he had been studying the Chinese Book of Changes known as I-Ching for at least 30 years before he met Richard Wilhem, the German translator of the I-Ching to English. He said, "For more than thirty years I have interested myself in this oracle technique, or method of exploring the unconscious, for it has seemed to me of uncommon significance. I was already fairly familiar with the I Ching when I first met Wilhelm in the early nineteen twenties; he confirmed for me then what I already knew, and taught me many things more. (Foreword to the I Ching).<br />
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Direct interventions did occur to me too of course and strangely it would occur at a time when a car/vehicle was involved! This could be due to the fact that the car is a vehicle that I used since young beside the motorcycle, with more mileage clocked in a car of course due to its wider use and availability in any country I found myself in and under any kind of weather.<br />
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So the miracles that would involve a car, I can name them quickly with references due to my journals that will be highlighted to click if one wants to read more details. During my voluntary mission for the Church, getting an unexpected call to offer me a car that we seriously needed and how I and my companion experienced a life-saving event that was a direct intervention from God was shared in the last reference above and repeated <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/08/car-story.html">here.</a><br />
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During the same mission, I had a most direct intervention from my Heavenly Father due to my days of pondering about the Holy Ghost coming down like a dove recorded <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/08/bird-story-continued.html?fbclid=IwAR1Zb1xDbIYg5P8BaG49csxGMaSNoFWPTevKdUd4zL_nfEQcPQVvvcLBi10">here</a> with a photo of the car as the only evidence I guess I'm allowed to share.<br />
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Years after my mission, having started a family of my own very quickly as the importance of the family and family history is a major doctrine of only our Church, I was definitely saved from death again from a serious accident with a truck with pics shared <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/media_set?set=a.2227117036962.135296.1218887754&type=3">here.</a><br />
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This Spiritlane journal from beginning to end will contain accounts of my SQ experiences though many may be found in my Familylane EQ journal that has to do with family experiences, feelings, and love. The Story of 7 stories with a link shared above is an example of miracles or synchronicities shared in Familylane where due to the time factor and my desire of demureness as opposed to liveliness to share anything that is truthful in the context of something sacred or religious in respect of the different beliefs of others. I was not concerned that I have left out many other experiences from that journal post. It could be that the spirit did not encourage me to write them as I am inspired to write today or maybe my age and circumstances at that time may be different from today where I have turned 60 though I still feel I am just "<a href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=%22Dad+the+KL+City+Kid%22&start=0&filter=0&cad=h&fbclid=IwAR3CZUkuujmADSf5K-UPGlj1QRuG7ds9M8_3oweD9eKqkOtqs9qJWyLi_NA">Dad the KL City Kid</a>".<br />
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There were, of course, many miracles that I never wrote down when it involved the exercise of a priesthood power or authority I hold from our Church for blessings and healings. However, I will share this particular one that seems so ridiculous that I never thought to share but the spirit says to proceed. Well, it has to do with a car again.<br />
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After the horrible head-on collision with the truck that occurred in 1985 when my wife Geok Lee was expecting our 2nd child, we were living on our own in Petaling Jaya. I only sustained minor injuries, the worse being a broken right forearm. Due to the fact that I was unconscious after the great impact with the truck, the hospital I was taken to in Johor Bahru JB waited to operate on me two days later when I became conscious. With an open wound during the two days after the accident, my right forearm femur bone got infected so after the surgery of putting a plate to fix my forearm and stitching up the wound, there would be inflammation or swelling later which caused them to open up the wound to clean it and would not sew it up again in case the infection was not cleared up yet. I was to continue taking antibiotics and allow the wound to close up naturally with no signs of inflammation before they would stitch up the wound again. I had to stay in the JB hospital for three weeks to almost a month for the daily cleaning of the wound.<br />
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I asked to be discharged so that I could return back to family and my business in Kuala Lumpur and when they were satisfied my wound was healing, I could be discharged to return to KL but I had to visit the University Hospital daily to clean my wound and use fresh bandages until they could do the stitching again. Here are some funny stories that followed up that followed with an amazing miracle which I guess makes up the major stories of "<a href="https://www.google.com.sg/search?q=%22Dad+the+KL+City+Kid%22&start=0&filter=0&cad=h&fbclid=IwAR3CZUkuujmADSf5K-UPGlj1QRuG7ds9M8_3oweD9eKqkOtqs9qJWyLi_NA">Dad the KL City</a>". On return to KL, my father suggested that we temporarily stayed in his Cheras home until I was fully recovered. I could borrow the spare car he had meanwhile and I could manage to drive to the University hospital by myself every day. After a month of daily cleaning of the wound, it was healing well and now I can't remember if they needed to stitch it up again or not but here is the funny part of my experience at the hospital.<br />
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Letting the wound slowly heal by itself without sewing up immediately left a visible scar on my right forearm both upper and lower part. Also, the damaged area of my right forearm caused a nerve to be severed that affected my right thumb to be not able to stick up to do a 'thumbs-up' sign. Now when a professor was doing a last check up on me, I informed him of this problem. He immediately responded by saying, "Oh no problem, we can fix that. It is the problem of the nerve connection, now what is the name of that nerve again?" He repeated the question to think of the name of the nerve a few times, trying to give me a professional answer and my very quick response was, "Don't worry Prof! I can live without being able to make a right thumbs up sign!" and walked away happy to end my hospital visits and treatment!<br />
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So after my right arm was healed, I drove to our single-story terraced or linked home in PJ Section 14 where we had been living in after we were married. To my shock, I saw a stranger in the house as the front wooden door was ajar but not the iron grill. I shouted loudly, he panicked and climbed back to the top of the roof where he came in and was running away on the rooftop to the back of the house. I left the car and chased after him yelling out at the top of my voice "thief thief " but nobody responded. The thief looked like a thin drug addict who could not outrun me as I am a runner besides a biker. While running along the side back lane of the houses, a lady saw me shouting and I asked her to get some help but there was no immediate response. I finally caught up with the thief and he was tired and puffing away and I was grabbing his shirt collar from his back with one right injured forearm and holding his left arm tightly to make him walk towards the main road where I knew there was a police kiosk/outpost or 'Pondok' in Malay. When I reached there, it was vacant. By that time, the thief caught his breadth and freed himself from my grip and ran away again. I chased after him again to almost catch up when he picked up a long stick from the ground to defend himself. I saw another stick on the ground and picked it up. We started sword fighting just like in the movies!!!<br />
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I was mindful that my right arm was injured and was using my left hand to sword fight with him, keeping my right hand away from being hit by the thief. Now I'm a Karateka and can fight with sticks or nunchakus and soon he must have realized that to drop the stick and made a quick run of escape again. I tried to run after him but as he had rested sufficiently and had a quick start of dashing off, I lost him eventually in the back lanes and decided not to pursue. I just didn't know what to do to detain him even if I caught up with the prowler again! I related the incident back home to the family and it was then that my father suggested that we should move in to stay with him. Now I knew in my younger days, that was what he wished for as I remember he did mention it verbally to me. But in our Church culture, I had read in some books by American leaders who discourage living with parents/in-laws with a strong statement that I can remember the words, "In-Laws don't rock the Boat!"<br />
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Our 2nd baby came and we stayed on for 5 years which was the time we had planned for more children so we moved out and raised another 4 boys with our two oldest girls helping, living on our own. After all, we had planned to have a large family and part of the reason we were comfortable to leave Singapore was that the nation-state at that time had laws to limit the number of children to two only with penalties for a family who would have the third child and beyond. There was also propaganda to suggest negatives as the video below depicts:<br />
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During the 5 years, there were spiritual stories too of course and here is a miracle I never wrote down. My father loved dogs too and kept a few. One Sunday morning, our family was heading out to Church and were in a rush as usual with our 2 girls. I was about to reverse the car out through the gate but saw that one dog was behind the car and I stopped when close to the dog to get out of the car to shoo it away. When I examined the dog and touched the body, it felt stiff and cold. Now I had given blessings to the bird in my story shared above so I have some experience in blessing animals so my immediate reaction, being late to Church without thinking, was to bless the dog which I did. Immediately upon "Amen" to close my prayer, the dog just stood up and ran off so that I could immediately get into the car and reverse out to drive off to Church! I explained to my wife without much emotion and I believe by that time, my wife had known me well enough to be a faithful member of our Church to enjoy many blessings of the priesthood.<br />
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As a matter of fact, one faithful brother, an architect named Tan Su Kiong who was once also a Malaysian but migrated to Singapore, who later became a Patriarch of our Church in Singapore, was the one who visited me to give me a priesthood blessing at the hospital in JB. My memory was erased from what happened at the time of the accident as well for a week's duration after so I cannot remember who visited me at the hospital for that duration. I must have been blessed to not remember what happened during the crash so that I would never have nightmares replaying the frightening near-death experience! At a much later date, an opportunity came to render service to another when I was called to visit a Singaporean at a hospital in Malaysia to give a priesthood blessing. I honestly don't know who is that member as giving blessings or enabling miracles is not so rare for me to be excited about nor need I know or remember who I blessed. This Singaporean was in a fatal car accident too and his lungs had collapsed. I was there to administer and give the blessing without seeing his face as it was also covered. I left after doing my duty and years passed by when one day the man met me in some church meeting somewhere in Spore or Msia that I can't remember now. He just wanted to thank me personally to say I was the one who blessed him. I still couldn't remember his name then nor today or who is his family as I was just doing my duty and details cannot be remembered as well as those miracles that happened to me personally in my life that I would write them down or be stored in my memory as it was relevant to me. Most important is I felt when I was blessing others who are healed, it is a very sacred event that doesn't need be shared or remembered in the future as I have blessed many in my lifetime which are all just part of the sharing of my priesthood power and authority to others in need!</b></span></div>
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So how did these miracle blessings all begin? Well the truth is that when a pair of American Elders first knocked on my door at 40 Skene St Geelong Australia in early 1979 and I heard the message that God had visited a young man on earth in 1820, I simply replied, "...the knowledge gained from this visitation would be even more important than that of Man going to the Moon." (<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/door-knock.html">Reference</a>)<br />
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This is an event of 40 years ago and I am starting to get the FLOW state which is a term from Positive Psychology that means that is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. In essence, flow is characterized by complete absorption in what one does, and a resulting loss in one's sense of space and time. " (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)">Reference</a>)<br />
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Indeed the 40 years since the day I met with the Elders, everything in my life flowed so quickly till this day but not without challenges and opportunities for me to make the right decisions to see the blessings and some times the wrong decision to learn from my mistakes. I made the right decision to listen to others who may have different opinions as to who God is and their reasoning for their beliefs which I should respect and let them make their own decisions to seek truth by making right or wrong decisions too as I would likewise make in order to better understand the nature of this school of hard knocks I call earth! Yes, life seems like a journey of trial and error sometimes as we seem lacking perfect knowledge. It is best to be humble, teachable and never fear the future as with faith in God, nothing is impossible. When I call myself LLL or a Life Long Learner, it simply means I really don't know everything and hope to remain humble and teachable to add more to what I already know as true principles of life, some times with a need to have faith to do the right or carry out the experiments in order to discover more truth of our Body Mind Spirit that we are composed of. (<a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/view-of-trained-pastors.html">Reference</a>)<br />
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As prayers have been mentioned, I like to share my belief of how prayers should be applied in one's life with this quotation, "Pray as if everything depends on God, Live as if everything depends on you!" By following this simple teaching, one would have a balanced life as is symbolic in Chinese Yinyang mythology.<br />
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My journal posts are written under three different circumstances that I will elaborate today. I could be writing on some historical experience, where I already know what happened and I will spend the time to focus and recall what had happened from my memory or refer to old photos if available to bring back old emotions of the past that will give me a clearer perception of the historical event. An example is <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gathering-of-old-boys-of-st-johns.html">here.</a><br />
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Then there can be a time when I'm prepared to record some important event before it fully happens or uncovers. This would be when I go beyond logic to infuse a more spiritual state to put myself in a position where I expect something to happen as I've created an optimal condition in my faith to know it will occur. An example is <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/03/by-small-and-simple-things.html">here.</a><br />
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Last but not least like at this moment, I immediately record something that occurred like a technical problem in the technology I am using such as the internet so that I would not forget what actually had just happened in order to resolve the problem later. Like typing this last paragraph, I happened to touch some key on the keyboard that made my current sentence disappear, I instantly knew what to do to recover. In blogger, just type the symbol of 'go back to last saved' position as shown in the screenshot below:<br />
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Now let me continue to move forward with the intended subject I like to share, which is not to teach the reader how to master computer technology or debug its problems as I face them. I like to mention that neural networks built with the latest scientific knowledge from AI research of Man are far behind the complexity of the natural human brain network of neurons as disclosed <a href="https://www.analyticsindiamag.com/neural-networks-not-work-like-human-brains-lets-debunk-myth/">here.</a></b></span></div>
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I like to elaborate more on the phenomena of Synchronicity and elaborate on how or why it occurs often in my life. I am able to do this as I have been recording in detail the experiences of my life for the past 40 years, that includes occurrences, reflections, researched information, etc that I share publicly or saved in my private database for my future private investigation or public releases.<br />
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I like to continue more about what is Synchronicity and provide evidence of its occurrence in my life. Let's start with watching this short video that explains the phenomena:<br />
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If you have viewed the above short video, you would get a good idea as to what synchronicity means. My choice of the above video is also a coincidence or synchronous event. I didn't expect it to relate to Chinese or Eastern beliefs or myths as I had shared in the last journal post before this one found <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/09/missionary-work-events-back-in-my-old.html?fbclid=IwAR3n6DJZ0sXo_HpFb9lZklKWAK_3z_XI2U03LCIbZyATUW0gbdtxrGbbWtU#fu">here</a> where I used the Yinyang symbol with some explanations. I even gave a Chinese name to my own consciousness. That was a spontaneous act on my part to call it ShanFu-Consciousness but it is not a big deal as it's my Mandarin spelled name which is appropriate as it is My Consciousness I was referring to.<br />
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In another <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html#dr">previous post</a>, just at the end of last year, the Chinese Year of the Dog, when I was at the height of trying to do so much, synchronicity came in my writings used to explain how I could feel the experience of everything coming together again. Due to the detailed and quite accurate recordings of the past 40 years of my life, with some errors here and there I'm sure, there is evidence of frequent occurrences of synchronicity during my lifetime particularly when I acquired the SQ portion of the tripartite nature of Man i.e. the spiritual part.<br />
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That is all wonderful and I should feel a more complete human being but soon comes the question I've always asked since I was young but Why? Why do we have this occurrence of synchronicity? There can be many reasons depending on the Consciousness of each person. For me, I think it helped me understand the meaning and purpose of my life better. In the link I shared above of my previous post, it mentioned my attraction to a writer named Jordan Peterson who highlighted the term synchronicity to me. I believe he influenced me to start this post to link it to the experiences recorded in my journal especially when I created the Story of 7 to record coincidences and even miracles that had become so abundant in my life that I have not found the time to add them to that special post but are recorded in various journal posts of mine when they occurred. For example in the passing of a dear old pioneer member of our Church named Anthony Lim who enjoyed many miracles in his own life that I was aware of, I did take time to share some past and even current miracles that occurred in the last days of his life and after when my thoughts were focused on him shared <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-of-7-continuing-into-2011.html?fbclid=IwAR1xjtDlffdxFSSXMxj8v94iP9kV9BJaOo6P_PT2lJaumoHPjEAyaVTaYSA#al">here</a>.<br />
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With the world wide web www, my personal consciousness was augmented with the world's collective consciousness or even the unconsciousness that Carl Jung would refer to. I found a very inspiring writer about Synchronicity who gave excellent information as a professional psychologist shared in the podcast where one can listen to his verbal explanation <a href="http://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/3/e/5/3e5687f96a3dcb92/FTP037.mp3?c_id=14538845&cs_id=14538845&expiration=1550687415&hwt=23d946b3f79103cbdcd4dda4fd08c4e4">here.</a> Some may prefer to read what he says instead of listening to a long recording. This option is possible as one just has to click "Read Full Transcript" in the webpage where I found the podcast <a href="https://futurethinkers.org/kirby-surprise-synchronicity/?fbclid=IwAR3Lq7t117g5NM_Yq4H8lOBdhc6mRIgM4J-sr7Pl59By2hHj5L-yTl-m9Kc">here.</a><br />
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If the reader can click all the 'here' links I have shared in this journal post of mine and know how to return back to this main journal page to continue the flow of my sharing, I believe the reader would have learned to appreciate how much knowledge one can gain using the technology that is in our hands today. It is literally correct to say that due to the invention of smartphones that we use today!</b></span></div>
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But why does one only choose to use man-made technology alone to gain more knowledge when within one's brain/mind is a natural gift from birth that can help one gain all the knowledge desired of this world that we live in and even maybe more beyond? This Spiritlane journal of mine was started first to make sure my spiritual experiences would be recorded so that I may not forget them or the details. It is also for the purposes that others may benefit from what I have sought to learn from Life where "everything is possible." It started with questions of what, how, etc with the most challenging being the why question that a child always ends up asking after all the other questions are answered. I am glad I persisted to find those answers and continue to enjoy learning more to figure out all that is happening in our fast-changing world in my home country as well as abroad.<br />
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<br /> It is fast Sunday today and I woke up with a dream of my wife Geok Lee again which is rare. The last significant dream was in Kuantan on the crash of MH370 shared above. I woke up early to read our Come Follow Me manual of Pg 34 covering Matthew 6-7. When I came to <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/6.28?lang=eng#p27">Matt 6:28</a>, I immediately went out to the living room to play this video from the journal of her funeral.<br />
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I had to spend past weeks in the East Coast working, rushing toward the finish line for my book project which has become very huge but with Synchronicity, Everything Comes Together! Some crazy things happened and I like to share them now where it is easy to remember as not only did it happen recently, I made notes with my screenshots and kept them in my computer folder with an indexed title that I can find it back at any time to share here and elaborate more when I find time to add to this footnote.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The above technical problems were all resolved before the end of this journal post. My exercise of keeping the above screenshots are the habits of an accountant who also maintain good records. It is also related to my role in life as a problem solver that is beyond just keeping records as an accountant. With computer technology fused to my consciousness, I developed a problem-solving habit using all the creative talents I have acquired, to follow up with solutions after reviewing all the data or information that has been collected and properly stored.</span></b></div>
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Time is only measured unto Men is a saying with the understanding that God who created the universe and everything in it is not restricted by measurements of space-time that we humans use. So as I am a real human being, I have to note that a period of time has gone by where I did not add posts in this blog post journal that started on Sunday 3 Feb 2019 when I was back in KL from Kuantan which stopped on 3 Mar 2019 when I was back in Kuala Lumpur.</b></span></div>
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Using back my senses of space-time, I can remember the reasons for the gap of writings in this journal. Firstly I had already made my decision towards the last quarter of last year that I would reduce my social media writings to accelerate the completion of my book. I responded less in the Facebook media, informing everyone where possible that my book writing had to take priority. Nevertheless, for chronological recording using photos or even uploading videos with some brief narration, using Facebook was an excellent tool to meet my needs of journaling. </b></span></div>
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The video below was shot on my last Sunday in Kuantan which was Jan 27. My interest in covering this Chinese Association managed home for old folks as part of my role as a Socialpreneur is to help our country move forward in the 'New Malaysia' to make sure the poor, aged and needy are well looked after:</b></span></div>
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The following three videos in a single post shared on Facebook was done on my first Sunday of 3 Feb back in Kuala Lumpur. One top video was a prayer that a couple of friends had asked me to share. The 2nd is recorded from my balcony early on Sunday morning to feel that the plants, animals or birds of nature are provided for. The 3rd video was about my surprise gifts of cash and an expensive watch from three different women seem to coincide with what my late wife was communicating to me i.e. I am provided for just like the lilies in the field and the birds in the air!</b></span></div>
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The following Facebook post below shows the number of visitors or events of different people I was involved with within just a month of March alone who are mainly from overseas, 4 different groups from the US, 1 couple from Australia and 2 separate persons from India with some locals. It was so many different people who are blessed by God who were showing love and kindness in meeting the needs of one another. It reflects how I save time and space to squeeze one month of activities of visitors in just one post! </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Above video is by Thorsten J. Pattberg. He studied Asian Studies and Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh and Linguistics at Fudan University and Peking University. He is a former Researcher at the University of Tokyo and Harvard University. He received his PhD degree from Peking University in 2012. He is a disciple of Ji Xianlin and Tu Weiming.</span></b></div>
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To conclude on the science of Psychology of the West which I was covering in this post, I have the following screenshot extracted from a book of my oldest daughter that she used when she was studying psychology at an American university in the early beginning of our new millennium. </b></span></div>
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On page 2 of the book, one can read this statement, "Since the 1960s, psychology has recaptured its initial interest in conscious and unconscious mental processes through studies of how our minds process and retain information. To encompass psychology's concern with both overt behavior and covert thoughts and feelings we will define psychology <i>as the science of behavior and mental processes.</i></b></span></div>
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The conclusion of this post on Miracles, Synchronicity, and Psychology is that in the process of writing it and now finishing it, I was further enlightened with more knowledge for me to adequately cover the theme of my book which is Human Consciousness, especially that of my own. I started out as an adult in life as an educated man with theories and I did create my own "What if...?" hypotheses in my life long learning process to take note of my observations in tandem with theories. I can conclude that over my past 40 years of life long learning as an adult, I am ready to share my knowledge and experiences about our human consciousness related to what I have observed and recorded of my own consciousness to relate to even the field of psychology. (<a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2014/10/happiness-with-more-options.html">Reference</a>)</b></span></div>
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I am ready to invest to publish my book for a world audience as I believe many can benefit from the knowledge and concepts I will organize and craft to be useful to the public, especially for the rising generation. Previously they were recorded only as my personal experiences and observations of my life in general. (<a href="https://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.com/2015/12/test.html">Reference</a>)</b></span></div>
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Real AUD dollars in the photo of 10 fifties in each stack reflective of what Australia means to me. (<a href="https://www.facebookblueprint.com/uploads/resource_courses/targets/358849/original/index.html">Reference</a>)</b></span></div>
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In finishing my research on the subject of psychology, I spent quite some time reading about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a> who was considered an early psychologist before Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler. </b></span></div>
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It was a Superman task indeed for all the research I had to do to be a book writer on the deep topic of the theme of Human Consciousness. I added the above video to my original journal post of Superman found <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2013/07/superman-4th-of-july-celebrations-in.html">here</a> after finishing my intense study of human psychology that actually started years ago as shared in in this journal <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2014/10/happiness-with-more-options.html">post.</a><br />
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I created the fun Superman journal post quite some time ago to share some photos of my active life involved with diverse physical activities whether they are to do household chores, raising the boys of our family alone after my wife passed away, running, biking or climbing mountains for fitness, reading, studying, practicing my intellectual and technology skills and last but not least, tuning in to a greater frequency of spiritual power, even the quantum power of my overall being of Body Mind Spirit to achieve the impossible and I did it over and over again!<br />
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What then is the purpose or meaning for my life in receiving all I have received shared above? I've come to a full circle since the time I was in Kuantan to be inspired to write and publish my first book. The video below from <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-if.html">my account</a> of what happened confirms the purpose and meaning in my life for writing the book. I re-read my <a href="https://www.lds.org/topics/patriarchal-blessings?lang=eng">Patriarchal blessing</a> received after I joined the Church in 1979 just before I embarked to fulfill my mission call a year later to be reminded of the personal revelation typed out in writing for me to guide me in my life. It's so true and so glorious! Enjoy the video!<br />
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<b><br /></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> Starting off a new week to give a talk at Church on Sunday 29 April 2018. A phone call came from Brother Reed a week earlier, a counselor in the KL branch presidency, asking if I could prepare a talk on the topic of Atonement. Despite being busy, I responded positively to accept the assignment.<br />
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I've been extra busy since the start of the year of the Dog and have been "..working like a "Dog" as the song goes. The main preoccupation was to finish my book but this dog is a multi-tasker. In reality, I focus only in doing one task at a time through batch processing of breaking up time in segments of a day to fulfill the needs of each of my physical, mental and spiritual needs<br />
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Despite being busy I still took on the assignment as I seldom refuse a Church assignment. Furthermore, the subject of Atonement is quite straightforward as it is a key feature of the Gospel of Jesus Christ or purpose for the Savior to be born in the Meridian of time. Little did I know that I would follow up with a whole blog post about this topic! Why? The simple answer is it stirred up My Consciousness which in simple terms means my awareness.<br />
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Recent events of my life that influence my Consciousness<br />
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Now I have discovered my awareness revolves around 3 domains of life I've grouped under Body Mind Spirit(BMS) where I later learned Plato, the famous philosopher of ancient Greece, identified the tripartite soul of Man as one with Appetites, Reason & Spirit. I was just a Chinaman from the East who named the domains BMS in relationship to my 3 journal blogs I had started : <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2005/03/beginning-of-blogging-experience.html" target="_blank">Familylane</a>(Body), <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.com/2011/08/who-should-want-to-read-this-blog.html" target="_blank">Fastlane</a>(Mind) and <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank">Spiritlane</a>(Spirit). I was inspired to draw <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.com/2011/07/introduction-fastlane-is-about-mind.html#ny" target="_blank">3 columns</a> with brief word descriptions in each column on a napkin while I was in a New York City cafe with a friend in the year 2005 journalized <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.com/2011/07/introduction-fastlane-is-about-mind.html#ny" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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So what are my Body Mind Spirit activities that have kept me extra busy since the start of the year? Fortunately, I learned how to use a camera from my youth to produce photos which previously were on paper that have become digital today. They are fast visual reminders of the myriad of activities that I find myself involved in to be able to recall them later without having need of any written notes nor a proper camera too as our phone is also a camera today! A picture indeed paints a thousand words and my journals link events with themes adding a sharing of my feelings and thoughts from my Heart and Mind as well. It is my world of Perception, Action & Reflection, a way to achieve <a href="http://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2008/06/beginning.html" target="_blank">PAR Excellence</a> whenever possible through what is called our Consciousness.<br />
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So here are some examples with snapshots of the activities of my life under the 3 domains during the recent past months prior to starting this blog post and hence it's potential influence on my Consciousness revealed in what I write in my journals.<br />
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Sweating it out in physical work or that stretches my physical self. I have been doing minor renovations and clearing/organizing stuff in the apartment to get it ready when all my children will gather in KL for a family reunion this October month.</b></span><br />
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Going out to do some physical exercises like cycling at the same time meeting the needs of upkeeping good relationships with other physical beings close to me like my son, creating positive emotions, which is kind of a multitasking activity in itself besides the exercise for health.</b></span></div>
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It can also be just going out to meet people or friends for real physically instead of doing it online in cyberspace alone that is popular today. An old friend and mother came to visit all the way from Washington DC where my late wife and I had visited them <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2006/02/we-wish-we-can-travel-everywhere-in-usa.html" target="_blank">previously.</a></b></span><br />
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Keeping up my reading of the volumes of books in my <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.com/2011/05/state-of-mind-for-achieving-academic.html" target="_blank">personal library</a> of all kinds of topics and book sizes and the unlimited library of online books and latest researched information.</b></span></div>
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Taking the challenge to write a book on Human Consciousness based on my own, created with deep and wide personal experiences and researched knowledge of history, religion, philosophy, the sciences, and even technology from the time of the "Abacus to the Cloud" computing era of today. </b></span></div>
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Fulfilling church callings like missionary work for the Church or teaching a class to help share the Gospel with others, following the laws of the land, to non-Muslims only. (From our <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1?lang=eng" target="_blank">12th Articles of Faith</a>)</b></span><br />
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Accepting an invitation from a Muslim organization building inter-faith relationships in the country by attending a dinner and talk session on the Miracles of the Koran.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Influences from my Consciousness, that includes other experiences this year, in preparing my talk:</span></b><br />
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The need to give a talk at Church always causes me to pray and read scriptures to give me the Spirit to cover the topic of Atonement I was to speak on. I try to make it a unique presentation in sharing the same Gospel principles already taught often at Church. I would remind myself not to be stuck with routines but follow the Savior's teaching in <a href="https://www.lds.org/friend/1983/06/mary-martha-and-lazarus?lang=eng" target="_blank">the story</a> of Martha being too busy with her routine in the kitchen of preparing meals instead of spending precious time with the Savior when he was in their home as her sister Mary was doing whom the Savior praised.</b></span><div id="nl"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />
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At the start of the year 2018, President Monson <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2015/08/ralph-taylor-cannon-1915-2015.html#mo" target="_blank">passed away</a> When President Nelson was officially called as the new Prophet, I watched the live press conference held for the media to meet the new First Presidency of the Church and to allow them to ask questions. This was extraordinary as no Prophet of our Church had done this before when newly called to this sacred position of leadership for the world as a representative of the Savior Jesus Christ! It was astounding to hear the first question of a reporter from the Associated Press thrown to President Nelson that was related to the standing of the Church on LGBT issues meaning the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders collectively.<br />
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One can view the recorded live press conference<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keqbSQtqyOk&feature=youtu.be&t=11m27s" target="_blank"> here</a>, especially on the part when this first question was asked as mentioned earlier. I have timed the video to start just before the question was asked. President Nelson gave a good response followed by his counselor President Oaks but when President Nelson put out his two hands to symbolize the need to balance the love and the law, it created an impression in me not to forget these two words of the "Love and Law" of God. For clarity, I even searched the Church lds.org website with those two words to find President Oaks <a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/2009/11/love-and-law?lang=eng" target="_blank">article</a> in Nov 2009 on the topic including this <a href="https://mormonandgay.lds.org/videos?id=7254846371177561723&lang=eng#d" target="_blank">video</a> published in Oct 2016. This is my habit of a person who likes to link all truths together and to record as accurately as I can myself on the things I am a personal witness off with as much detail and accuracy as possible using all resources I have including my own personal skills.</b></span><br />
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In clearing house in the apartment, I opened a drawer that had my wife's old documents to find the two larger envelopes containing the old letters we had exchanged frequently early in our courtship, seen as the stack of smaller envelopes above, that started when we first met in Singapore again after my mission in June 1982. My letters to her are on the left pile while hers to me are on the right distinguished by the different national stamps on the envelopes. I guess I married a wife who would be as detailed as I am to keep documents of remembrance for some future time.</b></span></div>
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I was aware that she had kept all our letters as shared in the year 2005 when I started recording our courtship experience in this same blog found in the following relevant posts: <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2006/04/my-first-date-with-singapore-girl-and.html" target="_blank">My post</a> with copies of the first page of our letters to each other with her response in her own blog at <a href="http://lioncitygirl.blogspot.my/2005/06/retro-1.html" target="_blank">Retro 1</a> and <a href="http://lioncitygirl.blogspot.my/2005/08/retro-2_14.html" target="_blank">Retro 2</a>.<br />
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With the stack of our correspondence letters of ours that discovered, I also found her paper note journals dated 16 June 1982 which I was never aware of as they were not shown to me. It did help me realize why she had so <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2006/05/journey-speeds-up.html" target="_blank">quickly</a> fallen in love with me! She was depressed for not being able to qualify to enter the school of architecture at the prestigious National University of Singapore (NUS) which was her dream career/work for herself. The letter explained that she had slacked in her studies due to a puppy love relationship with a non-member named Jeff who didn't go to Church nor liked her for doing so. Now she did mention to me the name of Jeff as a past boyfriend but I didn't realize it caused her so much stress and when she didn't qualify for her dream opportunity of the future, she felt she was a failure, having never failed to achieve all the things she would target and work hard to achieve.<br />
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She got depressed and wrote to her brother Roy already gone to the US to study, to her other brother Clayton in Australia and even to her Branch President named Mark Israelson to share her disappointment at herself, saying she had never failed before to achieve anything she had aimed and worked hard for in the past. I didn't read the actual letters she had sent off but she was diligent to write in English a draft of what she was going to write in each letter later. This was probably due to the fact that she was being more a Chinese educated student of the school of Hwa Chung with less proficiency or confidence in the English language I suppose. Maybe it was just her meticulousness like I am too in keeping documents for future references to write my Chronicles of Life!<br />
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The keyword that I marked in her writings was the word "repent" in the sentence saying "I didn't truly and sincerely repent of my sins, serious or minor alike." To clarify, I know she didn't really commit serious sins and the context of the rest of the paragraph makes it clearer...."The Spirit of my heavenly father has slowly crept out of my heart. I didn't feel the love and peace in me while I'm performing my duties in my callings."<br />
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She was indeed depressed, not for a real failure in life that most of us would regard as a 'failure' as she did qualify to study in NUS for a social science course but not in architecture that was the desire of her heart and mind. She had also expressed in her writings to both her brothers overseas that she felt family and friends treated her negatively. In her own words, "When they asked me if I was making any plans for my studies, I felt that they were being insincere in asking and they were trying to insult me! That's why I thought of leaving Singapore for my studies in order to run away from all these problems, of course not forgetting the other reason was that I wasn't granted what I wanted in N.U.S.<br />
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Deep inside me, there was a voice which constantly whispered to me that God would never forsake me during my hours of adversity. And sure enough, I slowly got over with the whole thing and was able to regain my hope of living which was almost lost at one stage....... Perhaps all those trials and tribulations I've been through were meant to teach me humility and courage to accept failures and oppositions. If on the other hand, if things did not happen the way it had, I might not be able to meet this man whom I love so dearly.<br />
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I'm pretty positive this time that I'm loving the right man. His name is Chong Sun Fu and he's a returned missionary. Mom and Dad had met him before and they both liked him. We first met about two years back when he was about to go on a mission. Of course, I didn't fall for him then but I had a strange feeling in me when I first saw him outside the chapel door. I thought I met him somewhere before but I couldn't recall. And it wasn't quite possible that we had met before since he's a Malaysian and had then just returned from Australia after his tertiary education. In fact, this 'strange' familiarity he brought was kept a secret ever since then until now I reveal it to you. Could it be possible that I knew him before I came to earth? Anyway, I don't think it is necessary for me to find out the answer now, for time and the future will tell it. " (Letter dated 13 July 1982)</b></span><br />
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In preparing my talk and writing this journal post, I am grateful for the spirit of God that was promised to me when I was baptized and made the promise to keep his commandments : "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." (<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/14.26?lang=eng#p25" target="_blank">John 14:26</a>)<br />
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Indeed I am grateful for this spiritual being that helps me remember all the things that help me stay close to the Savior and be careful of the idolatry and temptations of various forms in our modern world, especially when they lead to addictive behavior involving a change in the chemistry of our internal physical bodies. I am humbled by the Savior's perfect love and sacrifice to feel that I must constantly be willing to repent of my mistakes and sins throughout my life as I know I am far from being perfect.<br />
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Finding the letters of my wife in Love with me and reading her expressions of the need to repent for little imperfections in her life humbled me. I had always known and had a personal testimony of the Savior's Love for us in his sacrificial act of Atonement in the Garden of Gethsemane that would enable Man's sins to be forgiven if only we are humble enough to repent of our sins.<br />
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I was given 15 to 20 mins maximum for my talk. I actually brought with me the two large envelopes and showed it to the congregation to give a 'show and tell' introduction to my talk. It was to highlight how much love we had for each other in our short long-distance courtship expressed in our snail mails of old.</b></span><br />
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I stated the basics of why an Atonement is necessary which is that the Love of Our Heavenly Father provided us a Savior, his only begotten Son, to suffer for our sins to enable us to return to live with him.<br />
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I expressed my feelings about the Savior and his life by relating a Sunday school Gospel Principles class I was asked to teach at the very last minute that happened on a recent Sunday before the talk. It happened as the number of Chinese speaking attendees had filled the room so the Mandarin-speaking teacher asked me to teach the English lesson of the same chapter 11 on the Life of Christ found <a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-11-the-life-of-christ?lang=eng" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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Luckily there were only a few English speaking class members as about halfway through the class, as I was teaching more from my heart than reading the manual, I couldn't control my emotions as tears started flowing down my cheeks. I had to excuse myself to the Men's restroom and asked one of the Sister Missionaries present to take over for me momentarily to return after I cleared my eyes and nose!<br />
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I guess teaching the lesson on the Life of Christ to the class from my heart with some quick references from the manual had brought back all my feelings of my past experiences about learning of the Savior's atonement!<br />
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I didn't have much time given to me to fully share about what I knew and experienced about the Atonement and was impressed to share a critical knowledge I had gained as early as in 1980 when I was a new convert to the Church. The full-time missionaries in my University town of Geelong Australia had shared with me a cassette tape by Cleon Skousen of his experience in his study of the scriptures when he was a young missionary in London in 1920s, inspired by his Mission President, John Widsoe, who later became an Apostle. He was a very good motivational speaker who taught me why Jesus had to suffer all the pain when an all-powerful loving God or Heavenly Father could have merely forgiven the sins of Man by himself in the last days of judgment!<br />
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I spoke about the essence of the reason which may help some new members or even old members who might not know the true reason as many are only touched by the love of the Savior who was willing to pay the sacrifice to save us from the punishment for our sins. As I have always been a logical thinker, analyzing all types of principles or reasoning, I could understand what Cleon Skousen was explaining which was something I knew no Pastor or Preacher of any other Church would know why it was necessary and that an all-powerful God could not have done it to let his only begotten son whom he loved greatly to suffer instead for the blessing of all his children.<br />
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A miracle that happened after giving the talk that qualifies to be added to my <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-of-7-continuing-into-2011.html" target="_blank">Story of Seven</a> special journal post is my discovery of Cleon Skousen's audio recording online<a href="http://www.josephsmithfoundation.org/audio/the-meaning-of-the-atonement/" target="_blank"> here.</a> In the audio, we also hear Cleon Skousen mentioning that it took him 7 years of studying the scriptures to figure out what is shared in his audio presentation which is supported by the scriptures he quotes found below. I used the audio recording to create the video below which uses all the photos Shuan, our returned-missionary 2nd son who served in London mission in 2016-18, had sent home weekly to all the family members:<br />
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Play the video to hear the motivational talk and view the photos sent home by Elder Shuan Chong in his 2 years of service. </b></span><br /><br /><b>Post-dated development:</b> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A transcript to read the talk by Cleon Skousen was found <a href="https://josephsmithfoundation.org/audio/the-meaning-of-the-atonement/">here.</a> Source by Alex Boyd who left a comment on my YouTube Video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RImEX1zeus8&lc=UgypBpJe-hvmyeG3GHB4AaABAg.9BQ3IhdRwxT9Fyo_5ER_fL">here.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The original video of Cleon Skousen with his voice used is shared below:</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1pjKxWgtK6M?start=111" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></div>
<b><br /></b> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The References shared by Cleon Skousen in his talk:</b></span><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/mark/14.36?lang=eng&clang=eng#p36" target="_blank">Mark 14:36</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/matt/26.39?lang=eng&clang=eng#p39" target="_blank">Matt 26:39</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/luke/22.43?lang=eng&clang=eng#p43" target="_blank">Luke 22:43</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/luke/22.44?lang=eng&clang=eng#p44" target="_blank">Luke 22:44</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/matt/26.42?lang=eng&clang=eng#p42" target="_blank">Matt 26:42</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19.15-19?lang=eng&clang=eng#p15" target="_blank">D&C 19:15-19</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/nt/acts/4.12?lang=eng&clang=eng#p12" target="_blank">Act 4:12</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.14?lang=eng&clang=eng#p14" target="_blank">2 Nephi 2:14</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.30?lang=eng&clang=eng#p30" target="_blank">D&C 93:30</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.29-30?lang=eng&clang=eng#p29" target="_blank">D&C 93:29-30</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/abr/3.19-23?lang=eng&clang=eng#p19" target="_blank">Abr 3:19-23</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Documentary History of the Church DHC Vol 4 Pg 519</span></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/93.33?lang=eng&clang=eng#p33" target="_blank">D&C 93:33</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b>Journal of Discourses JD Vol 7 Pg 2</b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/abr/4.9,10,12,18?lang=eng&clang=eng#p9,10,12,18" target="_blank">Abr 4:9,10,12,18</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/hel/12.3-18?lang=eng&clang=eng#p3" target="_blank">Helaman 12:3-18</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/20.18?lang=eng&clang=eng#p18" target="_blank"> Jacob 4:6</a><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/20.18?lang=eng&clang=eng#p18" target="_blank">1 Nephi 20:13</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.38-42?lang=eng&clang=eng#p38" target="_blank">D&C 88:38-42</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/29.36?lang=eng&clang=eng#p36" target="_blank">D&C 29:36</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/42.13,22,25?lang=eng&clang=eng#p13,22,25" target="_blank">Alma 42:13,22,25</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/morm/9.19?lang=eng&clang=eng#p19" target="_blank">Mormon 9:19</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/34.9?lang=eng&clang=eng#p9" target="_blank">Alma 34:9</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/9.7-9?lang=eng&clang=eng#p7" target="_blank">2 Nephi 9:7-9</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/34.11?lang=eng&clang=eng#p11" target="_blank">Alma 34:11</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/34.15-16?lang=eng&clang=eng#p15" target="_blank">Alma 34:15-16</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19.15-16?lang=eng&clang=eng#p15" target="_blank">D&C 19:15-16</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/45.3?lang=eng&clang=eng#p3" target="_blank">D&C 45:3</a></b><br />
<b><br /></b> <b><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/34.14?lang=eng&clang=eng#p14" target="_blank">Alma 34:14</a></b><br />
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From my sharing of the above, it seems that I have achieved another state of mind in my life to handle theological questions besides that of many other questions of the world of different subjects. How I seem to have the ability to achieve such diversity as a slow learner in life is best explained in this article of the church entitled <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/1971/09/theological-questions?lang=eng">"Theological Questions."</a></b></span><br /><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Summary of this post started at 6.26am 29 July 2018</span></b><br />
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It was getting to meet the Elders who knocked on my door to share with me the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ in the final year of my tertiary education. Yesterday, Saturday was a full day to me and I could simply make a quick post on Facebook to share my fulfilling day embedded below:<br /></b></span>
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I was requested by Elder Montague, representing the missionary couple in charge of Public Relations to cover this visit of Professor Dr. Barbara Hong. I got there just past 3pm to set up my camera equipment and microphone to record completely on video a couple of her sessions on Saturday afternoon which will be most likely shared on my blog posts where long videos or writings are always shared while links to it can found on Facebook for anyone interested to see longer videos and my commentary such as this one.<br />
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She had written a book with the title Failing Up! She shared her story which I may share later below when I have edited the video. I had already purchased her book pdf version for USD9 online earlier before she arrived. She shared her story of tough times to be who she is today and I was thrilled to know she had started writing journals of her tough life of an abusive father and poverty in Singapore to enable her to write a book. (<a href="https://youtu.be/FtGpRn5qG9s?t=252">Click here</a> for a timed video to immediately get to the part she talked about her journals and how it was necessary for her to refer back to it to write her book.) Of course, without my journals, my planned book entitled "My Consciousness, from the Abacus to the Cloud" for a world audience, particularly the US and China, would not be possible.</b></span><br />
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So I was thrilled to hear her story shared personally in a fireside presentation at Church. As I am reading her book, I like to quote a little part of how she and her team won a debate where they were in the finals with a topic, "<i>The Head should rule over the Heart." </i>Personally, I love debates that started in the school days but I didn't focus on debates as my main school activity as I wanted to be an all-rounder so I spent a lot of my free time to be active in all kinds of sports including Karate. Then I was also a social person going on at first bicycle and later motorcycle trips with friends, fishing and camping where I didn't stop these interests throughout my lifetime! I even joined the <a href="http://itcbintang.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Toastmasters</a> International club as a family man with 6 children to enjoy <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/videos/4921109905100/?permPage=1" target="_blank">public speaking</a> and sometimes debate competitions as a variety. </b></span></div>
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"Mrs. Tan announces the final topic: “The head should rule over the heart. We’re the opposition team.”</b></span></div>
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You wouldn’t think such a simple sentence could arouse such endless discussion, but it does. We gather immediately after school at the usual spot in the community center and hash the subject inside out. Alvin, who prides himself on being a rationalist, presents a compelling argument on how and why this is true.</b></span></div>
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“Men use their heads more, and women use their hearts more,” he contends, “it’s obvious that it’s safer to rule by the head than by the heart. We’re sure to lose now.”</b></span></div>
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Alvin shoves his books in his bag. “Everyone knows the head is more important. We’re doomed. This is an unfair question.”</b></span></div>
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No way. I refuse to believe we’re going to lose. The head should not rule over the heart! We have come so far, beating five classes in the last month. Surely that says something about defying the logic of the head.</b></span></div>
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We believe we can win. We must win. I won’t accept failure since the start of the debate and it sure is not going to happen in this final round. We put in hours every afternoon to prepare. I pray and hope that we won’t make fools of ourselves. No matter how we’re going to stumble, we must at least land on both feet and do our class proud. What does that tell us? Our passion is stronger than our brains combined. We’re not about to give up on this last question no matter how uncertain things appear.</b></span></div>
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“We stand a good chance for a fair battle,” I reaffirm. “Now think, think, think. How can we turn the argument around in our favor?”</b></span></div>
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I do what I can and write out the research for each team member. I go through all of their pointers to make sure we’re all on the same page. Every day, we read, write, dispute, compare, argue, and role-play. We eat each other’s lunches and drink each other’s soda. We laugh, we yell, and we get on each other’s nerves. These are unforgettable afternoons and evenings, and we feel ready to take on the opposition.</b></span></div>
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On the big day, as each team walks onstage in the assembly hall, the roar of applause soars through the crowd. We sit tall in our seats and brace ourselves for the battle of our lives as the voices of the underdogs. We want to prove everyone wrong.</b></span></div>
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As the moderator calls my name, I’m nervous, anxious, and excited all at once. I try to hold myself together and deliver a well-rehearsed argument full of audacity and eloquence.</b></span><br />
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“Oh my, Barbara, once the four of you got started, there was no contest. You all spoke with so much passion, definitely from the heart. Congratulations!” Mrs. Tan declares the winner.</b></span></div>
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Each team member receives a trophy engraved with our names. This is the first time I have ever won anything, the first time I have ever held a trophy, and the first time I’m publicly recognized. I can hardly contain myself.</b></span></div>
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Weeks following the debate, the four of us are still treated like celebrities on campus. Our schoolmates on the third floor cheer us on for having beaten the snobs. Even the teachers begin to regard us in a new light. Of course, the second-floor losers refuse to concede even months after the debate. I don’t think they ever will.</b></span></div>
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I have never experienced such triumph. I understand now what it means to be a positive leader, to listen to each other, and to enjoy the fruit of teamwork. There is a sense of solidarity, purpose, and resoluteness."</b></span></div>
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My capability or intelligence and longwindedness in writing, and even talking, have a close relationship. I woke up at 4am thinking about why I have become a longwinded person and was it a good thing for me or not. With the capability of the Cloud computing, I can now summarize it below without my longwindedness to share it with a brother of mine who remarked I am longwinded, as many have expressed since I was the youngest kid in my family. However, he did say he read a link I've shared with him on WhatsApp about my <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/05/call-to-serve.html" target="_blank">walk through a park</a> in Geelong Australia, being one of the cited miracles of my life that have become countless today, even in writing this post in my spiritual blog today. As I'm writing this, I am reminded that he was the only brother of my family who asked me in the car at the time when I first came back from Australia, why I chose to serve a voluntary 2-year mission which was shared with maybe some longwinded way to him. That answer was first written in my personal book journal and paper notes I have kept to this day but digitized it today to be found <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank">here. </a></b></span></div>
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So here I go to use technology to explain in some short paragraphs why the Cloud of information out there reflects the positive side of longwindedness. Just click the links and the answers are there so I will save time to explain in my own words but the reader can appreciate the wise intelligent people out there, better than me, why the long answer is preferred! I will just share it with 3 points below:<br />
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1. In Quora, the latest teacher as an alternative to Wiki has this response as to why users of Quora prefer the long answers <a href="https://bit.ly/2LwHW1e" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2LwHW1e</a><br />
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2. Read the writings of Oliver Emberton who is a Quora volunteer and observe the way he is developing his new business in social media as I am also <a href="https://bit.ly/2iX9agD" rel="noopener nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2iX9agD</a><br />
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3. I found his name while researching about long answers or longwindedness in the link provided here. <a href="https://bit.ly/2LFsgbf" rel="noopener nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2LFsgbf</a> Click his name given as a hyperlink after you have clicked my link given if you have the patience to read down the Quora passages to appreciate how he answers the question "How do I get over my bad habit of procrastination?"<br />
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With the three points shared above, I will always share this to anyone who may want to know why I am longwinded even when young to enable me to enjoy my life's myriad of experiences in family, business or church read by <a href="http://familylane.info/photolinks/" target="_blank">clicking here.</a> In short, from a man of science and math, I became a contemplative person and a writer today who fits like hand and glove in the social media world of this generation!<br />
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Okay finished at 7.06am as per screenshot below if you trust me enough when I said I started the summary at 6.26am. Remember, from a science student switching to the arts, I became the Chartered Accountant who gave up false auditing to switch to a rising star industry of Information Technology! You can read my unique resume<a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2013/11/writing-my-resume-with-strong-spiritual.html" target="_blank"> here.</a></b></span><br />
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Note: The above video of Dr. Barbara Hong's talk was only inserted on 7 Aug 2018, coincidentally after I said goodbye to the same good friend from Utah mentioned above! We were walking around after dinner at the Pavilion and ran into a couple of our KL branch missionaries looking at the cookies. I took a quick snapshot of them with my friend! He leaves KL early the next morning!<br /></b></span>
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I really live a full life every day with something useful to do always. (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10217031015467098" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see what happened the next day.)Therefore with my small Sony camera that I carry around the world in my sling bag, I can easily capture visuals for my Chronicles that covers <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/03/by-small-and-simple-things.html" target="_blank">small and simple things</a> which I do that becomes amazingly big and happy sometimes which may even lead to huge accomplishments of my life that I had never expected. I just know I must continue to Love others and do my best to obey the Laws given to me from a kind and loving Heavenly Father. I have an utmost appreciation for his only begotten Son who has touched my life for good, after learning of him from missionaries who knocked on my door in Australia that began this whole Spiritlane blog starting from <a href="http://here./">here.</a> I am no perfect person for sure and appreciate all the Savior did to allow imperfect men like me to be forgiven for our sins or mistakes in life. This long post on the atonement that I could do because of listening to the talk on a cassette tape that was shared with me in 1979 and finding it again in 2018 online is a long wait and surely a blessing from on high like the stars in heaven to guide me while I am here on earth!<br />
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Take for example of the above video I came across. It is purported to be a BBC documentary trying to give evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ. It uses a clear explanatory style that the BBC is well known for, capturing narrations from qualified presenters with impressive or convincing intellectual evidence/of pieces of history with dates and impressive visuals. How does that measure with my knowledge of the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, of my years of an inquiring mind to acquire deep learning starting from a time period where I could only have hard books and documents to read and at best have some tape recordings of someone of his divine experience with no access to it in later days?</b></span></div>
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<span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><b>Dr. Jordan Peterson was one man I was attracted to, to spend a lot of time as you can also, to google his name in youtube and listen to all that is captured on his lectures, interviews, and views. I discovered he is truly a real scientist from Canada who has beliefs and views very similar to mine and became a real inspiration to me at the last quarter of 2018 when I became the busiest but achieved a most fulfilling time of my life when the Body Mind Spirit of my soul was able to synthesize to enable me to feel the experience of</b></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">everything coming together</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>again. This was especially important for me to know that the book on the theme of Human Consciousness is meant to be published at the right time today in the fast-changing crazy world of ours.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">Before I had even heard of the name Jordan Peterson, I was already inspired to publish my views on the LGBT subject a few years ago that can be found <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2015/07/same-sex-marriage-views.html" target="_blank">here.</a> I will buy the book of Dr. Jordan Peterson as the new book to read at the start of the new year of 2019. As the current year ends, I did finish reading the book I had bought of Dr. Barbara Hong, whom I've also referred to with a video included further <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html#bh" target="_blank">up above</a> where I had shared some quotations from her book. </span></span><br />
<span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">I like to end this blog post of mine with an extract from her Epilogue, </span></span><br />
<span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">"That summer, my family and I moved to Hawaii and resituated ourselves back in the place we've always wanted to call home.</span></span><br />
<span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> </b></span><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><b>I still couldn't believe how</b></span><span style="background-color: white;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">everything managed to come together</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>in a timely manner for me to join the faculty.</b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />
<span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span> <span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">I never thought in my lifetime that I would get the honor to return and reopen the very program that Dr. Jackson and I had initiated, except this time I'm the professor!"</span></span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> A surprise Facebook private message to me from Barbara, just after I just finished the above writings emphasizing that</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> 'everything managed to come together'</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>, early on Christmas morning in Kuala Lumpur, shared in my Facebook timeline <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10218597450106985?__xts__[0]=68.ARDEWnAu0se7aoGCeKyU3pcmEL55_e7DHlcNB3h51zMrr_9s2hmywa3N83O6Q0Jk0iUxgG-9i2QY9dp14YpmtMb_aavwMEsCYbcHzhCTLVVO8wmRvYsQcmnotBIQ8hLVY_F3RG5i7F8OKTAPPEwkp8z_0LddPfManaj6HFAAADad7kYqbzpbYZ6P8GwVROknQNV9LFC7eTsPBPK5vR_PLbLDCVkGv_Dj7fLs0hq32mKLwJcTic22iTbXmRwnIo3U_YxEcBcjQ4ISOEOzT6_vANXR4mxcZglCY7LN66B_FXsX7S_yzOrH2KvkAmaVAmYdTRLAyrV4OfX8cQGi5R32xKLpea5B&__tn__=-R" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">New Year's eve on 31 Dec 2018 at the Mid-Valley bookstore in Kuala Lumpur</span></b><br />
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Something urged me to leave my apartment on New Year's Eve. I've forgotten in all my life, celebrating a New Year was more important than celebrating my birthday which only very few people know, except my family, as it is kept private by me. I would have been happy to stay indoors as for the last quarter of the year, there was a heightened pace in social/family meetings and I needed time to continue finishing my book writing project alone. I had been wanting to get Dr. Jordan Peterson's book for weeks/months but there were no large bookstores in the city near me and only knew Mid-Valley had one as well as at the KLCC area but I was reluctant to go to those places as it's always a bit chaotic there with too many people and traffic jams!<br />
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The book costs RM89.95 and I got a free membership card with the purchase that enables me discounts for a year if I bought more books. I usually buy several books at a time at a bookstore but as I've been traveling a lot in past years with lots of books in my personal library to read up for my research to write my book on Human Consciousness, I began a trend to buy fewer books and read more online too. For instance, I bought Dr. Barbara's book, mentioned above, online to read. The membership card would be handy after my book writing project is over as I will buy more books outside the topic of my already well-covered research. I found a nice quiet place to enjoy a vegan dinner at the mall itself to start reading my new book.</b></span></div>
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Wow... I was thinking about the evening. I went there just to get my book. It started to rain so I decided to have dinner there in a quiet restaurant where I can start to read the new book. I got more in returned than what I had intended. If I wanted fireworks, I could have gone to the KLCC to see the fireworks like in previous years but they don't have a convenient place like the Mid-Valley to park my motorbike just by road outside the mall. Neither did I feel they may have the book I want and didn't like a slow ride into the city with all the traffic lights and jam. I got more than what I bargained for.<br />
If I wanted a countdown, I could go and find my lady friends who love to countdown at some special place as they usually do.<br />
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Talking about lady friends, it triggers off a memory of what happened earlier on the same day. I rode my bike with a plan to drop off my iPad for service in a mall near our KL Times Square which is near my apartment. After that, I was going to a hardware shop in the Pudu market area also near my home. It's one of those short trips into the city nearby to get supplies or anything I need. When I got out of the Apple shop to hop on to my bike, a fair Chinese woman whose accent told me she was from China quickly approached me to ask me for a ride on my motorbike to her hotel haha! I checked google maps to know where the hotel was and it was within the vicinity but I told her I need to drop by the hardware store to get something before I could drop her. She said no problem and would even pay me thinking I'm a taxi rider! Well, when I finally dropped her at the hotel front, she wanted to pay me and I refused as it didn't cost me anything at all really! </b></span></div>
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My life is indeed full of stories and somehow</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b> "everything managed to come together"</b></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>for me even in just a single day. Jordan Peterson's book is about rules to help the North American society and highly polarised people found in the western world caused by too much Politics, Wealth and Intellectualism or Individualism. One of the rules I will share to the North American market from my book that comes from an Asian author is this, "When you're Easy on life, life will be Hard for you. When you're Hard on life, life will be Easy for you." From a Chinaman writer living in Kuala Lumpur, even "Dad the KL City Kid."</b></span><br />
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<b><br /></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> I started reading Dr. John B, Peterson's book I had bought which is very interesting and at the same time started to review some of his many videos on YouTube which are all very enlightening. He is a crowd puller in the Western world of North America and the English speaking part of Europe like the UK.<br />
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I like serious readers interested in this topic to spend more time to make a comparison of this video below that is trying to explain about religious belief particularly in Jesus Christ to the <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html#vd">video above</a> that is half as long as the one below. I like to know which one is simpler to understand or makes better sense to you in the understanding of who Jesus Christ really is or what is the Christian religion about? You can leave your comments below. Thank you.</b></span><br />
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<b>"Everything managed to come together" on the 1st Sunday of the year at Church</b></span><br />
<b><br /></b> In short, this is about a Sunday school session that is new for the first time at Church following the <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>"Come Follow Me" manual and is also the 1st Sunday of the year for a reduced normal 3 hours meeting at Church to 2 hours only. I felt the Spirit during Sunday School that 'everything was coming together for me' in that first Sunday school lesson of the year.<br />
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After Church, I was also given a new calling coming from the Area office to be the Malaysia editor for the Liahona magazine set apart by President Tolman from the District under the direction of Area Seventy Elder Woo from Singapore. Details can be read from this Missionary Work in KL branch <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/09/missionary-work-events-back-in-my-old.html#ed">post.</a><br />
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From the Book of Mormon in <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/37.6-7?lang=eng#5" target="_blank">Alma ch 37: 6-7</a> We read:<br />
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6 Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise.<br />
<br /> 7 And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.<br />
<br /> I'm reaching a milestone age of 60 this year, 5 times my Chinese year of the Dog cycle in accordance to the Chinese Calendar. For thousands of years, a twelve-year cycle named after various real or mythological animals has been used in Southeast Asia. This twelve-year cycle, sometimes referred to as the "Chinese zodiac," associates each year in turn with a certain creature, in a fixed order of twelve animals, after which it returns to the first in the order, the Rat. The eleventh in the cycle is the Dog.<br />
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I am a Malaysian born Chinese who amazingly will publish my first book sometime soon. Why I say amazingly is because I never thought of attempting such a challenging task all by myself before! There were moments in the past when I had talked to some experienced book writers and others whom I knew were more skilled than me in the art of writing as they were all well educated Americans. Some did manifest interest to co-write with me in my first book but it never happened! I was either too busy with the myriad of activities that I have always been involved in all my life or they had their own commitments too. Perhaps the timing just wasn't right for both parties.<br />
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Furthermore, when I felt the <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2013/06/what-if.html" target="_blank">inspiration</a> to write a book, I didn't even know what the book will be about except I was inspired to write two paragraphs of an introductory brief story for the book and could even suggest that the name of the book title will be "What If...?" When I was midway in my book project, I got the real title firm in my mind so that the "What if...? changed to become the lead heading of each chapter that will have the words to follow according to the theme I've decided for each chapter. In retrospect, I did have a broad theme for the book which would be about how some major decisions of our lives are decided by beginning our thoughts with a "What if...?" statement. It is a way of making decisions following a critical thinking path to the future where one would simulate in one's mind what will happen based on a decision made at each junction of the path taken.<br />
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So what did the title change to? Well, for now, I like the sound of "My Consciousness, from the Abacus to the Cloud" where there might be just some minor changes later on, when new inspiration is received or when I am into the finer and final stages of the publishing my book to the World! I even have a draft of how the book cover will look like seen below:<br />
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The title of this blog post came about first without any content. It was a personal revelation of the scripture above that was given to me one morning and I just typed the title of this blog post without any content as I was busy with appointments and didn't want to forget. As my life is full of activities that take a few days each time to clear and get back to update my journal, I could fill it with content very fast, as I'm doing now when I find free time. Why I can do this is because of My Consciousness of everything that has happened to me, is happening to me as well as around me in the past or present that when I start to write, the links to related contents or information in my brain will flow to update my Consciousness easily. All I have to make sure is that I have a focus that what I write is related to the subject of the post title, "By Small and Simple Things"<br />
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I can testify that in my book writing project, I felt confident of a successful ending because of my awareness of my past where I had always focused to do the small and simple things first, with diligence and even attempts of doing them perfectly when I haven't seen the fruits or rewards of my efforts yet. I would record my personal history with great detail, using words, photos, and videos. In my research to write a book, I had to read a lot more beyond what I had read or what I had gained from my own personal experiences. I had to decipher new knowledge, logic and analysis of others, to classify where this new knowledge falls under, how is it related to other latest discoveries of the changing world etc. It got so intense that I needed to create my own personal index system which I could use to access the enormous pool of researched data to augment my mind anytime when needed. When I have a creative thought or personal revelation from on high, I also needed to link it to established truths or scientific discoveries already existing so that what I write and publish to the world can be authentic or make sense to others by using symbols or metaphors consistent with established disciplines. All this required consistent focus overtime on the small and simple things.<br />
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No doubt it must be the influence of my father who would work nightly filing papers of data or information after coming back from his government day job that helped me understand the importance of doing small and simple things in order to achieve bigger tasks of the future. Another influential brother would have the habit of digging the garden to plant seeds of local fruits like the papaya, star fruit, rambutan, and others, to water and take care of them daily until they grew up to be mature trees to bear fruit that was enjoyed by the whole family. He taught me how to dig deep trenches to fill them with fertile soil and bury short sticks of sugar canes with buds on them. I would water them daily and in a shorter period than the fruit trees he planted, I would see the stems multiplying from the ground to shoot up to be tall stalks of sugar canes which were taller than my height! It was a sweet reward to harvest the output of my labors. I had learned in nature, by doing small and simple things, a great reward is a return.<br />
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The advantage I had in my era as an adult was the development of Information Technology where I didn't have to use paper files or filing cabinets. I had the computer and the hard disk to store information in words, photos and videos under compressed digital formats which could be indexed for future retrievals easily. I had also built up quite a large collection of books in my personal library to assimilate a lot of information and knowledge for my own human-computer which is my Mind! In a personal research initiative at my office in the <a href="https://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-08-15T22:29:00%2B08:00&max-results=1">year 2003</a>, I started with a small team to discuss, discover and document growing information centered on the human mind, change theories and methodologies to help corporations improve the performance of their human resource. As the speed of the internet increased for faster access to the world wide web of information stored in the Cloud without the limitations of space or time, I knew it was conducive to write and publish my own first book, and subsequent ones too, with greater ease one day.<br />
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The practice of small and simple things led me to record my life activities in 3 separate different blog journals, instead of just one, named as Familylane, Fastlane, & Spiritlane. Strangely, a business trip to New York City after I started my 3 blogs led to more enlightenment or increased Consciousness. A French-born Chinese lady I had just met in a cafe, introduced by another New Yorker friend, invited me to join her to visit her Taoist temple. At that instance, I began to write down on a napkin, under 3 columns, the significance of the Body Mind Spirit and how it linked with my blogs and what were perceived to be the end goals with different word descriptions in each column! A more detailed reproduction of the 3 column draft I made that day is found <a href="http://familylane.info/3pillars/" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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By Small and Simple Things, in continuing to keep my journals to this day, I can quickly cover my life story below that gives clues to how my consciousness evolved over time, i.e. My Consciousness of what it is like to be a Human Being:<br />
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Here is an old pic of me and my first dog that followed me home one day when I was walking around the neighborhood. It belongs to an ex-pat going home who felt it was best to leave the dog with me, since he seemed to like me to follow me home, instead of putting him in a long flight to his home overseas. One can see the big garden in the background of the photo of the government quarters we had lived in for many years. In this garden was where I was free to run with my dog, learn to plant and get to harvest the fruit of my labors. In the photo above, I was dressed to go to primary/elementary school.</b></span></div>
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I was a slow learner at school at the elementary level especially, not having a good memory so learning the Malay vocabulary was difficult. The school didn't have Mandarin classes which would be an even tougher language for me to learn as it isn't romanized nor is it a language that can be considered phonetic even though there is a separate Hanyu Pinyin system. The pinyin system was more to help in learning the pronunciation of the original Chinese character for those who don't know how to read Mandarin, so it is just a tonal system. Earlier I had thought the Chinese in the mainland were a proud people of having the longest civilization still intact and therefore didn't want to change their language completely to the phonetic system which other civilizations did like the Egyptians. I have since learned that since every Chinese character has a unique meaning, changing the language characters to suit a new phonetic sound/pronunciation system will lose the value of the original meaning in the original characters and may cause confusion when different meanings in the new character set end up having the same sounds or pronunciation.<br />
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Luckily I was the last batch in the Malaysian school system to have all my education in the English language. The reason being English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a "world language", the lingua franca of the modern era. Also, much of the latest Science and Technology knowledge I had interest in was coming from the English speaking western world. Malay was more a national cultural language of Malaysia and is only a single subject for me at school that was romanized, it was really not too difficult for me to learn the language.<br />
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At Primary one level, my first year in school, I was still struggling with how to study though all were in English with only one Malay subject. I didn't do well in the tests to miss the double promotion meant for those who scored well in the first year of elementary school. I changed to a better school in the fourth year where they had optional Mandarin classes. I tried a couple of years in it but constantly had red marks on my report card while the rest were blue. I didn't start earlier with the basics of the language like the others and couldn't catch up so I opted out after trying for 2 years. Today I have a desire to pick up the language again since there is no pressure of getting any report cards plus I can take advantage of the technology available today to teach me and help me practice at my own pace. Furthermore, I also have this strong belief that by small and simple things, with constant repetition or practice, I can still achieve all that I want to achieve! Plus we now have <a href="https://translate.google.com/?um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&client=tw-ob#en/zh-CN/%E5%BC%A0%E5%B1%B1%E7%A6%8F" target="_blank">technology in our hands</a> to assist us plus I can listen to Mandarin songs to catch the sounds and naturally remember them like in this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO-wq9nP__8" target="_blank">song.</a><br />
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I plodded along progressing very slowly in my early years in school and someone in the family started giving me storybooks to read. They were the Enid Blyton series and I loved reading them, The Famous Five adventure kids who could solve mysteries in their neighborhood. I believe small and simple things like reading helped me to excel in English and the more I read, my intellect improved and so did my grades. I even won the first prize in English in Primary 5 in the year 1969.<br />
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How nerdy I looked haha. To win a prize was amazing as for many years I was just getting by but I had acquired the reading habit, the door to opening up my brain to acquire academic or intellectual capabilities of languages, and the beginning of logic and reasoning at the elementary level which became my strength. I never stopped progressing academically from that year onwards, climbing the ladder rung by rung from first increasing my position in a lower class to being promoted to a higher class to only drop in position among the brighter kids of the smarter class but eventually climbed the rung of class positions to get to the top five in the class of classified bright students which I always felt I wasn't one. I just knew the technique or system to study. I had always felt I wasn't as bright as the top students of the class but through my mastery of the basics, in small and simple things, it allowed me to figure out the answers or solutions to the questions or problems thrown to me from the academic or intellectual world.<br />
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Somewhere in my academic life, I found a balance between reading for examinations and reading to understand a topic or subject matter. I found that when I did the latter, I could remember what I read for a much longer time. I always worked hard to try to understand something I had to deal with. These were the small and simple things I developed a habit to do whether it was about reading something to understand it, fixing or repairing something and the most tricky is trying to help other people with their human problems of life which will require all my knowledge and experience in the Body Mind Spirit of the human soul. Interestingly, I had to be in New York City to realize something that was quite Eastern of the Body, Mind & Spirit of the soul. While doing my research for my book living in Singapore and Malaysia, I realize that Plato of ancient Greece influential for the foundation of Western democracies and culture named the tripartite nature of the Soul as Apetities, Reason & Spirit. Both parts of the world had the same foundational truths but merely used different words, text or symbols to describe the same thing.<br />
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In my younger age at the elementary level and below, I recall that my body was not really physically strong or healthy. I remember having high fevers where the doctor had to come to visit me and I had to be sponged down to lower my body temperature. There were also periods of time when I had boils on my body that were painful in my knee or elbow joint areas and even on my buttocks to make it painful to sit down! Again, I had to resort to small and simple things to build up my physical health.<br />
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In later years, I would cycle a lot up and down hills in my neighborhood, carrying my dog with me to build up my leg muscles and stamina too with the joy of having my best friend with me. At middle school, I would learn to play every game with a ball such as in basketball, soccer, rugby, volleyball, hockey, etc.</b></span></div>
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Learning Karate, the Japanese martial arts reminded me to learn the small and simple things first before I learned to spar with another opponent that eventually led me to participate in tournaments in Singapore against another karateka from a foreign country. Just standing lowering my back in a horse-riding stance posture in my early training with no punches or kick techniques taught to me until very much later is my recollection of how I started my training! Deep breathing exercises, doing the katas or exercise steps like a dance, running 5 km in the highland camps to build stamina and endurance were all very important small and simple steps to master before I could begin to practice sparring with another opponent!<br />
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Today, I still ride the bicycle <a href="https://vimeo.com/119668741">locally</a> and<a href="https://goo.gl/lssEJl"> overseas</a> too, play any ball games if there is someone else to play with me, hike or run uphill too, including riding uphill when there is time or opportunity. If not, I never forget the small and simple things like my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/videos/10214469360547326/" target="_blank">timed exercises</a> that can be done anywhere anytime consistently to keep me healthy and fit. Watching what I eat or drink, following the Word of Wisdom commandment of our Church since I joined the Church at 20 years of age are the small and simple things I would do that brought to pass great things like never needing to see a doctor for cures of headaches, fevers, coughs or other common sicknesses for the past 40 years or more.<br />
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After Form 5, for pre-University to enter an Australian University, I had to do the Australian High School Certificate HSC and as I had decided to become an Accountant, or I followed my father's advice to be one. I had to start afresh to study Accounting and Economics for the first time as I had come from a pure science stream in my secondary or middle school due to the emphasis of the government in our developing country. Again, I had to learn small and simple things again in a new field but due to the plasticity of my brain by this time, I had the capability to learn new principles within one year to qualify for entry to the tertiary level of education in Australia which at that time was free.</b></span></div>
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Before going to Australia, I would make a tour of Europe for the first time using all the money I had saved from Chinese New Year red packets plus money earned due to the one good brother who gave me cash incentives for every A grade I got for my examinations during my secondary years! Again, I had the opportunity to learn small and simple things to prepare myself for the biggest trip I've ever done to date in Dec 1976, traveling all alone by myself.</b></span></div>
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I came back safely from Europe and in Feb 1977, I was ready to leave for Australia to begin my university education. By this time, I had felt I had acquired enough basics in life of small and simple things to handle anything forthcoming in the future.<br />
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Missionaries found me in this small city of Geelong, an hour's drive from Melbourne, who knocked on my door so that I could receive the most important message Man on earth could have. I choose Geelong city as my 2nd choice because my best friend from school who lived near our family home had an older brother studying at Gordon Institute of Technology, famous for architecture. (Our Singapore member Tan Su Kiong, former Patriarch is an architect trained from there.) The brother of my good friend turned out to be an excellent person to orientate me to enjoy the nature of Australia to bring me out to the seaside in summer to snorkel, the resorts up in the mountains in winter to ski and I learned he was very smart too. He was the fastest reader in South East Asia, did a double degree of Computer Science as well as Architecture, who must have influenced me to do a double major in Accounting and Computer science within my 3 years of undergraduate studies at Deakin, formerly known as Gordon Tech.</b></span></div>
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I like to point out at this time that the blessing of learning computer science was foundational to allow me to type on my computer today and learned by 'Small and Simple Things' how the future could change because of this Information Technology. I thought accounting was detailed enough to keep track of dollars and cents. However, when I started to learn programming languages, higher and lower levels like assembly language, my understanding of how the 1 and 0 of the binary system learned in my school days was related to computers created an "Aha" effect in me! I didn't realize though that the technology would change my life as much as the restored Gospel theology did. The Gospel only came to my life in the last year of my University life but thanks to the LDS Church, my learning never stopped and the impact on me was definitely far greater than my University education of course.<br />
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Thanks to computer technology that has never stopped advancing till today, I am able to use it to augment my mind that admittedly isn't that great! I am grateful to have spent time, doing "Small and Simple Things" to learn this technology over the years to feel as if I have a young mind today that can use social media for good purposes instead of just passing on fake news of all kinds found today especially in the world of politics and making quick money! As you're reading this post in my Spiritlane journal, it is appropriate to quote the scripture and expound more on how it had helped me in my life to achieve many things that seemed impossible for one with an ordinary brain like mine, even a dog's brain? haha<br />
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In short, my consciousness tells me, as I sit in front of my computer today that I am greatly indebted to both the Computer Technology and the LDS or Mormon Theology to have given me an incredible or amazing life on the principle that "By Small and Simple Things" that I had studied and acted upon, "are Great Things Brought to Pass".<br />
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In the final year of my university, I was the happiest man in the world, I felt so as the physical health of my Body was at a peak and I felt my Mind was adequately curated with sufficient basics in small and simple things to tackle the world. I had mastered how to break down sophisticated things to its simple parts. Little did I know I was still lacking in one area of my life. I had to learn the small and simple things of the Spirit part of life!<br />
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Live comment while finishing this post 3pm Friday 30 March 2018: "Oftentimes, I would just kneel down to say a prayer to thank our Heavenly Father for my daily blessings. I would open the scripture to read any messages he has for me. Today is Easter Friday and I am anticipating spiritual things to happen, personal revelations to me, especially as this, is the weekend when our Church will have our Annual General Conference broadcast live to the world through our Church website <a href="https://www.lds.org/?lang=eng" target="_blank">www.lds.org</a> I look forward to what our world prophets and apostles have to say. So here is what I read when I thumbed open my old scripture that has previously marked passages in it:"<br />
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Tears flowed in my eyes. Read particularly the whole of Doctrine and Covenants Section 8 where I have the most passages marked by a color pencil done a long time ago as this is a very old manual scripture I had been using before the technology can allow me to read the same chapter online today by <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/8?lang=eng&clang=eng">clicking here.</a> Why did the tears flow? I was writing this post accessing My Consciousness to fill it with content relevant to the title that was chosen for me as explained at the top of my post. If you were able to read the chapter 8 of the scripture online and understand what I have written above about my experience in writing my book, that it wasn't clear in the beginning what I was to write about but I had faith in continuing to do the small and simple things to later find that the Lord did bless me in my heart and mind with the Holy Ghost to be able to write. Oliver Cowdery in the scripture was assured that the Lord would help him and if you read the referred scripture with the influence of the Holy Ghost, then you will know the state of my heart and mind better as well as the reason why I became a little emotional, the Body part of me. (My Body-Mind and Mind-Spirit perspective of the human being or soul is shared more in two parts of my blog posts starting from <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.my/2011/05/the-state-of-mind-for-handling.html" target="_blank">here.</a>)<br />
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Yes, my life has several experiences of a flow of natural tears, sometimes occurring uncontrollably in embarrassing public moments! It happened again recently when I was asked to teach the Gospel principles class in English on Sunday a week before Easter by Sharon Wong, She is the one who usually teaches it but she was starting a Chinese Gospel principle class so she requested me to take over the English class. I was to teach the chapter on the Life of Christ, Chapter 11 from the Gospel Principles manual. In the middle of the class, I had to excuse myself to go to the Men's room to clear my wet eyes and blow my nose! Luckily the class was small. On this Easter Sunday, the class numbers were more than doubled for me to teach on the Life of Christ and I held well! Maybe I had drained all my tears away already. During the time of writing this blog post, my tears did flow when I was spiritually flowing with inspiration in my heart and mind due to the Holy Ghost helping me to express myself in a flowing manner here. I even found an <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/the-music-of-the-gospel?lang=eng" target="_blank">old talk</a> referring to D&C Section 8 again with the title, "The music of the gospel is the joyful spiritual feeling that comes from the Holy Ghost. It brings a change of heart."<br />
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You see, the body and mind created by God play an amazing role in keeping "Small and Simple Things" in our Heart and Mind so that the Holy Ghost can easily pull out these memories at the right time to bring us joy that can turn to tears even! Instead of just tears, I use the energy of joy to create better writings, photos, and videos! I remember in the Christmas Season of 2016, I was in a joyful mode and created this video from my apartment studio, not studio apartment haha. It is one place where I find conducive to connect to my Heavenly Father through the Savior and where much of my creative writing and works are produced for reasons expressed in this video:<br />
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Let me fast forward my life, to review what happens when I believe in doing small and simple things, with pics below in this journal to finish it in the shortest possible time. I do it by using social media technology links to my journals that I have patiently written down over the years, line upon line, precept upon precept, just the way I learned the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and tested it personally as one who believes in <a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2010-07-072-light-and-truth-part-1?lang=eng" target="_blank">Light and Truth.</a> </b></span></div>
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Wow, it's past 2.30am Monday morning in Kuala Lumpur on 2 April 2018 where Utah time is 12.30pm Sunday afternoon when I just finished watching a slightly delayed live recording playback on the internet of the Easter Sunday morning General Conference! Note I wrote above "Today is Easter Friday and I am anticipating spiritual things to happen, personal revelations to me, especially as this is the weekend when our Church will have our Annual General Conference broadcast live to the world through our Church website". You can zoom above to my statement by <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2018/03/by-small-and-simple-things.html#lc" target="_blank">clicking here.</a> You can also <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10215952117455322&set=a.1184799099665.28616.1218887754&type=3&theater" target="_blank">click here</a> to see I had posted a copy of it on my Facebook timeline as evidence I was doing my blog post live over the weekend with confidence that even before the General Conference started, I typed or declared to the world that I would get spiritual things or personal revelations.(by the power of the Holy Ghost is what we Mormons believe.)<br />
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I will now need time to record a good number of things that happened over the weekend that can be classified as spiritual things or personal revelations to me. So much could happen in just one Easter Weekend!!! I have to wait for the Church website at lds.org to convert the Sunday morning General Conference session live video to individual videos for each speaker so that I can embed the relevant ones in this post with my comments on how they relate to what I've shared on this post so far.<br />
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<i>To be continued..... (</i><i>and please post your comments as requested above about Easter, even if the weekend is already over.)</i><br />
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<br /> Over the weekend, besides collecting comments from friends around the world about Easter, I also started collecting memories or impressions I would receive over this special weekend and can today summarize them below to conclude, as expected from the past experiences of my life, that "...by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise. And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes; and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls."<br />
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President Nelson talked personally about his life and experience in receiving personal revelation of the Holy Ghost through his heart and mind. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm-mdr-RtmY&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Click here</a> to listen to the relevant part of the video that I know is a personal revelation to me as per my quotation of D&C chapter 8:2 shared above before the conference began.</b></span></div>
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Imagine living in a time when I'm in Melaka meeting with a Muslim group by invitation and while driving back to Kuala Lumpur, I could watch the General Conference on my phone to be surprised of Elder Gong's call as an Apostle of the Lord whom I had met with personally 4 years earlier by chance when I was traveling from KL to Singapore with our miracle convert from the 80's shared in the SpaceTime-Travel section of my <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2018/03/by-small-and-simple-things.html" target="_blank">post here.</a><br />
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I started this post on Friday before the General Conference commenced, using all my skills or know how to express my life's story supporting the truth of the scripture of Alma's teaching to his son Helaman about "small and simple things". This was one of the scriptural revelations given to me recently. I get them very often and sometimes forget to note it down or scan the scripture which I may do often as part of the record-keeping habit of my life, just like the way Accountants keep all documents as supporting evidence to the final financial reports they produce! My style of writing my journals seem to follow this trend as evidence or <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank">my testimony</a> to others that Heavenly Father is real. I can feel the Savior's love and the Holy Ghost effect is well explained by our new prophet President Nelson shared on this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm-mdr-RtmY&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">shortened video</a>. I made a shortened version of the video provided as a link to click to make it clearer that my impression of what I hear and feel from the speakers are clear indications of spiritual things or personal revelations to me by the power of the Holy Ghost.</b></span></div>
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I had mentioned above about the old conference talk I found that explained about D&C chapter 8 verse 2 especially,"Yea, behold, I will tell you in your mind and in your heart, by the Holy Ghost, which shall come upon you and which shall dwell in your heart." I found it using search in LDS website which is well indexed to link to other relevant talks etc thus creating a flow of understanding for me. Same way as I write my book, I needed to index all related researched information so that my writings will flow more smoothly or logically when it is presented. <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2015/04/the-music-of-the-gospel?lang=eng" target="_blank">Click here</a> to listen or read that old conference talk to find that it is beautifully or spiritually well expressed about the different effects of the Heart compared to the Mind, "We learn the dance steps with our minds, but we hear the music with our hearts. The dance steps of the gospel are the things we do; the music of the gospel is the joyful spiritual feeling that comes from the Holy Ghost. It brings a change of heart and is the source of all righteous desires. The dance steps require discipline, but the joy of the dance will be experienced only when we come to hear the music."</b></span></div>
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If one reads or listen to the entire video, one will learn how to create an optimal environment in one's home especially as a parent with maybe a rebellious child or an older child still in the adolescence age not fully living according to Gospel standards that parents may desire. He or she needs to hear the beautiful music with the heart which is the source of all righteous desires. This is the power of the Holy Ghost that I know of and am reminded again by personal revelation given to me that I had anticipated in this General Conference. My cup is full and I can continue to dance toward my goals without feeling the stress of just discipline alone to do the small and simple things that we all need to do but often neglect. Yes, we need to hear the music and dance or flow with it!</b></span></div>
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If you watch the <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2018/04/media/session_5_talk_3/5761911600001?lang=eng" target="_blank">video</a> of Elder Gong's short talk as the new Apostle, he started by relating how he puts his children to sleep and I will end this post repeating his cry of "Hallelujah!" with this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akb0kD7EHIk" target="_blank">video.</a></b></span></div>
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This is the topic that I have been assigned by Bro Hill, 1st counselor in the KL branch presidency, to speak for 15 to 20 mins in the Kuala branch on this day, 17 Sep 2017. I had about over 2 weeks period of time to prepare.<br />
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As I was busy every day with my research and writing of my book with my other daily chores including having Ern my 3rd son from Singapore moving in with me for his 1 year of studies preparing for his tertiary education overseas, I used a little time each night before bed to prepare. It was time spent reviewing references in www.lds.org with related to this topic and I would even lie down to sleep to listen to selected video talks of General Authorities of our Church.</b></span></div>
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With enough information gathered over the time period and a fairly good idea of how I will present the talk, I decided to write my talk on this spiritual blog post starting at 6am on this day of the talk. After a short prayer on my knees, I begin. (Notes: It will consist of parts that have complete sentences of what I like to say with other parts that are only references to some journals of mine where only the heading is there but it is a hypertext link that gives details for the reader. I may not have time to cover them so they are just left as hyperlinks for the reader to click to read the referenced contents.)</b></span></div>
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INTRODUCTION<br />
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My talk today will be based on scripture and the experiences of my life especially from the part that started when missionaries first knocked on my door in the City of Geelong Australia early in the year 1979. This would be the final year of my tertiary education at Deakin University. Two American Elders dressed smartly like our Elders today were standing in front of me when I opened the door to introduce themselves to be from the Church to say that they had a message about Jesus Christ to share with me and about how God had visited a young man named Joseph Smith. Well, they look smart enough and spoke nicely enough to look like Angels so I let them into the large home with 9 bedrooms that I had shared the rent with 8 other students. I also felt that if this was true, the knowledge gained from this visitation would be even more important than that of Man going to the Moon, They had a flip chart with pictures to share their message and I listened intently. It was the story of the First Vision of the Prophet Joseph Smith.<br />
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After they finished, they asked me how I felt. Now this was the first time I had ever heard that God had appeared to Man on earth, so I responded with words to this effect, "If....this was true, it would be the most important knowledge to the world as even though we have sent Man to the Moon, I don't think what we had discovered there would be more important than what God could reveal to Joseph Smith!" I guess the American Elders would have been elated with my sincere response to feel that I would be their 'Golden Investigator'. Little did they realize this young Asian student would require many pairs of Elders to be visited over and over again to be convinced to become a Christian by accepting baptism.<br />
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The main reason was simple to me though complicating to them. My acceptance of receiving the missionaries further was due to the first response I felt that required me to investigate "If...this was true...". See, I was born and raised in a large Chinese family, of which I was the youngest, where most were not really religious or believed in God at all but followed a father who believed in Education except for the women who was my mother who got me to carry joss sticks at certain festive seasons of the year and who prayed daily to a small altar and my oldest sister in Penang who had a large altar of many Gods. Though I had attended a Catholic school and had several friends who were either Catholic or of a Protestant Church, education was my main interest in life to feel that Christianity was too confusing anyway with the number of different churches that existed that seemed to differ one from the other.<br />
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To make things more complicating, the Landlord of the property I lived in were Baptists and one housemate named Robbie soon spread the news to them that I was meeting the Mormons so they gave me their opinion and when I seemed still persistent to continue with the Mormon Elders, he brought to meet a Pastor of another nearby Church who fed me anti-Mormon questions and some personal writings of his which I later realized were extracts of Anti-Mormon literature. Even a Sri Lankan man studying in the Geelong Theological College, met at an Asian-Australian inter-cultural social gathering when hearing I was listening to the Mormons invited me to his dorm at the theological college to read the Bible with me!<br />
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Now having to spend all my time 'Investigating' to know where the truth would be from, with so many teachers of just one subject of Christianity not forgetting to learn my own business subjects at my university that included law, economics, accounting, computers, and statistics, it really took me time to accept baptism. I had completed all the discussions. It took many months and many more pairs of Elders to follow up in order to get me wet! I was actually a 'dry Mormon' as due to my pure science background in middle or secondary school in Malaysia, I was really genuinely willing to experiment the faith by following all the commandments, attend Church every Sunday faithfully to know if God or the truth could be found. So that was why it took so long.<br />
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<br /> Another important reason for my delay to get baptized, though I felt the Church teachings definitely seemed more complete and sound or acceptable to my logical mind, was that I was hoping for some Angel to visit me like Angel Moroni did to Joseph Smith perhaps! This thus leads to the body of my talk on the Ministry of Angels.<br />
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(Notes: Read extracts from Book of Moroni Chapter 7, a prophet who actually became an Angel himself and these are the words of his father Mormon. These extracts from other sources will be in larger size font.)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="verse-number verse" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">33 </span>And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me.</b></span></div>
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<span face=""open sans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); color: #333333;"> ‘And the Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that give offense and them that do iniquity.’ [</span><a class="scriptureRef" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/matt/13.41?lang=eng#40" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Matthew 13:41</a><span face=""open sans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); color: #333333;">.]</span><br />
<span face=""open sans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); color: #333333;"><br /></span> <span face=""open sans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); color: #333333;">“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed. The mustard seed is small, but brings forth a large tree, and the fowls lodge in the branches. [See </span><a class="scriptureRef" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/mark/4.30-32?lang=eng#29" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mark 4:30–32</a><span face=""open sans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); color: #333333;">.] The fowls are the angels. Thus angels come down, combine together to gather their children, and gather them. We cannot be made perfect without them, nor they without us; when these things are done, the Son of Man will descend, the Ancient of Days sit; we may come to an innumerable company of angels, have communion with and receive instructions from them.”</span><sup class="noteMarker" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.01); border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-joseph-smith/chapter-8?lang=eng&_r=1#5-36481_000_012" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5</a> </sup><br />
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“… [God] set the ordinances to be the same forever and ever, and set Adam to watch over them, to reveal them from heaven to man, or to send angels to reveal them. ‘Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?’ [<a class="scriptureRef" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/1.14?lang=eng#13" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hebrews 1:14</a>.]</b></span></div>
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“These angels are under the direction of Michael or Adam, who acts under the direction of the Lord. From the above quotation we learn that Paul perfectly understood the purposes of God in relation to His connection with man, and that glorious and perfect order which He established in Himself, whereby He sent forth power, revelations, and glory.</b></span></div>
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“God will not acknowledge that which He has not called, ordained, and chosen. In the beginning, God called Adam by His own voice. ‘And the Lord called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and hid myself.’ [<a class="scriptureRef" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/gen/3.9-10?lang=eng#8" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Genesis 3:9–10</a>.] Adam received commandments and instructions from God: this was the order from the beginning.<br />
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A man must be authorized of God and ordained to the priesthood to administer in the ordinances of salvation.<br />
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“We believe that no man can administer salvation through the gospel, to the souls of men, in the name of <a class="no-link-style" href="http://www.mormon.org/beliefs/jesus-christ" style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; color: #2f393a; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jesus Christ</a>, except he is authorized from God, by revelation, or by being ordained by someone whom God hath sent by revelation, as it is written by Paul, <a class="scriptureRef" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/rom/10.14?lang=eng#13" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Romans 10:14</a>, ‘And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent?’ And I will ask, how can they be sent without a revelation, or some other visible display of the manifestation of God? And again, <a class="scriptureRef" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/5.4?lang=eng#3" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Hebrews 5:4</a>, ‘And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.’—And I would ask, how was Aaron called, but by revelation?”<sup class="noteMarker" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-joseph-smith/chapter-8?lang=eng&_r=1#13-36481_000_012" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13</a></sup></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>I</span> soon found fellowship with the single adults of the Bellarine Branch and I was given my first calling as the Single Adult Male representative with my female counterpart Colleen Farr. I continued faithfully in my “investigation” with a quest to live a spiritual life, ie be a good Mormon and see what happens. It didn’t take long before I could experience what would be unforgettable spiritual experiences that would mold me to my present-day stature of a man of great faith and testimony in the Lord Jesus Christ and the Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On Wed 5 Dec 1979, less than six months of membership in the Church, I had a remarkable experience. In the past few weeks, I had been troubled with a constant feeling or impression in my mind that I should go on a mission. It seemed that I could not shake off this feeling, as every night I went to bed with such a thought, causing me to toss around trying hard to sleep and when I did, I would wake up the next morning feeling the same thing. I had no desire to serve on a mission, which would mean serving for 2 years on a voluntary capacity, as my mind had been looking forward eagerly to work after my graduation to become a qualified accountant. My years of study and parental expectation was toward this goal. I was in an awful state of dilemma and confusion.<br />
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On that fateful night, I drove to Eastern Beach in Geelong where the night was quiet and the view of the bay was calm. I parked my car and prayed with all my heart to Our Heavenly Father, desperate for an answer to my troubled mind. I wanted to know for a surety if it was God who was calling me or was my feeling of going on a mission simply an illusion of my mind. I remember that my prayer was long and fervent, resting my head on the steering wheel of the car in deep meditation and pouring my heart to God. After I finished, I felt calm, came out of my car and decided to walk to the missionary apartment. I had the Elders teaching my University friend Roy Ngai and was going to discuss the schedule for the next day. I had to walk across a small park and it was already pitch dark at around 9pm in the Australian summer. Through the park I walked with faith that I was heading the right direction as I could hardly see where I was going in the dark. Lo and behold, I came out of the park just across from the Elders’ apartment. In my meetings with the Elders, I would sometimes receive Church publications from them to read but this time, Elder Slade loaned me a cassette tape with music only. I requested instead for another tape with church talks and I was handed a tape by President Robert D. Arnold, (1-24-78) entitled “Principles of Missionary Work”.<br />
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I went home in a hurry, eager to listen to this tape. When I prayed it in my room, I was overwhelmed with the feeling that the speaker was speaking right at me, encouraging me to go on a mission. I believe the tape was his address to students of Brigham Young University encouraging eligible students to go serve a mission. Words that rang in my ear even to this day include his powerful statement that one should not ask whether he should go on a mission or not but when! He also shared in his talk the many miracles that occurred in South America during the time of an earthquake and how the missionaries were spared from death. Now did I feel that this was an answer to my prayers? My intellectual mind made me ask God for a confirmation. I had remembered being taught by the Elders during my investigating months that one should be specific in his prayers to God in order to receive specific answers. So I knelt down beside my bed with the Bible in my hand. I prayed to God to give me his answer from the scripture, saying I would randomly thumb open the Bible with my right thumb and read the words on the opened page!!!! I was as dead specific as I could as I didn’t want to take the chance that luck would determine my fate. Lo and behold, the Bible was opened to a page and I read from <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/mark/16.15?lang=eng#14" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Mark 16:15">Mark Ch 16 verse 15,</a> “…Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”<br />
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Now would this be my confirmation that God was calling me? I was indeed elated and felt filled with the Spirit but there was just one more little thing! I did get baptized with an intellectual conversion and spent many of my days reading the Bible with many well-meaning Christians of other faith who constantly tried to use their interpretation of the Bible to show me that I was going on a wrong path. I reasoned doctrine with them but had to refer to the Bible and hence I was more preoccupied in reading the Bible than the Book of Mormon. With my final exams at the year-end, I didn’t have much time to read the Book of Mormon and had not gained a testimony of it. In my simple mind, I reasoned that if God gave me an answer on my mission call from the Bible, surely if the Book of Mormon was a word of God, I should get a confirmation from it too. With that belief, I went back on my knees with much humility to plead to God with the same specific prayer but this time to open the Book of Mormon to read in <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/hel/5.14-15?lang=eng#13" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Helaman 5:14-15">Helaman 5:14-15,</a> “…and therefore they went forth, keeping the commandments of God, to teach the word of God among all the people of Nephi, beginning at the city Bountiful; And from thence forth to the city of Gid; and from the city of Gid to the city of Mulek;” From that moment onwards, I felt a perfect peace and calmness that I had never felt before. I knew that it was God who was calling me and I was ready to do his will.<br />
(Note: The above original writings are extracted from this <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/05/call-to-serve.html" target="_blank">journal post.</a>)<br />
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Click the links below to read the original writings from my journal.<br />
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CONCLUSION<br />
<br /> From my experiences before and after Baptism, I could see that miracles really happened after I exercised faith to be baptized to receive the Holy Ghost. I didn't physically see any Angels from Heaven who came to visit me but I know many must have been ministering to me during the important time during my mission years where only some of my recorded journals of miracles are shared in the above links.<br />
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After my mission when I got married and lived in KL branch to raise our family of 6 children and continued to serve the Church, I experienced the service of many human Angels to me and my family. These were human Angels, members of the Church who ministered to one another. This occurred in all branches throughout the District that I could observe during my service years recorded <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2011/09/leading-with-spirituality-and.html" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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My wife and I experienced the Spirit of Elijah during our lifetime together to do our <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2013/07/the-spirit-of-elijah.html?showComment=1378732194834" target="_blank">Family History work.</a> Human Angels and Spirit Angels have been working together in this Kingdom of God on Earth is my humble testimony in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.</b></span></div>
Dad the KL city kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798301328638176472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749036.post-13657891182890156112017-07-07T20:46:00.001+08:002021-12-29T04:07:30.470+08:00Mission Letters home from Elder Shuan Chong for Year 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>
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His mission letters sent during his Year 1 on a mission can be read at another post from the <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2016/07/mission-letters-home-from-elder-shuan.html" target="_blank">top</a> or <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2016/07/mission-letters-home-from-elder-shuan.html#bt" target="_blank">bottom.</a><br />
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We started the week with interviews with President and Sister Stevens. It was great to see them again just 3 days after zone conference. We were told to read a talk from Oct 2016 General Conference titled "Am I Good Enough? Will I Make it?" by Elder J. Devin Cornish. That's a question I ask myself a lot on a mission. There's a lot of responsibilities to fulfil and expectations to meet. Sometimes things are going really well and it feels great, but sometimes it feels like everything is going against what I try to do. It's in those challenging times when I really grow. It's no fun, but when I look back, I'm glad I went through it.<br />
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Being the fourth week in Luton, I'm starting to get used to getting around without needing to think so much of where I'm going. As such, I begin to notice more random things around me:<br />
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It says "LUXURY STUDENT LIVING". Elder Egger and I didn't think it looked very luxurious heheh.<br />
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We had exchanges again this week! We took a bus down to Dunstable. The bus took a special bus way just for buses</b></span></div>
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I was with Elder Stern for a day. It was really fun. He's from Canada! Till now I cannot differentiate the Canadian accent from Americans. Someone on the street managed to get it though!<br />
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Here's another random thing we found:<br />
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We had a dinner appointment in the evening and the member brought us to a carvery. I've never been to one, but it was delicious, and affordable too! </b></span></div>
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We found a really cool track in Luton this week when moving around this week:<br />
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The tall trees and green tracks reminded me of route marches back in the military. Can't say I miss that haha. I feel like I'm walking just as much if not even more! This time however, with purpose :P</b></span></div>
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The week was rather interesting. We received an additional companion Elder Gato! He's half Japanese, half Italian, but comes from Brazil. He's called to the mission as a Portuguese speaking missionary but had to learn English. Along the way he has learned Spanish as well! It has been a blessing to have him here because we have quite a number of Portuguese and Spanish speaking people that we're teaching here. Here's one of them:<br />
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There have quite a number of members passing away in the ward recently. We helped out with a funeral on Wednesday. The member who passed away was 96! During the funeral I had the chance to interact with many of the older members who knew her. It was nice to see so many old stalwart members. They had endless amounts of lovely stories to tell. I really love funerals at church that are like that, a celebration of the life of the person. </b></span></div>
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On Sunday, President and Sister Otterson from the London Temple stopped by our ward to speak as they had a meeting further up north. President Otterson said it would be nicer if we actually had more funerals at church. Not because we want more people passing away, but because it would mean fewer members becoming inactive before the point of their death. It would mean there are more people enduring to the end!</b></span></div>
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He also shared a few things about the gospel. He related it to how he loved to exercise and was doing a lot of aerobic exercises but not strength exercises. So he decided to start by doing push ups. He could barely do 1 push up and that was it! Rather embarrassed about it, he pushed himself to improve by doing increasing amounts of half push ups (on the knees) every day. It got to a point where he wanted to improve faster and he did more than he should which strained his back muscle and caused pain. </b></span></div>
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He related this experience to our spiritual muscles. If we do not exercise our spiritual muscles, they will lose its strength. When we want to exercise the spiritual muscles, it must also be done gradually. We cannot rush it, it comes line upon line, precept upon precept (2 Nephi 28:30) He went on to speak about "Jacob's ladder" in Genesis 28 in which Jacob in a vision, sees a ladder from earth reaching heaven, with angels ascending and descending on it. He said that each step in that ladder represents the covenants that we make. Each covenant we make lifts us higher towards not just salvation, but exaltation. Step by step we make it back!</b></span></div>
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We had a ward BBQ during the week, and guess what? It rained! But here's the solution...</b></span></div>
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We missionaries didn't dance haha. I'm sure it probably says somewhere in white handbook that we can't ;)<br />
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After the BBQ, they gave us almost all the leftovers! I bet we had to most packed missionary fridge in the whole mission!<br />
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The weather right now is kind of weird:<br />
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With the rain and sun though, the plants are really flourishing... and thus the talents of those with green thumbs begin to shine. We visited one of the members and they were really incredible at gardening! </b></span></div>
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It's a lot of work to have such a nice garden! It really takes a lot of effort and attention. I think success in life is just the same. There's no short cut. It's just the same for spiritual things as President Otterson taught. However, I believe there are still tricks and life hacks that make it a little easier. For example, this is how the member avoids having to water too many plants:</b></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span>Transfer 9 Week 6</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span><br /></span></span> <span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span>Another transfer has gone by so quickly. They say time flies when you're really busy. Luton has proven to be such. The next transfer will be a 7 week transfer! We'll see how fast this one goes since it's actually longer haha.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span>So I've figured out that something to do in Luton, but it's in the chapel! We have a pool table and foosball table here! We played it last P-day!</span></span><br />
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Elder Egger was so good at foosball! We defeated the other Elders from Dunstable! :)<br />
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We have seen quite a few miracles this week! Here's one:<br />
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He walked into church on his own, seeking to be baptised by someone holding the proper priesthood authority! He already committed on his own to keep the Sabbath Day before we taught it!<br />
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Here's another friend of ours! He somehow got hold of one of the pass-along cards, went online and wanted to learn more! So he got our contact online and called us! The Lord is truly preparing people to receive the gospel!<br />
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Here's one last miracle:<br />
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It's the biggest rainbow I've ever seen! It's blur because it was taken from the car, while we were on exchanges in St. Albans!<br />
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I was with Elder O'Hare and we talked to many people on the streets. It was tiring but fun. At the end of the day we had dinner with a family from Italy:<br />
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I had the opportunity to cook for a family in the ward and their friends this week:<br />
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I'm glad to say it was all finished!</b></span></div>
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It just so happen that most of the families we visited this week had animals:<br />
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Although the cat was pretty nice. I'm still a dog person :)<br />
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Here's another animal we saw in the library in town:<br />
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The school summer holidays are happening now so there are many events going on. I wish I could have gone into that inflatable whale like the kids!</b></span></div>
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One key thing I've learned this week is that faith is a choice when adversity comes. The families I've been with faced many challenges but they endured whatever came at them with faith! Not just faith in anything, but faith in Jesus Christ:</b></span></div>
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"12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." Helaman 5:12</b></span></div>
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I know that when we build our faith in Jesus Christ, we will not fall!</b></span></div>
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It has been a really packed week. We've been so busy but it feels really fulfilling.<br />
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On P-day we played Monopoly!<br />
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It was a special Zelda version which is pretty cool, but it doesn't change how intense the game gets haha. Elder Egger won in the end!<br />
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I'm still in a Trio and my new companion is Elder Birch from Florida! I wanted him to have a fantastic first day in the area but all of our appointments on that day got cancelled. To make it worse, we got caught in heavy rain unprepared!<br />
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There was a point where we just looked at each other and laughed at how ridiculous the day was!<br />
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Though it was a sad and wet start, the rest of the week was amazing!<br />
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There were many teaching and service opportunities throughout the week, it felt great! There comes a point when the people we teach aren't just people learning about the restored gospel, but also friends. There are many people prepared to receive the gospel, but many of them don't know it. It is such a wonderful feeling when they realise it though!<br />
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Speaking of friends, here's a highlight of my week!<br />
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Some friends I taught in London came to visit me! It is the first time I met them after baptism. There is really a difference! I was so happy to see them again!<br />
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One of the tasks we had for service was to clear this pile of rocks and concrete in a back garden. I have no idea how it got there.<br />
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But we moved stone by stone into a skip at the front of the house. Some rocks were so huge we had to break it down using a sledge hammer and pick axe!<br />
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It was tiring but we completed it eventually!<br />
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Don't have a lot of time to type more this week but will try better next week!<br />
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For most of my mission, week 2 of the transfers always seemed pretty jinxed. It would always be that difficult week for different reasons. It could be overwhelming rejection, unpleasant disagreements with companions, falling through of almost all appointments etc.<br />
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For this past week it was to do with planning and managing time. I wouldn't say I'm terrible at planning my time, but this week was really putting it to the test. Something I have always tried to work on is reacting quickly and positively to unforeseen circumstances that turn my plans upside down. In other words, not crying over spilt milk. Since it's not something I can choose to improve on at any time, I guess I'm grateful for the challenge that came this week that allowed me to grow a little.<br />
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So this is what happened: we were supposed to have exchanges with the zone leaders in St. Albans on Wednesday, and then Zone Conference on Friday at St. Albans as well. The week was planned out pretty will and all set, but on Tuesday, a member called up asking for help with moving homes. It was actually an emergency so we requested to move the exchange to Thursday instead. Thankfully it worked out! We were also able to move all of our appointments.<br />
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It was one of the most intense service I've ever done. We had to rush with the moving to save money on the rented movers truck. It was a family of 4 children, which meant a ton of stuff too! It reminded me of the time I moved from Malaysia to Singapore, from a big place to a tiny place. What made it difficult was that they were keeping almost everything! Somehow we managed to fit everything in. No photos of this because there simply wasn't time. We didn't even have time to eat lunch which made it really difficult as well. It reached a point where I simply could not lift certain things. It was strange feeling that much fatigue. The last time I felt that was in the army. After the service we rushed back, got changed and went for our appointments.<br />
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On Thursday, morning on the way to St. Albans, I thought all was well until I remembered a member was going to bring lunch to the chapel for us. >.< She didn't have a hand phone and to cut a long story short, I had to make many calls just to figure it all out. Finally I was able to begin exchanges with a peace of mind!<br />
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It was a perfectly sunny day on Thursday. I was so glad we weren't doing it on Wednesday because it rained ALL day. And as with a typical exchange there's plenty of finding, so I was spared :)<br />
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Something interesting that happened while I was finding with Elder Leone. We were having a conversation with a person, and a member walked by and helped us by bearing his testimony! We also learned that he was going shopping and needed help! He told us that he had been praying for help with shopping as he dreaded carrying the groceries up the hill which he lived on. I was glad to help him because he was so old. Many times while walking he would wobble and almost fall...<br />
This is a picture with him!<br />
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He kind of has dementia which is really sad and also funny sometimes. For example, he used to have a car which he could drive down to get his groceries with. He does not have it anymore and tells everyone it was stolen. However, the truth is that he parked it somewhere and forgot where it was parked >.< I was glad to be able to help him that day.</b></span></div>
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We had the stake president from Northampton Stake share some ideas on how we can work better with members. Statistics have proven the missionary work is increases dramatically when members are involved. I think everyone knows that but it's just getting down to making it work! There were many powerful testimonies shared during the meeting. Perhaps too powerful... because the meeting was ending much later than I expected and we had an appointment! Thankfully we were able to change it to an online lesson which we started right after the meeting ended. Thank goodness for technology!<br />
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The same person we had the lesson online with was to have a lesson and an interview at the chapel on Saturday afternoon. I thought all was well until we realised that we did not have the chapel key. We had lent it to one of the members of the ward who was all the way at Chorley for the British Pageant. The solution was to ask another member to help open the chapel, but many of them were at the Pageant as well! Thankfully after many more phone calls a member helped us to unlock the chapel.<br />
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The final "hiccup" on Sunday was pretty cool. A former investigator called us, saying that he had went to the Chapel at Luton before but has since moved to somewhere near Manchester. Somehow he has gained a testimony of the restored church and wants to be baptised, and also have his cousin who he's living with be taught and baptised. In addition, he wanted his cousin in New York to be taught and baptised! The only problem? He didn't speak very good English and I'm terrible at understanding people on the phone. It may be small but I still feel that it was a miracle because all of a sudden I could understand him clearly on the phone and his situation. Eventually everything was settled!<br />
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What a week it has been! I think I'm actually improving as I never lost my patience at all during these hectic times. It would have been a completely different story if all this happened one year ago. I'm just glad I was able to do my best to help whoever needed help. I hope this week would be a little smoother! I don't want white hair so soon! :P<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span>22 Aug 2017</span></span><br />
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Many things have happened this week!<br />
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On Monday evening, we had a lesson with our Portuguese investigators. At the end of the lesson when we were about to go, they suddenly brought out food!<br />
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I noticed that Portuguese love to share food. It's actually part of their culture. My ward mission leader is also Portuguese and after he explained the history of Portugal it made a lot of sense. The oppression they they faced under a dictator in a way made them learn to take care of each other. They actually had a peaceful revolution in April 25 1974!<br />
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On Tuesday, we had to drop one of our investigators. He simply did not want to change his ways. It was a very pleasant last lesson where we agreed to disagree. I wish there were more of these than those of people ignoring us. Something I've learned from this person is the danger of replacing repentance with rationalising. He picked the commandments he liked and came up with excuses to not keep the others. I guess he's not quite prepared to change yet. We told him the church is always there, and that he has our phone number so he can always come back whenever he wants to make a change in his life. After we said goodbye, we watched him walk away... and lit a cigarette... :(<br />
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On Wednesday we had exchanges! I spent a whole day with Elder Yamada from Japan!<br />
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It was so fun to serve with him. He is full of faith and is always excited and positive about everything!<br />
He got along with one of our investigators who's is actually pretty similar in nature!<br />
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You can see a little bit of our drawings to explain the different groups of people that were led to America that are mentioned in the Book of Mormon. It's really so exciting to teach people who actually take the time to read!<br />
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At the end of the day, we were blessed with Costco Pizza!<br />
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The member who got it for us was truly inspired. She normally buys us 1 pizza which is more than enough. Somehow she decided to buy 2 when there were more missionaries because of exchanges! We didn't tell her there were more missionaries!<br />
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The day after our exchanges was interviews with President and Sister Stevens!<br />
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After looking at the photo, one of the missionaries commented that we're a super district instead of a zone. I found that to be rather true because we're quite few in number. However, we heard that there will be 32 missionaries coming in next transfer! Counting out the leaders in the mission, it probably means almost everyone will be training or follow-up training next transfer!<br />
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Here are some of the pictures I took on the train while on the way to interviews at St. Albans:<br />
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You know summer is ending when they start gathering in the hay into bales. I'm not looking forward to winter at all!!!<br />
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We had a miracle lesson after interviews as one of our investigators who dropped us last week decided to come back. To make it even better, his boss has allowed him to change his shifts so he could come to church for the first time this week!<br />
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On Friday, we had a lesson with another one of our investigators. After listening to his life story, it is difficult to not believe that God has led him to the church. He has been coming to church since February. He is waiting for the right time to be baptised... we're working on it!<br />
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After the lesson, we had to go to from the chapel to a member's home to do some service. There's another miracle there. As we were waiting at the bus stop, it began to drizzle. As soon as started to rain, a member stopped in front of us and told us to get in. We were saved by that ride! We were completely unprepared for the rain. It was totally sunny that day, and because of that:<br />
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My most spiritual experience in the week was on Sunday once again. This is actually related to last week when we learned of a member of the ward who had a strong testimony of the gospel and lived all of the commandments which she knew except one, which was coming to church. What has prevented her is the severe social anxiety she has and it's the worst I've ever seen. We were given permission by bishop to administer the sacrament. She had not partook of it for almost 2 years and broke down in tears when we offered it. We did so, shared a spiritual thought and gave her a blessing. This week, when we went to visit her again, she was completely different. No longer depressed, but bright and full of hope. It was as if there was a glow in her countenance.<br />
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This experience reminded me of one of the people I taught a while back. During that time, I saw a gradual change in her which was amazing. This time, I saw an almost immediate change. Partaking of the sacrament renews the covenants that we made at baptism. It is as if we're being baptised again. This experience made it very obvious for me.<br />
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Ok, the final news is that our trio is now disbanded. Elder Gato has been reassigned to the Joao Pessoa, Brazil mission. This is what happened on his last day in the England London Mission:<br />
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It has been a wonderful week! I cooked a lot more than usual, and taught Elder Birch along the way. I thought of it as an investment so that maybe one day he could cook for me! :)<br />
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The first thing I taught was pasta! We made a large batch which lasted us a few days.<br />
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We also made chicken curry from home:<br />
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It wasn't kept very long :P<br />
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We had a tiny district meeting this week, as the zone leaders were not able to join us. It was fun though!<br />
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We figured out how to take a picture from above!<br />
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We began exchanges right after district meeting. I was with Elder Stern for a day. He's from Alberta Canada. He actually knows the other missionaries from Canada that are serving in the same mission! In fact, they all competed against each other in basketball! One of them is my previous companion from my 5th transfer Elder Bourne!<br />
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We had a lesson with our friend who was baptised last Sunday. Instead of us teaching everything, we had him teach us the Plan of Salvation!<br />
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We're so happy for him. He was confirmed on Sunday! We've been teaching him how to use the gospel library app on his iPhone and he loves it. He tells us of the things that he's been reading. He started mentioning some deeper gospel principles and we eventually realised he had been reading Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage!<br />
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Whilst still on exchanges we also did some service for a member. The difficulties that come with old age have prevented him from working on his garden, so we helped him out:<br />
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By accident, I plucked out one of their plants thinking it was a weed. >.<<br />
It was an over grown low plant and so I thought it was a weed. I should have realised that because it was so easy to pluck out. There's a tendency for weeds to be difficult to get out and the plants that people actually want being fragile.<br />
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The district wanted something Singaporean/Malaysian so I made them Tau Yew Bak, or braised pork belly:<br />
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I did it in the slow cooker we have in the flat. It's so easy and effortless! I think Elder Yamada loved the dish the most haha.<br />
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Sunday was the best day of the week as usual. We actually had a miracle too! A young lady came to church on her own. She was actually the granddaughter of the member who passed away recently. After the funeral, she became curious why her Nan loved the church so much, so she came to find out and loved it! In Sunday School, the lesson was about the Word of Wisdom and she had actually quit smoking 2 days prior! We're excited to meet her again this coming week.<br />
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After church, we had lunch with some members and our recent convert:<br />
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The members had served in the mission office in the Scotland Ireland Mission about 5 years ago. They told us many interesting stories. They remembered many of the names of the missionaries and their quirks. The things we do and the way we act can really leave a lasting impression on others!<br />
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This past week, Elder Birch and I have tried to learn more about the lives of the people we meet. It was incredible. It not only helped us to get to know them, but also know how the gospel can change their lives. Many of them become much more receptive. One such was a lady we met in town. When we talked about church and a belief in God, she had some things to say and wanted to walk away. We then asked about her family and her a bit of her life. A whole new world opened up. We were invited to visit her and her family at her home a few days later. When we arrived at the door, we hear one of the children say "Mom, the bible bashers are here!". We could tell they weren't very keen to have us over, but we did what we thought to be right.<br />
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Later on the mom told us that her partner and children actually enjoyed our visit, which is unusual because her partner doesn't let religious people in. They actually look forward to us coming again! I am pretty sure they felt the Spirit!<br />
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Well that's all for the week! Here's something random I caught on camera at the chapel:<br />
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Elder Chong<br />
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It seems to be getting slightly colder right now. The spiders probably feel it and are trying to get indoors:<br />
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The spiders here are way bigger than those at home. I sometimes worry they'll crawl into my mouth when I sleep! The place I've found to have the most spiders was in Cambridge when I was there a year ago. There were spiders everywhere! I almost always walked into spider webs every day.<br />
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Apart from the cold that reminds us that summer is ending, the hay fever is also a good reminder. Poor Elder Birch had to deal with that. We agreed that falling sick as a missionary is the worst thing ever. It's always a mental battle thinking whether you're really ill or being lazy.<br />
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This past week has been very dramatic. I don't even know how to put it in words. I've been reminded this week how much of an effect words can have. We somehow saw a lot of misunderstandings and disagreements happening in front of us. Many times it was because of differences in language and culture. Apparently it has been a concern in church and there was a video series made titled 'Unity in Diversity'. It was mentioned the September Ensign magazine titled "We Can Do Better: Welcoming Others into the Fold"<br />
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Having different companions from many different parts of the world, I've learned how much of a challenge it can be. The easiest way I've found to overcome it so far is by seeking to understand more than to be understood.<br />
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Something else that's been on my mind this week is the appreciation for the technology we have right now.<br />
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Travelling is definitely so much easier than before. As much as the busses here are rarely on time, at least they're still there.<br />
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I don't waste time getting lost with google maps on my tablet.<br />
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Communicating with others is also very convenient! We had a short meeting as a zone via skype.</b></span></div>
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I would describe the facial expressions as "in a meeting".<br />
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There are of course dangers and distractions that come with the improper use of technology, as with any tools. (2 Nephi 2:11) There are restrictions as missionaries that prevent that, which I find is helping me to learn to balance the use of technology, and still keep my head in the real world. I was told that the virtual world tends to be way more fast paced and exciting than the real world, which leads to many becoming disinterested in the real things that are going on. For others, it is like a way of escaping the problems in reality. I'm definitely not perfect in using technology wisely, but I've been learning.<br />
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Comparing now and before, I'm learning to enjoy social interactions...<br />
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I finally got the chance to take Elder Birch up the hill to see the valley of Luton.<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">12 Sep 2017</span><br />
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Hi everyone,<br />
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Sorry but this email is going to be really short!<br />
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Elder Birch and I thought of ways to include part member families, less actives and some investigators. We realised the common interest was sports. So we tried it out last Monday:<br />
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It went pretty well for a start, but we're thinking we should change it to another day as Monday is for family home evening.<br />
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The highlight of my week was being able to go to London for a day to attend a meeting!<br />
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I felt right at home along Exhibition Road and at the Hyde Park Chapel.<br />
During lunch break, I got to meet some special people!<br />
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It is always a joy to reunite with friends I've taught, and to see that they're doing well!<br />
I also got to reunite with a majority of those from my MTC district!<br />
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They were amazing at the MTC, and are even more so now!<br />
Here's the rest of the missionaries!<br />
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That's my sling bag in the picture. Oops!<br />
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I've learned a lot from the meeting. It helped me to understand why we do certain things in the mission and how I can better use those things to help other missionaries.<br />
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The theme for me this week is service. I've learned a lot better how I can serve other missionaries. It's such a strange thing, the more I serve others, the happier I become.<br />
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Here's a little update from the kitchen:<br />
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We made rice porridge with pork meatballs! It was nice to have it for dinner during the cold rainy nights. That pot fed us quite a lot! Our purpose for making it though, was to share some with an adult member who had his tonsils taken out. It was difficult for him to eat anything after the surgery and was becoming malnourished, so I decided to share what helped me when I had all 4 wisdom teeth taken out at one go. He liked it so much he asked for the recipe! It's great that he liked it, because I don't have a recipe haha!<br />
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Every Sunday after church, we go out with our ward mission leader visiting the sick and afflicted. We've had many spiritual experiences doing so, and have seen many lives being uplifted. I never knew just how much a visit can mean to someone. Here's one of the members we visited:<br />
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It was special this week because it was her 80th birthday! She had invited us to her birthday party at the care home. She said it would be on Sunday so we thought it would be just nice since we visit her on Sunday anyway. It turned out it was on Saturday! She's does get confused a lot! But she was kind enough to save us some cake!<br />
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General Conference is coming so soon! I just thought of how incredibly sharp the Prophet and Apostles are for their age. That is truly a blessing from God. Speaking of which, Elder Holland will be visiting our mission tomorrow. We're so excited about that! Will share more next week!<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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Hi everyone!<br />
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It was a fantastic last week of the transfer! Elder Holland visited us on Tuesday. The Hyde Park Chapel was under renovation works so we used a lecture hall at Imperial College. Before the meeting began, we had to opportunity to shake his hand. During that time, I was playing prelude music on a keyboard. At the end of it, he came up to me to give me yet another handshake for playing the keyboard! He said "You get double" and "Good thing your mother made you practice!" He's so funny, but that last statement he made is so true. I wanted to give up playing the piano after the first few lessons when I was 7, but mom kind of forced me to continue. When I was about 14 and it got a little more difficult, I wanted to give up again, and mom revealed to me that all she wanted was for us children to be able to play hymns at church. So I did work hard to be able to do just that, but by the time I was able to play all the hymns, I was also able to play many of the songs I liked and ended up loving to play the piano!<br />
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Elder Holland spoke of the calling we have as missionaries. How we are like mini apostles. He said they cannot fulfil their calling without us. It is quite impossible for just 12 men to preach the gospel to the whole world! He said they see us the same way we see our investigators. When we leave an area, we hope that the people that we have taught continue to stay active. When we return home from our mission, the apostles hope that we stay active! He told us that we must never stop studying the Book of Mormon. In all his 29 official years as a general authority, and many unofficial years before that, he never once had to discipline any member that had been faithfully studying the Book of Mormon.<br />
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He then went on to give an amazing lecture on the Book of Mormon and also bore powerful testimony. In his candid way of saying things, he said if we were ever in the sound of his voice at the end of his life, the last thing he would say is that it is all true. We closed the meeting with hymn 131 specifically chosen by him.<br />
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It has been such a wonderful blessing to be visited by 2 apostles in such a short period of time. The one thing in common I realised is their emphasis on keeping our testimonies strong through studying the Book of Mormon.<br />
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Right after the meeting, we went out to take a picture as a mission. I don't have it yet, but this is the aftermath:</b></span></div>
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I got to meet past companions:</b></span></div>
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It didn't feel right not to take one with my current companion!</b></span></div>
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Many of my past companions are not around any more. It felt strange not seeing them around. I guess that's normal having served for slightly over a year now.<br />
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There were many spiritual experiences this past week apart from the visit from Elder Holland. The ones I enjoy most are those in the lessons with people we taught. One of my favourite moments are those when we find answers to questions from the Book of Mormon. It is so powerful.<br />
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For our last district lunch, we had fish and chips!<br />
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At first I was the only one who wanted it (I have been craving it for a long time), but somehow they all changed their minds and got it too. It was good!<br />
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In every transfer with each companion, there would always be something that someone says that would be stuck in our heads for a loooong time. For this transfer, it is "3 for 2 pounds strawberries!" In town centre where we talk to many people, there is a fruit stand and the fruit seller constantly repeats this phrase in a very unique way. His repetition eventually got to us and we decided to buy some!<br />
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It was 3 of those punnets for 2 pounds! So cheap! Basically they were clearing off the last of the strawberries! We enjoyed it so much. Strawberries are a special fruit to me. They represent mom's love for me. Strawberries aren't cheap back home, but mom would always look out for a discount and buy them when they're on sale. On evenings where we would stay up talking, we would make strawberry smoothies or slice them into heart shapes and eat them with vanilla ice cream... while the others are sleeping so they won't be jealous :)<br />
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It's too bad there are no more strawberries on sale, because it's the end of summer! I'm getting transferred to a new area in a new season. It's going to be great!<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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To best word to sum up the past week is 'turmoil'. It seems that whenever I start getting comfortable and settled with the place I'm at and the things I need to do, something will come and I have to figure it out again!<br />
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So what hit me last week was first, knowing that after Stake Conference back home, the boundaries for the wards have been redrawn and I'll be going home to a new ward. It'll be strange but it'll probably just feel like another transfer when I go home, only I won't be getting transferred out any time soon!<br />
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The other big news that came was that I had to move out of Luton to Canterbury, and I'll be taking a new missionary with me. Which means I'll be going to a new area without a missionary already there to help me figure out the area! It's scary but exciting too!<br />
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Canterbury would be my 5th area. It's always been sad leaving. I've never felt finished, whenever I had to leave an area. There's always so much more that I want to accomplish but I guess the Lord has other plans.<br />
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The last thing we did as a district at Luton on P-day was to go bowling!<br />
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I was so rusty I couldn't even get above 100. I'd say I did pretty well without my glasses though!<br />
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During moves on Wednesday, I met some special guests!!!<br />
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One of my previous companions and his brother were visiting from Germany! It really made my day meeting them!<br />
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I had to go to Hyde Park Chapel to wait for the new missionaries to arrive. This was one of the largest groups ever! I think it was 32 new missionaries coming in. That's the largest President and Sister Stevens have ever received. It was so huge that the Preston MTC (missionary training centre) could not accommodate all of them, so the 17 were trained at Provo MTC and 15 were trained at Preston MTC.<br />
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At our meeting at Hyde Park Chapel, there came a point where all of us trainers stood in front of the new missionaries and President Stevens would announce who would be paired with who. It felt so strange standing in front and being picked out. Slowly the group of us became smaller and smaller... and I couldn't believe that fact that I was the last one standing!!! That's when I really hoped the phrase 'saving the best for last' applied!<br />
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My new companion is Elder Miller from Salt Lake City, Utah! That's so cool!<br />
We headed off to our new area right away!<br />
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The 2 of us somehow moved 6 suitcases from London to Canterbury during peak hour. At the end, I told Elder Miller "Never again!... if I could avoid it." We both noticed the stark difference of the people at London as we were travelling compared to those when we arrived at Canterbury. In short, the people at Canterbury are really nice and helpful! The moment we got off the train station, about 5 people told us where the lift was so we didn't have to climb the stairs.<br />
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Canterbury is pretty interesting. I was told Canterbury to the Church of England is like Salt Lake City to the LDS Church. I don't really know my way around much but will figure it out soon!<br />
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I'm out of time but here are many firsts of Elder Miller on the mission field!<br />
First District Meeting:<br />
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First dinner appointment with our Ward Mission Leader:<br />
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First lesson:</b></span></div>
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First service project:</b></span></div>
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Of course it had to be something Asian such as sweet and sour chicken! ;)<br />
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Hi everyone!<br />
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All I was looking forward to last week was General Conference it was soooo amazing! I'll talk a little bit more about it later.<br />
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We're pretty much settled in already and we did much finding and exploring at the same time this past week. We tried finding better routes to get to certain places and it didn't always work so well...</b></span></div>
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Things aren't always as they seem on the map!<br />
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We are also trying very hard to work with the members here. We tried stopping by some of them. One of them has a very unique interest...<br />
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Don't worry, it's an airsoft gun. i.e. it shoots little plastic bullets. However, one wouldn't want to be shot in close range by the sniper rifle I was holding. The member actually goes on skirmishes with a team!<br />
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Elder Miller also looked through the scope and made a remark "if only we had scopes that helped pick out people who are prepared to receive the gospel." I'm sure every missionary felt that way at some point or another! :)<br />
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Here's our district picture for the week:<br />
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The theme was eternity :P</b></span></div>
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As far as stuff from the kitchen, this is the best thing we had last week:<br />
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Fried rice! I haven't had a companion who hasn't liked it... yet. Haha we'll see! I could mess up one day.<br />
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We also had dinner as a ward mission team before correlation:<br />
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Everyone's happier in a meeting after having a meal. That's a fact. It's very different from ward councils held right after church!<br />
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Ok, last of the food pictures:<br />
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The priesthood brethren of the ward have a tradition of having breakfast together before watching the re-broadcast of the general priesthood session on Sunday morning. It was so good!<br />
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Alright, on to spiritual food!<br />
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I don't think I've ever enjoyed conference as much as I did this time. Many of my questions and concerns were answered and addressed. I haven't watched the Sunday Afternoon session yet but thus far there has been a recurring theme of service, sacrifice, and keeping our testimonies strong by reading the Book of Mormon. I really loved the Sunday morning session because all my favourite hymns were sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. :)<br />
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I loved the way a few speakers taught about light and truth, using the solar system. At this point, I feel that I am enjoying much of this light. As a mission, we've been studying a chapter or 2 in the Book of Mormon each day, and highlighting references to Christ and doctrines and principles. As small and simple as it is, it is changing my life, even on a mission. The effort to pick out those things alone has helped me gain so much knowledge and truth about the Savior. As promised by one of the speakers, the more we learn and study about the life of Christ, the more our faith and testimonies grow. I feel a greater desire to do good and forsake sin, and it becomes a virtual cycle! light is added line upon line, precept upon precept. Elder Miller and I watched some really good videos explaining light and truth right before conference. It's in gospel library-->videos-->Doctrine and Covenants Videos--> Light and Truth, Part 1 and Light and Truth, Part 2. Those videos made a lasting impression on me ever since I watched it 10 years ago in seminary.<br />
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As missionaries, we try really hard to help others receive more of this light. Unfortunately many are comfortable being in the shadow. But oh how amazing it is to see one slowly get out of the darkness! The only ones I've been able to help, were those who had humility, that were willing to try and experiment upon the words of God. (Alma 32)<br />
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I've come out of conference all in all, having increased hope, and a greater desire to be a better person. I pray and hope that everyone will feel the same! These are challenging and dark days, but truth will prevail! Hang in there!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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Hi everyone,<br />
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This email is going to be short, but It's been a busy week!<br />
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On P-day, we kind of wondered around town. It's really nice. There's just old buildings everywhere, that it's kind of taken for granted. Here's the Westgate tower:</b></span></div>
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It was built in 1380!</b></span></div>
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We met up with some other missionaries too!<br />
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There's one street that is much like Diagon Alley from Harry Potter. I'll try and take a picture next time!<br />
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On Tuesday we had exchanges with the zone leaders at Ashford.<br />
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It was a good day of talking to people on the streets. The people seemed to have good moods that day, probably because it was sunny!<br />
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At the end of the day, we had dinner with their ward mission leader, a recent convert and the sister missionaries in the ward. Talk about a missionary party!<br />
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At the end of exchanges. We always go through an evaluation. It's really helpful to stop and think what areas we can improve on. There's always something to work on!<br />
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On Thursday we had zone conference!<br />
It was at Hyde Park Chapel and took a long time to get there! We had to pack breakfast just to be safe:<br />
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It was a strange combination of hard boiled eggs, plain bread and fruits!<br />
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Here's a picture at zone conference itself:<br />
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I loved the training that was given. They always seem to be exactly what we need!<br />
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We've been trying hard to work with members in our area. So far it's been going well!<br />
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There's always a special spirit in members' homes. The most ideal for us missionaries is teaching in the homes of members. It's not easy to coordinate but it's always well worth it!<br />
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Sometimes it's not easy to get to their homes too...<br />
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But it's all fun! We enjoy every moment we can. When things get tough, we make the best out of it and move on.<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
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<b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">17 Oct 2017</span></b></div>
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Hi Everyone,<br />
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Last week was great! We went to do some sightseeing on P-day.<br />
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Here's one of the random ancient things scattered around Canterbury. It was near the train station:</b></span></div>
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There's now a small park behind those walls.<br />
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We took a train down south to see the White Cliffs of Dover!<br />
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It was pretty dangerous because of the strong wind. At one point there was a really strong gust of wind that cause a few of us to nearly fall down. Good thing we weren't standing by the cliffs at that time!<br />
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It was really refreshing to see the sea after such a long time. We were pretty much at the south most part of the mission boundaries and could even see France!<br />
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One of the highlights of the week was the 3 week meeting at London for the new missionaries. I told Elder Miller it would be the last time his group would all get together unless an apostle comes visiting again.<br />
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The other highlight of the week was a special broadcast throughout Europe where Elder M. Russell Ballard and members of the Area Presidency spoke to us. It was so good! One of the key things shared that I remember was gaining a firm testimony through studying the Book of Mormon, making the Sabbath Day a delight and how miracles have not ceased.<br />
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Elder Ballard shared his experience when he was assigned to bring relief to Ethiopia in 1984. During that time many people were dying because of a great famine there. The church had gathered donations and Elder Ballard was sent with someone else for all the official stuff. Elder Ballard saw that they had brought physical relief through the donations but wished in his heart that the gospel could be brought to the people of the country. He found out that there was a member in the country and somehow managed to find him. The 3 of them had sacrament together the next Sunday in that member's home. They had a short testimony meeting during which Elder Ballard felt prompted to pronounce a blessing upon the land. He did so. That night, he prayed at 1am, pleading to God to bring forth rain. At 3am, there were thunderclaps heard. During the rest of the time he was there, it rained every day! He reminded us that miracles have not ceased today! He told us "Miracles come when we are on our knees and pray to know the mind and do the will of God."<br />
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There was one thing that Elder Ballard mentioned many times throughout his talk, was to find quiet time to sit down and reflect on our lives, reassess if our priorities are right and if the things that are dominating our energy lead us to salvation. Life today is so fast paced and busy, setting aside time to do that is so crucial! I hope everyone can make the time to do that.<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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Hi Everyone,<br />
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This transfer is really short! It's a 5 week transfer. Also, transfers are now on Tuesdays so our P-days during transfer week are still on Monday.<br />
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We explored town a little more last P-day. We went up the Westgate Towers!<br />
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That's the stuff they had inside. We also went atop which had a really nice view fo the Cathedral and town!<br />
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So there used to be jail cells in the tower...<br />
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But some have escaped before:</b></span></div>
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This is how high it is:</b></span></div>
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As mentioned, someone jumped off and landed in a hay cart which helped him survive. I think that idea was used in a computer game called "Assassin's Creed"<br />
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If you noticed, we were wearing short sleeves that day. It was abnormally warm! We were told it was due to pollution from a storm that hit a nearby country, and fires in another country, and somehow the wind brought it all here. We had red sun in the evening:<br />
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The rest of the days were all pretty different. The worst was on Saturday where it was super windy and rain on and off throughout the day. We did catch a rainbow though:<br />
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There were many miracles with talking to people on the streets the past week. One of them even came to church! We've also been working with less actives and we're beginning to see some fruit from our labours. A member came back for the first time in over 20 years! She may not have noticed it, but I certainly saw a small change in her countenance at the end of church. We're really hoping to see things move forward this next transfer! Unfortunately, Elder Miller will be moving out and I'll be receiving a new companion. 5 Weeks is a really short time but I've really enjoyed it!<br />
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I'm out of time right now, but have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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P.S. We were walking home one night and there were fire works!<br />
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The Cathedral was massive! I can't put all the photos here. I felt like I was visiting Hogwarts! That's one of the fantasy worlds I'd like to live in!<br />
We were quite lucky as during the time of our visit, there was a choir practicing along with an organ. It was really nice.<br />
A lady inside the Cathedral explained to us that the Cathedral, as well as all the old churches around Kent were built by Catholics, but are now owned by the Anglican Church. She even went on to describe how they took over... which I would not like to describe here.<br />
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We also had Family Home Evening with the Young Single Adults in the ward. All of them who attended were recent converts! They're amazing people!<br />
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I took charge of the games and decided to play werewolf (something like mafia but better). It was so fun!!! It reminded me of the crazy rounds I had playing that with family.<br />
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So with transfers, this is our previous district...<br />
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...and here's our new district with the zone leaders!<br />
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We have Sister Ikavesa from Tonga! And my new companion Elder Örtegren from Denmark!<br />
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Here's one my favourite photos with Elder Örtegren so far:<br />
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Bringing spiritual healing to all in Canterbury! :P<br />
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What's great about Elder Örtegren? Everything! He's so brilliant and talented! He plays the piano by ear which is insane to me. He's my personal jukebox now heheh. One of the best things is well, is that he also cooks! Healthy too!<br />
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My winter cravings are coming back. I really wanted to have soupy instant noodles!<br />
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We received a referral during the week and set out on what I'd like to call a side quest. The couple lived in our perspective, in the middle of nowhere!<br />
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It was nice to take a bus out of town and see the rest of our area though.<br />
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On a more spiritual note, we've had one of the best conversations I've ever had on the street last week. This person had a ton of questions and we somehow were able to answer all of them using the Book of Mormon, in a non-bashful way. He really liked the way we answered his questions, and agreed to meet up again, and he also came to church!<br />
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We've been focusing a lot as a district on being familiar with the Book of Mormon and using it to help the people we teach. All of us missionaries were asked to speak on Sunday, and I decided to speak about the Book of Mormon. I shared how I gained my testimony that it is true, and I'll share it here:<br />
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When I was about 15 years old, I was determined to read the Book of Mormon from the beginning till the end on my own. I was a pretty slow reader, and also had many distractions as a teenager. However, after about a year, I finally did it. (Yes, I did get through 2 Nephi.) </b></span></div>
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I came to the last chapter where Moroni was about to seal up the records, but before he did, he left a promise to all who would read the book. He said:<br />
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"2 And I seal up these records, after I have spoken a few words by way of exhortation unto you.<br />
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3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.<br />
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4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.<br />
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5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."<br />
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Growing up in the church, I had heard many people mention the miraculous answers they have received. I wanted some sort of special experience myself, and so after reading that last chapter, I got on my knees and prayed, as sincerely as I could. I did not feel anything spectacular or out of the ordinary. I tried waiting a little longer, but still didn't feel like I received an answer I was expecting.<br />
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Eventually I did receive an answer. I cannot remember how long it took. But I will never forget the distinct impression I received that I knew to be the answer. I probably continued on reading in doctrine and covenants, and came across a verse early on in section 6 which reads:<br />
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"D&C 6:23 Did I not speak peace to your mind concerning the matter? What greater witness can you have than from God?"<br />
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When I read this verse, I began to think back on how I felt as I was reading the Book of Mormon. Peace was the best word to describe it. At that moment, I realised what God was trying to tell me; that as I was reading the Book of Mormon, I already knew it was true. I did not need a greater witness.<br />
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I'm grateful to be able to receive answers to prayers. Knowing that the Book of Mormon is the word of God has helped me build my faith in Jesus Christ, and know that He is our Saviour and Redeemer. The coming forth of the book is in itself a prophesy fulfilled, and I know that we can always trust in the Lord no matter how dark life may seem to get at times. For everything that He says will be fulfilled, even the triumph of good over evil.<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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Ah, it was a rocky week, many ups and downs, but still fulfilling!<br />
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I find that the instant comfort I get as a missionary often comes from food haha. At our flat right now, the closest place to shop is LIDL. The fun thing about shopping there is every week, there will be 4 fresh foods and 4 meats that go really cheap. So Elder Örtegren and I would get those things and take up the challenge of making a meal out of it. Elder Örtegren is full of surprises. I just found out his mom is a chef and so he's picked up some pretty neat cooking skills. We bought some pork and minced beef last week that were on sale. He cooked the pork and here's what he made:<br />
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I'm blessed! :)</b></span></div>
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I cooked the minced beef and tried out lasagna for the first time!<br />
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It was...alright. Haha.</b></span></div>
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We got to have a meal with our ward mission leader:<br />
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We discovered a weighing scale at his place!!!<br />
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That was before the meal. After was much higher! ;)<br />
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Here's our district meeting picture for the week...<br />
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Here's the lowest point of the week:<br />
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We got caught in the rain :( All's good though! We haven't caught a cold!<br />
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It think the highlight for me was Sunday. I felt kind of exhausted from the week but really felt renewed after church. Elder Örtegren and I got to know one of the members much better. She basically shared her life story, which was full of challenges and many tragedies. However, as she faithfully kept going on, there were also many incredible miracles in her life. Those miracles and blessings only came as she stayed true to her faith and did her very best. It made me think of what if there were challenges in my life and I just gave up halfway through, I'd probably be losing out on blessings! That's my food for thought for the week.<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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<b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">15 Nov 2017</span></b></div>
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The past week has been filled with so much fun and excitement! My P-day is on Tuesday because we had interviews on Monday. Hence the later email.<br />
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We had an amazing zone conference last Tuesday!<br />
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I was quite surprised I actually knew a majority of the missionaries. It helps me not to feel so old in the mission haha. Sister Stevens was not able to join us this time. It felt so different!<br />
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Here's our zone on its own during a breakout session:<br />
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It was also nice to be with my buddies from the MTC!<br />
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The day after zone conference was my birthday! It was actually a pretty packed day, so we didn't do anything particularly special. However, I did get 2 birthday cakes! First was during ward coordination meeting:<br />
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When we went back to the flat in the evening, another member stopped by and gave another red velvet cake! So much sugar haha!<br />
I didn't have time to do a special dinner or anything, but I did have some serious craving for soup, so I just quickly made some:<br />
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Since Tuesday was zone conference, I was also able to receive some mail from the office! :)<br />
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The rest of the week went pretty good. We are beginning to see who in our teaching pool are actually interested and committed and are doing our best to help them.<br />
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On Saturday, we went to help out with some painting for a disabled person:<br />
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The project was started sometime in September before I got here but I'm glad to say we finally finished it! I got a lot of the green paint on my nails and it looked like nail polish haha.<br />
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In the evening, the ward mission team met up at the ward mission leader's home for English roast!<br />
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It honestly felt like a continuation of the birthday celebration from Tuesday! :)<br />
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Sunday was really busy. I had to play the organ in sacrament meeting, teach the law of chastity in gospel principles class during the second hour, and then teach Young Men in the 3rd hour. I also had to help out with choir practice for something coming up in December! I must say it felt really fulfilling to serve. As a missionary, there's really a lot of opportunities to receive, as well as to give. I've learnt that the greatest joy really comes when we give.<br />
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As I mentioned, we had interviews yesterday... and Sister Stevens was back!<br />
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As you can see, the Christmas spirit is already kicking in! We have been working hard as a zone and expecting great things to happen in December! We're excited for it!<br />
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One of the best things that happened last week was at the end of zone conference, when President Stevens announced that our mission will be going to the London Temple in December for zone conference! Such a blessing!<br />
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A few months ago, at the end of a zone conference, while President Stevens was giving his closing remarks, I remember wishing for a moment how I wish an Apostle would visit, and at that moment President Stevens announced that Elder Holland would visit. This time, I was actually wishing I could go to the temple, and President announced the plans for December to go to the temple! I just feel so blessed!<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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There were many things in the past week that just made me laugh. One of them was during a lesson. We were teaching about the restoration and our friend understood the pattern of apostasy and the starting of a new dispensation. Our conversation then went like this:<br />
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"So, we are in apostasy now yeah?"<br />
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"No, we have the priesthood and a living prophet today!"<br />
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"Really? Who? You?"<br />
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We laughed for a bit and then spoke about about Thomas S. Monson. It just hilarious being thought of as prophet. The reason he probably thought we're prophets is because of the priesthood blessing we gave him a day before that lesson. He came to the lesson looking extremely down and burdened. We felt prompted to give him a blessing after the lesson. He left that day looking so happy! He told us that right at the beginning of the lesson, he felt a surge of ideas come to him to help him with his problems. That's pretty amazing!<br />
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Apart from this friend, Elder Örtegren and I have also seen other people who felt really down when meeting with us, but leaving with more hope. One of them was a lady whom we met a week or so ago. She had a number of deaths in her family, and was not coping too well with it. She felt that meeting us was not by chance. We finally met her last week and taught the Plan of Salvation. She mentioned feeling very at peace after the lesson, like a warm blanket wrapped around her.<br />
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The last one was a man who comes from another country with a really strict religion. We met him on the streets last week and it was almost bashy but during the conversation we did figure out that he had many difficult things happen in his life and in his country, which has been causing him to doubt that God exists. We promised that we had answers to his doubts, which he agreed to meet us last weekend. The approach we had to take was rather different from normal because of his religious beliefs but he soon recognised that there were many similar beliefs. It led him to ask "so what is the difference?" We then testified of the Savior, and he asked us "how can I know?" to which we were able to introduce the Book of Mormon. He wants it in his language! He texted us a little while after we met him saying how comfortable he felt talking with us. I am pretty sure it's the Holy Ghost he felt when we testified of Jesus Christ.<br />
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It's really cool to see people have spiritual experiences without really recognising them, and it's really incredible when they begin to understand where it comes from!<br />
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Now for a little fun stuff starting from P-day, some missionaries from the zone came down to Canterbury!<br />
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We had some pretty good food. I shared this platter with 3 others:<br />
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It turned out really affordable and filling when splitting it. It's actually a challenge from the restaurant. One can eat that platter for free if it's finished alone in 20 minutes! I probably could have done it if I were 7 years younger haha.<br />
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We also had exchanges at Ashford last week! I was with Elder Nelson from Canada!<br />
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He is incredible! I learned so much from him!<br />
The next morning, we played football for exercise with members and their friends!<br />
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We were pretty lucky because the moment we finished, it rained the rest of the day!<br />
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Well, that's all for now. As the weather has been getting colder, the people have been as well. There's also fewer people on the streets right now. We're starting to shift more to knocking on doors which isn't my favorite, but I'm sure some good things will come out of it.<br />
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Here's a sign that helps us to know what kind of people we get to speak to on a particular street:<br />
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They are very nice people, just not very interested! :P<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Transfer 12 Week 5</span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><br />
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Sorry but this is going to be really short! There were internet problems...<br />
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We began sharing the "Light the World" initiative last week! It's the same as last year, where we invite everyone to do something to help or serve someone else every day starting 1 Dec till Christmas. Much like an advent calendar.We started sharing it right after our district meeting!<br />
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Something fun we've been doing during district meeting is scripture chase! I'm rather surprised how candy can make it so competitive! I'm am thrilled to know that the missionaries in the district are really good at scripture chase using the Book of Mormon.<br />
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The Christmas Spirit is really kicking in in town. The lights are all up and it's packed with people starting their Christmas shopping. Thanksgiving is not celebrated here, but Black Friday is a huge thing. It's so huge it's not only Black Friday, but Black Friday week! So the discounts go for a week!<br />
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What my Elder Örtegren and I had for Thanksgiving was a simple Singapore Laksa, made with whatever ingredients we have. It was exactly the same but it tasted really good! During dinner we watched a movie about pioneers. That's what I felt most grateful for this Thanksgiving, for pioneers both from the past and in modern times!<br />
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Something really nice during the week, was a dinner at the chapel. There's a member who's husband doesn't like missionaries. So she can't really have us over. So we have dinner at the chapel! We were talking about Christmas during dinner and I learned about the origins of Boxing Day. In the past in England, the rich used to box up left over food from Christmas Day and give it to the poor. But now with benefits and stuff, everyone can pretty much get their own food, so it has shifted to discounts on merchandise. I thought that was pretty interesting.<br />
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Anyway, have a great week!<br />
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Elder Chong<br />
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<b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">5 Dec 2017</span></b></div>
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It has been a very eventful week!<br />
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On P-day, we decided to go check out a forest! It was pretty cool with all the falling leaves!<br />
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I didn't expect much but there were actually some fun things to do, such as climbing this fallen tree:<br />
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As we went around, I felt the terrain was really good for capture the flag or air-soft gun skirmishes. Lo and behold, we found a nerf gun bullet! haha. I didn't take a picture of it though, so no evidence.<br />
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It reminded me of my jungle confidence course during officer cadet school training in Brunei where I had to build an A-frame and live in it for a few days. I don't think I could survive here though, it's too cold!<br />
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The last thing we wandered into was a herd of cows!<br />
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I'm sure some of you have watched this video of a guy playing a trombone and a herd of cows gathered round him. We tried doing that by making some sounds through clasped hands. Well, it didn't work. What actually attracted these young calves was our snacks! >.<<br />
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We had been notified by the office that we would be moving out of our flat on Friday. The flat we were staying in are for the senior couples in Canterbury. The new ones are coming in January and so we needed to give it up! Elder & Sister Rees from the office came down on Friday with the mission van:<br />
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We moved our stuff to the new flat first, and realised some readjustments had to be made...<br />
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There were 2 bedrooms and we had to disassemble and reassemble one of them so the 2 beds could be in the same room. Good thing it was an IKEA product, it wasn't too much of a hassle.<br />
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The coolest thing in our flat is the awesome mirror:<br />
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The lights around it switch on and off by a motion sensor. Makes us feel posh! :P<br />
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Elder and Sister Rees brought us out for lunch during the move!<br />
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So kind of them! I must say, it felt like a family outing for us! I didn't realise how much I actually miss that. After that we returned to the old flat to give it a good clean. No pictures necessary heheh. However, Sister Rees did thank us for keeping it clean, especially the toilets. I have standards! ;)<br />
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Spending time with senior missionaries is a real treat. The fact that they are out here shows how dedicated they are to living the gospel, and they carry with them so much wisdom too. Elder Rees shared something that really impacted us. With reference to challenges that he and Sister Rees have gone through, he told us they learned that "time does not heal hearts, it's the Atonement of Jesus Christ that does". He went on to elaborate how on the contrary, the ill feelings we have can worsen over time. It was a very timely piece of wisdom for Elder Örtegren and I because for some reason, many of the people we have been in contact with or are teaching recently had someone close to them pass away. For one of them, it's losing 3 people in the past 3 months. Thankfully for her heart is not hardened and bitter, and she is willing to find out where true peace comes from.<br />
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Being December now, we helped the ward set up a Nativity display outside the chapel:<br />
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The bishop also printed and laminated the daily suggestions for the Christmas initiative Light the World. We put it up on the fence:<br />
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It even has lights that automatically switch on at night! If you notice carefully, you can see that there are transparent acrylic walls. In previous years, someone stole baby Jesus! >.<<br />
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We had stake conference during the weekend! It was up at Gillingham and it was really difficult getting rides for our friends there but in the end we managed to pull it off! The stress was very similar to my days back in the military, coordinating transport and times for exercises. I felt a sense of accomplishment as everything worked out in the end.<br />
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As it's the Christmas season, stake conference here was really unique. The choir director attends Canterbury Ward and requested me to help accompany the choir on the piano. As such, my companion was dragged into singing in the choir. Because of transport, our ward mission leader and others got involved as well. In the end, the whole mission team in the ward were involved with stake choir! :P<br />
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They weren't 100% keen but they did have a lot of fun in the end! :)<br />
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For a rather small stake as it is, I was surprised how large the choir was, we didn't even have enough seats on the stand! It was very nice to have so much support. Our stake president absolutely loves music and he planned in so much music for the Sunday session. There was a musical number almost every 2 speakers. It was so nice! The meeting didn't feel that long too!<br />
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In the evening, we had dinner together as a mission team, being the last Sunday of the transfer:<br />
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Well, that's all the big stuff that happened during the week. I must say, Elder Örtegren's family have been really kind. His mom sent a package with a unique advent calendar, one for him and one for me!<br />
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It's like Christmas every day! The first thing I want to do every morning is open up one of the gifts! :P<br />
Elder Örtegren's uncle also gave him pizza money lol. We used it on the night of moving as we were too tired to cook and didn't have food anyway!<br />
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We were very grateful and happy to receive it. We ordered stuffed crust. It was heavenly! The delivery man really noticed our joy. He said we were the nicest people he has met all evening!<br />
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Got to go now, have a wonderful week!<br />
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Last week was a blast! First off, we finally got proper pots and pans for our flat as it uses an induction cooker, and we had no induction cooker. So we were eating sandwiches for almost all our meals until we found time and approval to get the proper pans. Here's our first cooked meal!<br />
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Our spinach was going bad, so Elder Örtegren was desperate to use it up as we could not keep it any longer. So we had a salad with spinach, stir fried mushrooms with spinach, and some pork chops with spinach as a garnish! :)<br />
The meal was prepared completely by Elder Örtegren. It was done real quick too! His mother is a chef so that's probably why. But he said when he helped out in the kitchen back home he was always told he did things too slow haha.<br />
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Here's our district picture for the week:<br />
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Our zone leader celebrated his 20th birthday! So we got him a cake! We had to go to a small shop to get a lighter for the candles. When I asked for one, the shopkeeper told me "sorry, we can only sell lighters to those 18 and older". Elder Örtegren and I laughed so hard! But yes, I had to show him my ID to proof I was way above 18. We learned that this shopkeeper went to Malaysia before and is also from Denmark! We didn't have time to speak to him more but we're definitely going back.<br />
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We had our ward Christmas party last Saturday and it was really fun! We were asked to do quite some stuff to help out..<br />
We helped out with setting up the tables. It looked great!<br />
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Here are Santa's true elves:</b></span></div>
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Before the party started, we went out as a mission team to invite our everyone in the neighbourhood to our Christmas Carol Concert this coming Sunday:<br />
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Our hands were freezing! We couldn't wear our gloves because it was difficult to separate the flyers.<br />
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Here are pictures from the party!<br />
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We had a special visitor too!</b></span></div>
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There wasn't a photo taking session, but the elves get special treatment! ;)<br />
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Here's the missionary crew:</b></span></div>
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We got our ward mission leader that cool jumper haha!<br />
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On a more spiritual note for the week, I taught chapter 42 in gospel principles last Sunday about the gathering of Israel. I had so much fun preparing and teaching the lesson. Probably for the first time in my life, I actually used the index from the Book of Mormon. I was amazed how prophecies of the gathering are found throughout the Book of Mormon as well as the Bible. The most interesting scripture I found was in 3 Nephi 21:1-7 where Christ gave the Nephites a sign that the work of gathering Israel would have commenced, and that is when their record will be made known to the Gentiles. In other words, when the Book of Mormon comes forth. I just found it exciting to realise that we are living in a time when the prophecy of the gathering of Israel is being fulfilled! It's hard work I must say!<br />
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That's all I have for now. As a bonus, it snowed last Sunday!<br />
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It was heavy everywhere but Canterbury, but oh well! Better than nothing!<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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Hi Everyone!<br />
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Last week was really good, even though it rained alot!<br />
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It rained the whole of P-day which made it really difficult shopping. Good thing we got this what we call a "granny trolley". After the move, we are now a little further from the best (cheapest) place to shop for groceries, hence we got the trolley to make the journey back from shopping less torturous. Our ward mission leader despises it and said he better not see us with that haha.<br />
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Elder Örtegren made a Danish dish which was really nice:<br />
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I can't remember what it's called. It is a rice porridge cooked in milk topped with cinnamon sugar and a knob of butter. It was really nice for a cold day!<br />
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We helped out with young men on Wednesday:<br />
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Well, I guess it's more accurate to say young man instead of men. We had a short spiritual thought and then played 2 games. The first is called D-I-E. It's like playing table tennis with a football on the floor, and if you mess up you get a letter. When you mess up 3 times and spell D-I-E then this happens:<br />
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Everyone gets a chance! I can't kick balls and never got a hit haha.<br />
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The second game we played was human hungry hippos!<br />
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It is actually really tiring! But is was really fun. I wish there were more youth here. I know for myself that it was easier living the gospel when there are more peers doing the same.<br />
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The highlight of the week was going to the London Temple! It is a Christmas gift from President and Sister Stevens as they had to seek permission since we have to leave our mission boundaries. It was a 2 hour+ journey by train. When we switched to the last train, we went into one of the carriages and saw this:<br />
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A carriage full of missionaries!</b></span></div>
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Here's the Canterbury Crew :)</b></span></div>
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There wasn't time to go around taking photos but here's one I quickly took:<br />
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I don't think I'll ever get to go the temple with so many missionaries ever again. It was special being in the celestial room filled with missionaries from all over the world. We had lunch and Christmas devotional after the session in the morning. The London South Mission office team kindly offered to prepare lunch for us!<br />
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It was really nice! I met an Elder from my MTC group too which was really cool!<br />
All in all it was a wonderful experience. I didn't manage to get the picture we took with a few zones at the temple, but we did take one on the way back as a zone at the train station:<br />
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The day felt really really short because of so much travelling. We were exhausted by the end of the day because we had to wake up at 4.45am! But it was totally worth it!<br />
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The last highlight at the end of the week was the Christmas Carol Concert. It was a stake event and we have been helping out with it the past few weeks.<br />
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It was a real success in the end! We were expecting 40 to 60 people but the chapel was filled and we had to open up the partition! We were glad, and exhausted too. Because although it is a stake activity. This was the crew that put it all together:<br />
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Between the 4 of us, we planned the whole program, did the powerpoint slides, flyers, decorations, lighting, music, refreshments etc. It was really fulfilling! Good thing it's only once a year though!</b></span></div>
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I'm really looking forward to Christmas! Have a wonderful time!</b></span></div>
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Merry Christmas!<br />
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Many picture to send home this week. I'll let the pictures do the talking.<br />
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Leading up to Christmas, there were a lot of Christmas related things appearing in the shops. One of my favourites are chestnuts!<br />
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They don't seem to be that popular here so they don't sell cooked ones on the street. So we had to roast them on our own. It turned out pretty good for a first time!</b></span></div>
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Bishop and his wife were having lots of family during Christmas Eve and Christmas so they did an early Christmas dinner for us!</b></span></div>
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It was a long table that wasn't even fully extended! After dinner, they taught a really simple but fun dinner table game called chase the ace! It can include many people and it's really easy for children to play too so I'll definitely remember the game.</b></span></div>
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What also made it really fun to be there was their huge and friendly dog! <span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> </span></b></span></div>
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There were some wild things in the sky as we were finding this week. There were these mass of birds that kept flying around in the sky over us. We kept walking away from them but they kept hovering above us up to a certain distance.</b></span></div>
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Just looking at them gave me goosebumps. I told Elder Örtegren it was a good thing they didn't drop their bombs all at once above us. That would have been a nasty albeit memorable experience heheh.</b></span></div>
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In our finding adventures, we also found a Christmasy street!</b></span></div>
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Another special thing leading up to Christmas was our ward mission leader's birthday! We decided to cook up a meal for him and also invite others.</b></span></div>
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Elder Örtegren made some really nice roast beef. I made a mushroom gravy to go with it. It was so nice that even though some of them didn't really like mushrooms they still had lots of gravy with mushrooms! What was also nice about this meal was that we were able to accomplish the Light the World challenge for the day. There were many that we couldn't do because it involved family. But the one for that day was to feed the hungry. That was easy!</b></span></div>
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We also had exchanges with the Elder Camara and Elder Satterthwaite at Ashford during the week. I spent the day with Elder Satterthwaite and we had a great time and some really cool miracles. One of the persons we found invited us to his place for a lesson. It turned out to be a huge place underground!</b></span></div>
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We were going to spend Christmas Day with our ward mission leader. We wanted to do some service by helping to clean up and prepare his home! This is before:</b></span></div>
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It felt really good! We did some serious deep cleaning which included the carpets.</b></span></div>
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Christmas Eve was really nice and simple. Church was only an hour, and the primary children did a nativity presentation. The only problem, the pianist was ill and couldn't come! So I got called in last minute to help out. It turned out really well! We continued the day proselyting until 4pm when we were supposed to stop. I wasn't sure how it would turn out being Christmas Eve, but it turned out pretty good! The last person we stopped was most interesting. He has a Christian background but had some doubts. As our conversation went on, just about everything he agreed on and disagreed on in Christianity is what we had to share! We'll be seeing him again on Wednesday and he wants his daughter to come along too!</b></span></div>
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Our Christmas eve dinner was simple but absolutely delicious. It was chicken and rice! </b></span></div>
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Elder Örtegren's family sent a delicious sauce that I can't even pronounce but it went really well with the rice and chicken! </b></span></div>
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We didn't feel bad having a simple meal for Christmas Eve, because we knew the next day would be not only a feast but double feast!</b></span></div>
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We had brunch and Christmas Dinner together as a ward mission team!</b></span></div>
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Because of the lack of interest in cars, I've never watched Cars 1 or 2. I must say part 3 was really nice though! It was a lot deeper and meaningful than I expected.</b></span></div>
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I just want to say thank you to everyone who sent packages and cards! It was such a joy to open them all. Elder Örtegren and I will enjoy lots of good food in the coming weeks, and I'll never have to buy candy for the rest of 2018 :P</b></span></div>
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There hasn't been much happening. Unfortunately Elder Örtegren fell ill on Boxing Day and hasn't recovered since. We've been really blessed though. Many times when we needed something e.g. honey and lemon when his throat got really really bad, members would text us asking if we needed anything! Elder Örtegren has been steadily recovering, and we hope to be able to get out this week. We've been calling people on our phone, and even managed to have a short lesson on the phone. It's still not as great as seeing people in person though.<br />
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New Year's Eve felt very quiet and normal. We just slept right through. There wasn't too much noise at midnight as we have somewhat soundproof windows.<br />
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I've finally been able to get a hold of a picture from the temple trip. This is the only photo I have for the week:<br />
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I guess I've had much time to reflect on things I want to do differently in 2018. It was interesting to plan because half the year would be as a missionary and the other half back to normal life, hence different goals to set. Hopefully I can achieve them and those that I've not achieved in 2017!</b></span></div>
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I taught the final gospel principles lesson of 2017 and had to squeeze in the last 4 chapters into one lesson. It was challenging but fun. I learned a lot about the things to come in the second coming and beyond. It's really exciting to look forward to those times. For now though, it's much work to do to prepare!</b></span></div>
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Elder Örtegren and I are back in action again! Yay! And then it pretty much rains almost every day and with strong wind too... :( however on Boxing Day, I got a really good Jumbrella (jumbo umbrella) from NEXT at a really cheap price and it's keeping us and people we stop to talk to nice and dry. I don't have many photos this week, as it's been a lot of normal missionary work.<br />
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One day we went to the chapel and were shocked to find this:<br />
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We panicked and called Bishop immediately to report that someone had broken the plastic covering of the nativity and stolen baby Jesus! :( This has happened in the past before and hence they started drilling in plastic covers for the set. We were shocked that someone had the guts to break it this time! Bishop instructed us to take in the rest of the statues just in case. We did so and brought them in to the closest room to the entrance, only to find baby Jesus inside! The sisters had brought it in! So it seems that it was actually he wind that had destroyed the plastic! That's how strong the wind has been here! We immediately called bishop who was so relieved! That's our little story of making judgements too soon!</b></span></div>
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On Saturday, we realised the chapel was in a mess, and thought maybe the members assigned to clean the chapel this week weren't able to do it. We check the rota on the notice board and realised it was actually our turn! >.< so we cleaned it really good and even took down the Christmas decorations:</b></span></div>
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We cleaned it so good and tidied it up really well, that a member came up to ask if we had cleaned the chapel. It was really noticeably much better! But after Sunday it's pretty much back to what it used to be haha. Elder Örtegren and I thought how frustrating it must be to be a cleaner, because we were exhausted after cleaning the chapel and making it really nice, and very quickly our "work" gets ruined. It made us really appreciate cleaners, and also be more careful never to leave a mess wherever we go.</b></span></div>
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This week we taught someone really interesting. She said she became a Christian 3 years ago, but before that she was a witch in Malaysia! We were so shocked and curious that we asked what she did. Apparently she has killed people before... then she clarified it was spiritually. (Whew!) She does have a very extreme belief in Christianity I would say, and she's really sceptical about the Book of Mormon, but she's beginning to trust us, and is even willing to live the word of wisdom! What's really cool is that the sisters are teaching someone who's preparing for baptism, and both of them are really good friends. So strange that we found them separately. We have high hopes for them!</b></span></div>
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A brief note on the passing of President Monson. It was quite a shock to me even though we knew his health wasn't all too good. I'm really grateful for his example. I've learned that prophets are types of the Saviour, and the life of President Monson has really been just that, especially in his service and ministering to people. Looks like we'll be having 2 new apostles being called soon. Looking forward to see who they are! </b></span></div>
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The past week has been so good! On P-day the Elders and Sister from Ashford came down for some volleyball. It was really good because the teams were pretty balanced. I was terrible at the start but got the hang of it by the end of the game.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The past week was full of extremes. We met an extreme atheist on the street who did proclaimed that he did a PhD on Jesus Christ and the Bible and concluded that it is all a story and God does not exist. He ended the conversation by saying: "I'm too old for you to win!".</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Another time we met an extreme agnostic. He studies philosophy, religion and ethics. There was not a single question where he could answer a yes or no, even non-religious questions! Every answer was almost an essay/speech of how it could be a yes and could be a no, and he could never know. We very quickly realised that we could stand or sit and talk all day and get to nowhere.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Finally, we met an extreme believer through online proselyting. It just so happens that she is a really good friend of someone the sisters are teaching who is preparing for baptism. You know how sometimes when we speak, we may use certain word's too many times such as "like". For this person, the word was Jesus! She has such a strong desire to follow Jesus Christ, however, some of her beliefs then to be extreme and as she explained it seems to be misinterpretation of scriptures in the Bible. She's skeptical about the Book of Mormon but is willing to learn more so we'll see how that goes!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>To end off, we had an extreme week of blessings! We've found so many people to teach and prepare for baptism, and also got so many people to church. It must be because of the mission-wide fast we had last Sunday. There have always been great blessings that come from that.</b></span></div>
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<span>So it's a new start in a new area! Norwich is really huge! There's a pretty big university here as well with many Chinese students. We're teaching one right now. There are many times where I get to know the people we teach a lot more, and discover what amazing things they did in the past, and what their dreams for the future are. We really want them to succeed! </span><br />
<span><br /></span> <span>I'm glad to be able to come to Norwich. It's my 6th area in a 6th zone, the mission currently has 9 zones so I'm really going through a mission tour! :)</span><br />
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I'm going to miss him for all his strengths as a missionary, as well as being such a good cook!</b></span></div>
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My new companion is Elder de Sousa from Portugal: </b></span></div>
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He's amazing! He's one of the few companions I have that is a convert!</b></span></div>
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The week has been full of rain, wind, some hail and snow. Here's what the hail looked like: </b></span></div>
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It was tiny pellets of ice falling from the sky! The Lord has been merciful though, when we went out talking to people as a part of the district, all the bad weather stopped for an hour. It was raining until right before we started, and it hailed ice when we finished. My jumbrella has been particularly useful! </b></span></div>
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We accomplished our goals, so the reward is ice cream! :)</b></span></div>
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There have been a few recipes that I've done so much that I'm able to produce them pretty quickly, Using that I was able to prepare a lot of food during dinner time, and surprise the district with a quick district lunch after district meeting: </b></span></div>
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It really boosted our unity and morale, despite the weather haha.<br />
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Here's what the weather mostly looked like in the past week:<br />
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This was taken at the chapel. It's just about the exact same design as the one in Northampton, where I went quite a few times for zone conferences. It was strange going to the chapel and already knowing where everything is.<br />
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I had an interesting encounter with some members in the past week. It was with a convert of almost 2 years who came to the chapel (which is the stake centre) to receive her patriarchal blessing. Before she was baptised, she had a really terrible partner and asked her sister in Utah for help. Her sister told her to invite missionaries over. She did so and after a blessing on the home, a blessing for herself, and also making changes in her life, she's now in a much better place than she thought she would ever be at! And now, about to get a glimpse of the divine potential she has, as she receives her patriarchal blessing.<br />
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As she's from a different ward, she had to get a ride down here. The member who gave her a lift is 82 years old. He has travelled many places in the past. One of them was in Cyprus. He was a branch president there at one point. One Sunday, a mother went into the church building with her baby of a couple months old, and soon enough the mother was baptised. This member who was the branch president could remember holding the baby in his arms every week. Fast forward to today, the baby is now a missionary in this very mission!<br />
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It just reminded me of how the church makes the world feel so small. As well, how sharing the gospel with our loved ones can really bless their lives. We may never know who's prepared and who isn't, but when one accepts the gospel their lives are changed forever. I always share with other missionaries that feel hesitant to extend invitations or share the gospel, that the most one can do is say no--which we take as not yet! :P<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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It has been a pretty good week. Lots of travelling around involved. Norwich is about the size of my first area in Cambridge, which is HUGE. Norwich is at the centre and there are many surrounding villages. The difference though, is that I do not have a car. We received a referral who just so happens to live at one of the furthest villages. It was so far that we almost thought it wasn't even in our boundaries! It was tricky planning to get there as we had to change buses, but what was more difficult was planning the journey back, because the bus services ended early. After making sure we could get back to Norwich, we headed off!</b></span></div>
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This is where we transferred buses, it felt like we were in the middle of nowhere. At some point, I was hoping the cat bus from Totoro would come.<br />
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We eventually met our new friend! He is from Moldova and seems to know the restoration of the gospel already! He is so cool! We just can't figure out how he can come to church because there are no buses on Sundays.<br />
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The ticket was 5 pounds, and I only had a 20 pound note. Never have I got so many coins as change! I'll be shamelessly using them to pay for my groceries and food. Sometimes it annoys the cashiers who have to count so many coins, but oh well!<br />
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We had zone conference last week too!<br />
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That's Ipswich and Norwich zone together.<br />
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and this is Norwich zone!<br />
It was strange to be back in the chapel that I attended my first zone conference 18 months ago:<br />
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and that's 18 months later! Elder Sharp is from my group! :) He has obviously lost his tan, there's just not a lot of sunlight here!<br />
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Elder de Sousa and I have been enjoying our time in the kitchen during dinners. He said he can't really cook so I have been instructing him how to, and he cooks really well!<br />
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He made Singapore Laksa for us! :)<br />
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This was a little feast we put up together. We had lemon chicken, sambal chili chicken, and stir fried cabbage. It was one of those meals where you go round the different dishes and can't stop eating because of the contrasts of the tastes.<br />
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There were quite some funny moments talking to people last week. The most awkward conversation was with this person who was standing not doing much, we approached him and he straightaway declared himself an atheist. Seeing that it didn't stop us from talking to him, he then shifted to "I'm busy". We went off to the side, and he was still standing doing nothing! He tried not to make any eye contact haha.<br />
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When people come right up to us to start a conversation instead of the other way round, it can either be a really good thing, or really bad. There was this dude who came right up and said to us "tell me about your magic underwear!" >.< He was one of those who would try to make a "smart" comment and walk away, so we couldn't tell him anything.<br />
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Despite all the rather weird people we come across, there are always those who are prepared somewhere. We had a return appointment with a couple who were just so ready to listen and even invited us into their home. They had actually read the pamphlet we had given them when we first met them! (That's a really good sign of real intent). One of them had met missionaries about 5 years ago, but wasn't feeling ready so he didn't learn more about it. But now, he said himself that he really wants to know more. It's going to be great!<br />
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That's all the time I have for now. Have a wonderful week!<br />
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The past week has been pretty cold, but good thing I'm much more prepared this winter. We had one of those days where there's all 4 seasons in a day. It got a little warm and muggy, then it rained, we had a rainbow, then it hailed a ton, and then it switched to snow. Although my umbrella is pretty huge, I have not gone out a day without it simply because the weather has been too unpredictable. Here's a picture when all of that happened:<br />
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It was in the university hence we had to take out our tags. We went there to have a lesson.<br />
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It was so fun! I have been using quite a bit of mandarin and it's actually improving a bit, and it's bringing out my Asian accent when I switch back to English haha.<br />
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I have learned a lot about teaching Chinese. At first I couldn't really understand how difficult it is for them to understand what church and religion is. Our friend was asking a lot of questions that at first, didn't make sense to us, or rather we couldn't tell how it led to her concerns. However thanks to a convert who's helping us out, she explained a lot since she was in the same situation a few years ago.<br />
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To elaborate a little more, our friend was asking questions about cults and political parties. What we realised later on is that she's trying to figure out what kind of organisation our church is. Whenever we are exposed to something completely new and foreign, we try to compare it what we know or understand. In this case it is really difficult, but as our convert said, don't worry, it just takes time to get used to it.<br />
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Even feeling the Holy Ghost for the first time can be quite something. We always try to help our friends recognise it. For many that I've come across, it's usually at the chapel where they feel it most powerful for the first time.<br />
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Here's a picture from district meeting:<br />
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We went out to talk to people on the streets right after:<br />
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That was one of the few moments that the weather was actually good haha.<br />
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The moon looking pretty big the past few days, and we had clear skies at night:<br />
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Elder de Sousa and I have been enjoying looking at it before bed using a pair of binoculars in the flat. It was so bright that it made really distinct shadows in our room from the windows! That's why it caught our attention in the first place. It's quite mesmerizing looking the craters on the moon.<br />
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We have been continuing on in our little dinner adventures:<br />
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Ribena was on sale and so we bought a huge bottle of it. I tried mixing it with apple juice and it's been a perfect combination! We agreed that we now have a problem: when we drink apple juice, we feel that something is missing, and likewise when we drink Ribena >.<<br />
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We also had exchanges last week and it was fun! I got to be in the car heheh.<br />
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We made enchilada together :) It was delicious but not quite enough for 4 hungry elders haha.</b></span></div>
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I found a set of Chinese Checkers and in the flat and introduced it to them over dinner. It was so fun and simple to teach.<br />
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The time when evaluating the exchange is really special. It's a nice time to sit down and think about not only how the exchange went, but also how I've been doing on the mission. I recalled what Elder Uchtdorf taught in the recent YSA devotional about how looking forward, it is difficult to tell how the dots connect. We try our best to make the right decisions and Heavenly Father will guide us, although he won't make every decision for us. When we look backwards, it helps us see how the dots actually connect!<br />
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As I was reflecting back on the different things that happened, the areas I've been, the companions I've had, it all seemed to connect. Recently, I received an envelope with a note written by myself sometime in the middle of last year. I listed 6 things that I wanted to achieve/be by the time I received the letter. Well, I saw 5 out of 6 that was achieved, but that one last one has still been a struggle. But President Uchtdorf's talk was an answer to it. Hopefully I can figure it out soon!<br />
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Got to go now. Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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Last week has been pretty fun. There have been quite a number of birthdays going on. On Monday for FHE, the YSA celebrated the birthdays of 2 people, one of which was our ward mission leader's. We managed to bring one of our friend there so it was great for her to see how to have a party without alcohol and other stuff. My favourite games were the ones with balloons:<br />
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The first was to hit the balloons across and when you hit it over the other teams and it touches the ground, we score points. So we were hitting balloons across like crazy.<br />
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And of course to get rid of the balloons. We played the classic game of popping each other's balloon.</b></span></div>
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Our focus in district meeting and as a zone is to resolve concerns of the people we're teaching. We have found that when they ask questions, it can have a deeper meaning or concern about doctrine, or social things. Hopefully we'll see more progression!</b></span></div>
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Just a little something we had after the meeting. I'm converting them to apple ribena juice. :)<br />
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Technology has been big blessing recently. For one of our friends, there has been a need to gain a stronger testimony through reading scriptures and praying, but she doesn't understand what she reads and has been struggling to build that habit. We can't meet every day, so we have a call every night and read and pray together:<br />
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Our ward mission leader is also pretty busy, so technology is the answer to ward coordination meeting as well!<br />
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Here's another birthday we celebrated. It was with the younger sister of someone that recently got baptised. The children are really funny. When sisters visit they will sit down and have a conversation, but when us Elders come, we become their punching bags haha.<br />
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It was from a while ago, when we were talking to people outside the university, Domino's was giving out these coupons. We read the fine print and realised it was the final week to claim it!</b></span></div>
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Who doesn't love free pizza? :)</b></span></div>
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I've been using a lot of Chinese recently and it's been pretty fun. I think it's actually improving. Well, actually, many words are starting to come back to me. Sometimes I like to think that if President Nelson could begin learning it in his 50s, I should be able to do it :) If you're not sure what I'm talking about, refer to Elder Neil L. Anderson's talk in the October 2017 General Conference.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>It felt like we were at Hogwarts. To be honest, it felt a lot like Canterbury Cathedral. Similar design I guess.</span><br />
<span><br /></span> <span>We had interviews with President and Sister Stevens on Valentines Day! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>They gave us chocolate hearts heheh.</span><br />
<span><br /></span> <span>For Chinese New Year Eve, we didn't have time to do anything special, but we were blessed as a member got us dinner out of the blue:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>And it was cheap chicken!!!! Happiness in a box :) Haven't had it in a while haha.</span><br />
<span><br /></span> <span>We had an interesting service to do this week. A mall allocated the church a wall to paint:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>I know, I don't have much skill in artistic drawing hahaha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Sorry I'm out of time. Had been really busy today preparing something special. Will write more about it next week. The hint is: Happy Chinese New Year! :D</b></span></div>
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Hi everyone,</b></span></div>
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Well, so this is what I was up to last P-day:</b></span></div>
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I helped organise a hotpot/steamboat party for Family Home Evening (FHE). It was a success, except I didn't prepare enough dipping sauces haha. I don't think I've ever prepared so much food before, there were a lot of leftovers too.<br />
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I have to give a huge thanks to helpers :P It would have been impossible to pull it off without them!<br />
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We did quite a lot of service the past week. One of the most interesting ones was tearing off wallpaper:<br />
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We counted 7 layers of wallpaper, good thing we had the steamer!<br />
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This was followed by helping a member move out an old bed:<br />
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I wish we could have had that bed. It was really nice haha.<br />
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We were treated to some really nice fish and chips after, along with many funny stories as she was a policewoman! She also kept us up to date with some important things to know, such as half the KFCs in the country closing because there's not enough chicken!<br />
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This is a dinner appointment we had with our ward mission leader. He's the best!<br />
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We took the opportunity to help cleanup, because there were lots to cleanup after feeding 6 missionaries.<br />
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I had the opportunity to help a family get started with FHE. It was sooooo fun! Brought back many memories for me. The lesson was simply about family home evening and assembling their own assignment chart. The highlight was probably playing something I played when I was young, and that's "Don't eat pete!"<br />
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We got creative and switched from cereal to using the refreshments haha.</b></span></div>
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I didn't realise this at first, but I sure have a testimony of FHE. I still have vivid memories of specific FHEs and the fun things we did as a family that we all can look back to. It truly strengthened my family.</b></span></div>
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We were told that a part of one of the Avengers movie was filmed at a building in the university here:</b></span></div>
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So we decided to take a picture at the building!</b></span></div>
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Being transfers week, we had to take more pictures just in case:</b></span></div>
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It feels like the busiest transfer I've ever had on my mission. Elder de Sousa and I seem to be running from one appointment to another every day. Running in the cold air has been hurting our throats, so we found a way to help with that:</b></span></div>
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Sad news for transfer is that we are not staying together, and none of us are staying in Norwich. :(</b></span></div>
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Elder de Sousa will be going to London!!! So happy for him! I on the other hand will be taking over Dereham area which is in the same district. I guess we're running short on missionaries. It feels really strange because I feel like I'm in the perfect place to be and have many people to teach, but it seems like the Lord has other plans. Can't wait to see what is to come!</b></span></div>
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It has been a really weird week!<br />
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P-day was mostly spent packing, cleaning the flat, and saying goodbye to people.<br />
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It's so nice when the people you teach make food for you! :)<br />
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The district also wanted to have food together, but it wasn't just any food, it was the SamYang spicy noodle challenge!<br />
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We had both the 4,404 SHU and 8,808 SHU. The latter is SPICY! Absolutely not for beginners!<br />
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After that I attended my last FHE in Norwich :(<br />
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It's so sad to say goodbye to so many friends :(<br />
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Everything changed the very next day. Moving in to a new area together with a new companion, sudden change in weather, figuring how to get around and who people area. Oh the whitewashing life. It was literally white! According to what people have been telling us, there's this storm called the Beast from the East which brought Siberian winds to us. It's the heaviest snow I've ever been in!<br />
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Temperatures went as low as -6 degrees Celsius...<br />
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Everything was freezing!<br />
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We just had to build a snowman as a district haha.<br />
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Many of the appointments we had cancelled because of the snow. The country really shuts down in times like these. There were no buses to get us to some places so for one of the appointments we had to bring out our bikes and cycle about 12miles (19km)<br />
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It was really slippery, I fell down about 4 times. Once while walking and 3 times on the bike. The long distance we travelled was probably worth it because...<br />
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It was to a Philippino Feast, and also getting a referral!</b></span></div>
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The travel there was much more difficult than it looks. At times we felt like giving up, as we were wondering if it was really worth it. When we did arrive at our destination, we knew for sure it was worth it :) Back at the flat, Elder Amado and I were discussing how if we had turned back, we would have been so exhausted, frustrated and hungry. Enduring to the end is really worth it. Perhaps life can be like that sometimes.</b></span></div>
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The last thing that made it feel so weird was that church was cancelled. We used that time to visit members instead. The snow has all melted already, (I hope hearts have too as well haha) so I hope this coming week will be back to normal, although there never really feels like a normal day for a missionary. We'll see what happens next week!</b></span></div>
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The weather has been warming up and it has been great! Spring is really coming I hope haha. </b></span></div>
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We have a new missionary in the district and we decided to go get some good fish and chips last P-day.</b></span></div>
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The shop is very deceiving, from the top it looks like a tiny shop, but there's a staircase that leads to the basement which is a network of tunnels that used to be WWII bunkers. The food was good and not too expensive! It's actually a really well known shop in Norwich.<br />
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At a dinner appointment one evening, a member asked me if I liked English food. I found it hard to answer because all I could think of was roast dinners and fish and chips, I could think of more desserts than foods here. English actually eat a lot of food from everywhere which makes it hard for me to pinpoint English food. But that's what I've been enjoying the whole mission, food from everywhere!<br />
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Here's the best meal of the week!<br />
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We called it Jollibee, with reference to the fast food chain in the Philippines. It was simple spaghetti and fried chicken which was absolutely delicious!<br />
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The highlight of the week was a mission tour with half the mission. It was like a zone conference but it was half the mission and we had President Paul V Johnson who's president of the Europe Area. He has worked in the CES before and is really knowledgeable and familiar with the scriptures. It was incredible during the Q&A session where he always had scriptures to use to answer our questions.<br />
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One of my favourite things that he taught was from Ether 6 in the Book of Mormon. He likened our lives to the journey of the Jaredites across the sea towards the promised land. The winds never ceased to blow their barges towards it. It was really rough journey but they were always moving forward. When they were buried in the deep, they were unharmed because "their vessels were tight like unto a dish", and the Lord "did bring them forth again upon the top of the waters". He said that is like keeping our covenants. So long as we are always keeping our covenants, we will never sink down to destruction, but kept afloat and still moving forward. God is trying to get us somewhere, if the "waters" in our life remained calm, we'd never get where we need to be!<br />
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I was assigned to put up a musical item for the tour, and was given permission to source for talent, and so I did!<br />
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I managed to put together a choir and even got a pianist. It sounded great even though we only had less than 30 minutes of practice before the meeting started. I was supposed to have arrived earlier but my train got cancelled that morning :( Good thing I did what we do in the Singapore stake, which is to record the individual parts and send it out to the choir members so that they can learn their parts on their own. By the time we got together, everyone already knew their parts and we simply worked on singing together!<br />
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We do not have a photo of the half mission together yet but I'll share it once they send it out. By chance, I got to meet my first district that I ever lead!<br />
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Something interesting I did with some members here was to help set up a birthday party!<br />
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I am NOT a fan of sponge bob but the party set up looked incredible! In casse you're wondering, we didn't set up everything, we just did one part of it which were the walls. It reminded me of a few DIY weddings I helped out with in the past.</b></span></div>
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The "Beast from the East" strikes back!!! Just as I thought things were starting to get warmer again, we get snow once more!</b></span></div>
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Those icicles were pretty cool! I'm glad to say, I didn't slip and fall this time :) The snow wasn't as bad as the first time but many people still couldn't get to church. It was great that we at least had sacrament meeting instead of cancelling church altogether. I've been told we just passed the day where the hours of sunlight and darkness are equal. So, the good news is that it's only going to get warmer and warmer from now on, but knowing the British weather, we'll have to see...<br />
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Last Monday was the last P-day of Elder Umba from Congo. He and I came to London at the same time but he's leaving earlier because he had served in Africa for a few months before coming here. We all went to Norwich to do something fun!<br />
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He score 99! Which is sadly the highest among us all. We're all completely out of practice. I was second highest at 78 which is worse than the last time I played if I remember correctly.<br />
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We played missionary ball on the pool table where each person is assigned a colour and we try to knock out all the other colours but our own. However we don't know each others colour!<br />
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Doing missionary work here in Dereham is very different from Norwich. Things that I did there don't seem to work as well over here, so we've been trying different things. The district has been very supportive and came down to help!<br />
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We met at one of our ward missionaries' home before we started off...<br />
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Let the tactical side of me get to work...<br />
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and off we went! We did find new people to teach and the ward missionary gave us some referrals too! :)</b></span></div>
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"The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord."</b></span></div>
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There are quite a number of situations in found in the scriptures where the drawing of lots is used such as Nephi and his brothers deciding who should go ask King Laban for the Brass Plates (1 Nephi 3:11), the distribution of the lands to the Israelite tribes (Joshua 14:1-2) and choosing one of the apostles (Acts 1:26).</b></span></div>
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Well, that's how we decided which companionship should go to which sector. I felt like Elder Amado and I received "Laman's lot" hahaha. When I said "we" found people to teach it was really the other missionaries!</b></span></div>
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There are exciting things coming in the mission. Smart phones are coming soon! We have to complete some training videos before that will happen. Also, President Nelson and Elder Holland are coming in April! I've been asked to prepare a musical number for that so that'll be fun! I wanted to do something big but because of restrictions I have to have a smaller choir than at the mission tour :( We're still going to make it great though!</b></span></div>
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It's going to be a short one today. Weather has been getting better which is really nice, because people are slightly nicer too!</b></span></div>
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There's always some stuff going on at Norwich and this was something pretty interesting. It's the queen made out of knitting! Someone had a lot of time to spare!<br />
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We also continued our dinner and chinese checkers like last transfer! We also did some handstands just for fun. I still have the balance for it, but not quite the muscles anymore haha. Got to work it up again! My current flat is just so cram for any of that.<br />
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I don't have much to tell about tracting. Each time we knock we really don't know what to expect. We knocked on this really big house that looked pretty decent from the outside, but when we went in, it reeked of mould! The person had a copy of the Book of Mormon that look pretty old. He said he never found time to read it. I picked it of the shelf and found that it was covered in what would probably be at least a few years of dust. It was so dusty the cover felt slippery! He will be coming to general conference so that'll cool!</b></span></div>
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So far on my mission, in every house that I've been to that is extremely mouldy, the person living there is kind of quirky. I still can't get my mind over whether if it's the people are not good at taking care of their homes, or that the mould may lead to quirky personality, or both. I would wish it's the mould, because that would mean we can easily help them by cleaning out the mould!</b></span></div>
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Something that has been really fun over here is working with a couple in the ward that are ward missionaries. They are pretty old and not really able to come out with us, but they have been in the ward for a long time and know A LOT. They have been giving us ideas on what to do and even promising former investigators to go look for. It's quite fun because it's like a treasure hunt. We just got a lead on a promising family to teach and will go out on the search! Hopefully there will be some good stories to tell! :)</b></span></div>
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Wow it has been quite a week to finish the transfer! General Conference was absolutely amazing and historical. I won't say much because those at home will only watch it this weekend, but I must say do not miss any of the sessions! Especially the priesthood session for the men. </b></span></div>
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This has been a really short transfer, especially since only 2 out of the 5 Sundays were the normal 3 hours block of church, due to snow and conference. I have learned so much though in this packed 5 weeks and feel a greater resolve to improve, especially after watching general conference.</b></span></div>
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Sometimes we really have to be careful about what we wish and hope for. Previously I had wished Elder Holland would visit the mission and that was announced at zone conference right when I thought about it. The other time I was wishing to go to the temple, and President Stevens announced that we would go to the temple as a mission in December! Well, here's another story in Dereham...</b></span></div>
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Opposite our flat is an old historic Anglican church that has a bell tower. When I first moved here, I noticed that they ring it every Sunday morning for about 15 minutes and I felt it was rather noisy with no proper tune to it. I told Elder Amado "one day I have to tell the person a thing or two about ringing the bells!"<br />
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In our "treasure hunt" for former investigators who have a lot of potential, we were led to knock on the door of a man and his son who actually are one of the bell ringers! They had discontinued previously because of his wife, but recent circumstances may have softened her heart. They invited us to go up the tower one of the P-days when they practice, and so we did last week!<br />
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They pull on these ropes that rotate the bells further upstairs...<br />
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The lowest sounding bell up there which is the largest, weighs approximately a ton! It would be nasty if it falls down! Anyway, after learning how it works, I don't think it's really possible to get nice tunes out of those bells haha. They have 8 notes in E flat majoy, but with the difficulty of coordinating the ringing of the bells, it's probably impossible to do some music with it. I guess I'll just have to deal with it haha.<br />
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Last P-day was also Sister Khan's last, so we wanted to make it really special. We chose to eat at the good o'l Wetherspoons:<br />
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By chance, we also found a really good place that not many people seem to go to...<br />
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And what seemed to be a perfect view of Norwich City!<br />
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We even had the Norwich Cathedral in the background! and the Sun was setting right behind us too.<br />
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It has been raining a lot over here, but once in a while there are clear skies, in those pockets of sun lit days, are wonderful service opportunities:<br />
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We were given these handy jumpsuits to protect our clothes from the paint! That's very thoughtful!<br />
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Being Easter, I thought we'd get some Kinder eggs for district meeting:<br />
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We got Sister Khan an extra large one since it's her last district meeting!<br />
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Finally, going back to where I started off, the biggest highlight was attending general conference. We watched most of the sessions at the chapel, but for one of them, we got invited to some members' home for lunch before watching the next session there!<br />
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Well, that's all the time I have right now, for those who are watching conference this weekend, I hope you enjoy it! The work is moving forward, exciting things are in store! There is reason to be hopeful and optimistic about the future as terrible as it is getting in the world. What a great blessing to be living in this time!</b></span></div>
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<span><br /></span> <span>Well, I'm spending another 6 weeks in Derehan, this time I'm with Elder Browning from Utah! We were blessed with good weather the past week, and since Elder Browning is good with riding bicycles, we used it a lot more.</span></b></span></div>
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It has saved us tremendous amount of time getting around.</b></span></div>
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Our area is huge and covers a number of towns. We wanted to try working at places other than Dereham. So we tried going to Swaffham!</b></span></div>
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The very first thing I noticed was the smell over there. The distinct smell came from the farms everywhere! They had modern day windmills too:</b></span></div>
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There is a lot of potential there. The only thing that makes it rather difficult is how our schedule is really controlled by the bus schedules.</b></span></div>
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There has been a lot of hype in the mission recently with goals that we have set. Many districts have been posting videos along with that on the mission facebook page. There were all sorts of interesting ways that the missionaries throughout the mission did it. We also did one after district meeting! Here are some shots from the video:</b></span></div>
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Elder Nelson from Canada is really really good at basketball! Something really interesting in the district right now is that we have a new Sister missionary from Utah and her name is Sister Browning. So we have an Elder and Sister Browning in the district! Sounds like a senior couple haha. They have never known each other, but checked out the Family Tree app and found that they are 7th cousins! That's a really cool feature from the app.</b></span></div>
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Elder Browning and I have been studying the talks from the recent general conference, picking out warnings and specific counsel. Something that stood out to us was what President Nelson said:</b></span></div>
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"In coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost."</b></span></div>
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In these times there are way too many distractions that can draw us away from God. That's something I feel the mission has taught me a lot. Thankfully there has been a lot of counsel given in general conference of what we can do, such as learning the pattern of receiving personal revelation.</b></span></div>
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I am truly grateful for living prophets and apostles today. Watching general conference has really strengthened my testimony that this church is led by Christ Himself. I am also grateful for the opportunity to meet President Nelson and Elder Holland this Thursday as they begin their tour around the world!</b></span></div>
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Wow! Just WOW! I've definitely had the best day in my life last week!</b></span></div>
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Before that, the latest weather update of the week is fog:</b></span></div>
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It actually made it feel a little colder! It was kind of fun though!</b></span></div>
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One sad thing before the Prophet's visit on Thursday was Sister Couper flying off to Temple Square to continue the rest of her mission. On her last P-day, we brought her to right where we started on her first P-day:</b></span></div>
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Yup! The best fish and chips place in Norwich again! The boss there must know us pretty well already because he gave us free chocolate! :D We were all joking about how Sister Couper could be the next assistant to the Mission President at Temple Square. It's so strange to think how district and zone leaders there are all Sisters!</b></span></div>
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Anyway, district meeting on Tuesday was great! Having an Elder and Sister Browning, we thought to use the FamilyTree app to do a relative search. At the end we discovered that everyone was somehow related to each other! Well, everyone but me :(</b></span></div>
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It's alright, we know we are all related somewhere way up in the family tree, we just don't have the records to show it yet. One day! </b></span></div>
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On the way back from district meeting, we met someone who lived in Indonesia! </b></span></div>
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She was really nice, and even shared photographs of some charity work that she has been doing for her village back home. There was no way we could tell she did so many amazing things in her life except by talking to her. She lives in another town not covered by our boundary and has met missionaries years ago. They didn't give her a Book of Mormon so we gladly gave her one!</b></span></div>
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We were able to do some service this week as well:</b></span></div>
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So much soil! It reminded me of digging a fire trench back in the army haha. Here's a little story to tell, there were 2 pairs of wellington boots available, the husband's and the wife's. One was size 10-11 and one was size 6-7. Which happened to fit Elder Browning and me! This is one of the rare times that it's great to have small feet haha. </b></span></div>
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The night before the meeting with the Prophet, we travelled to London to stay over. Reason being it takes us about 4 hours to get from Dereham to Hyde Park Chapel that includes a bus, train ride, tube ride and quite a bit of walking. Although the meeting was at 2pm on Thursday, we had to go in early in the morning to do a sound test and practice on the organ, and also a choir rehearsal. We hardly get to see the chapel at night so...</b></span></div>
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We stayed at the assistants' flat which was fun! </b></span></div>
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What a special experience it was to be with President Nelson and Elder Holland, and to shake their hands. It went so quickly as we were behind schedule, but it was still something I will never forget. I had met President Nelson in Singapore quite a number of years ago, and I don't feel like he's aged at all! Without a doubt the mantle of the Prophet rests upon his shoulders.</b></span></div>
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Sister Holland spoke of sincere prayer, which echoes the recent counsel to increase our spiritual capacity. Sister Nelson spoke of the ancestors of our investigators desperately wanting their work to be done. When one soul is saved on earth, it's never only one soul, because it affects the ancestors and the posterity of that person.</b></span></div>
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Elder Holland is a massive ambassador of missionaries staying active after the mission and how the mission no matter what location, will bring about a deep conversion for each missionary. I do feel that way for myself. Each area and companion I've been with has left deep impressions and life lessons that I would never have gained without serving a mission. As Elder Holland said, the mission is not simply something on a list to be checked off. </b></span></div>
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President Nelson testified so strongly of the restored gospel. In his lifetime of almost a century, he has seen the church grow from 600,000+ to 16,000,000+ members. He has witnessed so many barriers being broken down that allowed the gospel to be spread through all the world. The gospel is the answer to the many complex problems in the world today. He shared a specific example in Ghana where it was previously stuck in cycle after cycle of poverty. It wasn't until there was a substantial number of LDS members that were paying their tithes there, that cities began to be built up, and now they have a temple today. The blessings of tithing are real!</b></span></div>
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President Nelson mentioned that in the past, it would take hours of waiting just to meet with officials of various nations. But today, there are increasing numbers of officials coming to them instead, seeking help in solving their countries' problems. The world is in commotion and it is getting worse, but as the standards of the world fall further and further from the Lord's standards, the restored gospel and the church will stand out brighter and brighter.</b></span></div>
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The last thing that had a deep impression on me is family history. President Nelson shared how he was meeting with a Chinese official, and he explained about temples and family history. The official then pulled out of his pocket a long list which contained a record of his ancestry! He said finding out who his ancestors were made him happy. The Spirit of Elijah is real! We were told that as missionaries, our best friends in the ward should be the ward mission leader, and the family history consultants. I really need to improve on the latter.</b></span></div>
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In case you're wondering, here's what the meeting looked like:</b></span></div>
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It's kind of sad how I'll never ever get to play the organ and conduct a spectacular missionary choir for the Prophet. I'll never ever forget this day.</b></span></div>
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After the meeting, we went to take a mission photo at the good o'l Royal Albert Hall. I don't have the pictures yet, but after that I went to take as many pictures as possible with previous companions. Sadly I didn't get all of them but here are some:</b></span></div>
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It was great to see so many familiar faces and have all the memories rush back into my mind. I'm getting really old in the mission now, I could only recognise about half the missionaries in the mission. President Nelson mentioned in one of the reports that he didn't need to travel everywhere because he could meet people from all over the world here in London. That is so true! Through members, missionaries and people on the street, I've met people from just about everywhere in the world!</b></span></div>
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Transitioning from being with a Prophet and the whole mission for a day, to back in Dereham is quite a huge change haha. It's like from Heaven back to Earth. We tried applying what we have learned. One example is changing my topics on the street here in Dereham as there are many elderly people. I began talking about family history and oh my goodness I got so many more conversations and they really have so much interest in doing it, in fact many of the people we spoke to have already done it and some claim to have gone back to the 11th century.</b></span></div>
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To keep the fire of missionary work going, we also did a district blitz:</b></span></div>
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We tracted together and I did the same idea of drawing lots. This time the Sisters got Nephi's lot and found someone really cool. Guess who got Laman's lot! Again. Must be because I am the oldest in the district hahaha.</b></span></div>
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There's an emergency transfer and I only found out this morning that I have to move to Ipswich. You can kind of expect something really big if President Stevens calls you at 7.30am haha. Ahh, it's been a hectic day.</b></span></div>
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Anyway, last week was awesome! The weather has been on our side the whole week. We decided to go out into the woods on P-day:</b></span></div>
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We looked for all the good trees to climb</b></span></div>
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We also had Zone Conference and it was an extra special one held at Hyde Park Chapel, so we got to go to London again! :D<br />
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It was one of the most spiritually uplifting Zone Conference I've attended. We had special visitors, Brother and Sister Alldredge. Brother Alldredge is the brother of Sister Stevens, and he was the Mission President in this very mission 18 years ago. In fact, they are here for a mission reunion. He and his wife came with much counsel for us.<br />
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I do not have time to share everything but the one thing I'll share is the one thing I've been pondering about a lot lately. Being close to the end of the mission, I've been thinking a lot about sure ways to remain active and faithful after the mission. Brother Alldredge pointed out that when the first presidency was announced, it was done at the Salt Lake Temple. He told us that had never been done before. It was done for a reason, as President Nelson mentioned about beginning with the goal in mind-- the temple. And with that, Brother Alldredge said: "If you want to stay true and faithful to the end of your lives, stay focused on the temple." To give him a little more credit, he has recently finished serving 3 years as Temple President of the Salt Lake Temple.<br />
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The mission has taught me that the standards of the world are dropping further and further from the Lord's standards. It is getting difficult to live the gospel, but there opposition to evil as much as there is opposition to good. There are an increasing number of temples today and they are getting closer and closer to members all over the world. They are there for our protection!<br />
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We were given smartphones in Zone Conference as well!<br />
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I must say, I probably understand how older people feel when first being exposed to something high tech. I was feeling a little anxious trying to use the phone. I've been using the old phones for almost 2 years now along with an iPad, switching from that to a Samsung A5 was quite a change but I've finally gotten used to it and it's been such a powerful tool!<br />
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With so much sun, there has been a lot of service opportunities as well. This one was my favourite:<br />
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You don't realise how dirty it is until you actually clean it!<br />
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Last but not least, there was a surprise visit last Sunday!<br />
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It was Sister Maughan from my MTC group! Just to make it clear, it was not to visit me. Her grandma goes to this ward and had recently celebrated her Diamond Wedding with the family.<br />
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Well, this week is going to be so different. New area and new companion again. This is the middle of my 16th transfer and I'm going to have my 16th companion. I must be a terrible companion hahaha. Change is the only constant in my mission. I used to hate it and resistance to change is probably a weakness of mine, but I've come to really appreciate it on the mission, because I learn so much from it.<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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What a stressful week it has been. My new companion is Elder Angeiras from Brazil! He has been such a great companion helping me to adjust to this new area.<br />
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As I had to take the train from Norwich to Ipswich, I simply packed my stuff and spent the remaining time of P-day at Norwich. It was really nice weather that day!<br />
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We went up to the Norwich Castle as it has a really nice view of the City:<br />
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Last district pic :( I don't know how many more goodbyes I can say in the mission, it's getting harder and harder each time!<br />
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The week I moved into Dereham, it snowed all week. Now moving into Ipswich, it rained all week. It actually got pretty cold too! What was pretty cool was a double rainbow we saw!<br />
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I don't think I've seen a double rainbow on the mission yet. When we saw it, we joked that it was a sign that we were doing the right thing at that point of time.<br />
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Here's our district picture from district meeting:<br />
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I also had exchanges on Thursday. Coincidentally I was supposed to have exchanges at Norwich on Thursday as well. I spent a day at good old Colchester where my first exchange was!<br />
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I was with Elder Brinkerhoff, we had some really fun conversations with people on the street! That's the Colchester Castle in the background.<br />
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On Saturday, there was a stake primary activity and the theme was about missionaries! We were asked to help out with a station for the children:<br />
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We practiced asking and answering gospel questions with them. I was really amazed at how they answered the questions. I don't even think I could answer the way they did when I was their age. They're definitely going to be really awesome missionaries in future!<br />
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Next to us was a station where they wrote letters to missionaries serving from the stake. One of the children wrote a letter for me haha.<br />
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Some photos were given to us from the Prophet's visit last week. I didn't have time to get them last week but here they are now:<br />
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That was the best choir I've ever conducted in my life! Not that I've conducted many though haha.</b></span></div>
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Well that's all for the week. There's some good stuff going on here, but as always there's so much opposition. It's almost coming to a point when things are going well, I kind of expect something will come up which we have to try and resolve. It just makes my heart sink when investigators give up or get too distracted. Members are extremely important! That's what we're trying to do better here and so far it's been going well. As we were doing weekly planning a thought came to my mind that it's not about how well fellowshipped they are on Sunday, but more of what goes on the rest of the week. The struggle now is that everyone is so busy here but I know we can work things out.</b></span></div>
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Hi everyone!<br />
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Wow it has been sunny all week. It makes me wonder how long it will last haha. Well actually, it was sunny all week but P-day, which was rain and super strong wind.<br />
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The past week has been pretty much finding and food. We had lots of interesting conversations with people. One of them can't read, and another is a Messianic Jew. It's going to be really cool when we see them again this week.<br />
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On the food side, I've had lots of chicken this week which has been great haha.<br />
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I was asked to carve a roast chicken for the family. I was given a pretty sharp table knife, still worked and tasted great! :) It was a Portuguese family that we were with and we had some really delicious stuff. One of my favourite is that pastry with cheese next to the chicken.<br />
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After dinner, we went to visit one of their neighbours, who agreed to come over for Family Home Evening this week. It's going to be fun!<br />
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I have been trying to finish up the curry sauces I have with me and I took the opportunity to share it while on exchange:<br />
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It was as delicious as ever! I have yet to meet anyone who hasn't liked curry from Singapore :)<br />
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It's always cool when the people you teach make food for you!<br />
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We had some sort of Jamaican chicken soup with yam. Super yummy!<br />
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I'm seriously running out ideas for district pics haha. We found an empty picture frame and used it.<br />
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The idea was to make it like a photo booth!</b></span></div>
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I learned a lot about priesthood blessings last week. Through experience and also it just so happened that it was the topic of discussion in Elders Quorum on Sunday. As I think of blessings that I've received in the past, the words said were exactly what I needed to hear. I like to take little notes in my journal to remember the things said and the outcome after the blessing. We studied the talk from President Nelson in the priesthood session last General Conference. What stood out to me was making sure that when we give blessings, it is not just a prayer. I'm really grateful for priesthood blessings! </b></span></div>
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So, it looks like I'll be finishing my mission in Ipswich with Elder Angeiras! The past week has been awesome!<br />
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P-day was a real summer! Unfortunately it was a bank holiday which means not many buses to take on that day. It was difficult getting anywhere, BUT... we were invited to a Portuguese BBQ! :D !<br />
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The chicken and ribs were soooo good!<br />
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The district has been really kind. Somehow behind my back, they planned a surprise for me!<br />
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They even got a cake and pepsi! I really felt ministered to.<br />
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Tuesday was a special day. There was a meeting to attend at London, and I was companions with Elder Meier for a day!<br />
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I served with him in London about a year ago. It felt so familiar being with in the tubes and all.<br />
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I think I have forgotten how wide the gaps between the tubes and the platforms can be! I could actually fall into this particular one!<br />
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Here's a picture from the meeting:<br />
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At some point during the meeting, I realised that 6 of my previous companions where all there! So I had to take a picture with all of them! They were so kind to agree to it haha<br />
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I most probably will never be with all of them in one place again... Seeing so many of them reminded me of how blessed I've been to have so many amazing companions. Each one of them has helped me become a better person, and wow their backgrounds and talents always amazed me.<br />
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On the way back from London, Elder Meier and I grabbed some takeaway dinner to eat on the long train ride home.<br />
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It was our last dinner together! :( He's finished his mission today!<br />
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Although it isn't something new, I've recently discovered some special effects on the camera on our smart phones, so we used it to take a district pic:<br />
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This was one of my favourite effects :)<br />
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I've been really spoiled with Portuguese food this past week!<br />
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I've had Feijoada and Bacalhau something. The Bacalhau is made with salted cod fish but there are many different styles and I can't remember which one I had. The dish was one that caused me a situation where the stomach was done but the mouth was not!<br />
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Good thing there are occasional Saturday football games with members and investigators here! I definitely managed to burn off the extra energy from all the food I had during the week.<br />
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I ran around the court trying to be useful haha. Up till now, I still can't play football.<br />
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Opportunities are always everywhere! In the selfie, the other Elders were talking to someone who was watching us play football. He came to church on Sunday!<br />
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Working with members here has been great! We seem to be getting more referrals and they are looking really good. One of them is a family and with younger kids. We did a family home evening and prepared something to help them understand prayer:<br />
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Despite such a simple thing, it was still amusing for us to see it work!<br />
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There is always opposition in all things. When things are going well, something else will happen too. Recently many people have been catching colds of some sort. Members, investigators and missionaries alike have fallen a little ill. We gave our ill investigators priesthood blessings and I know for sure they felt the Spirit.<br />
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Elder Angeiras has been kind of ill in the past week as well with a really congested nose. Since I don't sleep as easily as he does, at some point at night, he begins to breathe in such a way that sounds exactly like Darth Vader. I haven't told him yet but I'll probably try recording the sound one of these days haha.<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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17 May 2018<br />
Transfer 17 Week 1<br />
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Hi everyone!<br />
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It has been a really nice week. Not just the weather, but also with things going on in the area haha.<br />
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For P-day, there were some of the missionaries in the district that had wanted to go to a castle just outside of Ipswich. They have been here for 3 transfers (about 4 months) and still had not had the chance to go. They were now about to leave and really wanted to go. Something I've learned early on in mission is that if you want something to happen... "JUST DO IT!". We knew all the logistical challenges of getting there but applying that principle, we made it happen anyway!<br />
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The castle is out in the middle of nowhere at a place called Framlingham.<br />
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It has a moat too! It made us think of the fortifications that Moroni made to cities in the Book of Mormon.<br />
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We tried fitting the whole district into a little hole meant for archers to position themselves.<br />
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There was a little museum there as well with some little things to do. I must say it had a really bloody history!<br />
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Our district has changed up a bit, now 4 out of 6 of us speak Portuguese!<br />
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We had a service opportunity this week to do some weeding:<br />
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We spoke to the neighbours there while working. The conversation started when he noticed me taking out an annoying weed which roots go really deep, but are fragile and pretty much always snap as we try to take it out. This somehow progressed to us learning that the husband was living right there in WWII, and he pointed out where an air raid shelter used to be in the garden. As always it transitioned into a gospel conversation, which we hope to continue when we go back!<br />
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On Saturday, we had a priesthood breakfast!<br />
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Good o'l English breakfast it was! It is kind of early to commemorate the restoration of the priesthood haha, but free food is always good! I am really curious as to what will be happening in June though.<br />
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Speaking of food...<br />
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This was my favourite at the flat this week was the herbal chicken soup we made in our attempt to clear out my stock of food from home. We definitely ate too much that night! >.<<br />
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There's nothing really interesting in Ipswich, as many people on the street tell us, but there are little things to look out for:<br />
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There's a housing estate here that's called California!<br />
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Someone told us that this was the steepest road in the whole of Ipswich! What he didn't tell us was that at the end of it was a Kingdom Hall!<br />
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On Sunday, we were supposed to have a lunch appointment with a member, who had to cancel as they were not feeling well. However, during church, someone else invited us over for lunch after church! I discovered that this very member baptised my previous companion Elder de Sousa back in Portugal! That's craaaazy!<br />
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After lunch we taught his sister who is not a member of the church. I can't remember when was the last time I've been in a lesson about the Restoration that felt so powerful. 80% of the lesson was in Portuguese but I certainly felt the Spirit! I realise that I was the only one in the room who isn't a convert. I've absolutely loved being around so many Portuguese members during my mission. They have a very strong passion and love for the gospel of Jesus Christ. The fact that many of the Portuguese missionaries in the mission are converts is a manifestation of that.<br />
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Something else that they definitely love and share is food! There's always so much of it! And in the mentioned lesson, all of us enjoyed the lesson so much that we all forgot about the extra pizza in the oven!!!<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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29 May 2018<br />
Transfer 17 Week 2<br />
<br /> Hi everyone,<br />
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I don't have too many photos to share this week, but it was still a great week despite me falling sick on one of the days. I still have a really congested nose and a bit of the chest but I hope it doesn't get worse again.<br />
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Anyway, for P-day last week we played chicken charades. Which is basically charades but you use the noisy chicken to aid you:<br />
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It is quite surprising what you can do with a rubber chicken to describe or act out words! The tablets were there to help some of the missionaries translate the words into Portuguese. It was a good opportunity for them to learn some new words!<br />
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On Wednesday we had Interviews with President and Sister Stevens! It was held at our chapel and so we had to open it up earlier. We almost missed the bus and had to run. I think that's why I fell sick the next day because it was a cold morning. Running in cold air just messes me up. We took a nice picture at the end:<br />
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It was actually quite sad because this was our last interviews with President and Sister Stevens. This is their last transfer like me! I had to have an interview to renew my temple recommend and it was so good! It's nice to confirm that I do have a testimony!<br />
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There was a baptism on Saturday!<br />
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It wasn't someone I taught, but I did interview her. What made it interesting was that she is deaf! Nonetheless she feels the Spirit and has a testimony!<br />
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Unfortunately I have no more time, but have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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4 Jun 2018<br />
Transfer 17 Week 3<br />
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Hi everyone,<br />
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Well, it's been another great week. What was probably the most eventful thing that happened was the service we did:<br />
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It was the same place we did 2 weeks ago but there's so much to do that we brought the other elders along.<br />
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When we first came to help out we started from the parts closest to the house. We continued from where we left of and went further. It got really wild! We're talking stinging nettle, thorns and other stuff:<br />
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We thought the snake was alive but thank goodness it wasn't. I've seen many hedgehogs here but all of them are always dead. It supposedly smelled really bad, but I've recently lost my sense of smell...<br />
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I had exchanges with Elder Gago last week as well:<br />
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It was so fun to be on exchange with him again. I had an exchange with him about a year ago in London. The coolest thing that happened during the exchange was our impromptu tracting. We stopped by a former investigator but there was no one at home. We then decided to knock 3 doors left and right, and ended up knocking the whole street. We probably encountered the meanest people I've ever met at the door, but the last one we knocked was a really amazing young couple. They asked really good questions and were willing to listen. They asked us to come back too!<br />
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I thought I'd explain why I was holding a pole at the baptismal font in the picture last week. Well, I was trying remove a spider! Anyway, just to elaborate more on the baptism of the deaf lady, I've been really blessed to experience feeling the spirit despite being deaf myself. Not the same deafness like her, but deaf as far as understanding Portuguese. We've been having amazing lessons with someone who's progressing really well. The lessons are mostly in Portuguese. The times I've felt the Spirit the most was when she prayed for answers during the lessons. Though I could not understand a word (other than amen), I knew she was receiving her answer right there!<br />
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There have been some random things in the flat I'd like to share:<br />
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First, is this duvet sheet! The missionary who left this behind must have been a huge fan of frozen! Well, Elder Andrade here is a big fan too! He probably liked it even more because I washed the sheet before exchanges ;)<br />
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Just a little background for the second thing. There's this vacuum that's really popular in England called Henry. There has been one in almost every missionary flat I've been at! Now having grown up in the church, whenever I hear the word Henry, what automatically comes to my mind is Henry B Eyring. I've discovered that I'm not the only one!<br />
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The missionary that did this really put so much effort into doing this!<br />
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That's all for now. Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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12 Jun 2018<br />
Transfer 17 Week 4<br />
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Hi everyone,<br />
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I'll jump right into it.<br />
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Last P-day we had root beer float! With A&W root beer too! The Sisters found a place in town to get it and they're not telling us where!<br />
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Here's something new I noticed in the kitchen:<br />
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The sign at the sink says: "This is a self cleaning kitchen -- that means you do it yourself!". Elder Gago here is making it happen!<br />
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We watched the 'Be One' celebration on P-day as well. It was soooo awesome! I've never seen anything like it in before and I had no idea Gladys Knight was a member of the church! There was a wonderful spirit felt as we watched the celebration. The message I am getting from everything that's been going in the church is that we need to love each other better and be more united.<br />
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On Tuesday, we had a dinner appointment at a place called Aldeburgh. It's at the coast and is a 2 hour bus ride away from Ipswich! It was a long ride!<br />
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We planned to visit some other members that live there since we don't get to go there often. There was one home that we stopped by, and it was a family that we have never met before. We knocked persistently but no one answered. I could tell the door wasn't locked but was hesitant on opening it as it may seem like an intrusion, especially since we don't know them. Suddenly there was a strong gust of wind (it wasn't a windy day at all) and it blew the door open! We were then able to shout "hello anybody home!?" and it woke the mom up from her nap. We were able to have a good conversation, share a scripture with her, exchange contacts and invite her to church! I must say it felt really creepy at first when the wind blew the door open, but it worked out well!<br />
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We were somehow assigned to make many different videos this past week for the zone and zone conference as well. We had to do them during district meeting since we were conveniently all together:<br />
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One of the best things that happened last week is a surprise meal!<br />
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I love surprise dinner appointments! Especially when it's a Portuguese BBQ!<br />
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What also went really well last week was sports night:<br />
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There were many people that came including investigators! I hope we can keep this up!<br />
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The last thing I'll share is probably the best service project I've ever participated in on my mission. It was initiated by a member in our ward to help his nextdoor elderly neighbours in their garden. The neighbours are so old that they are not able to take care of their garden, and it had almost become a jungle! The reason why it was such a wonderful service project was because the member invited other neighbours in the street to help out as well! He wasn't expecting much but everyone he invited came and some even asked other neighbours. They all brought the much needed tools which we missionaries didn't have. As we were working, other neighbours saw what was going on and came and help too! I could tell they were all happy, not just working in the garden but also getting to know each other. Towards the end, one of them prepared lunch for everyone and another neighbour got ice cream as well!<br />
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So many times they were saying that this was great! We did too! One of them is going to have us visit her school as she is a teacher! We look forward to seeing what happens from there! I forgot to take a picture of the garden before, but there was so much to clear that we had to hire a skip for all the stuff!<br />
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That's all the time I have. Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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19 Jun 2018<br />
Transfer 17 Week 5<br />
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Hi everyone,<br />
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This transfer just seems to get better and better! Last week was a bitter sweet time. We had our final zone conference with President and Sister Stevens. :( The bitter part is realising I won't be seeing everyone again or in a long time... What was really sweet was how the music I organised all went really well. It has been a stress in my mind preparing all of that the past few weeks. The assistants asked me to write a song for them and I've never done that before! I didn't actually write any tunes, just lyrics to fit into the tune of another hymn. Looking back there have been so many things I never thought I would do on a mission. It has really stretched me and helped me improve on some things I can already do. I'm really grateful for the many supportive missionaries I've been around with. They have always given me the reassurance to try doing new things, or execute ideas that come up.<br />
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On top of having my final zone conference, I also had my final exchange with the zone leaders. Their car had been sent for repairing and in the mean time were loaned a Mini Cooper!<br />
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Elder Bleyl and Brinkerhoff are really tall and so we had hardly any leg space at the back haha. I was with Elder Bleyl this time.<br />
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He is awesome! Something I'm going to miss about being a missionary is being with other amazing missionaries!<br />
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The Sisters were also having exchanges so we had a lot of missionaries to exercise together. I learned how to throw a football. I was as awkward as someone trying to learn to play the piano for the first time. There's too many things to learn to do in this world!<br />
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Exciting things are going on in our zone. Many people are getting baptised and preparing for it. What I do notice is that many of them are pretty young. And this has kind of been happening since the historic broadcast from President Nelson to the youth. The youth in the wards here have been inviting their friends to activities and church. Whether they were found in the streets, brought in by friends or family, they all are really special. The Lord knows where His valiant spirits are and they always respond to the Holy Ghost.<br />
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I feel that my capacity to recognise the Spirit has grown a lot more on the mission. I hope that it will continue to grow even after! I definitely understand better what it will take, and part of that is a lot of obedience and diligence.<br />
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I can't believe it's my last week here on the mission! I'm confident that there will be good things to come!<br />
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We've been passing this structure a lot this past transfer and we didn't say much about it at first, but this week Elder Angeiras commented that it looked a lot like a spire from the Salt Lake Temple! It kept making us think of the temple! That's where we want to be! :)<br />
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Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
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Elder Chong<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /> 25 Jun 2018<br />
Transfer 17 Week 6<br />
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Hi everyone!<br />
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I guess I have a little bit of time to wrap things up. Last week was so good. Had a lot of meals with members, and I think I've put on weight haha. I'm sure going to miss Portuguese food!<br />
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This last transfer has been on a spiritual high. This final week especially. We had another baptism in the ward and that's the third in the span of 6 weeks. That's something I've never seen on my mission up till now! On that same day of the baptism, I received a message from someone that Elder de Sousa and I found in Norwich. That person decided to be baptised! I can't think of a better way to end off my mission... except a trip to the London temple!<br />
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It has been a wonderful 2 years! I don't even know how to put it all together in words. Heavenly Father has really taught me much about life in a short span of 2 years. I've definitely learned to trust Him more. I feel that throughout this time, my desire to follow the Saviour has increased and I want to be more obedient to everything that is required of me. I do not anticipate an easy and smooth-sailing life after the mission, but I feel better prepared to face whatever is ahead of me with faith and hope.<br />
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"And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith."<br />
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I know that after a trial of faith comes a witness of the truth, and through it all we achieve greater growth and even increased faith in Jesus Christ.<br />
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I'm looking forward to being with friends and family soon! :D<br />
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<span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><a aria-controls="js_1z8" aria-describedby="js_1z9" aria-haspopup="true" class="UFICommentActorName" data-ft="{"tn":";"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1218887754&extragetparams=%7B%22is_public%22%3Afalse%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi_admin%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong" id="js_1za" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;">Sun Fu Chong</a></span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"> </span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span>Oh It's 6 am already in KL on April 2 now and I didn't sleep another night! In US time is still April 1 and I found the answer!!!! There were some clues. Here goes - First </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=699173392&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/peter.chen.16718979?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Peter Chen</a><span> I noticed liked this post. His part in the clue is found here - (</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FTSaasT&h=ATMCGb8oJFcM4XLlLkuokyKapPkUxSeHVvv-M2z6F4XOFDme6-6xiJcKPjvYSX7CSDMApNrhNk0ANOHzGkTx15cqkRrdt2rv0H_6Y-1-F8ooNfOLZ62_HDdegpJeF4ZibE98WjtwcsU" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/TSaasT</a><span>) where he played a part to help me in my family history research on Hakka people! </span><br /><br /><span>Next clue is in the same journal post but another part about a "Gordian Knot" I felt again on April 1 morning where I couldn't write when I felt I couldn't sleep found here - (</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FTVusve&h=ATPb1N80Ws2ZCPkPpgAaDHqr2U2X22tqs3ukMX-uGc37LyuFFVRc5etCj0_jXx1j5l2pe7ogO8sj3G0W-QYSEibW-NtNAwI3Lw7ZWpGbRyKnixyFkzLky4LN1rqlLh16WLE5cHnRfqU" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/TVusve</a><span>). </span><br /><br /><span>Then just last night before midnight Msian time of April 1, I was chatting with </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1235720730&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/stephany.kum?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Stephany Kum</a><span> who is a good friend of </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1359735553&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/joyce.ngu.35?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Joyce Ngu</a><span>, being new members in our KL branch church conversed with me about her going to clean graves on Sunday, April 2nd with the family to remind me it is "Qingbing" Chinese festival which is in remembrance of the dead! It reminded me on Friday evening where I spent time with the Elders at Church and Twin Towers(</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FePUAzl&h=ATOQ7Y_uNbFariU5Nw2-zT6JwjTGXxQE4d6VfdRocxZCO6rH9lYaOz7Jay6Yo4PE8X4yLD10l1KC7WW1wth3FAxpRMKkVPEh0Q0Eicwd_6LMrtiXz4GEYVtd-TrvOJxkfV38iirGYGg" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/ePUAzl</a><span>) that one of them told me there was a new Easter Video that is cool I should check out and here it is - (</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FiAqxMw&h=ATPtIw3r5jbY6XrTcIdjaYtF_ky39MGefrGv42Dgoxw9c5k3RuMvitUHHrCcvB0pYZTNstJDi10-IikqNRr8SCuXGLk-uJH7ObZP1vN3tGfP5QCroAFpVP1w7sJNGP6kuEi60DVMQf8" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/iAqxMw</a><span>)</span><br /><br /><span>Another clue is a member from another branch </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1010677016&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/caryn.c.huei?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Caryn Chin Huei</a><span> during the week was telling me about her 2 good male friends living together in PJ who seem to be talking about spirits or ghosts in their apartment! She felt it strange or scary herself when she was there so my advice told to them was to move out if they weren't comfortable and she should avoid visiting them herself too in the apartment! So here is the conclusion: </span><br /><br /><span>As I heard the opening talk on April 1 of the live Church General Conference morning session talk today(Msian April 2 Sunday), by Elder </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=519087554805391&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/lds.henry.b.eyring/?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Henry B Eyring</a><span> (a Princeton and Harvard grad - </span></span></span></span></span><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;">(</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FepbASB&h=ATNRDO6WndaT30YHWS1j4S0NtwjuQAzRxEZRHW_wHt3z3MFsxgcbJ_rcxRRxOlqPksuHtMoWKpay23NgGvxI-J_ZlC8XV2sHC7tlluqFrPiLAx4s6v4t3YJ37TASCy_ckH7IoeHNJag" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/epbASB</a><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;">),</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"> it woke me up that it was strongly about the Savior but it was also about family history work or genealogy too which is about people who have died. All Mormons know we are the only Church in the world who have saving ordinances for the dead, not just cleaning graves by Chinese belief, but is a modern revelation through Joseph Smith that resolved the issue of how those who never heard of Christ before can also be saved due to post-death proxy temple ordinances that we do for the dead to fulfill the law that all man needs to be baptized to receive salvation that Christ provides. </span><br />
<span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;"><span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody"><br /><span>Another clue was my sharing to </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1359735553&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/joyce.ngu.35?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Joyce Ngu</a><span> one morning when I woke up to tell her I heard someone shout to wake me up, kidding that it was a ghost!!! So the main conclusion why I couldn't sleep that whole night which is not normal as I can sleep if I want to under any condition in my past 58 years of my life, is it is a strong prompting from spirits of the other world, most likely my ancestors, that I need to submit their names to the temple for proxy baptisms for them which I delayed because my wife who passed away in 2012 was the one who helped me translate the old Chinese 'Zupu' or family book of my great grand father with ancestral names that go back to thousand of years, which I did try to get help from some members like </span><a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1002653524&extragetparams=%7B%22hc_location%22%3A%22ufi%22%7D" dir="ltr" href="https://www.facebook.com/ng.l.san.9?hc_location=ufi" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Ng Li San</a><span> in Melaka but distance was the problem. </span><br /><br /><span>The family history and China information started as long ago as 1982 recorded here (</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FIGpKYK&h=ATPIC2oUDpyfoqvh71bgQ9Ty48UNeaaE_6AYDjbyRYXmOqP3Kgc5s6NdNBH0o0ey95CQahRJQYuoXssNtgckxkQs_4NB2V7WzhCQoT3wxHLFmUB8Fm5Nk51ixMRnL-8JLp2YrxJZB7o" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/IGpKYK</a><span>) and interesting for me that it has led to me finding out the China people with their long history and philosophy are here today in Melaka shared here recently (</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2F1dLVUn&h=ATP7kDcbPe0_Rd2RQaFD02EFtmeVRpIajbkGLEpq-ey5qygke0Dsxf5i0Z8nJlkf6qJQoEOa9rWo2dxaxeS6M-oNv0yummdMaR0C_VUAgF0gDFJq17C_bPGSaqrdqeDjCqLMOZFSkEo" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/1dLVUn</a><span>) </span><br /><br /><span>Sorry for this long comment which serves as a journal document for me in my continued spiritual life which has to be renamed to be politically correct sometimes in our modern world as "Serendipity" or in my journals as "The Story of 7" shared here - (</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FsOAaMX&h=ATPGp1s1EVE-UwJdrtzXp0N3JN1Z0hKWRsUTbqfwzRdgEnZF3kscHKfpx5w_LAoqjVyLm_xtYk6hXQdvn8IR3vpQkLNaiTZipIwUe824Lp-NJcELLZtH_Pi5VUxKstLlyS_pOk6FEro" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/sOAaMX</a><span>) As a professional Chartered Accountant, I guess I turned my detailed documentation training for accounting documents to be used by my life experience documents or journals!.</span><br /><br /><span>Apologies again for using this comment box which can today be embedded in my blogger journals as I have done for my 1st quarter journal of 2017 found here (</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FOmuYqi&h=ATMprgdBnp4GR7xostXL613QQI0bx2g9v9Tr9nuo8tL6pqw2zJbCb8j7DWh0xuMkg01Fz2z0Fh1YCLI1NM881JNwfl_ZWnU6yfdlCJY7riHsUI_FEmnA-Y49a-Jzgw8A0EKQ348ds2M" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/OmuYqi</a><span>) This very comment post is embedded in my 2nd quarter journal of 2017 found here - (</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FNXNud4&h=ATNDSga_MZXuazy6UGG96wbDSHeDgSI_U5QCqBH2Afm6IcwCddSXa5YkMVaRksYwSdqxL46E5b-dj1eczx9VjpyT_gWL1aAVJtEG4nmZIQ2f7UlRI8bVpP1Qhnk8qjVxGx9uekeK_gk" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/NXNud4</a><span>)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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How I would contextualize the above series of events to know of its meaning for me personally will be soon shared later below this journal post.<br />
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6 Aug 2017<br />Fast Sunday at Church in KL branch<br />
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So I walked back to the class and explained that I would teach the class after talking to the Branch President. I asked which lesson number were we covering and an expat lady, who was the teacher I believed who had just come back after her vacation but she didn't seem ready to teach the class. I therefore continued and sought the cooperation of all the class members, who were mainly experienced seniors to participate. I started to click the Gospel Library App on my iPhone to see the following on my screen :<br />
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I had no time to prepare the lesson but relied on the experienced senior expat members to help the class move along as I facilitated by assigning members to read relevant scriptures. I would further give comments as led by the spirit. A quick read of the manual online before I started helped me to understand that the topic was on building the temple in Nauvoo at a great sacrifice required of the saints at that time. It was also about temple work or family history. I was to help the class members appreciate the sacrifice for those who are dead to receive the saving ordinances of the gospel through ordinances in the temple. As family history and temple work was something that I had received much inspiration and revelation about during my life time, I had enough experience to share and encourage the class members to pursue doing the work that the Lord wanted the Saints to perform. </b></span></div>
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It was then that a favorite scripture came to my mind of <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/3.7?lang=eng#6" target="_blank">1 Neph 3:7</a> which reads, "And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." I recall that I stumbled trying to quote it verbatim from memory and the sister whom I believe was the teacher of the class who had just come back, mentioned it was the scripture referenced by Elder Henry B. Eyring in the last conference talk. When I checked with her to confirm that it was the exact conference talk that I had listened to on April 1 recorded above which had become a special experience or personal revelation that I had received. Then somehow I tried again to quote verbatim and I did it perfectly to my joy as one who admits having a poor memory since young who needed much repetition to remember anything haha. Computers and social media is a great augmentation of my mind to recall anything due to ease of access, especially with smart phones, as long as there is a link I can click on it similar to what I often provide in my online chronicles!<br />
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I doubled checked Elder Henry B. Eyring's conference talk, by clicking the link given above <span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;">(</span><a dir="ltr" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgoo.gl%2FepbASB&h=ATNRDO6WndaT30YHWS1j4S0NtwjuQAzRxEZRHW_wHt3z3MFsxgcbJ_rcxRRxOlqPksuHtMoWKpay23NgGvxI-J_ZlC8XV2sHC7tlluqFrPiLAx4s6v4t3YJ37TASCy_ckH7IoeHNJag" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #365899; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/epbASB</a><span face=""helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f7f9; color: #1d2129;">) </span>to make a screen-shot of the part of the conference talk that referred to<br />
1 Nephi 3:7. It was interesting to note, after the scriptural reference, that even during the time Elder Eyring was a student, probably in the 60s, he already knew a man "who worked for one of the largest computer companies in the world", to recognize the power of computers that we are enjoying today.<br />
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<br /> 13 Aug 2017<br />
Linger-Longer Sunday with food to eat after Church<br />
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Yes interesting that it is only a week after the Sunday we fasted and on this day there was plenty of food and yet the same verse of 1 Nephi 3:7 rang again in my ears!</b></span></div>
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Our branch president Todd Woodford gave his last official talk as the President of KL branch as he is being transferred to Oman for his work, leaving in a couple of weeks time. His example has touched many in the branch as I could feel the spirit which brought me with tears and a few others too I noticed! In his closing testimony, he referred to the scripture at 1 Nephi 3:7 and even tried to quote it with the right meaning but not verbatim as I had done the previous Sunday!</b></span></div>
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I had to capture this photo with him as I recall that we never had the chance to have a photo together. I asked my housemate to join me too as we both really appreciate this humble servant of the Lord!</b></span></div>
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I noticed that his wife was standing close by and I wanted her to be in the pic as well in remembrance of the day she helped me with booking my airline ticket to the US when her husband and I, at their home sitting on the same table were trying to solve my problem of not able to get my visa card accepted online to book my most important <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2016/06/june-7-of-year-2016-epic-journey.html" target="_blank">reunion trip</a> ticket to the US in the summer of 2016. She was all quiet as she observed how we both struggled, to try my card first and then her husband's card which also failed, to finally suggest to us to try this other online site and it worked immediately. She then confessed she has been dubbed with the name 'travel agent' by her family members and others who know she does online bookings very often and competently! If you read the link above about this special trip, you would know why I am so appreciative of her and I'm glad I have a photo of both of them with my short narration here in my chronicles that will forever be kept in cyber space or my Consciousness!</b></span></div>
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Family Home Evening on Monday Night<br />
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It's a spiritual night with a lesson with fun and games every Monday for the Single Adults.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10213908330481925" target="_blank"> Click here</a> for more pics. The arrow is showing Dane who was just baptized on the previous Saturday and is riding high!</b></span></div>
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<br /> One can see that the writing in this blog post reflects the Consciousness or Awareness that I have in life with even those in the afterlife! When I strangely couldn't sleep for a night or two, as shared at the top of the post above, I turned to my Consciousness. This being the spiritual blog that I record my spiritual experiences, one can see how I could contextualize the series of events to find meaning in what could be a spiritual message to me. I systematically recorded the paragraphs above with the use of a number of hypertext links to eventually derive a Context that could give me a rationale or reasoning as to what could be happening. The Context that provides us meaning usually comes from our values, our beliefs, our knowledge, our feelings and a lot from our past accumulated experiences that are stored in our memories. This may explain why different people may go through the same thing yet may derive a different context that gives them a different meaning of their experience altogether which will manifest different reactions from each individual.<br />
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Now let's touch upon the most important part of my CONTEXT and my CONSCIOUSNESS which I have been simultaneously writing about in my <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.my/2017/07/mind-spirit-connection-where-science.html" target="_blank">Mind blog</a> as well, covering viewpoints of science and spirituality. Let me explain without too many distractions of links, as used in the above paragraphs, particular at the very top extracted from my facebook comments, which I normally like to use when I am writing online. The reason why I use what is called hypertext links in the HTML language of the world wide web is that it is very useful for me to use them as references to more detailed information stored in my brain acquired from various sources or experiences that led to the overall composition of my writing and flow of information that I am trying to share. In other words, I have learned how to use modern technology to augment my mind's capabilities so that I can be more competent to accomplish more than if I had not the benefit of these modern tools, broadly referred to as Information Technology today.<br />
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I know I was blessed with a good education from the start of my life due to the values and beliefs of my father who started life in poverty but worked hard in school to receive scholarships to become a professional land surveyor. I know that he had artistic talents in watercolor painting and was good with his hands in carpentry too. He could create innovative items of furniture like making tables from a sliced tree trunk polished to show its attractive natural designs and could build shelves using his system of wooden joints with oblong poles and screws. He was also a gardener and maintained his potted plants and orchids well.<br />
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Being the youngest of 7 children, where my 4 older brothers were all well educated too due to the leadership example of my father, I was blessed with the additional examples of each one of them as well. Besides their success in academic studies, they were also good examples in how they raised their own family with their own rationale of living a good productive life. In short, our family had everything to create happiness in life. We just did not have a practical or common religion to follow. Each was left on his own to choose for himself with the result that only the women like my mother or oldest sister would follow the traditional religion of idol worshiping. Some of the wives of my brothers accepted Christianity but the men generally were not spiritual and can be considered secular in nature in their Consciousness and behavior.<br />
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I was raised as a filial Chinese son though in a more modern setting of being born in a country that inherited the British educational system and Consciousness. As my father had worked for the British government besides being sent to England to qualify as a Chartered land surveyor, our family enjoyed a modern culture in our home where I had grown up picking up my father's self-disciplined and routine manner of accomplishing daily tasks more specifically seeing him file documents nightly into properly indexed paper files or folders. Another brother was highly influential to me in helping me to have a good study system and even gave me pocket money incentives for the number of A's I could bring home from my important examinations!<br />
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When I turned a teenager entering middle school or secondary level of education in the Malaysian terminology, I began to blossom like a rose not only in academic performance but in sports and social life too. I was involved in diverse sports of Karate, basketball, soccer, hockey etc where I can claim today that I can play any sport with a ball! I could qualify to be in the pure science stream studying the subjects of physics, chemistry, biology and modern as well as additional math. I was a happy teenager feeling on top of the world. My parents never had to worry about me nor did I have to worry about them.<br />
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In the social aspect of my life, I had the freedom to go out with my friends, come home late at night etc. I made sure they knew who were the people I mixed around with and they were always good people to this day who remain my lifelong friends. I liked the integrated system of the school that I was in. Not a private school for the rich only but it was a semi-government school belonging to the Catholic Church. So I got to mix with the rich and the poor students of all races and religions. There was no favoritism of any nor discrimination either. There was a brotherhood feeling and meeting together years later, one can feel that the bond is still there.<br />
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This social life of schoolmates later expanded to a very much larger circle of friends that came from my connections to many other interest groups I was involved with in my adult life supported by my increased mobility that soon became borderless over time. With my increased connections with more people in diverse fields over time, I could feel my Consciousness never stopped growing. By my continuous writing of journals till my senior years, I could have better context of my myriad of experiences so that everything became more meaningful to me besides being useful.<br />
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EXPANDING MY CONSCIOUSNESS<br />
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My curiosity led to constant questions from me to adults in my early life. Family members would become frustrated when my 'why' questions became excessive. It turned out that when I applied my 'why' questioning to things I was learning in school, it became a plus factor for me as I began to learn things not for the purpose of passing exams only but I sincerely wanted to know the reasoning or rationale behind everything I was learning. This habit followed me to this day where realizing that I was a slow learner or reader, once I understood something, I would never forget it. My reasoning and logic was stronger than my memory to recall facts and figures. Also technology caught my interest and with the system of learning I had developed, I could harness it to augment my mind to expand my Consciousness in leaps and bounds, becoming a Superman metaphorically speaking. The work of my writings in my online journals is reflective of my growing Consciousness. Knowing how to use Social Media like Facebook, Linkedin, WhatsApp, Twitter etc helped me to continue to connect to more people whereby in sharing with each other our Consciousness, the interpersonal process of the human mind is fully tapped to enhanced the flow of information and energy for both parties.<br />
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My influential brother further encouraged me to travel when I was in my teenage years, suggesting I should explore India. When I was about 15 plus, my grandma took my nephew and I along on a bus tour from Penang to Bangkok in Thailand, going as far north as Chengmai. I didn't find Thailand much different from Malaysia as it was just more crowded with more temples and slightly different cuisine but was still a developing country too. I didn't think India would be too different from Malaysia where we also had strong local Indian culture as part of the multi-racial composition of the country. With the savings from the rewards from my brother plus other savings, I calculated that going to Europe by Aeroflot via Moscow from Kuala Lumpur and following a hitch-hiker's guide book of where to stay to live with just 5USD a day would be a better and affordable alternative than visiting India. I wanted to see the famous Eiffel tower of Paris, the Lourve museum for the Mona Lisa painting, London bridge, the Lakes and Alps of Switzerland, ruins of Pompeii in Italy etc. I soon found myself on the plane to start my journey by the Eurail train from London that was cheap in the winter time and covered about 11 countries in 21 days. Timing was ideal as it was December 1976 and I would start my university in Australia only in February the following year. I made this trip to the northern hemisphere knowing I would most likely be isolated in the large continent of Australia in the southern hemisphere during in my University days. I revisited Australia in 2014 and covered a bit of my European adventure recorded in <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.sg/2014/11/my-travelogue-through-time-places-and.html" target="_blank">this journal.</a> It was a spiritual trip for me and another is the trip to China found in <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.sg/2015/12/my-travelogue-2-through-time-places-and.html" target="_blank">this journal.</a> US trips to Salt Lake City have always been spiritual for me and my family shared in <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.sg/2016/06/june-7-of-year-2016-epic-journey.html" target="_blank">this journal.</a><br />
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SpaceTime-Travel seems to be happening in this post as links to my other journals as above can bring one to different time zones and different countries as we touch upon the topic of travel. This very post itself started in April 2017 and was continued in Aug 2017 but what date is this very sentence or paragraph you're reading now typed on? The clue is given when SpaceTime-Travel was mentioned as this is a Consciousness terminology covered by this new journal of mine that was created for the purpose to pin down the meaning of SpaceTime. <a href="http://space-time-travel.blogspot.sg/2005/10/meeting-president-houghton-and-wife.html" target="_blank">Click here </a>to find this new journal post to see a Space-Time stamp I've incorporated to know what date was the post created and we will know roughly the date this post is updated since reference is made to it on this paragraph. This is the time-stamp seen, "(Time of writing: 12 Mar 2018, Space: blogger post in Singapore)" So it has to be at least 12 Mar 2018 when the SpaceTime-Travel post was first written. The exact day is actually 4 days later on 16 Mar 2018 when I'm about to leave Singapore and I am wanting quickly to finish this post so let me continue.<br />
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Travelling to Europe and later to Australia for my tertiary education expanded my Consciousness not only in seeing the famous sites that were tourists attraction in Europe but meeting the people that were there too where some were foreign Australian travellers too! There were definitely fewer Chinese then in the year 1976 but if one were to be in Europe today in 2018, there would be thousands of Chinese people mainly from mainland China due to the big change in the economic status of the country. I had greatly expanded my consciousness as early as 1976 and never stopped since then as I have visited to date just over 30 countries while my school mate working in the world bank in the United States have travelled over 80 countries as per this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpxB6WJWX3I" target="_blank">video recording</a> made a year ago.<br />
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What I got as a boost to my Consciousness in my travel to Europe and very soon to Australia is I began to feel and know the Caucasians better as many Australians were migrants from Europe too. Walking on the ruins of Pompeii that where the whole city was destroyed in AD79 due to the eruption of Mt Vesuvius was another booster to my Consciousness to walk in the preserved ruins to know that people once lived there. It did something to my Spirit, again referring to the afterlife people! All the while history didn't mean much to me as a pure science student who later switched to business and the accounting field. But I've never forgotten what I had memorized for my history classes in lower middle school that William the Conqueror crossed the English channel in 1066. However I didn't feel anything about what I knew even when I was in London as maybe I had stayed only in the city to marvel that I was in Oxford Street to see the large departmental stores and went to the West End district where there was a sign, "Carnaby Street Welcomes the World" Thanks to technology I could find this mentioned in the era of 1970s from this <a href="http://eruption%20of%20mount%20vesuvius%20in%20ad%2079/" target="_blank">site.</a><br />
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In visiting all these cities of Europe, I didn't feel the spirit that religion was important though I visited some of the largest or most beautiful old Churches I've ever seen like St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna. I did run into some Christian groups in the streets who pass flyers and seem very modern with roots from the US who would convert people on the spot to accept Jesus and sing songs. I was familiar with the St Peter's Cathedral in Vatican city as I was from the Catholic school where no one really taught me what the whole religion was about except I knew their Cathedral was a holy sacred place for worship.<br />
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It was not until I was coming to become a legal adult of 21 years of age while almost completing my tertiary education in Australia that I became satisfied with revelations from the spiritual world that my family really didn't have as they were more traditions or practices that they followed without much deep understanding. How I acquired the missing part of my life that my family members could not provide me has been clearly chronicled in this Spiritlane-blog that can be read from the beginning by <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank">clicking here.</a><br />
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So with the Spiritual part of my life taken care of by accepting the Mormon teachings, the Body part or feelings of my life continued to grow optimally to create more meaningful human relationships, eventually leading to the creation of my own large nuclear family with many other long-lasting and meaningful friendships. Last but not least, my active enquiring Mind never ceased to find answers to my questions of everything around me. I became optimal in learning multi-disciplines that enabled me to synergize with many individuals, organizations, and communities to achieve breakthrough performances in different fields. These were recognized by the public or appeared in the printed press, book publications, and social media news today as shared <a href="http://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.my/2015/12/test.html" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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In many ways, I became more aware than most people going through the same life phases to create my own CONTEXT and meaning for my own CONSCIOUSNESS. For greater understanding of the Scientific and Spiritual understanding of this subject, you can continue to another blog post of mind that is best suited found <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.sg/2017/07/mind-spirit-connection-where-science.html" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></div>
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Little did I know that a Facebook post I made on 4 Jan 2017 below could lead to the creation of this blog post about a week later. I started to pull out published books from my stack of shelves including filed notes and photocopied documents from my filing cabinets which were created at the time when I was investigating what the world called the 'Mormon Church' in Geelong Australia in the year 1979. My latest trip back to Australia in 2014, particularly Melbourne and my old college town of Geelong where Mormon missionaries first found me has been shared in this <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2014/11/the-stone-cut-without-hands.html" target="_blank">blog post.</a></b></span></div>
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So much has changed in the world since 1979 especially in the field of computer technology when personal computers at that time were just coming out to the marketplace and had not replaced minicomputers yet in offices nor was it found in every home like today. Even when personal computers started to be used in every home, the world wide web or Internet to connect every computer to each other had not been created yet. For this reason, all information and experiences of my early years when I had just joined the Church were kept in physical paper journals, files and photocopied documents as opposed to being kept digitally in a personal computer today whereby the Internet technology in existence allow convenient sharing of information.</b></span></div>
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Can you "copy and paste" which parts of the article that you claimed to make the article "horrendous" or gave you the understanding of what you wrote in your response today as "did a great job of painting a picture of ex-Mormons or anti-Mormons as the chief proponents of immorality in the world today." You're the English teacher from England but I am only a Malaysian Chinese with mixed languages or Asian dialects and need an accurate explanation from you that is detailed to show me by copying and pasting which sentences of the article gave you the interpretation that you claimed openly. I can address further anti-Mormon claims of Joseph Smith being a fraud etc which isn't new, but that really wasn't my interest in responding to you. In simple language from my mind, "How the heck did you get that conclusion from that article that I read over and over again but couldn't see which parts could lead you to the conclusion that you shared openly?" </b></span></div>
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"I found myself a little agitated with the following excerpts:<br />
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Anti-Mormonism isn’t just about getting people to lose faith in our Church, it’s about getting people to lose faith in God, in Christ, in revelation, in religion<br />
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Or, in other words, the goal of Atheism is to destroy the agency of man. At least, to the extent possible.<br />
Ultimately, this is what anti-Mormonism intends to accomplish.<br />
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For the alternative, is the Atheism that would guide our civilization into the abyss if ever we give it the chance<br />
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They pretty much made the decision that every Mormon who leaves the church becomes an atheist, and then went from one false notion to the next by declaring that atheism will prove to be the scourge of the world.<br />
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Don't misunderstand my intentions here, there were many parts of that article which I liked and found myself nodding to. But the driving narrative present was clear to see. They even posted a comment beneath the post explaining that the impressions I picked up while reading, were in fact not the impressions they were trying to convey! Ha!"<br />
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Then he added this comment, "I actually read this article and a counter article one after the other, a view from both sides. Here is the link to that one:<a href="http://zelphontheshelf.com/why-ex-mormons-cant-leave-the-church-alone/" target="_blank"> http://zelphontheshelf.com/why-ex-mormons-cant-leave-the-church-alone/</a>"</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Post-dated comment </span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>12 April 2021<br />( The above link doesn't work anymore as it happens when some modifications are made by the original web creator at a latter time. I could only find these two links by searching online with the same original title in the url <a href="https://mylifebygogogoff.com/2019/12/why-ex-mormons-cant-leave-the-church-alone.html">1.</a> and <a href="https://religionnews.com/2019/07/02/why-cant-ex-mormons-just-leave-the-lds-church-alone/">2.</a></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>This is a time of the 2nd year of the COVID19 pandemic in our world. As one who has been writing journals since I was encouraged to do so after joining the Church in 1979, I've recently compiled all my journals that became online or converted to be so later in life when I found time, to be collected at <a href="https://abacuscloud.blogspot.com/2018/01/photolinks-to-story.html">www.AbacusToCloud.com</a> Thanks to my journals covering a variety of areas of my active life since I joined the Church, I can be a faithful writer to make an honest short comment about anti-Mormon literature at this time of our world crisis as well as a note on how the world has become since 1979:</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>People have not changed since 1979 to find that they are always bias to their own beliefs. This doesn't only apply in religions but also in politics. All I know is that I am just an ordinary man with a curiosity to keep learning in life to achieve extraordinary<a href="https://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.com/2015/12/test.html?fbclid=IwAR2OI-BnY7_jyIwbVMaSsAcFnmkihOVy8cBHbg2TZUq5YmReO3o2uJffHvQ#dm"> accomplishments.</a> This includes my ability to figure out what is "Fake News" reported about the politics of USA in 2020 due to reporting of opposite news by CNN and Fox News from my journal of American politics shared by <a href="https://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2008/06/americas-politics.html?fbclid=IwAR1VfDgtKR3O8ZXWFO-QAMkDgpyIj6YpalIsW4kehx0Q6z86_6ZLF6pnOV4#fk">clicking here.</a>)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I responded : "Ahhh No wonder! You read the views from the other side which is good as I always hear from both sides too and make my own independent decision not intellectually alone but also with prayer and study. You've motivated me to complete my old journals of the past with the new topic of "Anit-Mormon literature" which I've always wanted to do but was too busy. A debate is a motivation for me and hence I will with that new current energy, thanks to your opinions. I have decided to do that post to include all my 'experiences' since I joined the Church at the year when I was turning 21. I am a detailed researcher and writer so it will take time. Do have a look at the post already started with this Facebook post embedded in it as that is my new format of latest blog posts this year in doing my blogs to save time in filling it with fresh words as the time saved is used to complete the writing and publishing of my first book by this year. Hmm.. or maybe next year haha as the project is really HUGE, writing on the theme of Human Consciousness! Here is the post I will continue my responses to your opinions and comments - <a href="https://goo.gl/zCbcBK" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/zCbcBK</a>"</b></span></div>
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The link I gave him leads to this blog post which will not only show how or why misunderstandings or misinterpretations occurred in the dialogue between Duncan and I but will also include a sharing of my research experience of Anti-Mormon literature over the years. As my time is also preoccupied with other matters at the start of this year besides working on my book to be published, it will take time for me to complete this blog post and will work on it progressively.</b></span></div>
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On the early morning of Sunday 15 Jan 2017, I started to pull out my old files to review old docs of my handwritten journals and photocopies since my investigation and baptism to the LDS Church :</b></span></div>
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In my <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/04/view-of-trained-pastors.html" target="_blank">journal post</a> found at the beginning of this blog post recording my early experiences of having pastors or ministers of other Christian denominations warning me about joining the 'Mormons', I already noted that they seem to have a different way of reading the Bible with their own interpretation of Gospel principles. In the journal post mentioned, I actually caught the mistake of interpretation of a trainee priest quoting John 10:30 which read, "I and my Father are One" to mean there is only one personage of God when the statement was referring to the unity of the Son and the Father!</b></span></div>
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Later I was even brought to a senior minister of another Church, Pastor K.A. Rankin of 1 Laurel Bank Pde in Newtown Geelong near the home I had been staying during my university years. He made a greater effort to convince me with handwritten detailed notes of why Mormon scriptures and teachings were in error, making comparisons to the Bible. A covering letter was typewritten to me to accompany his notes to me shown below :</b></span></div>
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I was impressed how the senior pastor could write so much as I wondered how did he have time to analyze the 'Mormon' scriptures and doctrines to point out the differences to traditional Protestant Christian theology handed to me only a short time after we first met. I soon found the answer. He must have had a copy of one of the many books published in the world as seen below:</b></span></div>
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Australia was a mainly a Protestant Christian country well equipped with these so-called "anti-Mormon" books that were published in the US where the LDS church originated from and where opposition already began in the early 1800s when the Church first started. </b></span></div>
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I came across these books later and knew how the senior pastor could merely copy the text to write out the main points to me easily to show why any 'Mormon' doctrine was erroneous. There was one point that disturbs me when the anti-'Mormon' book claimed translators of the book of Hebrews in the new testament, particularly Goodspeed, had revealed that the priesthood in "untransferable" as shown below :</b></span></div>
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Now I was not a theologian and I had little time to research theology. I relied on faith and prayers to Heavenly Father to guide me. On the day I went to visit the trainee priest mentioned above, he lived in the grounds of a Christian Theological College. They had a large library in the basement of the college building and I asked permission if I could visit the library. The library was huge that filled the entire long basement of the large building. I didn't know where to start looking but with a prayer in heart, I was guided to walk to a shelf and pulled out a book. It was about translation translations of the bible and when I opened by a page on Hebrews, I read that the text said the following to this effect, " Some translators like Goodspeed have translated that the priesthood is not transferable but others say it is. Ah.... so I learned that these anti-Mormon books will publish half-truths which are deceiving to the reader and I discovered this fact by faith on that day!</b></span></div>
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That was in 1979. I could not photostat a copy of the page I discovered in the library that day but was satisfied I found contrary evidence to what the anti-'Mormon' book had stated. God had answered my prayers and I remembered the name "Goodspeed". Thirty-eight years later today in 2017, I used google to find keywords of Hebrew translation by Goodspeed and found <a href="https://books.google.com.my/books?id=Yra4KhlMBYQC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=priesthood+untransferable+goodspeed&source=bl&ots=_4gVaNWbqv&sig=KdLN1Aj8cV1P5euHClbVPINHZY0&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=priesthood%20untransferable%20goodspeed&f=false" target="_blank">this page.</a> It is from the book entitled "Kingdom of the Cults" screen captured and shared above.</b></span></div>
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Likewise I also today could find a page from Google that reveals the revelation that Goodspeed's translation was not necessarily true as many others translated Hebrew to say the priesthood is transferable as per the screen capture below:</b></span></div>
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The above page was found in a Fair'Mormon' website by <a href="http://en.fairmormon.org/Question:_Was_the_priesthood_held_by_Jesus_priesthood_not_%27transferable%27_to_members_of_the_Church%3F" target="_blank">clicking here.</a></b></span></div>
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Another experience to check a possible false claim by the anti-'Mormon' book was about the claim by the author that there was no fiery revival of Christianity by the many different denominations during the time of Joseph Smith as recorded in the history of the Church. To verify this, I merely had to go to the Geelong public library to find a book about the history of Christianity in America. I found a page that I could photocopy shown below with the enlarged extract at the bottom of it :</b></span></div>
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"Burned over ground" was used to describe how the region in New York state experienced repeated waves of revivalist excitement during the time of Joseph Smith.</b></span></div>
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So when I found one or two more major untruths in these anti-'Mormon' literature coupled with the very negative or caustic tone of the language used in these books, my mind could tell they are as good as fake news that America's current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has claimed in media like CNN news. I am glad that I am blessed with a logical and analytical mind to be able to discern truth from falsehood and have the Holy Ghost to guide me on many occasions of my life too.</b></span></div>
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Today, with the advancement of technology, many important manuscripts of the Church history can be shared to the public such as the original handwritten papers of Joseph Smith revelations received from God as in the above photo sourced from this <a href="http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/vision-16-february-1832-dc-76/1" target="_blank">website.</a> It helps any genuine person research the true history of the Church and the life of the prophet Joseph Smith.</b></span></div>
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Talking about media in the US, I also read the above book by the author S.E. Cupp who claims that liberal media in America is causing the country to lose their main religion of Christianity that can be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_Our_Religion" target="_blank">read here.</a></b></span></div>
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There are also philosophers using science who enthusiastically deny the existence of God with their intellectual logic and reasoning such as Daniel Dennet. Watch his long video lecture below, which is just one of the many videos of him sharing his strong beliefs no different from Anti-Mormon authors and creators of a no God or Jesus theory but haven't made any public remarks against the Mormons yet that I'm conscious of but he surely hits strongly against the Jesus followers of America for sure or try to prove their foolishness compared to what Science knows! Take a look at his views in the video below which starts with a long introduction of the man :</b></span></div>
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I love listening to his style of tongue-in-cheek expressions and how he articulates himself like a true philosopher to promote his science and imagery cum logic of his mind. He can stand up and speak out for what he believes with humor without worrying that his head may get cut off as in some religious areas of our world today or like in the old world where witches were burned on the stake in Europe. This stated fact has a connection with the existence of America where migrants came primarily from Europe to live in a new free country based on the rights of the individual. Through the founding fathers, the people created a constitution of the new nation that would separate religion and politics so that these two powerful institutions cannot gang up against any citizen of the country. The days of the Founding Fathers who influenced their American dollar bill to be printed, "In God We Trust" seem to be losing their appeal or influence today.</b></span></div>
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I later found out that Dan Dennet had ganged up with 3 others to be known as "The Four Horsemen" to stand for Atheism together. Take time to listen to this long video below to see how unity is strength when you hold a radical view different from a lot of other common people who are not philosophers or scientists like these men who dedicate themselves to "preach" their beliefs to influence others to know there are many logical reasons why there is no God like Dan Bennet above. They assume believers do not have any good reasons to believe in God at least in their minds except perhaps for reasons of fear or guilt!</b></span></div>
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The four men who are hardcore atheists, from left to right above,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens" target="_blank"> Christopher Hitchens</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett" target="_blank">Daniel Dennett</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" target="_blank">Richard Hawkins</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris" target="_blank">Sam Harris</a>, known as "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Atheism" target="_blank">The Four Horsemen of New Atheism</a>" recorded on 30th of September 2007 </b></span></div>
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Coming to know of these atheist influencers only supports the thoughts and writings of S.E. Cupp's book that I had in my research self a long time ago. I respect her book and writings as she sincerely classifies herself as an agnostic who shared her belief of how liberal media is attacking the majority of Christian American citizens subtly without repercussion unlike doing it to a minority group.</b></span></div>
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I've come across other scientists and intellectuals in social media who strongly believe in God like Jordan B. Peterson who is a match for intellectual or secular people like Sam Harris. <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2012/10/time-of-reflection-and-meditation-with.html#jp">Click here</a> to learn more about him by watching videos on how he can handle Sam Harris in debates and discussions.</b></span></div>
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Interestingly, <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1983/09/news-of-the-church/build-missionaries-and-teach-the-gospel?lang=eng" target="_blank">as early as 1983</a>, the leaders of the LDS Church already talked about the secularization of the American society: Addressing the “minor but irritating challenges of misrepresentation,” Elder Maxwell counseled the leaders to develop a sense of history in order to put modern challenges into perspective. "We must not, as the Lord has instructed us, revile against those that revile. Let us instead be about our Father’s business in dignity and devotion.”</b></span></div>
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Critics of the Church are not a major concern, he said: “These tactical irritations are mere mosquitoes in the swamp. The real challenge is the spreading swamp itself, the growing secularization of the Western world. From the former, we receive some stings of criticism. From the latter, … we receive deepening indifference, if not hostility, towards all things spiritual.”</b></span></div>
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Elder Maxwell explained that since much of the Christian world now exists in that “secular swamp,” true Christianity seldom gets a hearing: “So many in the world regard Christianity not as untrue or even unthinkable, but simply as irrelevant. … Upon this sober scene has burst forth the full light of the everlasting gospel. … We bring fresh evidence and reassurance of Jesus’ reality, identity, and personality to a doubting and despairing world.”</b></span></div>
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In the elections of 2017, where Donald Trump won to become the 45th President of the United States, in his campaign around 18 months earlier, he repeatedly used the phrase ‘drain the swamp’.</b></span></div>
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Read more in this <a href="http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/20/what-does-drain-the-swamp-mean-and-why-did-donald-trump-say-it-7245279/" target="_blank">public post </a>to understand what he meant.</b></span></div>
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The Book of Mormon which is considered the keystone of the Mormon Church continues to stand as a witness to the world of the truthfulness of the Church and therefore the existence of a living God, with pieces of evidence named in the following video:</b></span></div>
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Note that the claims of the above video are not endorsed by the Church. They are outside the conditions of believing in the Savior and following his teachings as revealed in ancient scripture as well as to his chosen prophets of the past, or in modern times, in preparation for his Second Coming.</b></span></div>
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I never accepted the restored Gospel or God because I was given evidence that I was looking for as a student trained in the science stream during middle school to later qualify with a dual major in arts and science for my university degree. Instead, I merely followed commandments to see what happens, exercising my logical understanding of what a science experiment is about, and from this alone I received a series of miracles that have occurred not only during the early years of my faith in the Savior and following the guidance of the modern-day prophets of our Church but has been consistent throughout my life as I consistently chose the Savior and not the Devil to follow, repenting with sincerity and humility when I have fallen short of being a perfect man. I can testify strongly that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith is a true prophet. </b></span></div>
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I didn't get what we call scientific evidence but I got a lot more from the miracles I received in my faith of in the Savior. I used my education or logic-math intelligence to figure out all these anti-Mormon people including Atheist scientists today like Dan Dennet above. In writing my 1st book to be published, I researched what really is Consciousness that scientists and religionists are trying to figure out and conceived my own optimal understanding, thanks to the power of the Holy Ghost, the SQ of my EQ and IQ composite intelligence that I perceive I had obtained in my life. This is the blessing of deep learning I had as a member of the Lord's Church.<br />
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I can sense their pride in knowledge and contemptuous feelings of these scientists who are atheists though not all, who boldly declare that there is no God. Actually, I can sense these same prideful feelings in the Christian churches, not all but the modern ones with charismatic leaders who lure the public only to be exposed at some point in time of financial fraud as in this <a href="http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/2087782/gyrating-pop-stars-embezzlement-and-faith-singapores-city-harvest" target="_blank">public case</a> in nearby strict Singapore with its purist laws to catch the guilty in the nation-state island. Scientists or doctors can be equally guilty as found in Singapore too in this <a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/prominent-oncologist-ang-peng-tiam-suspended-for-professional-8984120" target="_blank">public case</a> of a doctor.</b></span></div>
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I have developed a way of seeing through the Consciousness of others by listening to the way they speak or better still when I can have a conversation with them face to face which I have learned in life raising 6 children of my own to know of their strengths and their weakness just as I know my own. Whether scientist, doctor or even members of our Church in Singapore, Malaysia or USA, I have flushed out their true nature of corrupt or bad practices but leave it to God to judge them and forgive them if they repent. This is the law of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as I know and follow.</b></span></div>
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I have traveled to over 30 countries around the world. Most travelers will want to find tourist sites but I have always been more interested to find the people whom I can talk to and even become friends to learn of their culture and maybe their Consciousness too. This is a term not often used in the past but is prevalent in the world of science and spirituality that comes from today's superpower of the world, the USA where I have recorded over 25 flights to this great nation. I have learned of the Consciousness of its people and sometimes the hegemony that they try to pass to others. I have public and private communication via the Internet and just via a conversation typed or vocal, I could sense the Consciousness of the Americans who differ from the West to the East Coast. I mix closely with the white, yellow, brown and black people and all my experiences with them that I treasure has updated my Consciousness to know and understand their mental, intellectual, psychological, emotional, cultural, educational and religious traits possessed by them as I know my own.</b></span></div>
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Why did I type all of the above? I guess I have to convince myself and the reader who will one day be able to buy my book in different languages that I'm simply an ordinary man but sufficiently experienced with an up-to-date Consciousness that can discern what or who is true and what or who is fake in this world. The Consciousness I believe in each person is eternal, meaning their awareness of what they have done, learned or experienced will carry on to another state of life when their time on earth has ended. From knowing the universal law of cause and effect learned from earth life, many may not be surprised of a judgment after death to account for how we had lived our life to decide where we qualify to go in the next life.<br />
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It has been my belief that the judicial process would be easy as everyone's Consciousness need only be matched to whatever criteria of judgment that is used to decide how well we have done to qualify for entrance to the next world that we will dwell in I imagine. So let us be diligent in learning more truth as time reveals it and make our own adjustments or choices accordingly for every set of new knowledge we receive. I see it like how we adapt to new technology that comes into our lives so rapidly in these modern times so that we can live better lives. With the absence of the right spirit or presence of the wrong one, our lives can be worse with or without technology as it is neutral by itself.</b></span></div>
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The video below sheds new possibilities on the geography of the Book of Mormon. Interesting to me but such information has never been relevant to my personal progress in the BodyMindSpirit (BMS) domains of my life that I have coined and explained <a href="http://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.my/2015/12/test.html#wr" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></div>
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This is the latest video having different opinions from the one shown above earlier on the geography of the Book of Mormon thus confirming the reason why the Church does not formally endorse the possibilities of what is expressed in the video.</b></span></div>
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Ha Ha! My son in law Jay working for a company started by a Professor in MIT Boston, happened to make a post on his Facebook timeline below about scams or fake news in the technology of the game industry as I'm finishing my last post above. In the spirit of truth versus lies, I thought I'd share it. The point I like to highlight is that life will always have opposites, as explained by Lehi in the Book of Mormon <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/2.11,15?lang=eng#10" target="_blank">highlighted here.</a> The Devil will still have his influence until the judgment day. He will never change but he will change tactics to hurt us as he knows how to hide behind technology or even science today, so readers or listener BEWARE!<br />
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Another thought to share is maybe that the Devil has similar Consciousness like gamblers in our world. They just keep trying to win no matter what and if they do win, they will also lose it all in the end as they will burn up all the money trying to win even more. How do I know this? I have close relatives and friends who have this gambling spirit!</b></span></div>
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One last thought to share that comes to my mind about what happens to these churches that are exposed to fraudulent practices? I discovered that there were still be members continuing to believe while many had left. Why is this so? My Consciousness tells me it's all about pride in not admitting our wrongs or our ignorance. Also in my research of "Emotional Intelligence" where Daniel Goleman is the Bestselling Author of the book with the same title, there is the psychology of Self-Deception involved. This was covered in his earlier book entitled, "Vital Lies. Simple Truths" Quoting from page 19 of this book about our human mind, "Attention is the gathering of information crucial to existence. Anxiety is the response when that information registers as a threat. The intriguing part of this relationship is straightforward: we can use our attention to deny threat, and so cushion ourselves from Anxiety. In some ways that is useful self-deception. In others, it's not."<br />
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This anti-anti-'Mormon' post was written very late in my life or membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Anti-'Mormon' materials seek to oppose our Church and its teachings. Early in my Church membership when some were passed to me, it made me become curious why the other Christians would need to write opposing views against our Church. I took the time to investigate and the start of my post covers what I had discovered. I didn't have the time to follow up to write a journal of my discoveries and thank Duncan Horne for prompting me to do it as it has been my nature aways to explain things more clearly, as I recall from my own Consciousness, especially when I have kept documents related to the experience that happened a long time ago as well as my updating of online journals today with links to Facebook media.<br />
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I have spent considerable time during my life to be actively updating my Consciousness to cover many broad fields of life in order to answer deeper personal questions like What is my Potential, How do I do what I do and how can I help others repeat what I can do if they so desire to follow? This caused me to read and experiment widely during my sojourn on earth. I wanted to gain sufficient knowledge via my own experiences besides just reading about them or hearing from others in my own private research. I was diligent to record my experiences in my journals that were divided into the BMS domains of Body Mind Spirit as perceived in New York City in an experience recorded<a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.my/2011/07/introduction-fastlane-is-about-mind.html" target="_blank"> here.</a><br />
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My journals have helped me better understand my own Consciousness, that of others and gave me the capability to contribute to unraveling what is Consciousness itself in my own book at a timely moment when the world is actively seeking the answer from the Scientists as well as the Spiritualists.<br />
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I became unique to qualify to share my views as it has something to do with my ability to integrate the two left and right hemispheres of the brain. It started at the University when I would take on what is considered the subjects of Arts and Science to do a dual major in Accounting and Computer Science. With the power of the Internet today to augment my mind with the incredibly useful and latest information from around the world, I am not only able to have the resource to write a compelling book to read but I can also make it accessible to the world via the same network that I used! Indeed as an Accountant who transformed himself to be an IT Consultant, my life covered the era of using technology that started with the Abacus to gradually advance to the Cloud computing era of today.<br />
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No matter how great technology is, nothing beats the 'Personal Revelation' I am entitled to when I live worthy to receive them. This has helped me navigate through all the dark times of my life which is inevitable living in our mortal existence. I not only could answer the lies or 'fake news' of anti-Mormon literature, but the Holy Ghost was also there to give me personal revelation where even if there were unanswered questions, though there were few for me as I was deeply blessed with miracles to find answers when I sincerely prayed for them.<br />
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Somehow this faith I have in having specific prayers answered was captured by our Church News in my early years of serving the Church in Malaysia in the 80s and even years later in 2017, it was mentioned again as recorded in my journal of miracles coined as the <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-of-7-continuing-into-2011.html#sp" target="_blank">'Story of 7</a>' journal.<br />
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I know my faith and obedience to Gospel principles and commandments, including the important principle of constant dialogue with my Heavenly Father with constant repentance on my part, helped me go through life with a fullness of joy and hope. Those lacking this faith and obedience I learned would be fully exposed to the negative forces of this world that would cause many to have depressed mental health in many men and women in our complexed modern world today and more in the future that is driven by technology. Technology drives change in our lives which may not be always positive which is why God has always given us the principle of Free Agency to choose how we can manage whatever given to us that it can be for our good instead of the opposite. If we do make mistakes, we can repent or change following the miracle of the Atonement which I have covered in this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html">special post.</a><br />
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Anything is good or bad depending on how humans make use of it, like money, which is a neutral object. From young, I felt I didn't fit the school system of studying to pass tests, feeling that memorizing something was not as important as having a full understanding of what I was supposed to learn. Nevertheless, through the drive of Asian parents and the example plus the encouragement of my older brothers who were graduates, I learned the 'system' of how to study and to score too in examinations. It's a simple thing to do when you are aware of how the system works. I finally graduated myself too to become a qualified Chartered Accountant under the British standards or named as a CPA under the American system.<br />
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A critical fork or a Big Change came into my life, not because of technology but because I became a member of the Church. I had anticipated entering the working world of rapid change due to my early readings of a book entitled, "Future Shock" by <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2016/06/june-7-of-year-2016-epic-journey.html#at" target="_blank">Alvin Toffler.</a> I knew I would have the support of a Heavenly Father to help me through this life of rapid change that I would face. This support came to me as I acquired the art of Deep Learning through my membership in the Church as shared in this <a href="https://www.lds.org/ensign/2017/08/learning-for-the-whole-soul?lang=eng" target="_blank">article</a>, which I highly recommend to be read. It has a definition of what is 'Deep Learning', different from the deep learning and machine language terminology used in the world of 'Big Data' today. 'Big Data' is the latest exciting topic in the IT industry as well as the commercial world today while as a researcher and writer, I was more interested in the 'Big Data' found in Human Consciousness especially of my own. Here is an excerpt from the article mentioned above:<br />
<br /> The learning that allows each of you to rise “to the full stature of your divine potential” is what I will call deep learning: learning of the whole soul—the mind, the heart, the body, and the immortal spirit. Deep learning applies to every kind of knowledge, whether spiritual or secular. Learning is deep when it increases your power to do three things: (1) to know and understand; (2) to take effective, righteous action; and (3) to become more like our Heavenly Father.<br />
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How timely that the Church uses emails to send appropriate messages or talks to members like <a href="https://www.ldschurchnews.com/living-faith/2018-08-03/latter-day-saints-can-be-influential-voices-of-truth-via-youtube-social-media-47727?utm_source=Deseret+News&utm_campaign=20690be541-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_27_03_28_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2e4a89ae88-20690be541-585856321" target="_blank">this one here</a> which talks about the black box we keep unresolved questions. I like the following quote from the message :<br />
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If you like the quote I just shared of Elder Pearson, click the link above and the read the whole article. Awareness is the simple synonym for Consciousness which is the central theme of my first book that I would write and publish which I have referred to above. The title of my book is inspired to be, "My Consciousness, Abacus to the Cloud."<br />
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After joining the Church in Australia in July 1979, I first came back to Kuala Lumpur in February 1980 to explain to my parents about my membership in the 'Mormon Church' especially about the personal revelation I had received to be a full-time missionary while in Australia. I've kept my journals well so the part on my personal revelation is found in <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/05/call-to-serve.html" target="_blank">this post </a>while my experience to face my family at home is found in this <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/05/to-face-family-at-home.html" target="_blank">other post.</a><br />
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Everything turned out well and I completed my full-time mission to serve in the Singapore Mission, primarily in West Malaysia where I had spent most of my time. I got married soon after my mission to a wonderful Singapore girl and we raised 6 children together <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2007/08/merdeka-or-indpendence-day.html" target="_blank">living in Kuala Lumpur.</a> I became the family historian due to my regular family journal posts of stories with photos and videos that could eventually be digitized. Somehow, due to my length of stay and activity in the Church in Malaysia, I became a sort of Church historian too, probably due to my professional discipline as an <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.my/2011/05/state-of-mind-for-achieving-academic.html" target="_blank">accountant</a> to maintain accurate historical financial records or documents!<br />
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Another reason could be that I have two very close and old friends who were pioneers of the Church in Malaysia. One is <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2018/02/in-memory-of-anthony-lim-teong-keat.html" target="_blank">Anthony LimTeong Keat </a>who was baptized on 3 Dec 1972 in Kuala Lumpur and still living in the same city so I have frequent contact with him who has kept good records for the Church since the early days. The other is <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/06/finding-church-in-malaysia.html" target="_blank">Thee See Ba</a> who was baptized on 26 July 1971 up north in Penang and now lives in Hawaii where I would either meet him there when I visit or when he flies home to Malaysia for holidays. With Facebook today and emails, connecting with my old friends from the Church is an easy task that makes the work of collecting historical information so much easier. There are many other old friends I maintain throughout the world and those that have provided me with old photos or printed information, I would acknowledge them when I use them in my own journals.<br />
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Here are a series of old photos of Church members in Kuala Lumpur with approximate dates given :<br />
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Family Home Evening in Anthony Lim's home on 29 July 1974 (Photo shown above is courtesy of Jackie Ho, seen on the top row 2nd from the right, who lives today in the US.)</b></span></div>
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The signing of the incorporation documents of the Church on 2 September 1977 with Anthony Lim Teong Keat and Rodney How Boon Lok as local Malaysian directors.</b></span></div>
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This is a photo of the group of members and friends meeting in Kuala Lumpur YWCA Hall for 6 years since 1973. The photo is estimated to be taken before 1975 (Photo shown above is courtesy of Jackie Ho who lives today in the US.)</b></span></div>
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1980 PJ meeting house for KL branch<br />
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My manual journals recorded our first baptism of Patricia Cheah on <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/06/starting-in-malaysia-our-first-miracle.html">Sat 25 Oct 1980</a>. On the right is a wedding card/ announcement I had received from Elder Brown who first taught me the Gospel and baptized me. She had later referred to her nephew Michael Lee Chee Cheong who was also baptized mentioned below. </b></span></div>
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1981 on grounds of PJ meeting house where KL branch met<br />
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Christmas 1981 at the PJ meeting house with the entire missionary force of the Church in Malaysia gathered for the celebration.</b></span></div>
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Missionaries in 1982 serving KL, Penang and Ipoh branches<br />
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Many baptisms continued during my mission. Above is one held on 27 Feb 1982 towards the end of my missionary service that started on <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/06/mission-call.html">6 Aug 1980</a> The new converts from left to right are Wong Yut Weng, Jack Yeong, and Michael Lee.<br />
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As I had returned home to start my own family in Kuala Lumpur, I could still meet and keep in touch with Michael Lee(above pic) and Wong Yut Weng from the baptism pic above as well as others I had taught or baptize during my missionary service. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/skyjacksky">Jack Yeong</a> had migrated to Singapore to be with the air force and his older brother <a href="https://www.facebook.com/marcuselizabeth.yeong">Marcus Yeong</a> to the UK.</b></span></div>
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Michael arranged a lunch get-together on Sat 6 April with his father on his left and his Aunt Patricia Cheah on my left.</b></span></div>
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Wong Yut Weng is seen many years since 1982 when he was baptized as a single member to progress in the Church to raise a fine family who made a visit to our Church temple in Hong Kong. This photo is shared in my special Facebook page promoting Family History and Relationships found <a href="https://www.facebook.com/familylaneinfo/posts/2405296629544309?__xts__[0]=68.ARDtkoh2-XyLVDBEFC66HVcEywWGafrVAsOCDc6DfTdAloNVPK_5FTWP8uXpwhFZ5KTphPZYKoHlczGmgI6OCEOZzJEG6wOU7UTxWptlEvVW59dt8sGuztuL39s0VTyQSl2BRR3A5kQuZSa8UHtCTTCFvDnuVhmwUQ1XZCFFFJv4GYgtK1qN4OwW-Fh85ON_eRWupOv_vgar355ZoH0jKKdJ8q-DBPuCybA3mueBUCzZs9G9HYXqC0XdADNLI3j8rWeu_susLDoIBeEUdiu_51CKt7vEJdp4OSsHENm1_0raRllsnwe0TymSsT90yiXM30tQsgHQHmWMLu1hW1tGY6HY-s-S3yGQYQ&__tn__=-R">here. </a></b></span></div>
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Felix Yong below and wife Joyce came to Geok Lee's <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-memory-of-our-unstoppable-mom.html">funeral</a> as friends of our family at Church for years. Felix was baptized by my mission companion Victor Ng on 24 April 1982. Below are two pics, taken 30 years apart. First is Felix and wife Joyce, taken in Singapore where our family had moved to. The other was taken in 1982 when we were all single after my release taken in Petaling Jaya where Felix is 3rd from the left in the front row and Joyce 1st on the left in the 3rd row from the front. Beside Felix on his right is Wong Yut Weng with his family in the above photo!</b></span></div>
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The photos of the Single Adults convention were obtained from my former missionary companion named Paul Sng who started a closed Facebook group for old Singapore Mission photos found <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2277806705774254/permalink/2282104802011111/" target="_blank">here. </a> One can apply to join as a member to access the old photos related to the Church in Singapore.</b></span></div>
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1986 PJ meeting house extended for KL branch</b></span></div>
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1987 PJ meeting house new extension hall for KL branch</b></span></div>
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On 30 July 1990, the Kuala Lumpur branch was divided into Petaling Jaya Branch to remain at the PJ meeting house at 3 Jalan Mentri Utara 7/4, Petaling Jaya while the Kuala Lumpur branch would rent a property in KL city. A single storey detached house was found opposite Ampang Park Shopping Mall and the members in the new KL branch boundary soon moved into the building to hold it's regular church services.</b></span></div>
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This is the new KL meeting house for KL branch acquired in 1992. My wife actually noticed the 'For Sale' sign for this property while driving past it every day when taking the kids to school. I checked it out to find it suitable and recommended it to the Church Area Office in Hong Kong overseeing properties in the region who approved and proceeded with the purchase process.</b></span></div>
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Our KL meeting house off Jln Ampang Hilir seen in 1992 (Photo shown above is a courtesy of Paul Oman from the US) Not much renovation was required to use the property for our services and classes.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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Visit of Elder Russel M. Nelson as an Apostle in Kuala Lumpur in 1992 June 5.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>(Photo shown above is a courtesy of Michael Tamilarason)</b></span></div>
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There was a courtyard in the center of the property so a baptism font was built to facilitate baptisms as shown in the above photo where my 2nd daughter was baptized on 10 Oct 1993.</b></span></div>
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In 1999 our family adopted the 'Von Trapp' family stage name and did our first large family performance in the same KL branch building. As our family had grown, so did the total number of members too as missionary work had been consistent.<br />
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Temporarily the branch had to rent space from a hotel building nearby opposite Ampark Park too near the old house we had rented.<br />
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I am still in touch with some of the missionaries who served in KL at that time from Utah, Elder Keith Walker and Elder Travis Snow whose names are found on this<a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/missionaries-of-the-lds-church-from-or-served-in-malaysia/lists-of-elders-sisters-and-couples-who-are-from-overseas-who-served-in-or-were-/172351032822195/" target="_blank"> list of returned missionaries</a> who have served in Malaysia from overseas found in this <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/missionarymalaysia/" target="_blank">Facebook group</a> which contains some history of the Church in Malaysia too in the documents section of the group page.</b></span></div>
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We moved back to the renovated house with new facilities as seen in the video below that I regarded as our Christmas gift in 2004!</b></span></div>
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On 2006 January where in the photo are 4 young men who would eventually serve 2 year full-time missions when they are much older.</b></span></div>
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In 2007, a strategic decision was made by my wife and me that the best cancer care after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 was to have her be under the care of an Oncologist of the National Cancer Institute of Singapore. He was recommended by my good Malaysian classmate who studied medicine in Singapore and is practicing in KL today. So we had to move the base of the family to the city my wife was born in.</b></span></div>
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Jan 1, 2007 was our last family photo taken together before the family moved to Singapore. In the previous December month of 2006, a new 'Never Ending Christmas' story began that would be converted to a video, all of which can be read and viewed in this <span id="goog_674149630"></span><span id="goog_674149631"></span><a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2006/12/our-christmas-story-dec-2006.html" target="_blank">Journal Post.</a><br />
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2016 KL meeting house with a photo after a baptism service on 28 August of the year.</b></span></div>
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One can see that from the year 2016 onwards, my journals will incorporate more facebook posts like the ones below in my journals. The reason is Facebook is a media where I can easily and quickly share photos and captions to share my thoughts. It came to my mind that this would save me more time in trying to compose a well-written blog every time I start a new blog post. Why the change? First Thing First, through some defining moments of my life earlier in the year, shared <a href="https://goo.gl/7CBKd0" target="_blank">here</a>, I began to prioritize how I am spending my time for the rest of the year. In my desire to do more for the community, I started to establish my new social media business and to complete my first book to publish it as early as I can, targeted in 2018. I have to also quicken my journal recording process so I decided on a new strategy to embed my facebook posts into my blogger posts.</b></span></div>
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So I would from now onwards embed my selected facebook posts that reflect the thoughts of my intended blog post such as this one, so that it will save me time from crafting more words or add photos again to share my thoughts. Doing this also helps me index my facebook posts for easier reference in my better-organized blogs of Familylane, Fastlane and Spiritlane. Searching is slow in Facebook as it has daily posts and even by the minute of each day so picking relevant posts from Facebook to include it in a relevant post in my blog post helps me organize or manage my historical records or thoughts better for faster search in the future. The most important thing, of course, any time-saving method will free more time for me to work on priorities I have yet to achieve for the year! This is an application of Covey's Seven Habit's principle of First Thing First' and 'Begin with the End in Mind'.</b></span></div>
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Conducting my first Baptism Service in KL branch for Sharon Davidson on May 22, 2016</b></span></div>
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Young man Steven told me he came back in this very short trip, feeling inspired to visit a few people whom he felt wanted to see personally for being a part of his life growing up in the Church. One of them was Elder Freddie Chan, a dear friend of mine from the pioneer days of the Church in Malaysia where we had served together to build the kingdom of God on Earth in the country we loved and served. </b></span></div>
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I started this post very much earlier, inspired by the missionary spirit in Kuala Lumpur where I was called home to serve in 1980. Being my busy usual self, a turn of events made me hurry to complete this post and move on to the next one! It is very early at dawn in Singapore where I am now of Saturday 22 October 2016 of the Lord. I woke up to shower and quickly finish this post with the spirit of Steven Kok who though felt touched by our spirit in his youth has touched mine more than he realizes in his visit and the recent turn of events that would be covered in the next post.</b></span></div>
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I first got to know his brother Sebastian Kok earlier who worked with me for many years after serving his mission for the Church in the years 1988-90 under President Houghton in Penang, Ipoh, PJ and Singapore as per the information on this <a href="https://goo.gl/RaHxDD" target="_blank">list.</a></b></span></div>
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I didn't get to see him again for many years as I believe Steven first moved to live with his in-laws in Texas which was more to the center of US, further away from the west coast where I frequent. He later came closer to live in Phoenix Arizona where I could squeeze a time to meet him at the airport in my transit at Phoenix en route on a business trip to Seattle last year in Aug 2015 and was nice of him to come back 'home' in Aug 2016 to find all of us oldies in KL! He wanted to meet Elder Freddie Chan and one morning was planned for us to go together to meet Elder Chan but he was not feeling well for visitors after we had called his son Brian. Steven went later on another day by himself.</b></span></div>
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I will now move on to start the <a href="https://goo.gl/zwHZB7" target="_blank">next post</a> before I do my spiritual morning run around the nearby running tracks, in respect of Elder Freddie Chan for his dedicated service to the Church from beginning to the end as we received news that he passed away on the night of 19 October 2016. I cannot be at his funeral today as I am in Singapore with family until Nov 3, to celebrate 2 birthdays of my sons here and attend other business meetings! The post will include some coincidental communication from Steven to me on the day of my oldest son's birthday and then be receiving the news of Elder Chan's passing on the same day in the evening!</b></span></div>
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The facebook post below shares announcement of my Community Service First initiative. The reader can read contents of the caption of the photo which will be my summarized thoughts at that time. For more photos and captions sharing more thoughts, one just has to click the comments icon below the facebook post to view more pics and comments I have added to further elaborate on the main theme of my facebook post.</b></span></div>
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Elder Freddie Chan Yoke Sang of the Seventy, our first Malaysian General Authority of the Church was called to the Lord on 19 October this year.</b></span></div>
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I went back to Kuala Lumpur and from a musical presentation after the District Conference Sunday of 6 Nov 2016, I created this video that attracted over 3.0k views, greater than the last hit from the Mooncake festival home evening night shared above! Click and enjoy!</b></span></div>
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Anticipation of a busy year in 2017 focused on the bringing forth of exceptional results spiritually but also temporally in my goals of completing my 1st book to be published, I resorted to minimising my journal writings by only embedding my Facebook posts in chronological order in quarterly posts found in my familylane blog starting in the <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2017/01/1-quarter-post-of-new-year-of-2017.html" target="_blank">1st quarter of 2017</a> with a link to the next quarterly post found at the end of each quarter's post.</b></span></div>
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As they say, there is no 'Rhyme or Reason' or any logical reason why this experience of mine should be mentioned 32 years later except... maybe God is just continuing to give me what I've been recording as miracles in my life, to know that I'm being watched after and indeed I must testify humbly that he has never stopped blessing me with his spirit! Despite all the opposition that has come to my life, from within and without, I have remained steadfast in my faith towards Him even though I know I am not a perfect man. I have carefully been recording my life's experiences, after having embarked on an exercise of faith in the Savior for the first time when I was baptized on 29 July 1979 in Geelong Australia. The spiritual part of my life's story, for anyone interested, <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank">begins here.</a> The other chronicles of my life can be found <a href="http://familylane.info/photolinks/" target="_blank">here.</a> It has been an amazing experience and I'm living every day with joy and gratitude for all I have learned and capable of learning so that I can be more helpful to my family, friends, and community. I am grateful to have learned about the power of revelation as shared in this video below:</b></span></center>
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I noticed that his wife was standing close by and I wanted her to be in the pic as well in remembrance of the day she helped me with booking my airline ticket to the US when her husband and I, at their home sitting on the same table were trying to solve my problem of not able to get my visa card accepted online to book my most important <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2016/06/june-7-of-year-2016-epic-journey.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">reunion trip</a> ticket to the US in the summer of 2016. She was all quiet as she observed how we both struggled, to try my card first and then her husband's card which also failed, to finally suggest to us to try this other online site and it worked immediately. She then confessed she has been dubbed with the name 'travel agent' by her family members and others who know she does online bookings very often and competently! If you read the link above about this special trip, you would know why I am so appreciative of her and I'm glad I have a photo of both of them with my short narration here in my chronicles that will forever be kept in cyberspace or my Consciousness!</b></span></div>
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David Hatch, now Bishop of his ward in Lindon Utah, with his wife Marianne and children were once in our KL branch over 10 years ago and was on a business trip back that we could catch up again. Felix Yong in the photo was also a new convert to our KL branch in the early 80s and today resides in Petaling Jaya to be under the PJ branch in our same Kuala Lumpur West Malaysia District of the Church.</b></span></div>
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Was a heart-warming occasion to take a photo with some pioneers of the Church in the Kuala Lumpur West Malaysia District</b></span></div>
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The Mission President and his wife, the Simmons, being their last conference before going home asked us oldies to take a photo with them and the current District leaders of the Church today.</b></span></div>
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In the weekend conference, we learned all about "The Joy of Ministering." What a coincidence that the President of our Church, Russel M. Nelson, appointed recently in our General Conference, is 93 years old while Tun Dr Mahathir, the latest 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia elected in our recent General Elections, is also turning 93 years old in July! We are all indeed grateful for the ministering services of these two senior men who serve as an example for all of us younger folks!</b></span></div>
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Reunion time with an oldie from KL branch from a long distance, Sebastian Kok, mentioned in the <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2016/09/missionary-work-back-in-my-old-branch.html#sb" target="_blank">above post </a> during the visit of his younger brother Steven Kok a couple of years earlier from this day. All of us in the photo were once together in the Kuala Lumpur branch when it was the only branch in Kuala Lumpur in the 80s until the branch divided in 1990 to have a branch in KL and PJ. It kept dividing to add more and more branches that a building is getting ready for the establishment of a Stake in Kuala Lumpur:</b></span></center>
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First member from my old school of St John's who joined our Church who is my junior, Cho Yong Fei. Nice of him to give me a school tie and tie pin so we get excited when we get to wear the same tie on Sundays. He is from Cheras branch and I was at his baptism as they shared our KL baptism font. Not long later Cheras branch temporarily shared the same building with KL as they had temporarily moved out of their old rented meeting place in Taman Connaught to find a better place and location.</b></span></center>
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A baptism for me to conduct in the early afternoon and then to rush to the Family History meetings conducted by Tony King, a former expat member in our KL branch who visited KL earlier as recorded <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/09/missionary-work-back-in-my-old-branch.html#k1" target="_blank">above.</a></b></span></center>
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Everything turned out well as I exercised my "ShanFu-Consciousness" or "ShanFu-Yishi" (山福-意识) Now, what is that again? haha... It's an awareness derived from my "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maps_of_Meaning">maps of meanings</a>" of my own consciousness, that I use to enable an optimal state to occur where "Everything Coming Together" is possible or more likely. I created this term after this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html#dr">year-end experience</a> during my 'Year of the Dog' which actually ends on 24 Feb 2019 according to our <a href="https://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/Almanac.htm">Chinese almanac</a>. Yes, I am a Chinese with Western education coupled with Eastern beliefs, myths, and traditions, as explained in the link above on maps of meanings, which is why I appropriately named my own consciousness as "ShanFu-Consciousness" or "ShanFu-Yishi". My Chinese given name Sun Fu(山福) but spelled in the traditional Hanyu Pinyin system as Shan Fu explained <a href="https://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.com/2015/12/test.html#wr">here.</a> Consciousness in Mandarin with Hanyu Pinyin is spelled "Yishi" or written in Mandarin as "意识".</b></span></center>
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Western science teaches about the Conscious, Subconscious and Superconscious(Freud) or simply the Conscious and Unconscious. (Jung) In the East, there are a lot of philosophies and mythologies from ancient China like the 'I Ching' also known as 'Zhou Yi' Chinese classic of changes. There is always balance in Chinese philosophy.</b></span></center>
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The above is a well-known symbol of Chinese philosophy known as the Yinyang which is well explained <a href="https://www.iep.utm.edu/yinyang/">here</a>. Symbols are like pictures in the sense that it paints a thousand words. Extracted from the link given that explains about the Yinyang, it reads, "Just as with many other Chinese philosophical notions, the influences of Yinyang are easy to observe, but its conceptual meanings are hard to define." Why is this so? To me, the symbol also depicts our Left and Right brain that represents the Logical and Creative mind respectively. The Logical mind represents Order while the Creative mind is often Chaos where it's hard to find words sometimes to describe what is envisioned. It is this part of the brain that needs mythologies or stories as narratives for Man to have a better understanding of the principles or concepts we call fuzzy or non-linear logic where language is inadequate to explain.</b></span></div>
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My early exposure to biology at school including modern math, and computer technology in my university days helps me to appreciate the use of these abstract symbols known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram_(I_Ching)">hexagrams</a> today in our modern times. They were used in 'I Ching' by the sages to convey meanings in ancient times that could correspond exactly to the 64 DNA codons in our genetic code and also be used in our modern computer binary codes as well!</b></span></div>
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Here is something interesting from the western world of the Greeks with their Phi symbol that looks like the numbers zero and one or computer I & 0 symbols of the binary system put together. This has become the icon of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory?fbclid=IwAR08gk9CVaCxacFt_frOJh1yWK4sVopeyX1Vbxs6p0RbkP43YdOa3iAPefQ">Integrated Information Theory</a> that can explain consciousness, the subject I have been researching about for my 1st book project.</b></span></div>
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As the English New Year is about to end, I was feeling the pressure to complete my book project. My life has always been one full of engagements as I had chosen early in life to be pro-active than passive if I were to gain all that life has to teach me! I would always Connect Synergize Futurize as this <a href="https://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.com/2015/12/test.html#wr">CSF post</a> explains. So I knew that if I wanted to complete my book, I needed to get away from the city to have more peace and quietness, basically less busy in my daily life living in a city. Also as a perfectionist and detailed person, long-winded too, I must complete my book project by becoming more OPTIMAL in my performance with less time that would distract me from getting the flow of my "ShanFu-Consciousness" needed to get "Everything Coming Together" for me. How busy I am, how detailed or perfect I can try to be, as well as being long-winded is manifested in this journal itself but logically explained why it is preferred in this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html#lw">post by Quora.</a></b></span></center><center style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></center>
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I came in late about 5 minutes to sit by an empty seat near the entrance by Bro James Schow and wife Linda in the center of the photo above. They are parents of the Bro Cameron Schow whose family, wife and children, are members of our branch. They are visiting our branch and Brother Schow senior told me he had even transferred their membership to KL branch as he had just retired and came to visit KL to be with his son's home for a few weeks. This is how I got the photo above, the wonders of technology and how well our church keeps the membership records of its members, </b></span></div>
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From the 1st lesson from the Come Follow Me manual, I received the spirit to understand what the scriptures meant and the video helped me visualize that in both situations, Christ was teaching with authority knowing he was the One who had the power to forgive sins which was even greater than the power to heal as shared in the 2nd video. In the 1st video, Christ said what was impossible for Man to be saved said with God all things are possible. I could feel Christ talking with authority as no one knew at that time that Christ was that Savior or God who would carry out the atoning sacrifice that would take place in the Garden of Gethsemane. </b></span></div>
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This atonement is not understood by many so I've been guided by the Spirit to share another long post with a video and scriptural links to help any reader understand why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has living prophets today. This is to prepare the world for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ with thousands of missionaries sent out each year so all the people no matter what country they are in can learn of the Savior from the missionaries or online. There are signs and prophecies being fulfilled on earth shared in the holy scriptures of his Second Coming. One can <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html?fbclid=IwAR34R0pExMeUKLb790o0Uytyd6ysYEu3A-4zwtBu6kAitsW2wZ-N5Q37vh0">click here</a> to be enlightened about the Atonement and why it is so necessary.</b></span></div>
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After the 2 hour Church service, President Tolman from the KL West Malaysia District said he wanted to have some time with me in the room of the branch president. He informed me that he was issuing a call to me that came from the Area office on behalf of Elder Woo, the Area Seventy from Singapore. I was asked if I can accept the calling to be the Malaysia editor for the Liahona magazine. I responded that I will accept as I have never rejected a calling before and made the comment that I did share in my testimony earlier in the morning that being released as the Branch Mission Leader made me feel less guilty as I was heading to the east coast to focus on finishing my book. President Tolman further commented that it seemed a calling that I can perform anywhere so long as I had access to the internet so it would be perfect! Yes, I mentioned to him that everything seems to be coming together for me and he set me apart for my new calling.</b></span></div>
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Was called to be the Branch Historian on this day! Wow, now I have 2 Church callings, one from the Area as Malaysia editor for the Liahona magazine and another from the District not forgetting the calling or inspiration from my wife to write my first book and later to get it DONE! Besides transforming to be a writer, from being an entrepreneur all my life, I also turned to become a <a href="https://b7132335d51dff26a317481c78ae5ac9.blogspot.com/2015/12/test.html?fbclid=IwAR1IyxsRwYjZyJfVMm2Vp-rVT_OcgoT3J1xbl_5Tb02t0u07W2jzW_R9U-k#bg">socialpreneur</a>, doing projects that would help communities using my business and leadership skills!</b></span></div>
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Timing again seems to be everything in my life to receive continuous personal revelation on everything I ponder about especially when the world seems to be entering an era of "Fake News" with social media technology. Read all my comments for the Facebook post above that lead to this Easter Sunday morning to know what is in my BodyMindSpirit "ShanFu-consciousness" on this day. </b></span></div>
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Dad the KL city kidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06798301328638176472noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749036.post-74013135756486334022016-07-14T04:03:00.001+08:002021-12-29T03:58:14.607+08:00Mission Letters home from Elder Shuan Chong for Year 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><br /></b> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Note : Content of this post are sourced from all emails sent from him without any editing except for photos which were modified to rotate them upright or some captions added when they were not provided based on my knowledge and guess work. Captions may be changed with new information received at a latter time from Elder Chong.<br />
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His pre-mission experience such as his mission call, prepatory activities and send off can be <a href="http://goo.gl/jr3xFK" target="_blank">read here.</a><br />
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I'm given a little bit of time to just let you know I'm safe. Just a little something to share:</b></span></div>
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It's a blessing that my flights were completely smooth; no delays, not lost luggage etc. Only interesting thing that happened is across the isle on my left, 2 young ladies kept having beer. It came to a point where the air stewardess had to refuse to give them any more. By that time they were drunk and where whining and complaining, even demanding to see the manager (who also refused them). The lady sitting next to me was annoyed at them and literally told them to shut up, and they got into a little argument with vulgarities and all haha. I guess this was a taste of what the people here are gonna be like-- love to drink, very outspoken.</b></span></div>
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Will let you all know more soon!</b></span></div>
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13 Jul 2016 <br />
MTC Week 1<br />
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I can't believe I've been gone a week already! It's been such an amazing experience so far! I've been blessed to have a safe journey here at the Missionary Training Centre (MTC). There were absolutely no problems at all. Other missionaries had delays in their flights, lost luggages for up to a week, 43 hours of travel etc. The only thing I had were 2 drunk ladies near where I sat in the plane which was pretty interesting.<br />
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Here at the MTC we're learning to fulfill our purpose as missionaries. The schedule is always packed. There is always something specific to do every hour. It reminds me of when I was a recruit in the army. It was 3 weeks of confinement back then, and it's 3 weeks of training here as well. However, we always sleep at 10.30pm and wake up at 6.30am. 8 hours of rest is such a luxury!!! :)<br />
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This intake of missionaries is one of the largest with 87 of us, although there will be one even bigger with 116 after this batch. Good luck to them with sharing the showers! All of us are divided into districts of between 6 to 10 missionaries (like a section in the army). Each of us has an assigned companion and we work together (much like buddies in the army). In each district there's an assigned district leader (like a section leader). Anyway, the districts are named after prophets and I'm in the Abinadi district. My companion is Elder Hawkins from Utah. We are very different but have learned to work together. To give an idea of how different we are, our age gap is 6 years. I'm the eldest and he's the youngest in the district. It's almost like being companions with my youngest brother!<br />
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My MTC is President Preston who was Korkor's Mission President back when he was serving in the England Manchester Mission. Pres. Preston is soooo funny!<br />
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I've been learning so much just in the past week. It's impossible to share everything I've learned. The main thing I'm learning to do is to teach by the Spirit. The Spirit is the true teacher that testifies if what we're teaching is true. I've had some amazing experiences learning and preparing to teach.<br />
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I just want to share a little about my district. There's 10 of us with 6 Sisters (girls) and 4 Elders (guys). We are from all over the world, have had very different lives, stories and problems, but we share the same testimony of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. We learn so much from each other and it strengthens me as they share their testimonies. Just as I've shared on the Sunday before I left. The restored gospel of Jesus Christ unites people unlike anything else I've ever seen. Here in the MTC is living proof!<br />
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Thank you for all your emails. I can't emphasize how nice it is to find out how you all are doing. I don't have a lot of time on the computer but I'll try my best to reply to them. Even if I can't, please know that I have read them and really really appreciate them! I'm out of time and have to go now. Take care!!!<br />
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This is President Preston of the MTC recognized from the emailed photos of Elder Han Chong when he served in the England Manchester Mission (2012-14) when President Preston was then his Mission President as seen in Han's <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.sg/2013/06/a-hump-day-report-of-hans-1st-year-in.html#rp" target="_blank">mission journal post.</a></b></span></div>
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The highlight this week would be the tour of site related to Church history. It was so nice to get out of the classroom! The weather here is quite peculiar. It feels like it rains as much as Singapore but the rain is light and extended over looooong hours compared to the short and heavy rain in Singapore. As such, it is very green here just like Singapore, humid too BUT cooler as well (as long as it's cloudy). So in short, it's like being in a Singapore with a lower temperature.<br />
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Anyway, the weather was perfect on the day of our tour because it didn't rain. I don't want to bore everyone with too much history but I'll just mention some places that I really enjoyed.<br />
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We visited the River Ribble, where the first baptism in the UK took place. The area around it felt very much like the Shire from Lord of the Rings. The river itself looked like the one Arwen crossed when saving Frodo from the wraith Kings. Here's what it looks like: <br />
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Another highlight is the home at Wadham Road where President Hinckley got discouraged and his father sent him a letter telling him to "forget yourself and go to work". Wise words indeed. I don't think the church owns the building so I'm thinking the people staying there now must be quite puzzled as to why a busload of missionaries keep coming to take pictures outside hahaha</b></span></div>
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Our final stop was at Downham Village, I kind of forgot its significance exactly but I think it's something to do with the early missionaries teaching there. There were miraculous stories but I can't remember them clearly. Go google it! As of now, all the property in the village is owned by someone and can only be rented. He must be really rich!</b></span></div>
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Just a quick update on things at the MTC, it's been a long but fast week as we've been busy studying, practicing teaching and role playing a lot. I only have a week left before I move out to the mission field in London. I have already enjoyed being able to play the piano for meetings. Last week, we had a devotional where an Area Seventy Elder Philips visited. I was assigned as the pianist for the meeting and had to play prelude. Elder Philips was caught in traffic which caused him to be late... I think I played the prelude music for about 25 minutes. It's the longest I've ever played but it was a real treat!</b></span></div>
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Last Saturday was one of our teacher's birthday and she spent the whole day with us! Our district thought it would be quite sad to spend the whole day of your birthday in a classroom so we decided to decorate the board, write some cards and prepare some gifts using food that we brought from home. Here's a photo of our district:</b></span></div>
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Front Row from L to R: Sister Tema (Australia), Sister Topp (UK), Sister Elgueta (Norway), Sister Hughes, Sister De Souza (Sweden), Sister Maughan (UK), Sister Lamb(USA). It's not the best photo but it's all I have. What you see at the bottom is not a table, but scriptures. We stacked at least 6 sets of scriptures on a table and used the self timer on the camera.</b></span></div>
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Our district is like family, we have many different personal experiences, problems, flaws etc. Imperfect people in short. But together we strengthen each other and help each other overcome the challenges we face as a district. Usually it's the really tough people to teach that discourage us, but next to that is how sleepy we sometimes feel during class, especially after lunch in the afternoon.</b></span></div>
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Oh I want to say how good the food is over here at the MTC. The chef cooks a wide variety of cuisines such English roasts, fish and chips, American burgers, Spanish Paella, Mexican tortillas, Australian meat pies, Spaghetti etc. They say you eat like kings in the MTC and then like paupers out in the field. As much as I'm enjoying the food here I still refrain from indulging too much. I seem to be very weight conscious, perhaps because I'm on my last belt loop heheh.</b></span></div>
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Almost every morning we do get to exercise though, I try to run and do push up and sit ups, basically making sure I can still pass IPPT haha. I did try soccer once and that would probably be the last I never had talent with sports involving balls which makes it hard to enjoy, plus the field here is terribly muddy which makes cleaning up really a hassle.</b></span></div>
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Well, my time is up! (I only have 1 hour to email each week) Stay safe everyone! Remember to look where you're going when chasing pokemon! And be careful where you wonder off to, you might just end up in a Latter-day Saint chapel! :P</b></span></div>
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It has been another great week at the MTC, and sadly it will be my last because I'll be leaving for the mission field tomorrow! Our P-day has been brought forward one day earlier to Tuesday, but in the mission field the P-day in on Monday. So don't be too shocked when you see that my emails are out on a different day. I'm following the rules!<br />
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One of the highlights this past week is going out proselyting for the very first time at Piccadilly, Manchester. It was really shocking to see with my own eyes how Pokemon Go has changed the world! Just about everyone I saw who was using a phone, was playing the game. At random times, I would suddenly see flocks of people gather at certain areas. I did manage to approach some people and share the message of the restoration of the gospel. It's really different when you see people not just as people, but as children of our Heavenly Father. Having that perspective gives me greater courage to approach them and not be so afraid of rejection. When I do get rejected, I just need to remember that I am simply a messenger, and that I am bearing a message of hope and peace, not bad news! (reference to ancient times where king killed messengers who brought unwanted news)<br />
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I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but every Sunday here in the MTC really uplifting. For sacrament meeting, a topic will be given the week before, and all will have to prepare a 3 to 4 minute talk. We will only know who is speaking when we begin the meeting. It seems that I was not selected to speak the whole 3 weeks here! But, the concluding speaker President Miller (2nd Counselor in the MTC) said that the best talks we prepare are usually those not given at all. I've kept all my talks and hopefully will get to share them one day.<br />
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We ended our Sunday with a testimony meeting which lasted 1.75 hours. Sounds long but it really felt quite short because people kept going up to share their testimony and even so not everyone had a chance to speak. Inadvertently, some spoke about their past before coming to serve a mission. This much I can say, is that literally everyone has problems and challenges in their lives. Coming out here to serve 18 or 24 months is a great sacrifice, but it is completely worth it because it is the Lord's work. I felt my testimony was strengthened as I listened to the testimony of others! We ended the meeting singing hymn 152 "God Be With You Till We Meet Again". There will be many here that I will probably never see again in this life, but I know I'll get to see them again!<br />
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Monday was the last day of lessons which felt quite weird because we had a such a proper close on Sunday. Nonetheless we are never done with learning. Our teacher Brother Turner gave a wonderful final lesson helping us to see how we can apply the things we have learned out in the mission field and even in our own lives after serving a mission.<br />
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I still feel inadequate to go out and teach but at the same time I feel ready! I know that I'll learn so much more out there! If there's anything I'll miss about the MTC, it will be the people and food (don't judge!). Honestly the food is really great here and I'll never have the time to make such good food while in the mission field!<br />
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Here are some photos from the week. There are none from proselyting because we do not want to look like tourists when working.<br />
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So last Wednesday morning, the remaining 8 of us from the district were put on a coach to our mission home at South Kensington, London. We had sooo much space! We left at 6.40am and it was raining (how fitting!) As we exited the MTC doors, we each gave a hug to President & Sister Preston. When I stepped through those doors, I suddenly thought of how this felt like us leaving the premortal world. We have learned a lot at the MTC, but there's a limit to how much we can learn in the classroom, and so it's time for us to say goodbye to our parents there and enter the mission field to experience what it's like being a real missionary. Similarly we could only learn so much in the premortal life and could only progress if we left our heavenly parents and experienced mortality on earth.<br />
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The journey to London took about 5 hours and we arrived at 12pm. London is so busy and beautiful! The church building at Exhibition road is very unique. Not only is the Mission Home there, but it's also a stake center and and visitors center! We were received by our Mission President, President Stevens and his wife sister Stevens. we had lunch and training in the afternoon, during which, President Stevens interviewed us one by one. He already selected the trainers but had yet to decide who exactly will train us and which area we would go. Talk about the need for inspiration almost immediately! Anyway, my trainer is Elder Coon from Utah, and we'll be serving at the Cambridge area. After the training the 8 of us from the MTC went our separate ways. Much like the Plan of Salvation, we all are in different families. Each person's experience will be unique. There will be much happiness and much sorrow but we will all learn and grow.<br />
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I've met 2 Malaysians in the meeting which was pretty cool! One is sister Teng from Ipoh and the other is Elder Tamil from PJ! Here are some photos:<br />
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The Cambridge Area is HUGE! It feels like it's bigger than Singapore! The chapel is roughly in the center of the Area and a family living at the border of the boundary has to travel 50mins by car just to go to church! With the Area being so big, we are assigned a car! We also have bikes which we use when it's more convenient such as when the place we're going to has limited parking or when the car is sent for servicing. I already needed to use the bikes because these situations already came about! Sad fact of life is that when something you take for granted is taken away, then only will you appreciate what you had.</b></span></div>
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On my first day in the Area, we had a district meeting. I got to meet the other missionaries from the district. We have 2 sisters, 4 elders and a senior couple:</b></span></div>
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My district. Basically everyone is from the USA except for me!</b></span></div>
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Oh, all missionaries in my mission are equipped with an iPad. It's really handy for everything! We can have the whole gospel library and find materials easily, as well as use the map. I really can't do without the map! There's not many turns on the road here and the street signs are so discreet. Sharing photos amongst each other is also so easy with airdrop. The only difficult thing I find is having to type emails out haha. Also, I can't send photos from my camera :(</b></span></div>
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There is much work to do here in Cambridge and time seems to be passing so fast. I feel like there's always not enough time. I've seen some small miracles happen already and hope to be able to see the Lord's work continue to move forward. I've only been here about 5 days and have already seen things in my Patriarchal blessing come to pass. When I received my mission call I really had no idea how it matched what was mentioned in the blessing, but being here I can slowly see for myself and it gives me the assurance that I'm on the right track. For those who have yours, read it regularly! For those who don't, prepare yourself to get receive it!</b></span></div>
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P.S. My first cooked meal wasn't Chinese. I just used whatever there was and cooked tikka masala using bottled sauce and ate it with tortilla. I consider it fusion haha</b></span></div>
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Transfer 1 Week 2<br />
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The past week has been amazing. I wanted to do better in finding</b></span></div>
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often I approach people to share the gospel. So last Tuesday I made up</b></span></div>
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it. Then it rained... I almost wanted to do something else like drive</b></span></div>
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and find less active members. However, my trainer suggested that we</b></span></div>
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pray to know if we should go. We prayed, and went out with our</b></span></div>
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Salvation and families. I found that many things they believe in are</b></span></div>
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There are 13 companionships. Pretty huge zone. They all work hard and we are seeing miracles in our zone. Makes me want to work harder to contribute as much as I can.</b></span></div>
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After the meeting, I went for exchanges with the zone leaders at Colechester. They are such good missionaries who lead by example. I don't think I could even be like them at that age. (They are below 20) Here's a picture of us:</b></span></div>
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There's an amazing story behind this baptism. The family moved to Cambridge from another country earlier this year. The dad is a less active member for many years and about a month and a half ago, the mom suddenly decided she wanted to go to church. The dad was alright with that and asked her which church she wanted to go to, to which she replied "why don't we go to your church!" And so they did and began taking discussions as a family. I got to teach the last lesson before the baptism and could see from their faces just how converted they were. The dad truly desired that his children live the gospel and expressed that to them. They have to travel 50 minutes by car at longest just to come to church. That's how much faith they have!</b></span></div>
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The goal now is for the mom to be baptized and thereafter aim to be sealed in the temple. She is already keeping all the commitments needed but just needs to settle one last thing with the dad. There is much strength and support when a whole family sets a goal together, and this is what I see in this family. From the beginning they already set their goal on being sealed in the temple. Because of that goal, they have been doing all that they can to reach that goal. </b></span></div>
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All organizations need goals. Goals give people something to work towards to as well as a reason to work together. Often we forget that a family is also an organization. Without goals, we get distracted by our own things and slowly drift away from each other. As individuals we are more vulnerable and Satan takes advantage of that. </b></span></div>
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Anyway, I didn't do the baptism but the children did ask that I do the confirmation for them on Sunday. It was a great honor as well as a little scary because I've never done it before. Nonetheless it went well. I really wonder how Patriarchs feel when giving blessings.</b></span></div>
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I gave Elder Coon a haircut! (First time I cut hair that is not black) he was satisfied with it so I'm contented. I'll attempt to teach him how to cut mine. If it doesn't go well, you won't see any photos of me for a while heheh.</b></span></div>
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Also, that's one of the meals I cook when I feel more motivated. It surprises me just how much I can do in an hour on while on a mission :</b></span></div>
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I've just realised that whenever I send emails from my iPad, all the text in between each picture get's put into noname.txt so for last week's email, about have of what I wrote was put into those attachments. I have the computer this week so I can do the normal formatting.</b></span></div>
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Writing these weekly emails are like writing in a journal. I reflect on each week a lot more than before serving a mission. It helps me to think about what I have done and see if I have grown in any way. I certainly try harder to recognise the blessings from God each week as I do so.</b></span></div>
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Last Monday, a family that just moved into the ward invited us over for dinner. It was a most hearty meal. The main dish looked and tasted almost exactly like the beef stroganoff mom used to cook. So that was really really nice. Anyway, what's interesting is that the dad is from Denmark and the Mom is from Russia. They both served in the England London Mission and shared some really interesting stories of how things used to be in the mission. The way I saw them teach their son reminded me a lot of mom and dad. The mom constantly taught in righteousness, and the dad is the goofy one haha. Here's a picture!</b></span></div>
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On Wednesday, I visited someone who has not been to church for 50 years. His knowledge on the very basic things are limited. I guess not being engaged in anything for 50 years would lead one to forget a lot. Nonetheless he remembers the word of wisdom and knows that he is not keeping it haha. That was actually the reason he stopped going-- he loved his coffee, tea and alcohol. Right now he is reading the Book of Mormon and has been pretty diligent. It surprises me that he says he has never read it before. However, what surprises me even more is that there is apparently a change in him as a person, I don't know what the change is because it's the first time I met him. It's the neighbours who tell us about him. The neighbours don't take too kindly to Mormons but they do recognise that ever since he has been meeting with missionaries, it has helped him a lot and they encouraged us to keep seeing him.</b></span></div>
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I may not know how he used to be like, but I know that the change is occurring because he has been reading his scriptures. It is very obvious to me that the people who progress quickly are those who truly study, ponder and pray about what they have read in the Book of Mormon. While sharing a spiritual thought recently, I learned just how important studying the scriptures is if we want to endure to the end. It is found in 2 Nephi 31:20. Reading our scriptures is one of those things that is so simple but often overlooked. As we diligently study the scriptures, it will help us to keep the rest of the commandments. (See Moroni 6:4)</b></span></div>
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On Thursday I was with Elder Walker at Chelmsford. Remember the tall elder I pointed out last time? His area is a walking area. The only appointment we had was dinner at a member's place... which got cancelled! So yup, I was walking all day with Elder Walker (no pun intended) finding people. It's the most walking I have done so far on a mission. While I was cooking dinner, we were suddenly told to go to the chapel to meet an investigator who was going to have his baptismal interview. We had to rush there. Normally it takes 30mins to walk there. We did it in 20mins or less. Elder Walker was brisk walking while I was jogging to keep up with him! Something interesting is that I felt like cooking extra fried rice for dinner and also decided to pack it to bring to the chapel. It turned out that when we arrived at the chapel, Elder Walker's companion and my companion also arrived from their training at London. They did not have dinner and there I had 2 boxes of fried rice!</b></span></div>
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Saturday was special because it was Elder Jackman's birthday. Some of the ward members had planned a surprise for him and tricked him into going to a member's home to "help move stuff". Here's a picture:</b></span></div>
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Although I could only spend 1 hour there using my dinner hour, I had a really great time getting to know the members of the ward better. It was probably also a relief after a day of finding people to teach. I thought to myself that I must be a true grown up now since one of the things I enjoy most is talking to people over food.</b></span></div>
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To end off, I have a cool miracle to share that is not mine, but worth sharing. The sister missionaries in my ward have been praying hard to find a family to teach. They have been working really hard this transfer and have found many people to teach but none of them are a family. On Sunday, a family of 4 showed up at church! They live nearby the chapel and decided on their own to walk in and stayed throughout! The power of prayer is real!</b></span></div>
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I have not been diligent in taking photos this week. Taking photos takes effort. Having photos of yourself taken takes even more effort! But here are some anyway...</b></span></div>
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Can you see it? That's in my bucket list at the back of my mind.</b></span></div>
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I feel accomplished when I can do something. I feel even more accomplished when I can teach someone else to do the same thing I can do. It's Elder Coon's first time cutting someone's hair and I dare say he did a good job.</b></span></div>
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When there's a gas stove, non-stick wok pan and rice cooker all in one flat. It tells a Chinese missionary to cook fried rice while he still can!</b></span></div>
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Have a great week ahead everyone! Please read your scriptures! For those who find that your "a chapter a day" routine is getting boring and less meaningful, try studying using Preach My Gospel Chapter 4. It has helped me realise just how packed with doctrine the Book of Mormon is.</b></span></div>
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It has been a great week! I'll start off with what I did for P-day on Monday. The Elders from Bury St. Edmunds came down to join us since we were having exchanges on Tuesday. We went bowling! I don't have a picture of the score because it disappeared way too quickly, but it is sufficient to say I achieved 4th place ;) I did however achieve my baseline goal of scoring at least 100.</b></span></div>
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We also played pool in pairs. I'd say I was pretty lucky this time, getting two balls in one strike a few times which did lead to my team winning 2/4 times. The other 2 times we lost was when my teammate hit the black ball in. Twice. I guess you could say our luck balanced each other out.</b></span></div>
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For exchanges on Tuesday I went down to Haverhill. It's a 30min drive from Cambridge. It is just one of the many little towns spread around Cambridge. Many people stay in these little towns and work in Cambridge. What makes it difficult here is that we try to maximise the use of time by planning all appointments there on a particular day. But, all the people there may not (definitely will not) be free on the same day. Appointments do fall through, but we always seem to find potential people to teach along the way. Here's a picture of what you'd normally find between Cambridge and all the surrounding towns:</b></span></div>
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Wednesday was fun. We had a '3 week meeting' where after training for 3 weeks, the new missionaries gather again for a meeting and some training with the Mission President, his wife and his assistants. It was like a reunion with my MTC district which was really great. I feel like they have grown so much in such a short time. The meeting was back at the Hyde Park Chapel in London, so I had to take the train down. Here are some pictures:</b></span></div>
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This is the entrance of the Hyde Park Chapel at Exhibition Road. There's a really interesting history of how it was obtained, but it is too long for me to share.</b></span></div>
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Yup, the adults took over haha. The kids were happy anyway because they were getting more candy. Little miracle for this activity was that the weather forecast was rain. I prayed that it would not rain during the activity... and it didn't! However, it was so windy no one really wanted to be outside. Also, it rained when the party was over, which was the time for me to go finding!<br />
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For the first time ever, I taught primary on Sunday! The actual teacher is on holiday so various members are taking turns to teach this class of 9 to 10 year olds. Somehow we were asked to teach them too. Teaching can be real difficult when one child keeps moving to squat in a corner, while another keeps walking up to you to talk about other things, and in the background someone keeps singing the Super Mario theme song. Perhaps this picture tells it all:<br />
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It was fun teaching them. I like how the teacher's manual stated very simply what principle needs to be taught. It was about Samuel the Lamanite who just like all other prophets, prophesied about Jesus Christ. I know the things prophesied about the birth and death of Jesus Christ have really happened. There are many other prophesies found in the scriptures about our time -- the last dispensation! What we need to do is all found in the scriptures, right in front of us! The people in the past had their test of faith of the birth of Jesus Christ. We know that he did come to earth and fulfilled the Atonement. He gave up His life for us, and he was resurrected. Because He was resurrected, so too shall we one day. Our test of faith now is to prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ. I know that He lives and will return in His glory.</b></span></div>
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I forgot to mention that after the 3 week meeting, we were to set up facebook accounts for use as missionaries. Before setting it up however, we had to deactivate our previous accounts. So don't be shocked if you can't find my old facebook account. I'll be back in 2 years!</b></span></div>
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It has been a wonderful week. I've spent too much time replying</b></span></div>
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This week the zone leaders joined us for district meeting and guess</b></span></div>
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what? I was assigned to give my first training. Coincidence? I think</b></span></div>
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not. It was fun though, I gave a training on what it means to be a</b></span></div>
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successful missionary. That week we didn't hit our goals in terms of</b></span></div>
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preparing a lesson/training/talk is the one that learns the most. I</b></span></div>
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constantly diligent in doing all that they can. But being like that</b></span></div>
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can be a challenge because of the difficulties faced when doing</b></span></div>
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missionary work. To me, it's just like keeping the commandments. They</b></span></div>
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ways I never expected. Hopefully I can keep it up, when many blessings</b></span></div>
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Chinese food! :)</b></span></div>
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(4) genuine fried cracker! :D</b></span></div>
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Well, it looks like I've completed my first transfer already. The pastweek is the 6th and last week of the transfer. It has been the busiest of all the weeks in terms of the number of appointments we have. As I meet with the many different people, I learn quite a bit about their lives, their concerns and the problems that they have. I can see how the gospel will truly help them, and how much they need it. The challenge is getting them to realise that.</b></span></div>
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I've had many pleasant surprises the past week. First is on P-day when the Elders from Bury came down for exchanges again. This time, they brought a wok from their flat which no one uses! Oh man, the fried rice is starting to taste like the restaurants because it now has that nice smokey taste from the wok. Elder Coon keeps making extra rice in the rice cooker so we've been having it quite often. I've also been timing myself and have been able to cook within 30mins. It's so much faster than the pan!</b></span></div>
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The McDonalds here is quite different from Singapore. Extra value meals are at a fixed price for all burgers (other than the special seasonal burgers) which made me want to go for the Big Mac or quarter pounder instead of my favourite fillet-o-fish. Another thing I find that's different is...</b></span></div>
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A package! :D Zone meetings are the times when we will get letters and packages because the zone leaders will have a meeting at the mission office before zone meeting and will collect all the mail for us. So, In addition to the time taken for the mail to reach the mission office, it could take up to an additional month for the mail to reach me. Anyway, here's what I got:</b></span></div>
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A month's supply of milo!!! (assuming I have one a day heheh) While taking this photo, I had yet to go through the whole box to find out there's something else below all that milo. I'm saving it for my birthday :)</b></span></div>
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Thank you so much to the family that sent it! I now know just how incredible it feels to receive a package. I've calculated how much each mug of milo costs. I'll surely cherish each sip.</b></span></div>
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On Saturday morning, we went to help clean the garden of an old member who lives alone with her dog:</b></span></div>
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At one glance across, the garden looked so good. It looked better than many of the other gardens I've seen here. I was tasked to remove the weeds. In particular, the bamboo. I didn't know that the bamboo was causing a problem until my ward mission leader showed me. The bamboo shoots were actually popping out everywhere. A few were a little more obvious but many were hidden among the thick bushes of the plants we wanted. As I trimmed the bushes I realised there was so much bamboo. At first I wondered why the bamboo was everywhere. As I began digging and plucking out the roots. I realised that there was a whole network of bamboo roots under the soil. The roots were actually creeping right under the concrete slabs that acted as the footpath in the garden. We had to lever out the concrete slabs using the spade and then dig out the roots. Because it was all connected, it led from one concrete slab to another. It was hard work. I had no idea it would be this much work when I first saw the seemingly good looking garden.</b></span></div>
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I thought of these weeds as problems in our lives. They can start small from one end of the garden, but can grow bigger and bigger. Eventually spreading throughout the garden and interfering with our lives. Despite becoming bigger, they can still remain rather hidden... but eventually some will notice the problem. Others can notice even before we do ourselves. When they let us know, it takes a lot of humility to acknowledge that there truly is a problem. We might even take it negatively and think "that person is trying to pick on me!". It can be tempting to just let it be since it's all hidden under the concrete slabs and nice looking bushes. However, the longer it is left alone, the worse it becomes. It is a lot of work to deal with the problem that has grown so big, but it is worth it! We're not alone too! I can't imagine doing all that work alone. Having others to help, or just talk to made it so much easier. Likewise, facing personal problems can be much easier with the help of others. We all felt so good after spending 2 hours gardening together. The member was also so pleased!</b></span></div>
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Ideally it would be great to get rid of the weeds when it just begins sprouting. But who has time to keep weeding? It's probably impossible to have a garden without a single weed. Just like the garden and the weeds, we aren't perfect. We have many responsibilities and things to do. The "weeding" can be neglected when we are so busy. But if we humble ourselves and turn to the Lord, it is promised in D&C 1:</b></span></div>
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24 Behold, I am God and have spoken it; these commandments are of me, and were given unto my servants in their weakness, after the manner of their language, that they might come to understanding.</b></span></div>
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26 And inasmuch as they sought wisdom they might be instructed;</b></span></div>
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27 And inasmuch as they sinned they might be chastened, that they might repent;</b></span></div>
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28 And inasmuch as they were humble they might be made strong, and blessed from on high, and receive knowledge from time to time.</b></span></div>
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I know that it is only because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ that we can repent, and it is such a great blessing to be able to be clean again! If we truly desire to change, we will receive help from above.</b></span></div>
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P.S At the end of that Saturday, we had a really delicious dinner. It was roast chicken! Something I don't have time to make! It was in BBQ, sweet sauce and chilli sauce. Desert was cream puffs in chocolate mousse. Luckily I don't get see too often. There are many missionaries who look completely different from when they first started!</b></span></div>
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While finding this week, I met a number of people who asked questions that kept going round and round. They are extremely logical people who want answers and evidence. I didn't feel so comfortable talking to these people because I could actually relate to the very deep questions about God that they had, and realise that I don't actually know all the answers. These people didn't want to meet again nor try reading scriptures or praying. They wanted answers and explanations immediately. I soon realised that whatever I did would never satisfy them. One of the questions got me thinking and it's something along the lines of "why can't God do this?"</b></span></div>
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I wouldn't say I started doubting my faith, but in my mind I kept thinking "yeah, why can't God do that?". As I was reading the scriptures on Sunday morning, I came across this verse from the Book</b></span></div>
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I felt like I was getting rebuked. But that's not all! During sacrament meeting, all the talks were about faith! Last but not least, I was sitting right next to an old lady, whose life's challenges could lead one to doubt that God exists. Yet, she faithfully comes to church each week despite health challenges.</b></span></div>
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These 3 things were enough for me to know that I received an answer to the rather prideful question I had.</b></span></div>
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Anyway, I don't know if I mentioned it last week, but that I'm still staying in Cambridge. </b></span></div>
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On P-day before the transfers, the Jackmans invited us over for their amazing waffles! </b></span></div>
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So Elder Coon got transferred and my follow up trainer is Elder Dunning from California. So that's 3 Californians in one district! He's in the middle of the picture. I'll probably have to give him a haircut soon haha.</b></span></div>
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I attended the birthday party of the old lady I mentioned last Thursday. It was a barbecue! It started an hour late and by start I mean we start getting the fire going haha. What was cool was that they invited their neighbours too! </b></span></div>
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One neighbour studied chemistry in Oxford and is a really successful person. The other neighbour I met is retired, but he owns a massive orchard and was really kind to show us around. He invited us back this week!</b></span></div>
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The sun is starting to rise later and set earlier. I really do not look forward to winter!</b></span></div>
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I've been travelling so much the past week. First was on Tuesday where there was zone conference. It's like zone meeting except there's 2 zones together. I was glad to be assigned to play the piano once again. There's always 2 hymns that are sung in all missionary meetings here, hymn #41 Let Zion in Her Beauty Rise and hymn #249 Called to Serve. #41 is especially tricky but I've played it so much it has become easier. My favourite part about playing the piano for these meetings is playing the prelude. I've started using songs from the Children's Songbook as I find them more fun to play. It sounded really nice on the grand piano at the chapel! I still haven't got over stage fright though, my right leg on the pedal kept shaking as I was playing the piano. This hasn't happened to me since the piano recitals years ago!</b></span></div>
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Anyway, the conference focused a lot on using the Book of Mormon. President Stevens used a talk from a recent general conference talk titled "The Book of Mormon--a book from God" by Tad R. Callister. It's the one that used the object lesson where if the Bible is single point on a paper, we can draw many lines through it in different directions, but if we have the Book of Mormon as a second point, we can only draw one straight line through it. This illustration shows why a second witness is so crucial! I shouldn't spend time explaining more, it's all in the talk.</b></span></div>
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While finding along a street, I came across this shop that sells Chinese groceries and Malaysian specialties. I went in and found that the owner was from Singapore! He and his wife used to live near Tanglin Halt where I stay! They asked us to come back on Thursday, which was 15th of September, which means...</b></span></div>
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Mooncake and Milo! :D To celebrate the mid-autumn festival! What a treat! I never expected to have mooncake here! The owner has met missionaries before and they are still in contact. He also knows all the church members who buy stuff from his shop!</b></span></div>
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On Friday, we had to travel again for exchanges with the zone leaders at Colchester. We did service in the morning for one of the members there. We basically spent the morning putting pebbles on to soil. It sounds simple, but it's not as easy as it sounds...</b></span></div>
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First was to dig out the soil at the sides to insert the concrete fence to prevent the stones from spilling out. At the same time, we had to remove and move the excess soil somewhere else so that it's the same level as the stones already there. I have no pictures of that because that was what I was mainly doing (on top of weeding)</b></span></div>
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Then comes the pouring of the stones...</b></span></div>
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and then spreading it out! We finished just in time as it started raining once we were done!</b></span></div>
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I travelled at least 230 miles from the zone conference and exchange with the zone leaders. During this time, I went through the pamplets that missionaries use in mandarin. My iPad has a dictionary which helps me learn so much faster! I can just write down the words on the screen for the translation and pronunciation. I'm learning so much faster than back home. The reason why I've been trying to imrpove in my mandarin is because...</b></span></div>
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Someone from China got baptised in the ward I'm serving at! I have been helping to explain things to him in Mandarin. He's really great!</b></span></div>
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I have actually used thing's I've learned in the pamphlet to help explain things to him, as well as to understand questions he asks. For example, he asked in mandarin whether I would be one of the witnessess for his baptism. The word witness is used in the very first page of the pamplet where it explains how prophets are witnessess of God. If I had not read the pamphlet I would not have understood him!</b></span></div>
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I als found a 64 year old lady originally from China who wondered why there were so many churches even though they all believed in Jesus Christ. I was surprised I could actually explain it very simply using mandarin and the pamphlet. She wants to come to church this week!</b></span></div>
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I realise that I'm more motivated to work on my mandarin because I have a purpose. I didn't feel as motivated back home because I couldn't really use it nor practice it for that matter. It just made me think of how important it is to find a purpose in what we do, especially in keeping the commandments of God and fulfilling church callings. Without truly understanding what commandments are and why we have them, they just look like a bunch of restrictions. If we don't understand the purpose of home teaching and visiting teaching, it just becomes a chore. If I don't understand my purpose as a missionary...... well, there are many things I can write about that but I think it is already clear how finding a purpose in what we do very much affects how motivated we are to do things and the attitude we will carry as we go about doing it.</b></span></div>
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I hope everyone had a great week! As we enter the -ber months at the end of the year, Christmas is just round the corner and President and Sister Stevens have some advice on sending packages. Do take a look at the attachment!</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Extract of attachment below :</span></b></div>
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We send our love and greetings to you from London. It is a great blessing and</b></span></div>
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treasured gift in our lives to serve here with your wonderful missionary sons and</b></span></div>
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daughters. Each is doing a work that has eternal significance and is influencing so</b></span></div>
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many lives for good as they share the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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It is already September and we are looking forward to a joyful celebration of this</b></span></div>
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Christmas season with your missionary. We want to be certain that all our</b></span></div>
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We are planning to personally deliver all packages to our missionaries at our Zone</b></span></div>
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Conferences in early December. In order to ensure your packages arrive in time, we</b></span></div>
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are asking that they arrive in England by December 1, 2016. So please plan</b></span></div>
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accordingly. We offer some suggestions if you are planning to send a gift.</b></span></div>
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Please send all packages to the Mission Office. It is much safer to receive</b></span></div>
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packages here at the office than to send them directly to your missionary.</b></span></div>
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Please label the package “Christmas Gift” so we can easily separate it from</b></span></div>
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package so we can be looking for it. Please include the missionary’s name</b></span></div>
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and date you shipped the package. Our email is 2014904@ldschurch.org.</b></span></div>
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selection of gifts. Shipping will be less expensive and may be free. Please</b></span></div>
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Wow I'm already half way through this transfer. I constantly think about how much more I can do here and how much time I think I have left here. The days go by so quickly!</b></span></div>
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Last week on P-day, we decided to go check out a place called Castle Mound. It used to be part of a castle in the 1300s but now it's basically the highest pile of dirt in Cambridge haha. It does have a pretty nice view of Cambridge though...</b></span></div>
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During District Meeting on Wednesday, we watched a series of videos about driving safely produced by the church for missionaries. Some of the are hillarious! The funny thing is that we all felt scared of driving after watching those videos! I'm not driving now, but I do keep a lookout as my companion drives. During long distance drives, I do take some time to enjoy the scenery too:</b></span></div>
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This was one of those nice sunny days. The weather still fluctuates each day, but the cold days are getting colder! :(</b></span></div>
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On Saturday, a couple got married and they used the chapel for the reception. We had to open the chapel constantly throughout the week for them to set it up. It looked really nice! I love DIY wedding receptions. Sadly I don't have any photos. I wasn't involved at all other than opening the chapel and cleaning up. Oh man, cleaning up was hard work. There was confetti everywhere! Somehow there were a lot of crushed sugary candy on the floor too, which we had to scrape out as they dried up and were stuck on the carpet. </b></span></div>
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Sunday afternoon was pretty cool. We had to find one more new investigator for the week. Elder Dunning and I had faith we could find one but weren't too sure exactly how we would. We had an appointment to see a potential whom we stopped by the street the week before. We thought he could be the one so we decided to walk to his place. He wasn't in. We then decided to drop off a Chinese Book of Mormon at the chapel as the sister missionaries needed one for a lesson later in the evening. On the way there, we stopped someone from the Philippines. Apparently her husband lives in the Phillippines and is a member. She was investigating the church until she moved here on Thursday for work. She had just gone to the chapel to look for someone to continue teaching her, but it was locked as no one was there. How is it a coincidence that we found her!? She was so happy that she wanted to take a picture with us and send it to her husband! This was such a nice way to end off the week! </b></span></div>
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Wow what a week it has been! There was zone meeting, general conference and then interviews with the President and Sister Stevens. The interviews were on Monday that's why P-day is on Tuesday this week.</b></span></div>
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Let's start from last week's P-day. I discovered an ALDI!!!</b></span></div>
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It's probably the cheapest place to buy groceries. It had actually opened the week before and there were 250 people actually waiting outside the first day it opened. The day we went wasn't as bad but it was still pretty crowded. It was like shopping in Singapore actually, it was cram and hard to manouver through. I guess I have gotten too used to super wide walkways in ASDA which is basically Walmart.<br />
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The week started slow. On Tuesday we had 5 appoinments that were cancelled. Sure it was disappointing, but I simply laughed because it was just ridiculous. Our back up for all of them was finding people, but sadly we didn't find anyone that day.<br />
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Wednesday went better as 3 out of 4 appoinments went through. For the last appoinment of the day the person didn't show up. I normally would have been terribly disappointed but after Tuesday I was contented haha.<br />
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Then on the week went really interesting. On Thursday we felt like we should go visit someone who stopped meeting with the missionaries earlier this year. We had to take the train and then walk 30 minutes. We finally reached the street only to realise that we didn't note down the house number. We had an apppoinment to get to and had no time too knock all the doors on the huge street. At the point that we turned back, we received a text on our phone letting us know we just got a referral! It's so rare here it's really a miracle!<br />
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Friday was Zone Meeting! Our zone exceeded our goals again for the past month so it was really great! Here's a photo:<br />
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Some missionaries will be going home after this transfer. Summing up 2 years into 2 minutes is really hard. I shan't think so far ahead. Oh during zone meeting we suddenly received yet another referral!</b></span></div>
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During our studies on Saturday morning, we received yet another referral! We set an appoinment to see the person that day and she even came to watch general conference in the evening!</b></span></div>
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On Sunday we got yet another referral who came to church to watch conference as well!</b></span></div>
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Yesterday before leaving for interviews, we received a notification on our phone letting us know we have another referral. After the interviews and training, we received another referral again! It's unbelievable! It was actually quite scary to suddenly receive so many referrals the past week. I don't think there's anything special I did. During my interview with President Stevens we discussed how we really don't have much control of how the week goes. What matters is that we are doing are best. We were just so blessed the past week. I hope to be able to do the best I can to help all these precious children of our Heavenly Father.</b></span></div>
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To focus a bit more about interviews, we had a training as well so we had to set up everything before hand. We are the largest zon in the mission so setting up is quite a lot of work. To make sure it's easier to know where everything goes, I took a picture of it so it would be easier next time:</b></span></div>
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To save time on lunch, the quickest way is to go McDonalds of course!<br />
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I didn't get much from McDonalds because during interviews, we had Sister Stevens' amazing brownies with milk! Eating 2 of it already made me so full!<br />
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Oh man I don't time left to talk about general conference. I gained so much this time. There were many talks about the Book of Mormon and missionary work. During the interviews training, we watched President Uchtdorf's talk during the general women's session. Everyone must go watch it! There is a really touching story that he shared about faith and missionary work! </b></span></div>
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Maybe I'll just one more thing that stood out to me. It was by Quinton L. Cook during the Saturday Afternoon Session. He spoke about stumbling blocks and one of them is by looking beyond the mark. (Jacob 4:14) Some people stumble because they seek for things they cannot understand. There will be many things that cannot be answered in this life. But the things pertaining to our salvation we do know. If we knew everything, we could not exercise any faith at all!</b></span></div>
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We went to the Fitzwilliam Museum last P-day! There are many art pieces and ancient artefacts in there from different times and different places in the world. I skipped the art because the artefacts were way cooler. (there's just too many things to see! Priorities!) Surprisingly there were some modern pieces mixed inside too. I couldn't appreciate the modern ones though. For example they had Roman coffins carved out of marble. Absolutely beautiful! It had figures and decorations carved on the outside. The modern piece was a block of marble with a cone shaped hole put through it haha.</b></span></div>
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While at the museum, I thought there'd be no point taking pictures of artefacts to show everyone as it might get boring. I now realise that describing them is far worse. Luckily, the museum itself is a work of art to behold...</b></span></div>
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The very first thing I spotted when arriving were the 2 Lions! (Singapore means lion city) It reminded me of the 2 lions guarding the SAFTI Tower at the Officer Cadet School. Good old days there, but I'm not eager to go through the training there again haha.<br />
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Here's the tour group! 3 Californians and a Singaporean (:<br />
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The coolest exhibit was of the weapons and armour. Some weapons looked so evil. There was this massive sword that's probably as tall as me!<br />
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Sometimes on P-days I like to spend a little more time on dinner. This would normally mean using the oven...<br />
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Those are '89p for 20 sausages' from ASDA. Let's just say you get what you pay for. I don't recommend it unless you love flour made to taste like meat.<br />
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I want to share a tiny blessing I received the past week. I was kind of craving dumplings, and guess what? One of the members suddenly offered to bring them for one of the lessons we had with one of the people we're teaching!<br />
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I ate the dumplings with an interesting sauce. It was soy sauce with lemon!<br />
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I decided to bring some extra fried rice I had from lunch and it became a small Asian picnic at the chapel kitchen heheh.<br />
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Right now we do not have a ward mission leader, so the second counsellor in the bishopric is standing in and we have our correlation meetings with him. Last week, he invited us to have pancakes before the meeting! :D<br />
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The apples are organic! Right from the backyard of the member's home! I don't know how but they have Costco maple syrup. Yum!</b></span></div>
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I was so fascinated by the apple peeler! It's such a brilliant invention.<br />
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Ok I think I've spoken too much about food. I suspect the cold weather here makes me hungry for warm food all the time. Onto more serious matters, I've been meeting with people who have had negative experiences caused by others. In particular, betrayal and being let down by "friends". It was painful listening to their stories. The worse was to hear what it's like being surrounded by people who despise your happiness and rejoice in your misery. I don't want to go into the details (I should not) but this particular family that I'm working with is much like the modern version of the poor Zoramites in Alma 32:6...<br />
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6 And now when Alma heard this, he turned him about, his face immediately towards him, and he beheld with great joy; for he beheld that their afflictions had truly humbled them, and that they were in a preparation to hear the word.<br />
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The family lost it all and moved out of that country where everything happened hoping to start anew. They believe that whatever happened must have happened for a reason, and they do see that it led them to want to seek peace by turning to God. They recognise how much happier<br />
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Afflictions can truly humble people and prepare them to receive the gospel. But as Alma continued teaching...<br />
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16 Therefore, blessed are they who humble themselves without being compelled to be humble; or rather, in other words, blessed is he that believeth in the word of God, and is baptized without stubbornness of heart, yea, without being brought to know the word, or even compelled to know, before they will believe.<br />
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How can one be humble without being compelled to? I think it begins with gratitude. Does being humble mean we will not be afflicted like those who need to be compelled to? Certainly not. If life were without problems, we wouldn't learn anything. Thus far all the people I've taught know that overcoming their past afflictions have helped them become stronger. I feel the same about mine.<br />
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To conclude with the wise words of King Benjamin in Mosiah 3:19...<br />
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19 For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.<br />
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May we all follow this wise counsel and be humble no matter the circumstance!<br />
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P.S. It was strange to see that condensation was happening on the windows of the flat from the inside!<br />
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Well it has been yet another transfer and I'll be staying here in Cambridge again for another 6 weeks. I'm so glad I'm staying! I feel like there is so much potential here and I want to continue working on it.</b></span></div>
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Last Tuesday we had exchanges and had to go to Bury St Edmunds for a whole day. A whole day there, means a whole day less in Cambridge. </b></span></div>
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We strive to maintain the frequency we meet with the people we're teaching so the remaining days in the week become more packed. Trying to stack these appointments together resulted in lots of travelling by car, train, bike and foot. It gets tiring moving around a lot but seeing people change for the better each time we see them makes it so worth it.<br />
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One of the people we're working with has a passion for collecting music records. He built a whole shed behind his house to store all these records<br />
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He's really organised tool! He catalogues all his stuff and knows exactly where each record is.<br />
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On one of the days, I had to park my bike in a unique place. You know how we have 'multi-storey car parks' in Singapore or a 'parking garage' as Americans call it. Here they have something similar for bikes. It was next to the train station and had the capacity to store 2850 bikes!<br />
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Here at Cambridge it makes more sense to cycle in the city instead of driving. It's so much easier to get around and park the bikes!<br />
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One of the highlights this week was celebrating someone's birthday. They are the family that live about 30 miles from the church (50 minute drive) and it was the dad's 40th birthday. We had to take a train up there as usual, but this time we went a little earlier to find a family that used to meet the missionaries. Remember the last time we went up and found the street but realised we did not have the house number? Well, this time we found them... and got a referral on the way just like last time! :) we're going to see them the next time we go up to Littleport. After that short meeting, we were a little late and had to run to the train station to be picked up to get to the birthday celebration. It was about a mile (1.6km) of running along a river. It was quite scenic!<br />
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There were 3 times I stopped. First was to take the picture heheh. Second was to tie my shoe laces, and third only time was when a cow stopped in our way and stared at us. It had horns and I was wearing a red tie... so I covered my tie and slowly walked passed it. All is well haha.<br />
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I think I'm becoming like dad haha. During the birthday celebration I set my camera at a corner to film everything. I also took the initiative to take photos. I wasn't doing this for myself but for them to enjoy in the future. I know how precious and enjoyable these videos are because of what dad did in the past. In some ways I'm probably also becoming like mom. During lunch I baked some pastry puffs to bring along to the birthday.<br />
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I'm trying to see people as children of God instead of judging based on things they have done in the past. As part of doing that, I try to spot attributes in them that God would have. For example, the way the person knows each of the music records he has is just like how God knows each one of us. Each one of us are accounted for and we are never forgotten! For the family, the dad works tirelessly to provide for his family. He really tries to give his children what they want. However, he doesn't simply give them everything they want. He gives it to them when they behave and the time is right, such as birthdays or Christmas. It made me think of how our Heavenly Father really wants to bless us but he doesn't give us everything we want whenever we want.<br />
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Speaking of blessings, I've seen tiny blessings recently. I've been studying a bit of the Old Testament and read about Noah. I learned of the significance of the rainbow and thought about how I haven't seen one in a while. Soon enough, I did see a rainbow here!<br />
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Another time, I was kind of craving noodles and leafy vegetables. Well, the owner of the Asian Shop that we go to invited us over to his place and we had instant noodle with Kai Lan and oyster sauce! :) We also met his daughter-in-law who's interested in learning more! :D</b></span></div>
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Well, these are the little blessings I've seen and I'm so grateful for them. Have a great week everyone! Look out for tiny blessings! ;)</b></span></div>
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I'm in a trio now! Elder Warburton joined Elder Dunning and I. He's originally from Texas! Being in a trio is unusual, but necessary as I have learned. We normally work in pairs but because things happen sometimes and some missionaries might suddenly have to go, the companion staying can't be left alone in the assigned area nor do we want to leave that area without missionaries. So, the trio in the mission will supply the additional missionary! Which means, anything could happen in this transfer. We could stay together for 6 weeks or somewhere in between one of us might have to leave.</b></span></div>
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Something I didn't mention last week was that we had stake conference! It was all the way at the university of Essex at Colchester. That's about an hour or so drive away. Our ward rented a mini bus to provide transportation for those who couldn't drive. It was like a road trip! But, stake conference started at 10am, and our ward was to provide a choir and we needed to rehearse before it started. There were choir members taking the bus so everyone had to be at the chapel at Cambridge at 7.00am to ride the mini bus. There was a really beautiful sunrise!</b></span></div>
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The venue was a huge lecture theatre at the univeristy. I don't even know how many people it could fit. Unfortunately the sound system wasn't very good and it was hard to hear what the speakers were saying. I did manage to roughly figure out what the message from the final speaker Elder Obando. His main focus was about strengthening the family. He mentioned that actively going to church does not guarantee activity in the gospel. Families need to be living the gospel at home, and parents need to take charge of that. Speaking on the importance of parenting, he mentioned that "we preach by word and teach by deed". When the two don't match up, one would be less inclined to listen and obey.</b></span></div>
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It's interesting being a minority group of people because it's easy to spot others haha. I found a member in the stake who's sister stays in Singapore! He went straight up to speak to a recent convert in our ward. They both speak Cantonese!</b></span></div>
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Remember how I found a Singaporean who owns an Asian supermarket here? We'll I got to go to his home last P-day. His daugther-in-law cooked what she called a "simple meal"...<br />
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For a moment it didn't feel like I was in England at all! They are such a lovely family! The daughter-in-law is such a cool mom in her free time she does cosplay and goes to conventions with her husband and children!</b></span></div>
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They are such a cool family! We were dropping by their store one day, and someone they knew came in as well. They immediately introduced us as missionaries who teach people about Christianity. Their friend agreed to meet us and we'll be seeing her this week!</b></span></div>
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We have Sister Jung from South Korea! Elder Warburton is the one on my right.</b></span></div>
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I just want to share a little bit of what I studied in the Old Testament. It's about Abraham being commanded to sacrifice Isaac. It was certainly a very difficult trial as Isaac was his only child together with Sarah and his birth was a miracle in its own. This was a similitude of God and his Only Begotten Son and was a significant lesson for Abraham.</b></span></div>
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“Why did the Lord ask such things of Abraham? Because, knowing what his future would be and that he would be the father of an innumerable posterity, he was determined to test him. God did not do this for His own sake for He knew by His foreknowledge what Abraham would do; but the purpose was to impress upon Abraham a lesson and to enable him to attain unto knowledge that he could not obtain in any other way. That is why God tries all of us. It is not for His own knowledge for He knows all things beforehand. He knows all your lives and everything you will do. But He tries us for our own good that we may know ourselves; for it is most important that a man should know himself."</b></span></div>
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When I was reading this, I thought back about this big question we had during a lesson in my 3rd year of seminary. It was a dilemma about God already knowing what would happen in our lives and what we would do, and that our fate is already sealed. I feel that God knows us already and just like Abraham, we are given trials that we can truly learn and know ourselves. We make choices here on earth that determine our destiny and learn as we make these choices. The good thing is, we face will never face more than we can bear! (Alma 13:28) So that's where for-ordination comes in, God knew exactly that Abraham could overcome his trial. Likewise, we can definitely overcome ours!</b></span></div>
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Last Saturday night we had to turn the clock back one hour which meant we got to enjoy an extra hour of sleep! However that means the sun sets an hour earlier too. It's interesting to see how the weather and sunlight affects the movement of people here. Back in summer people would still be walking about at 8pm, but now at 5pm there's barely anyone on the streets. During the day when it's abnormally sunny, traffic becomes really heavy on the roads because people start taking day trips to places! </b></span></div>
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The leaves here are starting to fall! It's so cool! There are orange leaves everywhere as no one is sweeping them up. I was told that seasons make it feel like time is moving forward. I really feel it. It's so different from Singapore where it's always sunny and the temperature and plants don't really change. With the cold temperature here, warm food becomes extra appetising. I found a steamer in the flat and it just so happened that our friends in the Asian supermarket gave us frozen custard paus!</b></span></div>
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The custard wasn't that nice but it was so nice to eat a pau again!<br />
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A member in the ward passed away and we attended her funeral last week. She was such a loving person who touched the lives of many. During my time here I had the chance to help her weed her garden and give her a blessing when she was ill. She wanted her funeral to be more of a celebration of her life. Her children were wearing flowery and colourful dresses which was her favourite. They requested the ward to sing this song called 'Jerusalem'. Apparently it's a well known English hymn but it's the first time I've heard it and sang it. It wasn't easy!<br />
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Zone training meeting on Friday felt very different from the ones I've had previously. Maybe it's because I don't know so many of the other missionaries. I think I sort of understand what it's like for investigators when the first two missionaries they met move out from the ward. The zone leaders I first knew when I came here are both gone now and I got so used to them that I feel like I need to adjust a bit right now. It was fun taking pictures with all the leaves though!<br />
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On Sunday we had to teach a primary class at very short notice. We were told right after the first hour. Thankfully it was the 7-8 year olds and there were only 2 girls. It's probably stereotypical to say girls are easier to teach but it's so true. The lesson was about forgiveness. We had a lot of fun acting out the stories from the lesson. I really enjoyed the object lesson about how choosing not to forgive is like carrying weight that becomes a burden and brings us down. The children really loved to give high fives. So I stuffed my sling bag with loads of books till it was really heavy and had them sling it. They could not jump high enough to give a high five haha. It was that heavy! We then had them remove the books from the bag while giving examples of things we can do to forgive others. They understood the lesson so well! But of course they were looking forward to the end of the lesson because of the treats promised to them!</b></span></div>
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Treats are the best things in primary! I was actually sad to leave primary to join the youth when I was 12 because of the treats haha. We had to divide the gummies equally and counted them one by one haha.<br />
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I think I haven't mentioned that there's someone studying here at Cambridge and she had previously studied in Singapore! What's so cool is that she was converted in Singapore! She helps us in lessons and she's and does an amazing job. She attended 2nd ward back home so<br />
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Well, I have to go now. It's Halloween today and we're going to visit a family who take it really seriously. I've heard that many people go all the way to their home to see their decorations until there's a lack of parking space. I'm looking forward to going there!</b></span></div>
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So here are the photos from the home I visited on Halloween last Monday!</b></span></div>
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I took the pictures before it got dark. It just so happen that night that there was a thick fog, it really made the place even spookier!<br />
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After visiting the home last Monday night, I received a phone call from President Stevens telling me that there was a missionary joining the mission again after settling some medical issues, and amongst the trio I've been in Cambridge the longest and thus would be the one to go and be the companion of the returning missionary... and we had to open up an area in Bletchley! I had to go to London on Wednesday which left me with Tuesday as my last day in Cambridge!<br />
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Coincidentally we had district meeting on Tuesday morning so I got to say a proper goodbye to my district. I felt like there's so much more I wanted to do at Cambridge but if it's time to go then it's time to go. I'm definitely going to miss a lot of people at Cambridge!<br />
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So on Wednesday morning I had to go to London to meet up with my new companion Elder Falke and head on to Bletchley. Taking the tube and train while moving 4 suitcases together is no fun at all! Especially when the station didn't have elevators. It definitely covered my workout for the day. Here's our picture at the station:<br />
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So here's what happened after we arrived. We were told that we would be picked up by other missionaries at 2pm. We arrived around that time and waited till 2.30pm and no one came. We didn't have a phone so we went to borrow a stranger's phone to make a call. It turned out that they didn't even know they were supposed to pick us up! This felt a lot like the good old days in the army haha. Only, we don't sit down and wait. We had a good hour and a half of finding around the station and actually found someone to teach!<br />
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On Wednesday night, I received a call from the Elders back at Cambridge. It was quite unfortunate but there's someone we visit each week and I forgot to tell him that I was leaving. He knew my birthday was drawing near and that he would be on holiday and wouldn't be able to meet with us. So he got me a cake only to be disappointed that I had left :( The other Elders took a picture for me though:</b></span></div>
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I got permission to give him a call to thank him. He's such a kind person. He's not been to church for 50 years and he's recently started reading the Book of Mormon again and wants to finish reading it. He acknowledges the change he feels in him as he reads it. I encouraged him to keep reading to the end!</b></span></div>
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Bletchley is nearby Milton Keynes and it's where the Enigma was decoded during WWII. I only know this because I watched the movie called "The Imitation Game" or something like that. Benedict Cumberbatch starred in that movie. Oh I heard from people that he's also Dr Strange from a Marvel movie! Anyway, that place where the Enigma was decoded has now been turned into a museum. Apart from that, I don't think there's anything else really significant here. The roads here feel more organised than Cambridge. They are straighter and look squarish on the map unlike cambridge. I was told it's because an American planned it.</b></span></div>
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So the transport we have here are bikes and when we arrived the bikes were not in good condition. We couldn't get anywhere! So our priority was to fix the bikes. We walked with our bikes to the bike shop. It took about an hour and a half to get there. It was supposed to be 30 minutes but we stopped to talk to people along the way! Anyway we arrived there and found out what were the problems. To have the bike shop fix it was too expensive so we bought the parts and tried to fix the bikes on our own. Well, actually Elder Falke fixed it haha:</b></span></div>
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Somehow we managed to find all the tools we needed in the flat to fix the bikes. It was such a happy moment when the bikes were finally fixed. We felt liberated to be able to cycle! The bikes were so much better than in Cambridge after they were fixed. This is after our first ride out:</b></span></div>
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The past week has been amazing! Elder Falke and I have only just arrived here but things are picking up very fast!</b></span></div>
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Tuesday was a blast! It was my turn to shower first after exercise and when I was done I found this on the table:</b></span></div>
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Elder Falke made me a birthday breakfast! :)</b></span></div>
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In case you're wondering, that remote is for the music player and not a television ;)</b></span></div>
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Anyway, the breakfast is in addition to the smoothie he makes every morning:</b></span></div>
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It's a blend of spinach, banana and orange. It's something I look forward to every day, especially during his torturous workout haha.</b></span></div>
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When we were back in the flat for lunch in the afternoon, the other Elders in the ward dropped to swap our vehicles. We are using the car now and they are using the bikes. They also brought a little surprise!</b></span></div>
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Cheesecake! :D</b></span></div>
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Fast forward to the end of the day, I finally got to the moment I was waiting for all day!</b></span></div>
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Having just moved here and starting a new area, we've been doing a lot of finding the whole week. It's been quite an amazing experience! On Tuesday we found one person. He gave us an address and we went there on Wednesday. No one was home and it didn't seem like anyone lived there. However, we started going around the neighbourhood and soon realised it is such a good area. Fast forward to end of the week, we have 7 new people to teach! Then on Sunday, a lady walked into church for the first time and was interested to learn more! That ended the week with 8 new people to teach! The Lord is really multiplying our efforts!</b></span></div>
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It is so much hard work here! I'm feeling tired at the end of each day but I feel fulfilled when I do my best each day! We've definitely been so blessed the past week! I never really knew what to expect having just moved here but it looks really exciting!</b></span></div>
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Thank you for all the birthday wishes and gifts! I truly had such a great birthday filled with so much love!</b></span></div>
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P.S. There has recently been so much going on in our district and many of us are new. We decided to have a district lunch together after district meeting:</b></span></div>
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We are a truly international district! We have people from America, Germany, Philippines, Pakistan, Taiwan, and of course... Singapore! :)</b></span></div>
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I ordered my all time favourite Hor Fun expecting it to be in gravy just like home, but it was a dry type. Oh well! I have to learn to make it!</b></span></div>
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It's getting colder here! I miss how easy it was to get out of a building quickly. It takes quite a while to wear more layers to keep warm. After adding each layer I have to adjust the sleeves which is pretty annoying. However troublesome it is though, it is worth it. It feels great to feel warm outside despite the weather being cold. As I like to tell Elder Falke, I feel "invincible"...... as long as it doesn't rain haha. Nothing can protect us from the cold when we're soaked from heavy rain.</b></span></div>
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I've had exchanges with 2 different missionaries last week which was quite fun. On Tuesday, I worked with Elder Aranda from the Philippines! I had to use the bikes again which was fun! I cooked some Hoisin Garlic Chicken for lunch. He really loves the rice I cook from the pot on the stove. I'm glad mom taught me how to cook rice properly on the stove!</b></span></div>
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Something is wrong here. Time seems to be passing too fast. It feels like time is being fast-forwarded and I'm simply not keeping up. It might be because there's so little sunlight here right now. The sun currently rises at 7am and sets at 4pm!</b></span></div>
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The past week we planned to visit a family of the ward each day. We've been very successful in doing that. It's not that we're very good, but it's the members that are extremely accommodating. There are so many young families in the ward which is really nice!</b></span></div>
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Each home we visited is so different! One of the family stays in what feels like in the middle of nowhere. It felt like we were visiting a castle, especially because of the door: </b></span></div>
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The member is actually a barrister and let us try on the horse hair and gown!</b></span></div>
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I'm not as confident as I'd like to be as a missionary right now, but I do see myself improving slowly. I often think too much and wonder if my thoughts are my thoughts or inspired by the Holy Spirit. Working with Elder Falke has really helped me gain some confidence though. We try our best to prepare messages according to each family's needs. It is very reassuring when the first thought that comes to my mind is exactly what he thought of as well. It has happened many times when thinking of a topic to teach. It even happens during the lesson when I think of a scripture to share, but hesitate...... and then Elder Falke reads it anyway.</b></span></div>
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There were times when we felt completely uninspired as well. It was when we visited a member whose husband isn't a member. He really loves to play chess and Elder Falke did accept the challenge to a game. We concurrently tried having a discussion with him and see if he would have any interest. It became a very lengthy game/discussion and we didn't seem to get anywhere. (Elder Falke was losing the game too!) We definitely stayed there longer than we should have, hoping to spark an interest in him. However, we both felt a sort of emptiness and didn't really know what else to say. At this point we decided it's time to go even though we didn't finish the game. We regretted staying there too long as it wasted a lot of time.</b></span></div>
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We had to go back again on another day to administer the sacrament to the member. This time, we were determined not to waste time on the game of chess. Elder Falke still continued the game from last time but he focused his attention on our short spiritual thought to the member. The husband kept trying to get the attention of Elder Falke by making comments about how the game was going but Elder a Falke was very focused on the message (even though he did make some moves). When we finished sharing our message, felt we had done all that we needed to do there, and decided it was time to go. Elder Falke had not yet finished the game. What's really interesting is that as terrible as I am with chess, I could clearly see Elder Falke was winning--a huge change from where we left off the previous visit!</b></span></div>
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We definitely felt a lot better after the 2nd time we went there. I personally feel I learned a lot better whether I'm being guided by the Holy Spirit or not because of the contrast of the 2 times I was there. It reminds me of the principle taught in 2 Nephi 2:23 "wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin." It's difficult if not impossible to learn and progress if there are no opposites. I've been knocking on doors a lot here and many people say they do not believe in God because if there was, He wouldn't allow bad things to happen. It is difficult to give a satisfactory answer in about 15 seconds, which is how patient people usually are at the door. However, I've yet to meet someone who disagreed that they've become a stronger person after overcoming their difficulties in life.</b></span></div>
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I've been continuing in my Book of Mormon reading and have been reminded just recently in Helaman 12:3 of another reason why bad things happen. It's what I would call a sad truth. It's harsh but the record of the Nephites in ancient America found in the Book of Mormon and the record of the Israelites in the Bible prove it to be true.</b></span></div>
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Well I'm out of time now. I'm now entering my 4th transfer and will be staying in Bletchley for Christmas! (Unless something crazy happens again which I hope not!) I wanted to clear the stuff in the fridge for the new transfer so I tried to use as much as I could before buying more stuff today. It was a rather nice end-of-transfer-dinner I would say:</b></span></div>
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It took me 40 mins to do this for dinner. It was only possible because Elder Falke helped to cook lunch in which I could spend about 30 minutes cutting up everything and marinating the meat. I cut and peel potatoes too slowly haha.</b></span></div>
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Ok my time is really up! Have a great week ahead as we enter December! (I can't believe it's December already!!!)</b></span></div>
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Wow, I woke up one morning and my throat was dry and had a burning sensation. I get this terrible sore throat about once a year. It's very annoying when waking up but it slowly gets better throughout the day. A side effect of the sore throat is that my voice goes really low which is rather fun because I can then sing a low G easily. Sadly I still can't hit the low F :(</b></span></div>
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Nonetheless is a great time to be singing bass.</b></span></div>
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Speaking of singing, the ward here is doing a Christmas Carol Concert together with another ward. They want us missionaries to participate but I simply can't find the time to practice at all. The pieces aren't all that easy either. The tenor goes up to an F sharp and the basses go down to the low E >.< It makes the sad life of one with a voice range of a baritone all the more miserable.</b></span></div>
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On the bright side of things, we don't have time to practice because we're constantly meeting with people. It has been incredible to see how our teaching pool has grown so quickly. It has been a lot of hard work (and still is!) but as we sift through so many people and finally find the one or two that are actually interested and want to make a change in their lives, it brings so much joy!</b></span></div>
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What brings even greater joy is when members join us in the work! There's a member here who's very successful and very busy but still willingly sets time aside in his schedule to help us out. If there's one thing I've learned about successful people, it's that they manage their time extremely well. Time is very much like money; we give up some for others and take up some of theirs. There are so many things we can spend time on but not all of them are of great worth. </b></span></div>
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While serving a mission here I'm learning to plan each day very carefully. It's actually really fun and convenient with the planner app we have on the iPad. Back home I could remember all the things I needed to do from the the top of my head but now it's not that simple! I know the app is so effective because we've never forgotten to do anything(yet)! </b></span></div>
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So our district hasn't changed at all except an additional sister. This is quite rare but our district has only been together for 4 weeks anyway. We've seen so many miracles here as a district! When we first came some of our key indicators for the week were at 0. Last week they were at double digits! We've been working so hard and it's just so great to see some form of indication that we're getting somewhere! </b></span></div>
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Some of the days here are extremely foggy. There isn't snow here but it's still very white because of the fog and the frost everywhere. The cold has such an interesting effect. When cars drive by, they literally leave a visible puff of smoke behind like in cartoons!</b></span></div>
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The fog also creates a a spooky effect suitable for a zombie apocalypse heheh. This picture reminded me of the game "Left 4 Dead" which I used to play with Kor Kor, Ern and Ray.</b></span></div>
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The insoles I had used since July had already worn out. I decided to get some heavy duty insoles as a replacement. It makes SUCH a difference. These ones are about as comfortable as the ones I used in my army boots. I can definitely walk in them all day! The only silly thing about it was that I had to buy the female size because the male size was too big. However, it fit perfectly and I didn't have to trim out anything! :)</b></span></div>
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Question: what would you do with a 95 year old tree that has died?</b></span></div>
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Make a giant bench out of it!</b></span></div>
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We were out in the park and couldn't believe what we saw! They even have a small sign nearby explaining why it's there:</b></span></div>
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Something else hilarious in the neighbourhood was this:</b></span></div>
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I've definitely seen something similar in Malaysia haha. It's ironic how when we're told not to do something, we'll do it.(Don't think of a pink elephant!) On the other hand, when we're constantly told do do something we tend not to do it (daily scripture study?)</b></span></div>
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Here's one last funny thing we saw when we went knocking on doors:</b></span></div>
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If you're wondering, no one answered the door!</b></span></div>
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One of the highlights last week was zone training meeting! It was great to see the other missionaries in the zone. I've been hearing them on the conferences calls for about 5 weeks and not know who they are!</b></span></div>
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For some reason someone tried to wrestle me for fun at the field. He was pushing me backwards and I was about to fall. I don't know how but I flipped him over by accident. Must be a reflex from close combat training back in NS haha. I'm glad he wasn't injured though.</b></span></div>
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I got a package during after the meeting!</b></span></div>
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I don't know who it's from but thank you! It's perfect for Christmas!</b></span></div>
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During the week I also helped a member set up his keyboard. It has not been used for 4 years and it still works! It was fun playing a bit on it. The member's wife was kind of grumpy when she got home from work but when we left she was very happy. Music does wonders!</b></span></div>
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We ate at the Asian shop (owned by one of the bishops in another ward) again!</b></span></div>
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This time I got wonton noodles! The wontons were smaller than those in Hong Kong but bigger than those in Singapore. Nonetheless it was delicious! I miss using chopsticks.</b></span></div>
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The highlight of last week was Christmas Conference! The first half</b></span></div>
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"Sweaterlympics" where we had districts compete against each other in</b></span></div>
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a series of games. The catch however, is that the participants must be</b></span></div>
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Wow I've lost my voice and have a bit of a headache. I must have been doing too much Christmas Carolling haha.</b></span></div>
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On Christmas Eve we went out with 2 families from the ward to sing carols for various families. It was lovely to visit so many less active members whom we have not met before. It was nice to put smiles on their faces. Some of them are actually very lonely people. After going about carolling, we spent Christmas Eve with the family we went out with!</b></span></div>
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On Sunday we had Christmas readings and lots of singing as well. You know those boards where they put up the numbers of the hymns we sing? (I can't think of a specific name for it) Well, it had five rows and all were filled up. Half way through the service we sang all 5 of those hymns and they switched up another 5 haha. It was lovely singing so many Christmas hymns, since we don't get to sing them so often.</b></span></div>
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After church, we spent time with one of the family from the ward. We basically played board games the whole time! :)</b></span></div>
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Thank you for the Christmas packages! :D I've gotten so much food which is totally awesome! </b></span></div>
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To count just one more little blessing that's a little vain, I chanced upon a charity shop last P-day and found a winter coat that fit me perfectly!</b></span></div>
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Anyway, it has been a wonderful year! Full of ups and downs as with any other year. Hopefully the outcome of that is a better me. I realise that this is the last email for the year. So, applying something very important that I have learned so far, I would encourage everyone to set goals for the next year! </b></span></div>
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Last week felt like an extended Christmas!</b></span></div>
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So last monday, on the night of boxing day, I was about to get into bed and found a surprise!</b></span></div>
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It's meat and rice wrapped up in cabbage along with a sort of bread made of corn flour and cheese on top. Very delicious!</b></span></div>
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I called it a "white Christmas" because it's the most white I've seen, but Elder Falke laughed and said I need to go to Germany to see a REAL white Christmas. I don't know if I want to be in a place that cold though!</b></span></div>
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I would say I had a very peaceful and quiet new year's eve last year. We went to bed on time, but we did visit a family in the evening. We shared a message about remembering Lot's wife. The simple moral of the story is that we need to move forward without looking back! The new year is always a nice time to start anew!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>We had a wonderful testimony meeting at church on Sunday. All of us missionaries </span><span>went up to bear our testimonies. Somehow all 4 of us mentioned facing </span><span>rejection the past month. Shortly after, a member went up and told us </span><span>"Elders, the reason why you all are facing so much rejection is because the </span><span>Lord is preparing you for dating after the mission!". Wow haha!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Anyway, my thoughts on rejection is that is has been helping </span><span>my </span><span>testimony to grow stronger. Talking to people every day who tell me </span><span>why the church is not true and make logical arguments about it can somewhat shake me sometimes, but what I've found is that everything goes down to my testimony of the Book of Mormon. Studying it every day certainly makes a difference. Having just finished reading it through again by Christmas last year, I feel that my testimony has grown stronger. It's not just in myself that I see this growth. With the people we meet, the ones who show progress are the ones who actually make the time to read and ponder the words and message it contains. I think I understand better the saying of how the Book of Mormon is the foundation of our testimonies.</span></b></span></div>
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<span>We also helped a member move furniture:</span></b></span></div>
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It's a new transfer! I've had many first experiences in the very first week of this new transfer. What's not new though, is that I have a different companion again. It's my 5th transfer and I have a 5th companion! His name is Elder Bourne and he's from Canada!</b></span></div>
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It was a short and sweet reunion after 6 months of being on a mission! I was glad to see all of them! It kind of reminded me of Alma 17:1-2 haha.</b></span></div>
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So we have people from Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Pakistan, Canada, USA and Malaysia! Sister Chiping in the center is actually from Sarawak! I don't know why this is happening but it must be for a reason.</b></span></div>
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Somehow no matter how hard I try, week 2 in every transfer seems to be rough. Different things turned up for the people we are teaching and we couldn't teach them during the week. We had a ton of time to go finding people (even a whole day on Saturday) but no one wanted to meet with us again. I guess it felt like the kind of week where everything fell apart.</b></span></div>
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So immediately after a rough week, we then have interviews with President and Sister Stevens the next day! Yay. Haha! Well, I felt like I did all I could, but I'll see how I can do better this week. I really felt that the training from President and Sister Stevens was exactly what I needed. It was based on the talk from the October 2016 General Conference by Elder Bednar titled "If Ye Had Known Me". They focused a lot on faith in Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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One quote I like from the talk is "Learning and applying in our lives the doctrine of Christ is a prerequisite to receiving the gift of faith in Him" As I teach people, I like to emphasise that more than just learning, they need to act on what we teach in order to truly know if what we teach is true. I know for certain that my faith comes from living the gospel and not simply studying it.</b></span></div>
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Faith is truly a principle of action. Sister Stevens said something that hit me really hard: "Have you ever thought that when Christ stood and promised to come to earth to fulfill the Atonement, you had faith that he would? At that moment I felt that I knew for certain that I supported the plan of salvation and Jesus Christ as the Saviour. I had faith that He would fulfill all that Heavenly Father commanded. I knew that life wouldn't be easy... as it is right now. Yet, I know I signed up for this. Here I am continuing to do my part. I do not think it is a coincidence that I was born into a family that had the gospel. It is a blessing to be able to live in a time where the gospel has been restored in its fulness. A time where we know that Christ already came to earth and fulfilled what He promised to do. That alone brings me so much hope and a boost to my faith.</b></span></div>
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At the end of the training, I knew the message for me was to have faith and carry on!</b></span></div>
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(1) She bought them coiled up which we needed to straighten using hot water but...</b></span></div>
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(2) She does not have running hot water from the tap, so we had to use a kettle to boil water and fill up the sink.</b></span></div>
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After soaking the curtain rails in and straightening it out, we had to measure and cut out the correct length but...</b></span></div>
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(3) She does not have a saw. So, we used her chopping board and a knife with teeth.</b></span></div>
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We then had to put it up on the wall but...</b></span></div>
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We did this 3 times! Moral of the story: Having the right tools makes the job a lot easier.</b></span></div>
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Here was some entertainment to keep us going:</b></span></div>
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A member also brought us out for dinner with our investigator at a Thai restaurant. We let the member do all the ordering of course. He ordered the spiciest curry there was and also a raw chili, just because. You know, I'm Asian. ;) It was a wonderful meal indeed!</b></span></div>
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The past week felt so short because of interviews on Monday as well as an exchange!</b></span></div>
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Exchanges are sure great! I always learn a lot from exchanges. I must say, though, I'm always glad to be back in my own flat haha.</b></span></div>
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This week we decided to try finding at a university at a small town. The people there were very different. They were more willing to talk unless they're rushing to a lecture. The campus is pretty nice too:<span> </span></b></span></div>
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<span>I'm starting to have some cravings for certain foods so..</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">the best way is to make it!</span></b></span></div>
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I'm certainly very blessed when it comes to food cravings, because this is how I spent Chinese New Year's Eve last Saturday:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It was a feast! It was the same family from Hong Kong that invited us over the week before. They're so generous!</b></span></div>
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Here's part 2:</b></span></div>
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Here are some words of wisdom from my fortune cookie:</b></span></div>
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I guess we already know that from the gospel, but it's a good reminder!</b></span></div>
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Well, I hope I have more to share next week. For those back home, have a wonderful time visiting relatives and friends!</b></span></div>
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Sometimes I feel like I'm in a computer game. We go around town talking to people and we learn quite a bit about what's going on, what's popular etc. In the game you'll eventually know where you need to go to continue the quest because everyone talks about a certain place or certain person you need to meet. Well, for the past 3 months I've been here, people keep talking about 'The Church of Christ the Cornerstone'. Some said it was a great place, some said it was just a business. So last P-Day we decided to go as a district to see what it's all about. </b></span></div>
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It is actually an ecumenical church where different Christian denominations meet. The venues are rented out for different groups and functions. The entrance is a shop selling Christian related items and books, the left is a cafe, and the right is a prayer room. Many people were actually entering to donate blood! They set up a blood donation centre in one of the halls. Well, I didn't feel like I should take pictures inside but here's one outside:</b></span></div>
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<span>I also finally managed to take a picture with a very unique sign here:</span><br />
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I mentioned last time that Bletchley is where they broke the Enigma code in WWII!</b></span></div>
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I don't know why, but zone meetings seem to come faster and faster:</b></span></div>
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<span>We've been seeing each other so much this transfer because there were interviews and stake conference, next week will be zone conference and we'll see each other again!</span><br />
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So here's my little miracle for the week, during zone meeting I got to speak to Elder Dunning whom I served with back at Cambridge. During the 3 months I was there, I tried to visit a part member family but only managed to see them twice the whole time I was there. The mom who is the only one who's not a member recently came to church and said it's about time she got baptised! She'll be baptised this month!</b></span></div>
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Lastly, here are the photos I said I'll send. It's how I spent Chinese New Year. Here's part 1:</b></span></div>
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<span>And here's part 2 with dessert:</span><br />
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They gave us the leftovers which fed me lunch the whole of last week. It was very helpful because lunch is now 30 minutes with the recent change in daily schedule! Now I have to figure out a way to survive lunches this week. Those who are back home better appreciate the hawker centres, because I sure wish we had them here haha!</b></span></div>
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The past week was pretty fun! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Well there was actually something to block the wind. It was this lonely monument.</span><br />
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Here's Elder Nakaima being a Ninja. He sticks onto it like a magnet! </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>There was also a place with these pillars where they record big events that happen on each pillar.</span><br />
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<span>Sad to say I couldn't get up onto the pillar on my own. I'm getting weak!</span><br />
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On Tuesday, I had exchanges with Elder Chang!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Of course I would take the opportunity to have noodles for both lunch and dinner heheh! :) We had instant noodles for lunch and minced pork sauce with wonton noodles for dinner! Elder Chang has really grown so much! He talks to everyone we pass by! He also didn't cook much before coming here, and now he's so confident about it!</span><br />
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On Wednesday we had flat inspections!!! I'm glad to report that we passed!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>The inspection was done by Elder and Sister Powers who are serving in our Zone in Northampton. Now here's something really cool, Elder Powers was a national coach for swimming in Singapore!</span><br />
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We focused a lot on understanding our purpose. When we truly understand our purpose as missionaries, it affects the way we do things, and our diligence and attitude we carry. This is no different from anything else we do! I found that understanding my purpose when serving national service definitely affected my motivation to do the things I did every day! (even if it seemed cliché!)</b></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">So the past week was pretty sunny! Strange thing when it's supposed to</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">A highlight this week was doing service. We cleared a garage and moved</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Sorry that this email is so short. It has been a crazy P-day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The past week has been very spiritually uplifting for me despite all the hustle and bustle of London.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>There are very nice parks to go finding in the area. In one of them, Elder Meier spotted a fig tree. It really looks so dead in winter. It really helps to actually see the plants mentioned in parables in the Bible.</b></span></div>
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If you can't read it, it's a sign telling Pokemon Go players to respect the garden and keep out!</b></span></div>
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One of the highlights for me was being invited over to dinner with some members:<span> </span></b></span></div>
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Only the 2 members on the left are family, but what they all have in common is that they joined the church through friends and family! They each have an amazing story to tell. They all mentioned the special feeling they felt when they first went to church--a feeling of returning home! Fun fact: The older Gentleman on the right used to be in theatre, he know Ian McKellen! He has an amazing English voice! I could listen to him talk all day!</b></span></div>
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I was really fed well physically and spiritually! This was a delicious soup with German pancake.<span> </span></b></span></div>
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On Sunday, there was a special conference where there was a special broadcast from Elder Ballard and a few members of the general authority to about members in Northern Europe. Elder Ballard said the broadcast was just as the apostle Paul writing an epistle to Corinthians. Elder Ballard was very straight to the point much like the epistles of Paul. He shared a story about the forest of sequoia trees near BYU. Sequoia trees are huge, hardy and live really long. However, there was a tree in the forest that died and the had to cut it down leaving a stump behind. They investigated and found that the tree had only lived about 50 years which is very short. Further investigations found that due to some construction of a building nearby, the water source underground had shifted and the roots of that tree could not get any water which led to its death.</b></span></div>
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Elder Ballard likened this analogy of the sequoia tress to our testimonies. We can have strong testimonies like the tree, but if it is not constantly nourished with the living water (gospel of Jesus Christ) it can still die like the tree. He mentioned very specifically what good habits we need to develop to prevent us from cutting ourselves away from the living water. It is nothing new; attending church meetings, faithful prayer, fasting, diligent scripture study.<br />
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Failure to focus on simple gospel truths allows us to be muddled by Satan and worldly philosophies. As an example, he retold the story of a missionary coming to him who had doubts and many questions about the church. Elder Ballard took down his questions and said he would answer them if the missionary would begin studying the Book of Mormon every day for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks, they met again, and the missionary said he didn't need his questions to be answered. He had regained his testimony! But of course Elder Ballard had him sit down and listen to the answers as he had put in a lot of time and effort!</b></span></div>
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Elder Ballard also warned us of living beyond our means both in physical resources as well as time. He urged us to look at our calendars and see if it is so packed that there is no time to sit down and reflect at all. If we realise there is something we need to do better or repent of, the time to do that is now!</b></span></div>
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Something I realised while thinking about the analogies and parables is that many of them are to do with plants! (The olive tree, the sower, the fig tree etc.) All plants need constant nourishment and so do we!</b></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span><br /></span></span> <span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span>The highlight of the week would be the mission tour with Elder Alan Phillips. He is such an inspiring person! It's actually not the first time I met him. He was invited to speak at the Missionary Training Centre when I was there last year. Actually, he's in the ward I'm serving at right now. However, we don't see him often as he travels a lot as a Seventy.</span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span><br /></span></span> <span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span>My take away from the mission tour is focusing on love. Referring to Matthew 22:36-40, all the commandments we have are part of the two greatest commandment to love God and our everyone around us. It is difficult to be missionary without love!</span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span><br /></span></span> <span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span>An object lesson that really struck me was one using jenga blocks. If each jenga block were to represent a principle we learn, putting it all together is like building a testimony. Losing a testimony is like losing certain blocks. However, not all principles are equally important. When we take out some blocks, the jenga tower can still stand. If we take out an important jenga block. The tower will collapse. The most important block, which is a giant jenga block is Jesus Christ! He referred to Helamn 5:12...</span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span><br /></span></span> <span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span>"And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."</span></span><br />
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span><br /></span></span> <span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span>Our testimonies need to be centered on Jesus Christ! When we do that, we will not fall like the jenga block. Elder Phillips pointed that it's WHEN the storms come not IF! There are many things for me to teach investigators but the most important thing is to help them build faith in Jesus Chirst.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Sunday was fast and testimony meeting. It was amazing. There was an Italian couple visiting. He went up to share his testimony while President Stevens translated it. He shared that when he read the Book of Mormon for the first time, he knew it was true and decided to join the church. 2 years later he was told to meet the stake president. In that meeting, he was asked to be a branch president for a branch about 100km (66miles) away. He was shocked and asked the stake president what he should do. The stake president told him to love and serve the members in the branch. The member from Italy didn't share exactly what happened, but he said that the Lord blessed him with a car and he was able to travel to the branch every week. He has been doing that for a while now. He told us that that very morning he was in the chapel, he received a text message from a guy he has been constantly visiting and working with for long time. In the text, the person said he has finally given up smoking and will not smoke ever again, and that he's ready to prepare to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood. After so much travelling and patience, this was a miracle!</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">21 Mar 2017 </span></b></div>
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I would call this "I don't want to talk to you". We had just entered the tube and there was no one else. The person immediately grabbed the newspaper left on the seat. That is definitely not how one would read the newspaper!<br />
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So yes, speaking to people this week was rough. It's one of those weeks where it seems nobody wants to talk to you. Nonetheless the work is great. By Thursday, and after hours and hours of talking to people on the streets, we still did not find anyone willing to meet with us again.<br />
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On Friday, we had companionship study at the chapel and watched a general conference talk from October 1993 titled 'The Lord's Wind' by Elder John H. Groberg. He shared an experience he had when serving as a young missionary in Tonga. He was told by some members to go to a particular island and meet a family waiting to be taught the gospel. The family would be waiting at the shore and he had to get there by sundown. So off he went with a few members of the church on a sailboat to get to that island. They soon found themselves in the middle of the ocean without any wind, meaning the sailboat would not move. They prayed many times but there still was no wind. It was getting late and eventually, a very old man got pulled out a tiny boat and some oars and insisted that Elder Groberg get it. That old man rowed all the way to that island just before sundown. The family was there waiting for them and eventually accepted the gospel and were baptised. The lesson learned is that sometimes we have to BE the Lord's wind. More than just praying, we have to act.<br />
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Try to watch the talk in the gospel library app, it sounds better when Elder Groberg tells shares the experience himself. After completing our companionship study, we had a little bit of time before district meeting and decided to be the Lord's wind and go out on exhibition road to find people to teach. After a few rejections we met Paul who had many questions but also very humble and willing to listen. We shared a short video about the Saviour in the chapel and he was interested to meet with us again to learn more! We met him again today, and he accepted a baptismal invitation for next month!<br />
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On Saturday, we were invited to a member's home for dinner. However, I had to cook dinner! I decided to cook the same minced meat noodles I did for the district lunch a few weeks ago, since it's the fastest and easiest. Here are some pictures:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>We had the noodles with salad and crumpets as appetisers prepared by </span><span>others which was an interesting mix. It was good as we had an </span><span>investigator there as well. Some members gave us a ride to the dinner </span><span>and during the ride, the wife shared how she joined the church. When </span><span>she was younger, she never wanted to speak to missionaries on the </span><span>street. Years later when life got difficult, she felt she really </span><span>needed something and knew a friend who seemed to always be happy. She </span><span>called him up and he had the missionaries meet her. When she met the </span><span>missionaries she really wanted to listen to them. She described one of </span><span>them as having some sort of glow about him. She went to church for the </span><span>first time and immediately felt that was where she wanted to be!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>students who didn't have much money. Despite that, the Relief Society </span><span>in the Ward started giving her and her mother meal after meal to help </span><span>support them through. Her mother was not a member of the church and </span><span>asked her: </span><span>"How much do we have to pay for all of this?" </span><span>"Nothing." </span><span>"Well when will they stop giving us food?" </span><span>"When we don't need it any more!" </span><span>Her mother was really touched by the service of the Relief a Society. </span><span>It changed her view of the church. This eventually led to her </span><span>conversion a few years later. There's a whole amazing story to that, </span><span>but I don't have the time to share everything.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Hearing all these stories from members this week made me realise how </span><span>powerful love is. I remember a talk from general Conference where </span><span>President Monson taught that love is the essence of the gospel.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Yet another transfer comes to an end. Finding has still been challenging but Elder Meier and I continue to do our best. Actually I should say finding interested people is easy, but finding genuine people has been difficult. We did find someone really genuine, but we had to refer him to the young single adult ward. So far with all the good people we find, we either don't speak their language or they are "too young" haha >.<</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It has been a great week all in all, especially ending the transfer with General Conference. One of the talks that I can really relate to is the one by Elder Valeri V. Cordón about preserving language in the home. While we were talking to people in the park, we met a Chinese grandma. She couldn't understand our question in English which was "Have you ever wondered why there are so many different churches?" She didn't understand so I translated it into Mandarin. She was actually thinking about it! Which is great! Only, I couldn't give her the answer in Mandarin. :( There came that terrible feeling where you're trying to express yourself but you just feel all choked up and unable to do so.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Sometimes I wish I was brought up using more Mandarin at home. As Elder Cordón said, it takes conscious effort to do so. Mom knew many languages but only used English with me. However, what I will always be grateful for is her conscious effort in teaching us children the language of the gospel. Getting all 6 of us children to have scripture study together as a family was no easy task, but she did it. She saw the blessings it brought us as well. I could see back then how it helped unite us as a family. Something I didn't notice which she told me later on, was how Ern was lagging behind in his skill of reading in school when he was in kindergarten, but as we began reading the scriptures together every night, he improved quickly. I'm thinking a lot about mom now since today would have been her 55th birthday. It's a good thing her birthday is in April because Easter is always nearby, which serves as a good reminder to me of Christ conquering death.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Another talk I really enjoyed was by Elder Choi Yoon Hwan. He is like a Korean version Elder Holland haha. I really like the illustration he gave about what impact a single convert can have. I recently chanced upon an article from the Ensign in the mission office. Over here, they also include church news in England. The article was about a senior couple missionary serving here right now, Elder and Sister Richards. Elder Richards served a mission here over 50 years ago. During a meeting, he asked if anyone remembered him. In actual fact there was one. Her name was Sister Carter. She was taught by Elder Richards when she was 16 but her mother did not allow her to be baptised. As with all missionaries, Elder Richards was transferred and never knew what happened. Sister Carter eventually did join the church when she was 18. She met her husband in church and were sealed in the temple. They now have 7 children and 23 grandchildren. 6 of their 7 children served missions themselves. When I saw a family picture in the article, I recognised one of their children is in fact the wife of the bishop in BletchIey, where I served previously! They are an amazing family!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I could go on forever typing out things I learned from general conference, but I have to end it now. If I have to pick a favourite quote from this conference, it would be the one by Elder Choi: "Don't look around, look up!". When we have face troubles and challenges to our faith, the one we should look to is Jesus Christ!</b></span></div>
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When we were there, we realised that we were at the statue found in the beginning of the Easter initiative video 'Prince of Peace'!</b></span></div>
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At the beginning of the transfer, Elder Meier and I accepted a challenge by one of the senior missionaries. We had to do 110 push ups and 25 sit ups 5 days a week. We completed the challenge and claimed our reward!</b></span></div>
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We enjoyed some really delicious burgers! However, what was better than the burgers was the advice about life that he gave us. He is a convert himself and is such a great example to us.</b></span></div>
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So the news is, Elder Meier has been transferred, and my new companion here in Hyde Park is Elder Andrews from Plainville, Massachusetts! He is awesome! He loves hands on stuff such as Lego and is a big fan of Star Wars. His skill with hands on stuff is evident in that he fixed my study chair and also the noisy air ventilator in the toilet. He just always seems to have the right stuff and skill to fix those things.</b></span></div>
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It's getting really warm here, but it's in the transitioning mode as I would say. If there's sunlight it's super hot, but when it's cloudy it does get chilly. Ice cream is such a treat right now when it's warm! There was a funny conversation in the morning in the flat:</b></span></div>
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After district meeting on that day, we decided what we'd do...</b></span></div>
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Having ice cream to celebrate the actual birthday of Jesus Christ does sound kind of "apostate" as missionaries would say. I never really thought of anything special we should do though. To me, the most important thing we do to remember Jesus Christ happens every week at church--the sacrament. This Easter season is also a great reminder of the Savior's resurrection. As some people say, without Easter, there would be no Christmas. How grateful I am for the Atonement of Jesus Christ!</b></span></div>
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Here are some other photos where I don't know where to fit in:</b></span></div>
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We went finding around Notting Hill Gate. Apparently there's a movie called Notting Hill. I have no Idea what it is about, but people stop us and ask for directions, looking for some sort of door.</b></span></div>
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With the warm weather, the birds have returned... and so their latrine points (army term) have started appearing again!</b></span></div>
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All of us had a copy of the Book of Mormon and read it on the tube at the same time. It sure attracted some attention!</b></span></div>
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Elder Andrews loves going to see places. Which is great! Because I have not seen many places in London yet on P-days and he knows exactly where to go. I am quite naive. When he said "Let's go to tower bridge!". I was wondering "what is tower bridge?" When we arrived there, it all became clear...</b></span></div>
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The weather was beautiful! I always appreciate good weather here, but especially on P-days!</b></span></div>
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We also went to a mall with other missionaries. It was posh. I simply enjoyed the architecture.</b></span></div>
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On Tuesday, we had our Easter Zone Conference!</b></span></div>
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I really enjoyed the training by President Stevens. He went through some scriptures in the New Testament and during that, I learned so many things I didn't realise when reading on my own. There is so much we can learn simply by studying the life of the Saviour. Sister Stevens invited us to study His life throughout our lives, beginning now in the mission. It reminded me of President Nelson's talk in general conference of how he felt like a different person after studying about Jesus Christ.</b></span></div>
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I was also happy to see my MTC companion again during Zone Conference!</b></span></div>
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Wednesday was a strange day for me. Because of some logistics, I was on exchange with Elder Gago for a day, who's serving in a Portuguese speaking ward. I felt like a brand new missionary in a completely different mission. Going on the streets looking for Portuguese and Brazilians, I had no idea what to say! I definitely don't have the gift of tongues. If I did have it, I probably would have been called as a mandarin speaking missionary!</b></span></div>
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In the evening, some members from the ward played volleyball with investigators and we joined them. I'm just terrible at sports. Whichever team I was on always lost. In short, I would say this exchange was very humbling.</b></span></div>
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There was a reward at the end of the exchange though. The flat we stayed in was on the highest floor, and it had a roof access!</b></span></div>
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Most buildings here are really low compared to Singapore. I've been on the streets a lot and in low buildings so going up and looking across everything was really refreshing!</b></span></div>
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Elder Andrews and I have been trying to find better places to find people to talk to. Because of the Easter Holiday, there was a long weekend here. In London, it means many tourists come in. So we avoided places we knew would be packed with tourists. We tried going to the housing estates, and to our surprise...</b></span></div>
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It was very empty. It was so strange to find so few people to talk to. I guess many people in London went out elsewhere for holiday.</b></span></div>
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Speaking of Easter, I had a wonderful Easter Sunday! I stood in for the ward organist as she was on Holiday. It was nice to end off the week knowing I can actually do something properly!</b></span></div>
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I enjoyed a lovely Easter dinner with a family from the ward. The wife's parents were visiting from Germany and were totally awesome!</b></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>On P-day last week, we decided to take a little trip to...</b></span></span></div>
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Entering Costco made me feel like I was in the USA. All I really wanted was the food!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>To be more specific, all I wanted were the hot dogs! :)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span> <span>Somehow it was difficult finding people to teach the past week. There seems to be more tourists around. It was fun talking to a few tourists at first but after a while, it's not productive! </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span> <span>Thursday was rather interesting. We basically talked to people on the streets the whole day, but couldn't find anyone interested to learn more. It was discouraging and we felt drained, so we decided to take a break. Suddenly Elder Andrews had a thought that we could have dinner first and then try finding later on, since the sun sets later now. We did so, and in the evening, it seemed many people were more open. We eventually found 2 new people who were interested to learn more!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>We had district meeting this week. The focus was on being bold, and having charity. In Alma 38:12 from the Book of Mormon, Alma taught his son Shiblon to "Use boldness, but not overbearance; and also see that ye bridle all your passions, that ye may be filled with love" It takes guts to tell others to repent. It is really difficult for some of the people we teach as they really have to change their lifestyle. The happiest little moments on my mission so far is when the people we teach get over those hurdles and recognise the blessings that come from keeping the commandments and how much happier they feel!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span> <span>On Saturday it was Earth Day! It just so happened that there were people who gathered on Exhibition Road, outside the chapel!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It was funny to see that many of the posters and signs were not related to Earth Day at all! What I found ironic for this Earth Day march was the truck that was following behind them. It followed closely behind and there were people hired to pick up the rubbish that was left behind after the mass of people marched past >.<</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span> <span>Lastly, here's something funny I found on the train!</span></b></span></div>
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I don't know why it's famous because there was nothing much there.</b></span></div>
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Along the streets over there, we found the Book of Mormon Musical!</b></span></div>
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Elder Andrews and I realise that many of our investigators are pretty</b></span></div>
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terrible at managing their time. We tried to picture it from their</b></span></div>
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point of view. For one of them, we realised that he doesn't have a set</b></span></div>
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time for the things he needs to do. In other words, he would have a</b></span></div>
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massive checklist of things to do in his mind, and that would</b></span></div>
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what we learned, we found out his odd sleeping schedule and the rough</b></span></div>
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times he has to be at certain places. We persistently told him when to</b></span></div>
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meet us as we figured out the best time for him.</b></span></div>
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become truly converted, and the very first step is the desire. It made</b></span></div>
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within us. Without that desire, we probably won't be doing that thing</b></span></div>
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for long. The same applies when living the gospel.</b></span></div>
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the coming week is the final week of the transfer, which means P-day</b></span></div>
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next week is on a Tuesday. My next email won't be till then.</b></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The week went by so quickly, and now the transfer is over. We wanted to end the transfer strong, and I think it really did end well. Investigators are progressing well, we managed to find some cool people to teach, and I've also managed to have a lot of Asian food this week too :)</b></span></span></div>
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Didn't taste like what I expected, as you can see there's a whole piece of lemongrass, so it tasted too tangy! It reminded me of a Malaysian Laksa haha. I guess I should have expected that, eating a Singapore Laksa from a Malaysian eatery >.<</b></span></div>
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Tuesday was interesting. We had 3 teaching appointments for the day, and the first one in the morning got cancelled. Shortly after, 2 people contacted us and wanted to meet with us. One in the morning and one in the evening! We had 4 appointments that day which was awesome.</b></span></div>
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Elder Andrews is a really good teacher. He teaches very clearly according to the needs of the people we teach. It was a blessing to teach at the chapel a lot this week, not just because it's more comfortable than being on the streets all day, but more so because I got to see how the people we teach feel the Holy Spirit. We're teaching the fiance of a returning member. She has severe anxiety but as she came into the chapel, she said she felt at peace. She loved the things we taught as it answered many questions she had. Even though we had not brought up baptism yet after the first lesson, she had already asked permission from both her parents! Before we invited her to attend sacrament meeting, she already said she wanted to come. Sure enough they were both already seated in the chapel when we arrived on Sunday!</b></span></div>
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I think eating the Laksa on Monday sparked a craving for more food from home, so I decided to cook curry from home.</b></span></div>
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I'm glad to say it tasted just like what I wanted :)</b></span></div>
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We made fried rice! It helped to clear out stuff from the fridge before the transfer ended.</b></span></div>
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Across all missions, zone training meetings are no longer done, and it's replaced by district meetings, which means one less meeting for large groups of missionaries to gather. However in our zone in Hyde Park, all of us have our district meetings in the same chapel anyway so we gathered after our own district meetings to have a zone council to set goals:</b></span></div>
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On Saturday, there was a baptism in another ward, and we wanted to invite one of our investigators to attend it with us. We called him only to find that he wanted to stop meeting with us due to personal problems. We were devastated. We continued talking with him on the phone and soon realised his concern was the commitment he had to make. He opened up and shared that throughout the week, he couldn't stop thinking about attending sacrament meeting and thinking about baptism. He tried to put his mind off it but couldn't. We encouraged him to listen to those feelings he felt. He knew the feelings was telling him that he should go to church on Sunday instead of work, and so he decided to act on it. Sure enough he came to church on Sunday! He felt like that is where he should be.</b></span></div>
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I'm just amazed by how sensitive this person is to the promptings from the Holy Ghost. Elder Andrews and I were talking about how we feel it so often that we become so used to it, but for others, they can feel the difference especially when they feel it the first time! Why doesn't this happen to everyone we teach? Having taught this person for 2 weeks, I personally find his heart most open than anyone I've ever taught. I think many times we all receive promptings and answers from the Holy Ghost, but we can only recognise it when our hearts are truly open to it. I'm grateful for what the experience of my investigator has taught me.</b></span></div>
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That's all I have this week. Here's something I thought looked quite funny while finding:</b></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It's been a great first week of transfers. I'm glad I'm staying in London for another transfer, working here is really fun. Working with Elder Andrews again makes it even more fun!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>I'm serving around a Sister from Ipoh, Malaysia. What a small world! We also have a brand new Sister from Ukraine. She's hilarious even though she's not trying to. Being new she asks about everything, only it's in a very Russian way. She made remark in district meeting: "why do people think I'm angry whenever I ask a question?" I'm confident she'll be a great missionary, because she has the desire to learn.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Desire is a true game changer. We've been giving Alma 32 as a reading assignment to many of our investigators recently, to help them learn about faith and how it begins by first having a desire. As the weeks go by we begin to see those who have a true desire to find out if what we teach is true. Those who didn't have much of desire fall away, but those who stick with the desire start to develop faith in Jesus Christ, and it changes their lives!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>To help give a morale boost, we went finding together with the sisters at Holland Park. It's been one of our favourite places to talk to people. Here's a picture at the end of it:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span>...and enjoyed it at the end of the day! It reminded me of how we would have either porridge or rice with soup whenever we were sick back home. The cool thing was I felt better the next day!</span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It was nice to end of the week with mothers day and to call home. It wasn't mothers day here, but we did have stake conference. There were many great talks given. The stake president echoed what President Monson spoke about, which is the Book of Mormon. President Monson's talks are very simple and straight to the point, which makes it really easy for us to know what we need to do! The stake president challenged the stake to finish reading the Book of Mormon by the next stake conference, which is in 6 months time. He did some calculation and said it would mean reading only 3 pages a day! 3 pages a day sound really simple, but I know it makes a difference studying the Book of Mormon every day! I've seen what it can do for the people I teach, and I feel the difference in myself as I have done so!</b></span></span></div>
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This will be a short email. I'll explain more next week about why it's late. But this picture sums up how the past week has been:</b></span></div>
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It has been a tiring week, mainly because we both weren't feeling too well. It's one of those times where you wake up each morning not feeling the best, but you know you're not so sick that you need to stay home. The effect I feel is that we had to work a lot harder to produce the same amount of work. What really kept me going is really the people we were seeing each day.</b></span></div>
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Last P-day we went to Camden Town:<span> </span></b></span></div>
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Anyway, the markets were interesting. It used to be a horse stable with stalls for horses. Now they're all replaced with stalls for merchandise. One of the people I've taught told me his grandfather used to own a horse and kept it here. It was great to finally have made it there to see what he was actually talking about.</b></span></div>
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Sunday was great (as always!). I felt that the lessons in Gospel Principles and Elders Quorum was perfect for one of our investigators. It was about a faith in Jesus Christ and the importance of testimonies, where many members basically shared how they gained their testimonies. We're trying to help that investigator make that leap of faith to be baptised right now. Among all the testimonies shared, it was clear that everyone receives answers differently, but in such a way that they all recognised it. What they all had in common though, was that they had a desire, and they did something about it, and had faith that they would receive an answer. It is exactly as promised by the prophet Moroni. (Moroni 10:4-5)</b></span></div>
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So last Wednesday was P-Day for a few of us missionaries because we received permission to go watch The Lion King musical! It was really nice to listen to live a live orchestra and choir after so long. It wasn't as exciting since I already knew the story, but it was cool to see how they pulled of the scenes and puppets. President Stevens told us to spot out all the gospel connections. There were plenty!</b></span></div>
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The rest of the week went pretty well. We brought one of our investigators to a few members' homes:</b></span></div>
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It was a really great blessing to be able to teach in the members' homes. Not so much because of the food, but because of the strength it added to our investigator. He was facing opposition from family and nearly wanted to stop coming to church, but with the help of members we were able to help him understand that living the gospel and keeping good relationships with family that are not members is possible. </b></span></div>
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We had the opportunity to do some service this week. I never thought I'd be doing some gardening in London!</b></span></div>
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The pictures were taken halfway through. The whole garden was overrun with tall grass! I learned to use some pretty neat tools. Something I really appreciated was not having to deal with any mosquitoes unlike at home.</b></span></div>
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There have been quite a lot of delays in the trains here recently which was pretty annoying. They kept announcing at the stations that it was due to people on the tracks. However, we found out what was really the problem. As we were taking the train and it stopped at the next station, the train operator used the speakers on the train to reprimanded a man who just got on, telling him that he was standing too close to the platform and that the yellow line is there for a reason. He said that 2 people were already hit that day and they did not need a 3rd person to be hit. It became apparent that people were not standing behind the yellow line at the platform and probably fell or got pushed off. I guess life is like that as well. There are boundaries set by God for a reason. Failure to keep within those boundaries lead to negative consequences.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">6 Jun 2017 </span></b></div>
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There's been lots of stuff going on in England, but I'm still safe. It feels like there are a lot more police around:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>This week started of slow. Many people were interested to listen to us but were not willing to meet us again to learn more. It's kind of strange sometimes. We can do the same things we do and one day can go really bad, and one day can be really good. We didn't find anyone new to teach till Wednesday despite spending much time on the streets talking to people. Then on Thursday I went on exchange and found a good number of people for the missionaries in that area to teach. It's like I could help others but can't help myself!</b></span></div>
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While on exchange, we accidentally got separated at the train station:</b></span></div>
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It was strange being completely alone for a few minutes!</b></span></div>
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I've had some food cravings recently. Luckily Elder Andrews is willing to join in:</b></span></div>
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We had a really humbling experience at the end of the week. At the beginning if the week, one of our investigators felt that he should stop meeting with us and coming to church. We suspected it was due to opposition from his elder brother. We didn't want to put any pressure on him and respect his decision. So all we could do was pray and carry on. On Saturday, he wanted to meet with us again. We learned that his brother had a change of heart and now supports his decision and even warned him to make sure he can keep up with the high standards! That was a nice miracle to end off the week! To me, the miracle greater than mountains or seas splitting in half, is the hearts of people changing for the better.</b></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The past week was awesome! </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>As well as a place where we could feed birds peanuts.</b></span></div>
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The focus was on Jesus Christ and the Book of Mormon. We'll be reading the Book of Mormon again as a mission. It'll be great!</b></span></div>
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It was mostly fun. Sometimes I tried leaning against the wind. What's not fun is when stuff got into our eyes. All in all is was good because we didn't sweat much :)</b></span></div>
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Something amazing we discovered was that there is a member in our ward who's Jewish! We've talked to some Jewish people on the streets before and it's very difficult. We thought it's impossible until we met this member. He member was really prepared back then and he was constantly with just the right people he needed. It's just so wonderful to see God's hand in doing this work. He is truly preparing people to receive the gospel. With God, nothing is impossible!</b></span></div>
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The view was magnificent! I hadn't been that high up in such a long time. One of our investigators was kind enough to lend us his camera. It was such a treat! The pictures here are obviously shrunk down.</b></span></div>
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As some of you may know, there was the burning of Grenfell tower. It just so happened that it was in my area. Because of it, about half the train stations in my area were closed. Which made it really difficult getting around. We were quite worried as some of our members lived there and we weren't sure if it was their building. It turned out they lived in the buildings next to it. We decided to go down there to take a look and to talk to people... </b></span></div>
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One of our investigators asked about this and how it relates to God, basically the common question of why does God allow such things to happen. I thought about what I saw over there after the incident, where many people came out to help. There was far more food and donations of clothing made than needed. My answer was that sometimes bad situations brings out the good in people. I really felt that when I was there. One little blessing for us was that among the people we talked to, we found someone who met missionaries before. He was interested in meeting us again!</b></span></div>
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There were 2 special visits this week the first was:</b></span></div>
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A recent convert from Cambridge! It was so great to see him again! He came down to London without letting us know. It just so happened that I was in the chapel when he popped in. What a blessing!</b></span></div>
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The 2nd special visit was that of Elder Christofferson! He had some other business to attend to but made time to stop by the mission. 3 things stuck out to me that he taught. First is to learn from the examples of President and Sister Stevens. The second thing was his reminder to us of the authority we have to preach the gospel. The third thing was that we have been called to serve in this mission at this for a reason, not just for the people whom we will meet, but for what we are to learn. It was such a treat to hear from an apostle in person! We also took the opportunity to take a picture as a mission!</b></span></div>
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I had my last P-day in London last week. We basically went to as many of the famous sites we could that I had not been to yet.</b></span></div>
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It was really hot and humid! So we didn't hang around. We simply took pictures and left. It wasn't pleasant being out there.</b></span></div>
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While we were out, we also got ourselves some spinners!</b></span></div>
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We were very picky about the quality of the spinners. After much testing, it just so happened that the ones that were good were white and yellow :P</b></span></div>
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That's about it! I'm quite sad to leave, but excited to move on as well...</b></span></div>
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So my new area is Luton!</b></span></div>
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On my first day there, it just so happen to be an extremely hot day. Buses felt like furnaces! I was told that it was the hottest day in England since 1976.</b></span></div>
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My new companion is Elder Egger from Austria:</b></span></div>
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He's my 3rd German speaking companion haha.</b></span></div>
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On my first day in Luton, we had a lesson with an investigator who only speaks Romanian and Spanish:</b></span></div>
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We taught using translations of the pamphlets as well as google translate. We could teach and get our questions across using the tools we had, but understanding his reponse was the problem. Luckily we have a few members in the ward who speak Spanish!</b></span></div>
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Someone we spoke to on the streets who has lived in Luton all his life described it as a 'little London'. I find it to be quite true. It's very busy and there are people from everyhwere. We live near town centre and there seems to always be a lot of stuff going on...</b></span></div>
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There's probably a lot of stuff going on because it's summer.</b></span></div>
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The physical geography of Luton is pretty interesting. There are 2 hills and a valley in between.</b></span></div>
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The town centre is in the valley, and the chapel is on one of the hills. 2 of my companions have served in Luton before and they told me all about walking up the hill every day. Here I am doing the same thing. I'm probably going to get stronger calf muscles!</b></span></div>
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Luton airport is close to where we live, so we see air planes every day. They fly really low!</b></span></div>
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Pigeons are nothing new. There's just too many of them here! I think I've said this before, but I don't like them. They're flying rats! I nearly got hit by some of them. There's also a strong sense of insecurity when they fly over my head. I have yet to be hit by their air raids. (fingers crossed)</b></span></div>
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Here's a more scenic view of Luton:</b></span></div>
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When moving here, I put all my warm clothing into a vacuum bag, thinking I'd only have to open in September... but I was wrong!</b></span></div>
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On Wednesday we had exchanges! It was in our area. On that day, I had fufu for the first time!</b></span></div>
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It was delicious! The member who made it for us is a pioneer from Zimbabwe. He shared some really amazing stories of the church back then. Going to church was a challenge. It took a lot of dedication just to go to church. He shared how he had to serve a 3 year mission in Zimbabwe. It was supposed to be 2 years but it got extended as they needed to wait for more missionaries to come. At first it was extended by 6 months, and at the end of it he wanted to go home, but the mission president asked to extend it another 6 months. He was a little disappointed at that time, but told us by the end of 3 years he didn't want to go home haha. When he left, there were only 6 missionaries in the mission, but right after he left, 20 missionaries from the States came in. As we now know, Zimbabwe is going to have a temple!</b></span></div>
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If I remember correctly, there is a documentary of President Hinckley that mentioned his visit to Africa. It just so happen that this brother was assigned to escort him around during his time in Zimbabwe. He was a witness of President Hinckley blessing Zimbabwe. At the end of his prayer, thunder clouds immediately began to appear and it rained, thus ending 2 years of famine! I felt the Spirit very strongly when he shared that experience.</b></span></div>
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Sunday was really interesting. I was sandwiched between our Spanish speaking investigator and Chinese speaking investigator. I kept switching between communicating in Spanish (using google translator) on my left, and Chinese on my right (using the dictionary and pamphlets a lot). It was a lot of fun. It made me really grateful for the iPad once again. Earlier in the week, we had to teach someone who speaks Urdu and we did not have any pamphlets in Urdu in our flat, so we downloaded them onto our iPads! I miss serving in London where we can easily get stuff from the mission home, but I'm glad there are other ways to get around our problems.</b></span></div>
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We had dinner on Sunday with a Spanish speaking family together with our investigator. It was really fun learning a lot about other cultures. I'm serving in England but learning about everywhere else!</b></span></div>
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Their son was really good at lego, loved transformers, nerf guns and star wars... and also talked a lot. I couldn't help but laugh because I felt I was speaking to a little Spanish version of Elder Andrews, my previous companion.<br />
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Back in London one of the people I taught was baptised by her husband. When I was younger, it seemed normal to me, I used to think "oh, that's great!" But now as a missionary, I know what actually goes on and the huge challenges people face as they strive to live the gospel. People often ask me what do I love most about serving a mission. My response is always that I love seeing conversion take place in the lives of others. It is just wonderful to see someone else experience the same joy I feel. I thought of D&C 18:15 when I heard this wonderful news. I really felt a piece of that joy mentioned in the scripture this week!<br />
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That's all I have!<br />
Have a wonderful week!<br />
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Love,<br />
Elder Chong<br />
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Transfer 9 Week 3<br />
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Dear All,<br />
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It has been a bittersweet week all in all, but still more sweet than bitter nonetheless!<br />
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I've been trying to figure out what to do here in Luton on P-days. There's a drastic difference between here and London in terms of things to see and do haha. Here's what we did last week:<br />
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There's a huge park right outside the chapel and there seems to be some rather interesting totems here that they make out of dead trees. It reminded me of the giant bench they made in Bletchley.<br />
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On Tuesday we helped one of our investigators enrol into a free English class at the library. While helping him find a dictionary we noticed something very familiar!</b></span></div>
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We wondered how the Book of Mormon and triple combination got there so we took a closer look...<br />
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It was donated by one of President Hinckley's grandsons! He served right here in Luton in 2010!<br />
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On Wednesday, I taught the gospel in Chinese for the very first time! It took a lot of effort preparing, but it was all worth it. I probably experienced the gift of tongues for a very small moment while teaching. I felt so comfortable teaching it as if I had always been teaching in Chinese. It felt great!<br />
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Thursday was officially my one year mark! Here's how I celebrated it:<br />
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Cheap chicken with sparkling apple juice! :) Not something fancy but, I just love fried chicken haha.<br />
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It's crazy how one year flew by so quickly. I've learned so much about the gospel, about life and about myself. The time I've spent out here has certainly helped me have a better idea of how I would want to fit all 3 together after the mission.<br />
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Friday was zone conference! The focus was on repentance. It always impresses me how simple and easy it is to understand the gospel, yet how deep we can go when studying and learning specific principles. I am truly grateful for the divine gift of repentance!<br />
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Having been out a year, many of the people I love are going home. Zone conference was the last time I would see them on the mission. That's what made this week bitter. I don't know when I'll ever see them again, but I have confidence that they will do well in life. Many of those I know are either converts or were less actives who decided that repentance was the right thing to do. They are such powerful examples to me of what someone can become when one truly repents.<br />
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When we first come into the mission, we signed our names and where we're from on this poster pictured above. I had not seen it for a year. It was so much more crowded than before! There are literally missionaries from everywhere! During conference, I met a missionary from Dubai! As I stood there looking at all the names and places, I just thought it was cool. I cannot think of anything else in the world than can unite people from all over the world. The restored gospel is really spreading throughout the world. I get a glimpse of that as a missionary. It's so amazing. There are many challenges but the Lord's work will not be hindered! We're seeing many miracles happening in the mission!<br />
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We did some service this week!<br />
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There were tons of snails. We'd be walking around cutting the grass and randomly feeling this "crack" and "squish" feeling under our shoes haha. For the first time in my life, I got stung by this plant called stinging nettle. It's nasty!<br />
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The reason why this email is later than usual is because we had interviews on Monday. It was so strange but nice to see President and Sister Stevens so soon.They are really such amazing people! I have no idea how they remember and know personally so many missionaries.<br />
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A member got us a giant Costo pizza for dinner!<br />
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I think my metabolism is slowing down. I was able to eat 2 slices last year. This time it was 1 slice... getting old! :)<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It is noted in his letter that he celebrated July 7 as his 1 year mark to have completed a year on his mission. His missionary letters sent home in Year 2 will continue and another <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2017/12/mission-letters-home-from-elder-shuan.html" target="_blank">new post.</a></span></i></b></div>
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On 30 March 2016 I was on the way to overnight in Kuantan to find that my brother was in KL on a day trip. On the phone, he asked me for my mother's death date as he was in her burial ground looking for her grave site which had many tombstones laid out in chronological order. I was surprised about his quick visit to find her grave site but didn't ask the reason why as I felt it was a personal matter. I was driving and my mind was blank for a while to be able to recall immediately the date. I roughly remembered it was in the year 1982 just after my mission.<br />
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I later sent him on the 'Whatsapp' phone messenger the above photo with the <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2007/11/story-of-two-weddings-birth-and-funeral.html" target="_blank">link</a> to the memorial blog post of mine where the photo was taken from. Thanks to the connectivity of the phone to the internet, I could access information stored in my blogs to provide to anyone anytime. She had passed away on 22 October 1982.</b></span></div>
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After I completed a Talklane video <a href="https://vimeo.com/161090189" target="_blank">interview</a> with a member of the Church, I spent the night in my brother's home. He was apparently not well, recovering from a bad flu according to the house helper and went to bed immediately soon after he got back from KL. I therefore dined alone but something unusual happened for me to take the following photos :</b></span></div>
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An insect identified as a bee came on my dinner plate, walked on the fringe of the plate and out of it on to the table to disappear after. I have had many dinners on the same table where common insects that may come to the dining table would be a housefly or some small ants. For this bee, it was a little unusual and it caused me to take photos of it especially after my recent astounding insect experience in KL recorded <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2016/03/defining-moments-in-my-body-mind-spirit.html#bt" target="_blank">here</a> and the one that occurred two years ago where afterlife signs of insects was learnt from Robert Chaen while I was in Kuantan related to the MH370 baffling incident to witness it happening to me soon after I was in KL as recorded <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2014/03/the-body-mind-and-spirit-of-man.html#in" target="_blank">here</a>!<br />
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Other than witnessing the bee walking on my plate and disappearing after that, nothing else extraordinary occurred that I soon forgot about it until over a month later on 5 May 2016, just yesterday at this time of writing. For some reason at that time, an impression came to my mind that my mother's birthday was tomorrow, 6th of May. I was not very sure as it has been almost 34 years ago since she passed away and I did not celebrate her birthday as done for my immediate family members in each of the years after she had gone. As I had kept many physical documents, diaries and journals in well indexed array of cabinets, besides my digital records stored on websites, here is how I quickly verified her birthday date from a cabinet just behind my desk described in a quick photo record using my camera as follows :<br />
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Behind my desk is a long row of custom designed steel cabinets where I keep files, diaries and hardisks so I opened the cabinet where I kept my diaries.</b></span></div>
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I recognized the green 1982 old diary where I had written the birthdays of my parents and my sibblings.</b></span></div>
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I opened the diary to find the page with all the hand written birth days.</b></span></div>
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Here is a close up shot of May 6, the birthday of my mother!</b></span></div>
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Suddenly I discovered that the Spiritlane blog post that I had written about her birth, marriage and death done many years ago had a wrong birth date typed on the opening paragraph seen in the above screenshot I just made of the post circled in red as 4 May 1921 which I immediately corrected to be 6 May as can be viewed in the updated blog post <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2007/11/story-of-two-weddings-birth-and-funeral.html" target="_blank">here.</a> From this incident, I began to wonder if the day when my brother had gone to visit her grave site and I having seen the bee walking on my dinner plate in his home in Kuantan could have some relationship as if she was giving me a sign to make this correction!<br />
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There was another thing that I realized after chatting with Su on facebook messenger earlier in the week when she shared a <a href="https://youtu.be/FBYNbIMolaw" target="_blank">video</a> of Baby Leah's first laugh which was also added to her familylane special birth post <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2016/01/our-first-grand-child.html" target="_blank">here</a>. It was also mentioned when I added a post-dated event in another familylane post about Fei's facebook post found<a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2015/01/thoughts-shared-by-family-members-and.html#4g" target="_blank"> here</a>. It was a sudden realization that Leah's birth would create a 4 generation Mormon time line in our family history.</b></span></div>
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This comes about because my mother or the children's grand mother did get baptized into our Church on 22 March 1980 when I had first come home from Australia to meet my family before serving my mission as recorded <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/05/to-face-family-at-home.html#mo" target="_blank">here</a>. So from my mother to me, down to my children and today with Leah the great grand child of my mother through Su, we can say that there are 4 generations of the Chong family who are Mormons!</b></span></div>
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This was my mother's practice before she became a Latter-Day Saint or member of our Church. She had always been the only member of our Chong family who really had faith in Deity and performed her prayers regularly in the Chinese traditional way using joss sticks. That is why I was inspired to have these words etched on her tombstone, "God is Great, Time will Tell". They were words that I had heard her utter several times during her life time. </b></span></div>
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My mother had even made a trip to visit me when I was a student in Geelong Australia accompanied by my sister-in-law as seen in the above photo with the McDonald family whom I was close to. This was how my Mom knew I had become a Mormon due to her correspondences with the family after she returned home explained in this <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/05/to-face-family-at-home.html" target="_blank">post</a> when I came back home before my mission call.</b></span></div>
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There is another important reason I believe for writing this blog post as I ponder about this sudden strong impression of my deceased mother. This would be the need to follow up on the family history work of my mother's side, the <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2013/09/cheah-family-history-part-2.html" target="_blank">Cheah</a> ancestry as fervently or completely as I have done for my father's side, the <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2015/11/give-me-this-mountain.html" target="_blank">Chong</a> ancestry. I have made several trips to the island of Penang to visit the Cheah clan temple and office there, finding even a cousin on the island who has been a clan member since young and is in the committee of the current Chairman of the clan whom I had met several times. There is unfinished business there with some minor obstacles in the way of getting more names of my mother's ancestors and I felt I had to make yet another trip to Penang as I had done before!</b></span></div>
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Just before leaving church after our 3 hour meeting, I had the chance to take a pic of a rare large sized Asian family of the Gohars in our branch.</b></span></div>
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Saw the facebook post of Fei below when I got home in the afternoon. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154919706048079&set=a.485389458078.268567.512853078&type=3&theater" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see what she wrote about her mother or click on the photo below :</b></span></div>
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Fei our oldest daughter never got to see my mother or her grandma on her father's side</b></span></div>
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However her mother did as in the above photo taken on 19 July 1982 when Geok Lee first came to KL from Singapore to begin our all round Malaysia trip with my mother and her friend as chaperones.</b></span></div>
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When we we had our civil marriage in PJ on 22 Dec 1982, my mother could not be present as she had passed away 3 month earlier on 22 Oct 1982. By Chinese tradition based on my oldest sister in Penang, we were to marry within 3 months on the death of my mother or wait for 3 years so we chose the earlier.</b></span></div>
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Here is Fei our first child born on 14 June 1984</b></span></div>
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I finally got to meet the Mission President and his wife Sis Simmons. This is two months after I received a coincidental phone call from an American friend recorded in this previous <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2016/03/defining-moments-in-my-body-mind-spirit.html#i3" target="_blank">journal post</a> who wanted my contact info to be passed to Sis Simmons! </b></span></div>
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Many coincidental occurrences of my life to date have been recorded in my journals which I have deemed spiritual, the unique ones particularly coming via insects as already shared in some of the earlier links already on this post. Let me remark that before the insects that came to me recently, birds had also made their appearances. A a collection of these 'Bird Stories' can be found in the links of this post that contains the first poetry that I've ever composed in my life entitled, <a href="https://goo.gl/rN3RO6" target="_blank">"What If... Birds could Talk?"</a> Click the underlined title to read the poetry and click no 1 to 7 links to bird stories found at the bottom!</b></span></div>
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Could it be from my Mother's example that I learnt how to be spiritual even before I became a Mormon? Her words ring in my ear again..."God is Great, Time will Tell". It took me many months to investigate the Mormon Church working with pairs of Elders in Geelong Australia, before finally getting baptized on <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/05/baptism-challenge.html" target="_blank">29 July 1979</a> after overcoming the obstacle of seeking for scientific proof of God's existence!!! For my Mom, as shared earlier, she did join the Church but her process of conversion happened much faster than mine to my surprise. She didn't need all the knowledge I was seeking for. All she needed was faith in the Savior.</b></span></div>
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My greatest concern coming home in Feb of 1980 from Australia was to explain to my parents not only of my conversion but also my <a href="https://goo.gl/5rTQpK" target="_blank">spiritual experience</a> to serve a mission for the Church. The fact that my Mother decided to take missionary discussions after returning her idol was a booster for me but I was still very concerned about her deteriorating health due to diabetes. My fervent <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/05/to-face-family-at-home.html#pr" target="_blank">prayer</a> for her to live through my entire mission plus <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/05/bird-story.html" target="_blank">signs</a> I received that God was listening to me before and during my mission were faith promoting experiences never to be forgotten till this day!</b></span></div>
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She did live till I completed my mission and I believe with the tender mercies of God, I was given another <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2007/11/story-of-two-weddings-birth-and-funeral.html#mo" target="_blank">sign</a> that she would leave me soon a month before her death.</b></span></div>
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As I am finishing up this post that started on my Mother's birthday early in the month, I appreciate the spiritual feast I was having recounting spiritual events of my life going as far back as 1979 when I first started investigating The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints otherwise known as the Mormons. On the Sunday after District Conference, I was officially called to be the Branch Mission Leader of our KL branch where I was put to work to conduct a baptism service right after Church with photos found in a facebook post here of the group in our beginner's Sunday school class :</b></span></div>
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In the Priesthood group meeting at the end of our Sunday service, the introductory statement made by me as the the new Branch Mission Leader I recall vividly was as follows, "I find missionary work is easy because I love the people that I easily meet with as strangers anywhere I meet them. Just love them, smile at them and they will respond back positively to be able to start a friendly conversation with them." I further added, "Be bold but not overbearing always and do not fear as the Prophet Joseph Smith taught that when you have faith you should not have fear as fear is the complete opposite of faith."<br />
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Faith is the foundation of the Spirit part of my 3 dimensional 'Body Mind Spirit' life that I write about in my journals and I believe it is the underlying reason for the coincidental occurrences in my life. It took me over 10 years of writing all about my intricate busy life of Love, Knowledge and Spirituality to try to record and explain in a way what makes me who I am as well as trying to understand the human being.<br />
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Today in one early morning, I came across one video by an amazing medical doctor/professor with a background in biology and cell research, who had retired from his job of teaching medical students to be doctors in the past. I have been following Bruce Lipton since last year 2015 as his name was mentioned to me by a friend in Australia as the author of the book, The Biology of Belief. I added this exceptional video to my <a href="https://goo.gl/2RWS2g" target="_blank">collection</a> of his other videos that could explain it all scientifically better with his biological/medical research background. It won't take as long as days and nights to decipher my 'Body Mind Spirit' journal writings to figure it all out i.e. about our Health, our Mind and about our Spirit, compared to what he could present himself live on video! Warning : though his video recording is over an hour and a half long, Bruce Lipton makes everything simpler to understand with his strong scientific background so find that slot of time and be enlightened for anyone with or without any religious or spiritual background!<br /></b></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9Ess7R_Kg_I?start=25" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><b><br />
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Here is something coincidental too as earlier in the week on Tuesday 24 May 2016 local time and Monday in US facebook time, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/siewlee.powell/posts/10154120157203444">this post</a> of my Australian friend appeared on my facebook timeline! I am not sure if it was posted by him intentionally as I know he isn't very computer savvy and could be one of those auto functions of Facebook, I have to check with Gary to confirm.</b></span></div>
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Listening to the above video of the World's Largest Virtual #Hallelujah chorus this Easter season gives me continued hope and inspiration that I can see many of my departed friends and loved ones again one day as the message is that they will live again because of our Savior Jesus Christ!</b></span></div>
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For me and my family, we think of the children's mother, my beloved wife Geok Lee of 30 years in mortality. She loved singing and music to even sang in the historic Tabernacle building with the Choir, as seen in the video above. This experience and other pinnacle memories of her life are remembered in my writings of her <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2012/10/touching-lives.html" target="_blank">here.</a> There are other close family members long departed whom I think of like my <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2007/11/story-of-two-weddings-birth-and-funeral.html" target="_blank">mother</a> and <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2009/11/sudden-departure-of-my-father.html" target="_blank">father.</a></b></span></div>
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As I myself get older in age, I have found that more and more of my friends and relatives in life, younger or older, have left our mortal existence too! I have created a list below to remember them. Some of them could be famous personalities who were favorite actors in movies our family watched together. We may have never met them personally but feel sad to lose them and I like to keep them in remembrance as well here! Most are people I have actually interacted with in life who have touched me and decided I would write something in memory of them when I am aware that they have passed on. My <a href="https://abacuscloud.blogspot.com/2018/01/photolinks-to-story.html">lifetime journals</a> would include this Easter journal under one of the posts in the website named Spiritlane.info </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Here are the names of those who have passed on with my shared memories of their life. I will update this list through time to make this a perpetual post to remember those who have died whom I know, through my faith, will live again because of Him.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><a name='more'></a></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/1218887754/posts/pfbid0R4SeMWi7mCnzTBMXjRZgvkRP7DT2TKZpT7QkkEbGwct7YHPnxWhqCpWkGg5NmXodl/?mibextid=DcJ9fc ">Lawrence Loh Kai Thong</a></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://bitly.ws/BYHq">Rev. Bro. Augustine Julian</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2015/08/ralph-taylor-cannon-1915-2015.html#rm">Ramano Dalling</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2022/01/2022-new-year-for-world-still-with.html#mr">James Gonzales</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://familylane2022.blogspot.com/2022/04/travel-of-fei-and-su.html#jk">Jack Fimmel</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://familylane2022.blogspot.com/2022/01/in-memory-of-stanley-van-dort.html?fbclid=IwAR0WWW_MfKOkIIFyioELOiXE0GcCxkvdDKygmfhwQACHyoYp5USszb7edfA">Stanley Van Dort</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-letterblog-post-of-sharing-my.html#ye">Yeo Kok Seng</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://bemoreknowhow.blogspot.com/2020/09/marvel-and-more-mystical-storeis.html#mr">Loo Yoon Choy</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://talklanemedia.blogspot.com/2019/04/no-more-blues-for-blue-boy-mansion-in.html#kf"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Kam Fatt</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-stone-cut-without-hands.html#do"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Doris Cook</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bemoreknowhow.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-challenge-for-human-race.html#sw"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Fong Sin Whye</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2021/06/in-memory-of-han-kwang.html"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Han Kwang</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-letterblog-post-of-sharing-my.html#kg"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Mrs Kang Beng Hoe</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-letterblog-post-of-sharing-my.html#wt"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>(Danny) Lim Wooi Teck</b></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-letterblog-post-of-sharing-my.html#fw"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Francis Wan Sai Keong</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bemoreknowhow.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-challenge-for-human-race.html#oc"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Ong Chin Hooi</b></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2016/06/june-7-of-year-2016-epic-journey.html#at" target="_blank">Alvin Toffler</a><br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2015/08/ralph-taylor-cannon-1915-2015.html#wl" target="_blank">Thora Belle Brown & Ronald Porter Willis</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2015/07/in-memory-of-jim-lim-old.html" target="_blank">Jim Lim Kin Wai</a><br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2015/08/ralph-taylor-cannon-1915-2015.html#ld" target="_blank">Linda Chin</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2014/05/in-memory-of-doris-ooi-siew-sim.html" target="_blank">Doris Ooi Siew Sim</a><br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2014/04/in-memory-of-aaron-swartz.html" target="_blank">Aaron Swartz</a><br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2014/01/ushering-the-new-year-of-2014-even-year.html#jl" target="_blank">Javeny Lim</a><br />
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<a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2013/11/in-memory-of-jerry-douglas-timothy.html" target="_blank">Jerry Douglas Timothy</a><br />
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<a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2013/08/in-memory-of-elder-jason-reid-wiberg.html" target="_blank">Jason Reid Weiberg</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2012/11/in-memory-of-toh-chin-guan-our-beloved.html" target="_blank">Papa and Mama Toh of Ipoh</a><br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.sg/2012/11/in-memory-of-our-unstoppable-mom.html" target="_blank">Thong Geok Lee</a></b></span></div>
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2011/08/in-memory-of-mdm-ho-mother-of-mimi-ho.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>'Eng-Ee' in Kuantan</b></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2011/07/in-memory-of-abraham-suki.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Abraham Suki</b></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2010/11/funeral-service-and-burial-of-old.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lam York Kee</b></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2010/08/shocking-news-of-sudden-death-of-18.html" target="_blank">Camilia Cross</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-memory-of-kee-saik-chuan.html">Kee Saik Chuan</a><br />
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<a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2010/07/in-memory-of-terry-moe-bing-tah.html" target="_blank">Terry Moe Bing Tah</a><br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.sg/2009/11/sudden-departure-of-my-father.html" target="_blank">Chong Toong Choong</a></b></span></div>
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2008/11/remembering-mervin-chan-who-left-us.html" target="_blank">Mervin Chan</a><br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2008/07/freak-accident-taking-life-of-alan-tay.html" target="_blank">Alan Tay</a><br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2008/03/easter-weekend-in-ipoh.html" target="_blank">Molly Heah & Choong Chin Liang</a><br />
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<a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2008/01/remembering-pastor-peter-low.html">Pastor Peter Low</a><br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2015/08/ralph-taylor-cannon-1915-2015.html#dr" target="_blank">Willard Cleon Skousen</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2276551352789&set=oa.194845340572764&type=3&theater" target="_blank">To Chow Kong</a><br />
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<a href="http://goo.gl/f6Ajcj" target="_blank">Gary Orgill</a><br />
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<a href="https://goo.gl/G11sNX" target="_blank">Jacob De Jager</a><br />
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<a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2015/08/ralph-taylor-cannon-1915-2015.html?fbclid=IwAR086b9dZVqMgu3UtHlOlxGqOVqdQzfc-QtsqYJMYZkTgbDAtp9jZeR-2vc#tj">Joseph Talmage Jones</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2276592993830&set=oa.194845340572764&type=3&theater" target="_blank">Jenny Ling</a><br />
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<a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-spirit-of-elijah.html#qc" target="_blank">Queeny Chang</a><br />
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<a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.sg/2007/11/story-of-two-weddings-birth-and-funeral.html" target="_blank">Cheah Kooi Sim</a><br />
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Last but not least, there were couple missionaries during my mission years of 1980-82 who I fondly missed remembered in this recent <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2015/08/ralph-taylor-cannon-1915-2015.html" target="_blank">blog post.</a> Photos of more returned missionaries from Malaysia or Singapore who passed away can be found in this <a href="https://goo.gl/RwXlh9" target="_blank">facebook album</a> and others in another<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/media_set?set=a.2025350152916.125010.1218887754&type=3" target="_blank"> Easter album.</a> In short, some names of the deceased if not found on this post may be found in the other posts or albums named above.<br />
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I apologize if some people the readers know may have been omitted from being included in this blog post or in my other published sites where hypertext links to them have been given above. This will be primarily due to my own human frailty to recall everyone in my life whom I know or have the time to gather all their information to share, despite the wonderful technology found in social media today. I guess this is why software products sold in the marketplace do not carry any warranty whatsoever as coding millions of computer codes by a human programmer is expected to have 'bugs' or errors in the final output! I pray and hope the eternal souls who have passed on whose names or information I have omitted will forgive me.</b></span></div>
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Taken above at the top of Penang Hill by an accidental run/hike from down below at the Botanical Gardens on Penang island.</b></span></div>
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The <a href="http://goo.gl/jJFThO" target="_blank">previous post</a> in this spiritual blog was entitled, "Give Me this Mountain." My old mission companion from Hong Kong Wu Yuk Choi on the right of the above pic was my host in HK in my trip there last year to make 2 trips across to mainland China where he was also my guide too to find my ancestral village. We did run/hike up a few hills during my visit. He had not returned to Malaysia since he served his mission which is over 30 years ago! He and his wife decided to book a flight to KL while I was there to come with another couple, Yonnie and Ray whom I had met while in HK, to visit me in Malaysia this January 2016 from the 19th to 26th. </b></span></div>
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The photo taken above, with Yonnie in the center, in our running gear, was accidental because we had planned to only exercise at the botanical gardens for an hour which is miles away from Penang Hill early one morning when it was still dark just after 6am. There were only 3 of us as their spouses had chosen to sleep in that morning. After some flat running around the botanical gardens, my ex-companion said he would like to run up a gradient slope and I suggested this road up a hill nearby. After running and walking our way up for about an hour since we started, we met some other people coming down and when we asked how much further was it to the top, they briefly said it wasn't far as if it was just round a few more corners. We had the same response an hour later after asking other people coming down the hill so we kept ongoing. To our surprise, we eventually reached the top of Penang Hill a couple of hours later!!! We decided to take the train down to the ground level to catch a taxi back to the botanical gardens where my car was parked as it would take too long to try to go back down the same trail we had taken. Their spouses were waiting to join us for breakfast.</b></span></div>
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The above are the opening lines of this, my first journal post on this blog to cover mission reunions and some reunions with other lifetime friends of mine. I started this computer blog in 2005, 25 years after I began my first handwritten journals in 1980.</b></span></div>
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At 253 Bukit Timah Rd, Singapore</b></span></div>
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At the beginning of this blog was purely a process of extracting history from those written journals still in my possession today and photos scanned from those I had pasted in my hard journal books and the rest from photo albums which I had kept in chronological order.</b></span></div>
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Let's go back in time to some old group photos to see who had served in the Singapore mission during my time of 1980-82 :</b></span></div>
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The above photos with the narrow locally made name tags for all missionaries and the Sisters having white blouses and similar pink-colored skirts and belts remind me of how missionaries appeared when I first arrived in Singapore in August 1980. I was in Singapore only for 2 weeks to be sent to Kuala Lumpur on 30th August with David Soon, the only other Malaysian missionary to start a mission with me together in Malaysia. </b></span></div>
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Comments: I am seen on the far left behind the tree and most likely my companion David Soon took the photo. Seeing the couple missionaries, Stokers who were leaving on the arrival of the Cannons make the date of this photo around April 1981. My mother is seen in front of me who was baptized after my first trip home in <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/05/to-face-family-at-home.html">Feb 1980</a>. Beside her is Patricia Cheah who was our first person baptized on my mission on <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/06/starting-in-malaysia-our-first-miracle.html">25 Oct 1980</a>. Marcus Yeong, my schoolmate with whom I had received a special miracle experience to find him is seen on the far right. Teaching him and Diana Toh beside Sis Cannon in the center of the group photo is recorded in this <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/07/led-by-spirit-to-find-people-to-teach.html">journal post.</a></b></span></div>
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The experience of the revelation to me to serve a mission for the Church, despite my short 5-month period of membership in the church, was remarkable and the events that followed were equally amazing. I, therefore, made a conscientious effort to record all that had happened to me to make me choose to sacrifice 2 years of my life to do something that I had no preconceived notion about for the past 21 years of my life at that time. These true events are now shared <a href="http://goo.gl/ypI9Hl" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></div>
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The latter two photos above with a new Elder Rex Nielsen replacing Elder Gary Lecheminant mark the date to be the Zone Conference on Sat 14 March 1981 in Singapore at the 42 Chee Hoon Ave mission home. </b></span></div>
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In Kuala Lumpur, seeing the two couples, Floyd and Edna Stoker on the left being replaced by Ralph and Ruth Cannon on the right marks the date to be Sunday 26 April 1981.</b></span></div>
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Toward the end of 1981 we had two Hong Kong Elders arrive to help us in Malaysia, Elder Yung Yik Kwong on the left and Elder Wu Yuk Choi on the right.</b></span></div>
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The appearance of 2 new Sisters Hoe Siew Yin from Kuala Lumpur and Emime Woo from Hong Kong during the visit of Elder Hunter of the Quorum of Twelve at that time to Singapore marks the date as of Sunday 8th Nov 1981. Elder Hunter was a close friend of our Mission President Talmage Jones who was his counselor when Elder Hunter was the Pasadena Stake President of the Church many years ago before he was called as an Apostle.</b></span></div>
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We have Elder Ng on the far left and Sister Teh on the far right, both from Singapore, to pair up with us Malaysian missionaries to create more companionships in the mission field. </b></span></div>
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Up to this point of extracting the above mission photos of my time served, I am satisfied that I have the pics of all those who served during my mission years especially those who were sent to Malaysia to work in the same field of harvest with me.</b></span></div>
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Now I must also mention friends from school who were close to me before I had left to study in Australia and who also took time to visit me while I was serving a mission in my own home country. I will post the photos extracted from my handwritten journals as follows :</b></span></div>
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Note that all the photos above were taken while I was serving in Malaysia as a full-time voluntary missionary, an Elder, for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints nicknamed by the public with an easier name to remember i.e. the LDS or Mormon Church. I was officially released or free by June 1982 and the following pics were from the early reunions that I could enjoy freely after my full-time mission years. I had married early to my wife Geok Lee on 22 Dec 1982 so she would be in some of the pics too :</b></span></div>
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Over my lifetime, I have always interacted in some way or another with my friends from school or Church. For old school friends, I have kept special journals of our meetings or gatherings <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-gathering-of-old-boys-of-st-johns.html">here.</a></b></span></div>
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Returned Missionaries from Utah could conveniently attend Mission Reunions usually planned during General Conference time by some of the former Mission Presidents. Those who attended would come from different generations over the years of the Singapore mission, but none were from my generation as ours was small in numbers as a pioneering group. In order to reunite with returned missionaries who served as I did during the time of 1980-82, I had to find them myself personally over my lifetime which I did. Living in Singapore was easy as it was the closest country to Malaysia that I would frequently visit even before the family moved there in 2007. For those further away, some did come back to visit for a personal reunion to take place. For the rest, I would try to visit them whenever I would be in their neighborhood.</b></span></div>
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The following are pics where some happy personal reunions took place over the years :</b></span></div>
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When my late wife Geok Lee and I went to the USA to be sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on 22 Dec 1983 a year after our civil marriage in Malaysia on the same day in the year 1982. So we had the opportunity to meet again the following people in our first trip to the US :</b></span></div>
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Pres and Sis Jones in Leeds, Utah north of St George who was my Singapore Mission President and his wife. The photo brings back vivid memories of the experience of being in Southern Utah's desert for the first time described as "An exhilarating experience as if we were walking in a watercolor painting that had so many unique colors that we were not used to and brought a rush of tingling sensations to our body!"</b></span></div>
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I met up with the Gessel brothers again who are on the far right at the back, from left to right, David Gessel and Clarke Gessel. David Gessel was one of the Elders who taught me the gospel in Geelong Australia in 1979. After my mission in 1982 Clarke Gessel, his older brother happened to work in Kuala Lumpur as an internal auditor for the Esso, later known as the Mobil Exon, an oil company. His family name was unique so remembering an Elder Gessel who taught me, I asked Clarke when he first came to Kuala Lumpur if he knew him and I was surprised to be told he was his brother! He got to know Geok Lee whom I married in December of 1982 in Kuala Lumpur and in our trip to Salt Lake City to be sealed in Dec 1983 I got to meet David Gessel again in their family Christmas reunion!</b></span></div>
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David later visited Kuala Lumpur in 1984 and tried our Malaysian durian fruit at the Gabrielsens home, an ex-pat family from the US!</b></span></div>
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On our first visit to the US and Utah, we met with Bro and Sis Cannon in Salt Lake City who was the missionary couple in Kuala Lumpur whom I had served with during my mission days who replaced the Stokers who served before them. I only got to meet the Stokers later when the Cannons moved to live in the same apartment building with them that was close to the Salt Lake Temple. That photo of our reunion is seen further below in the year 1986.</b></span></div>
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Rex Nielsen in Provo Utah was the only American Elder in Singapore serving in the mission with the locals who replaced Gary Lecheminant who had gone home.</b></span></div>
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Here is Rex Nielsen on the left who replaced Gary Lecheminant on the right. We got to meet Gary too with his wife Mary Lim, who had also served with us in the Singapore mission, later in our visit to Los Angeles where the photo is seen further below this post.</b></span></div>
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Rex Nielsen was on the far left of this group photo that included President Soren F Cox who was the mission president of the Singapore Mission with his wife from 1975-78. There were other returned missionaries in the group who were studying in BYU Provo such as Lawrence Lim on the top left corner who is the brother of Mary Lim seen in a photo further below with Gary Lecheminant.</b></span></div>
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In the sealing of Chen Kai Kuan with his wife Jessie(14 Dec 1983) in the Salt Lake Temple a week before us, Veloy Chan, wife of Stephen Lai who was not present, on the far right and Hazel Tan wife of Tan Su Kiong, 3rd from the left who were returned missionaries from Singapore were also present. Bro Tan Su Kiong who later became the Patriarch of Singapore Stake is seen on the far left looking away from the camera. Collin Jones, the brother of Talmage Jones who was a counselor to President Hanks the temple president, gave us a special tour of the Salt Lake temple after the sealing was over.</b></span></div>
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Marion D. Hanks and his wife Maxine who visited Singapore in Aug 1981 was the Salt Lake City Temple President who sealed our marriage for all time and eternity on 22 Dec 1983. It was a pleasant reunion to see him again.</b></span></div>
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Bro and Sis Redd in their farm located in Grassy Lake Canada in Dec 1983</b></span></div>
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Bro and Sis Redd who first came to serve in Ipoh in Jan 1982 as recorded in my journal post found <a href="http://goo.gl/MhBDLy" target="_blank">here.</a> His first name is Smelie and hers was Laurel. I would meet Bro Redd again years later in Utah after his wife passed away recorded further down this blog post<a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2016/01/reunions-after-my-mission-service-years.html#bl"> below.</a></b></span></div>
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Gary Lecheminant and Mary Lim in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve 1983</b></span></div>
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With YUNG Yik Kwong(far left) Daisy Teh(in the center, both who served in the Singapore Mission too) and THEE See Ba in Hawaii (leaning on the car who served in Taiwan), our last stop before returning back home after a great holiday/honeymoon to the US for the first time to include our sealing in the temple.</b></span></div>
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More personal reunions to come and see if you can match the faces in the latter years with the original photos taking during the mission years of 1980 - 82. Some of the returned missionaries in the photos above came from even earlier times like Thee See Bah(1977-79). He was the 1st Malaysian to be baptized in his own country on 26 July 1971 through the Australian group of the Church made up mainly of Royal Australian Air Force servicemen who were members of the Church based in Butterworth at that time.</b></span></div>
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In March 1986, I had a business trip to the Hanover Fair in Germany for our ITC computer company in Malaysia. I headed to London from there to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to land in New York City. From NYC I would head to the west coast of the US and flew back to Asia via the Pacific ocean thus making it my first trip around the globe!</b></span></div>
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David Soon was living in NYC after his mission and the above was my 1st reunion with him. It was my first visit to New York City after which I had made several business trips there and in one of them I made a <a href="http://goo.gl/BzF6Fu" target="_blank">road trip</a> from there to Palmyra to be at the sacred grove. It would be my 2nd trip to the US after the 1st trip to Salt Lake Temple to be married via Los Angeles coming from across the pacific ocean from Singapore.</b></span></div>
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From New York City I continued to fly westwards to Salt Lake City which has become my 'Mecca' and for more business meetings in San Francisco and Los Angeles and always with a habit to make some visits to friends in the area.</b></span></div>
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During this visit to Salt Lake City, I got to reunite with the Floyd and Edna Stoker, the couple serving when I first came back to Kuala Lumpur to find the Church who were later replaced by Ralph and Ruth Cannon.</b></span></div>
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In the apartment that the Cannons and Stokers lived was also popular to some General Authorities of the Church as it was close to the Church headquarters and the Salt Lake Temple too. In the lobby one day while with Floyd Stoker, we ran into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_de_Jager" target="_blank">Jacob de Jager</a>, a General Authority of the Church who has served in Indonesia too and was serving in the Hong Kong area office of the Church.</b></span></div>
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In San Francisco area, I managed to connect with one of our pioneer missionaries from Malaysia before my time, Derrick Ho who completed his mission in the Philippines(1976-78). I also and met his wife Camille and children in their home located in the San Jose Silicon Valley area of California. From San Francisco, I made my first long drive in the US using a rental car to Los Angeles to attend the Comdex computer show.</b></span></div>
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I took the Pacific Coast<a href="http://travelblog.viator.com/road-trip-san-francisco-los-angeles/" target="_blank"> highway 101</a> to enjoy what is said to be one of America's most iconic road trips that cover about 450miles (724.205km) </b></span></div>
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After the computer show, I took a drive to Redlands to find my former mission president Talmage Jones and his wife Vera Jean Jones again. We last met in Dec 1983 when visited them in Leeds Southern Utah after my business trip to attend the Comdex computer show in Las Vegas. He had arranged for my wife Geok Lee to receive her endowments in St George Temple and later brought us to Salt Lake City to arrange our temple sealing at the Salt Lake Temple where his brother Collin Jones was a counselor in the temple presidency with Marion D Hanks as the president. </b></span></div>
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While in Redlands, I learned that Loma Linda was close by. I knew a couple living there whom I know closely especially the wife of Jonathan Chin who was at the same university with me in Australia. She was one of my friends I had referred to the Elders to teach, who used to live in KL and was baptized in our Church. There was another friend I referred from East Malaysia from the university who also joined the Church. I would visit Jonathan and Linda's home in Loma Linda several times more over my lifetime, the last time was the Chinese New Year of 2013 as recorded <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2013/02/the-countdown-begins-to-welcome-year-of.html#ld" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></div>
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I vaguely remember dropping into the Church Area office to say hello to Elder Jacob de Jager whom I had run into earlier at the apartment in Salt Lake City where I had taken a photo of him with Floyd Stoker. Unfortunately, the photo above taken by someone at the office was also not very clear of him and his secretary with me in the middle.</b></span></div>
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Not long after I returned from the US, in June of the same year of 86, Ralph and Ruth Cannon made a return trip to their mission field of Malaysia.</b></span></div>
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They visited the old mission home in Jln Mentri Utara which was under renovation to add the new hall and rooms in the old bungalow that is found today at this time of writing. A reunion fireside was held in the home of my father in Cheras as seen in the pics below :</b></span></div>
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It was just a year ago in April 86 that I met the Jones in their home in Redlands California. Now they returned to Malaysia again for the first time after they left Singapore when Talmage completed his 3 year service as President of Singapore mission in June 1982. He had also released me early before my full 2 year mission service as explained in this <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/10/it-is-finished.html" target="_blank">post.</a> Below are the photos of a home fireside by the Jones at my father's place again organized for the Cannons the previous year.</b></span></div>
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In 1987 was also the year that I went with my wife and 2 daughters, in the month of May, to visit my old university town in Australia to have reunions with old friends from Church days and also my university days. I have made a more recent trip to Australia with an account of all the reunions I had there shared in this <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2014/11/the-stone-cut-without-hands.html#mb" target="_blank">post.</a> Here are some pics extracted from that post :</b></span></div>
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In a Nov business trip to Bangkok, Hong Kong and Taipei, I had the opportunity to meet up with Emime Woo with her 1st baby in Hong Kong. </b></span></div>
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By some coincidence, in Dec 2015, while trying to message Emime on Facebook where we are now connected as friends, she replied late to reveal that she was busy with the wedding of her oldest daughter! This occurrence was recorded in another <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2015/12/my-travelogue-2-through-time-places-and.html#em" target="_blank">blog post.</a></b></span></div>
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I made a 3rd trip to the US for business meetings with opportunities to have reunions with friends again. This was in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Salt Lake city</b></span></div>
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Here is GaryLecheminant and Mary his wife, also a returned missionary from our Singapore Mission field, with their children captured in their home in Los Angeles area.</b></span></div>
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We met up with Talmage Jones and his wife Vera Jean again in 1988 at Anthony Seow's office in LA, an old church member friend originally from Singapore who had lived in Utah for over 30 years then and longer today. Anthony is seen on the far left chatting with Sis Jones. Anthony is one of my many old friends whom I've kept in touch with to this day, last seen in KL, at this time of writing, in a November 2015 post <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2015/11/happy-birthday-to-all-november-babies.html#ty" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></div>
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The reunion of friends in LA included Bill Shuetz who had lived in Kuala Lumpur previously but I had lost contact with him since this gathering in 1988 until last Christmas of 2015 where how he was found again is shared <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2015/12/christmas-day-2015.html#bl" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></div>
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While in Utah, I got to visit the home of Dee H. Groberg, who had previously visited our Kuala Lumpur branch on business trips representing the Covey training organization. It was nice to meet him again and his family too for the first time.</b></span></div>
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Thee See the first convert in Malaysia came to visit our home from Hawaii with his wife Shauna. Before I left on my mission, I was in KL in Feb 1980 and met with Thee See for the first time who just came back from his Taiwan Taichung Mission where he served in 1977-79. I met him again when we visited Hawaii in Jan 1984 on the way back from Utah after our temple marriage as in the earlier photo shared earlier up in this post. We had kept in touch through infrequent snail mails and when our two daughters starting studying in Hawaii BYU, our contact became even closer. He came with their family to visit us again in Dec 2006 to become part of our <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2006/12/our-christmas-story-dec-2006.html" target="_blank">Christmas Story</a>.<br />
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My research on family history during and after my mission brought fruits for finding unknown relatives of my father such as his half brother Tjong Tung Mau from Hong Kong seen on the far right. Read my <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2015/11/give-me-this-mountain.html" target="_blank">latest post</a> on my family history research that shows more reunions I've enjoyed.</b></span></div>
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Mrs Prewett was a nice Indian lady living in Geelong, my university town, who volunteered her time to help foreign Asian students like me to adjust well during our stay in Australia. She knew me well and saw my growth and development during my 3 years stay there including my conversion to be a Mormon and later leave after my graduation to serve a mission for the Church. It was nice to reunite with her when she came to Malaysia for a visit 10 years later after I had left Australia, meeting my wife and only two girls then in 1990. In a meaningful and spiritual trip to Australia in Nov 2014, I tried to reunite with Mrs Prewett again with comments shared at the bottom of <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-stone-cut-without-hands.html#pw" target="_blank">this post</a> of the trip. </b></span></div>
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I had also met up with Bro Rex Kennerley on the far right, the person-in-charge of our MTC training, on my 2nd trip to the US in April 1986. It was quite a coincidence as I was attending General Conference in Salt Lake City and the person sitting beside me was the Stake President from New Zealand whose family name was also Kennerley! Upon asking if he knew the Kennerley I knew in the Hamilton MTC, he said that was his brother who was at the hotel at that time visiting Salt Lake City with him! He invited me to the hotel after conference and I had a wonderful surprise reunion with Bro Kennerley again. I may not have a camera with me then, as they were not as small as pocket cameras today, to have a photo of that surprise reunion!</b></span></div>
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Years after our mission, David Wong and Catherine Lim who were Singaporeans who served their own country and married each other after their mission, our family had a chance to have their whole family visit us in Kuala Lumpur. They later moved to the US to study in BYU Hawaii and we met them again when we visited there 3 years later in 2002 when I had a business convention there to attend and also to visit our oldest daughter Fei who just started at BYUH. </b></span></div>
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In 2003 was a significant year for a few reasons. I had made two trips to the US, my 13th and 14th trip since the first in 1983, the first for my wife and I to be sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. The first trip for the year was a business trip for my client in January and I have been in contact with the Gessel family for the past 20 years. On this trip, I talked to David Gessel about Stephen Brown who first knocked on my door in Geelong Australia to share the Gospel with me for the first time and was there on the day of my baptism to baptize me many months later. Stephen was in touch with me through letters but after some time we had lost contact with each other as both of us must have moved a few times during our married lives. He had married and lived in Pennsylvania which was far away in the Eastern side of US while most times I have been visiting US in the west coast and didn't think about Elder Brown until this particular trip to the US. David said he would check with the Alumni for returned missionaries who had served in Australia and let me know.</b></span></div>
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I planned a 2nd trip to Utah for a number of reasons. I was eager to reunite with Stephen Brown is one. Also my 2nd daughter was planning to transfer from BYU Hawaii to BYU Provo so I could do some early preparation to come to the mainland. There was also a plan to spend more time in the US to do some exploration of business opportunities as well as exploring some new terrain of this vast land or continent!</b></span></div>
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David Gessel did find the contact information of Stephen Brown who to our surprise had moved to Utah from where he was in Pennsylvania. We got connected via email first and I really wanted to meet him again as it has been about 24 years since we first met in 1979. What exactly happened then is shared in this <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/04/door-knock.html" target="_blank">journal post</a> where Elder Stanbrough, the companion to Elder Brown had also written a comment sharing an interesting account of what led them to knock on my door. </b></span></div>
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With the help of Cevin Ormond (in the far left of the above photo), the friend whom I had met earlier in January as mentioned above, I got to find Steve Brown who was living in the same suburb called Riverton. I had also found Brother Smelie Redd (second from the left) whom I had met in Salt Lake City with his wife in our sealing ceremony in December 1983 and did visit their home in Canada too as mentioned <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2016/01/reunions-after-my-mission-service-years.html#ab">above.</a></b></span></div>
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I would visit Steve and his wife with a son and daughter often during my stay in Utah.</b></span></div>
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Elder Brown is seen on the left of the photo taken in 1979 after I was baptized in Geelong Australia. Sitting beside me is Elder Greenhood. I could not track down Elder Greenhood in the early days but with Facebook today maybe I can find him!</b></span></div>
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Here is Elder Stanborough. David W. Stanbrough with his family living in Andover, Minnesota which I've never had a chance to visit but maybe one day! Thanks to Facebook, we are connected together to this day. He shared a humble comment about the day they knocked on my door found at this <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2005/04/door-knock.html" target="_blank">journal post</a>, an event that changed my life forever!</b></span></div>
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After he completed his mission, while I was on my mission, I received the above wedding invitation card that announced that "Susan and Stephen have chosen Friday October 17, 1980 to seal their love for time and eternity." The card had a picture of the Washington temple. Their wedding reception was on Saturday October 18 the next day.</b></span></div>
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In the US, many mission reunions are organized by the Mission Presidents just before General Conference time in Salt Lake City to be held at any convenient place in the valley with advanced notification. I did have an opportunity to attend one of them on the eve of the Oct 2003 General conference time in Salt Lake City. Some photos of this occasion follows :</b></span></div>
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Elder John H Groberg and wife Jean (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Groberg" target="_blank">Biography</a>)</b></span></div>
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Victor Chen was there too as the Stake President of Singapore (Area Seventy in Singapore <a href="http://www.ldschurchnewsarchive.com/articles/59001/Asian-saints-taught-by-Elder-Nelson.html" target="_blank">2010</a>)</b></span></div>
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Through email correspondence with his son William Redd and his son's wife Peggy who were originally living in Grassy Lake Canada where Bro and Sis Redd lived, I received the information that Bro Redd was living with them after they had moved to Utah in a suburb called Riverton, coincidentally close to where Stephen Brown's home was. I took the opportunity to spend time with Bro Redd as he was alone without Sis Redd who had passed away before him. I would pick him up to go to the temple together.</b></span></div>
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I brought Bro Redd to visit Vera Jean Jones, wife of our Singapore Mission President, J.Talmage Jones, when we served as missionaries together in the early 80s. Both are now deceased and remembered in a special 'In Memory' <a href="http://goo.gl/5e5UtC" target="_blank">blog post</a> of my dear friends of my life.</b></span></div>
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I had actually found Sister Jones a month earlier (Sep 2003) in a nice building complex in Provo Utah with assisted-living care where she had her own private studio-style unit. I had lost contact with her since my last meeting(<a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2016/01/reunions-after-my-mission-service-years.html#ty" target="_blank">shared above</a>) with her and her husband President Talmage Jones, our former Mission President in 1988, when I would visit them in their home in Redlands CA whenever I would be in Los Angeles. On this trip, I was inspired to look for her and messaged our then Patriarch Tan Su Kiong in Singapore whom I felt might know where Sis Jones would be. He was together with Geok Lee and I when we first came to Salt Lake City and met with our Mission President and his wife as shared in the beginning of this post that can be found by <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.sg/2016/01/reunions-after-my-mission-service-years.html#ts" target="_blank">clicking here.</a></b></span></div>
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I'm glad I managed to visit with Sister Jones in 2003 as she had passed away a year later in 2004 while President Jones had passed away 14 years earlier in 1990. Their obituaries can be found in a special 'In Memory' post I created for them and others found <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2015/08/ralph-taylor-cannon-1915-2015.html#vj" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></div>
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A year later, my wife and I made a trip to Utah and she got to meet Stephen Brown and his wife Susan for the first time.</b></span></div>
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We also got to meet Clarke Gessel and his family in their home. For Geok Lee, the last time she met Clarke was in our first trip to the US in 1983 for our marriage sealing! I had met him the previous year with his family at Clarke's father's home in the city to make this follow up visit possible. (See the photo above under the heading Jan 2003) From this journey up north to Idaho and eventually Seattle, I had a Toastmaster friend from my KL club who happened to be in US join us for this long drive in our jeep, flying in to Salt Lake City to meet us. She is seen in the center of the photo in black.</b></span></div>
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Farewell to Jeffery Lim and his wife who are migrating to the US and had lunch with old friends in Singapore</b></span></div>
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Alice Cheong on the far right was our contemporary missionary who has continued to live in Singapore whose daughter later married the son of another contemporary missionary named Josephine Lee who also have migrated overseas, first to Vancouver Canada and later Utah USA.</b></span></div>
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Visit with Jeffery Lim, on the US east coast outside New York city, a senior companion during my mission days in Singapore that we bid farewell when he and his family left Singapore.</b></span></div>
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Thee See Ba and family came to KL to spend Christmas with us, joining us in our house to house visit to sing carols. The stories, photos, and videos are all found <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2006/12/our-christmas-story-dec-2006.html" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></div>
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With Sis Patricia Cheah who rented a room to David Soon and I when we first came to Kuala Lumpur from Singapore to start our missionary work. She was the first person that we taught during our mission who accepted to be baptized. She was our <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/06/starting-in-malaysia-our-first-miracle.html">first miracle.</a></b></span></div>
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She is non-other than Pat Quek, a fellow missionary during my young missionary days from Singapore.</b></span></div>
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Managed to meet up with Stella Toh, in red, in Penang who was the one mentioned in our Ipoh branch <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/08/ipoh-story.html" target="_blank">story</a> as the one instrumental to introduce several members of her family to join the Church to be pioneer members of the branch. We were in the home of my former mission companion David Soon with his mother and sister.</b></span></div>
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Dinner in Penang with David Soon, wife, mother and friends</b></span></div>
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With Pang Meng Hock, the only Elder during the time of my mission who still lives in Singapore. He was my senior who orientated me to the mission field.</b></span></div>
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With me and Gary Lecheminant who also orientated me to the mission field in Singapore. Photo taken at the Bukit Timah chapel grounds where the Mission Office was located also.</b></span></div>
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Having turned 60 last year <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2018/09/familylane-2018-october-reunion.html">myself</a> and to be invited to a surprise party to celebrate the 90th birthday of our <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/06/starting-in-malaysia-our-first-miracle.html">miracle convert</a> makes life worth living for me to want to live as long as Pat Cheah. I started this post early in the morning on this day to prepare for more photos and videos to be shared after the dinner and karaoke session tonight!</b></span></div>
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Good relationships definitely have been the source of my true joy in life over material things or any other thing that may be attractive to me also like the joy of learning or working on projects of my passion. Even for those classified as less attractive or desirable by others, I know that I still have an interest in these people to want to connect with them to create positive relationships. This attitude, I think it has helped me to learn more about human beings which helped me to be more successful in the projects that I have undertaken or will take on in the future where I have to work with teams of people with diverse backgrounds. It must be noted that in order to fully understand the human being we cannot just use our minds to think but need to use our hearts to feel also!<br />
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The reunions that occurred above, from the very top of this post, were primarily with members of our Church where most of them had served together with me during my spiritual mission years. Thus the bonding was exceptional with memories that would last a lifetime or perhaps even more!<br />
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I have another group of friends whose bonding is also strong due to the many years of spending time together at school. I had many reunions with them officially or unofficially and most events are recorded in a custom-designed website found <a href="http://fastlane.info/sji/" target="_blank">here.</a> (Note that it best viewed with a PC as smartphones were not used when it was created.) As most of us reached the age of 55 which was a significant milestone in life, the need to celebrate with a big reunion party came about and we did have a big bash together recorded <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.sg/2013/10/the-gathering-of-old-boys-of-st-johns.html" target="_blank">here.</a> (It is PC or Smartphone friendly as a blogger post was used.) There was a roaring 60s reunion event on 8 Dec 2018 when most of us turned 60 recorded <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-letterblog-post-of-sharing-my.html" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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Last but not least, no matter what the source of our relationships, from school or from our spiritual affiliations or even from family ties, the event of death and a funeral of a person sparks the moment of time when souls are reunited to say goodbye to the departed or to pay their last respects to them who once lived and left their mark in our society or community. In later years, when the list got longer over time, I too felt a need to gather them all in a special blog post which is found <a href="https://goo.gl/HGwbgX" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b> <i>To be continued and updated where necessary.... </i><br />
(Scroll to the top of this long post to view how my spiritual associations started with many of my Church friends of today at this point of writing.)</b></span></div>
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"Give Me This Mountain" are the words that ring in my ear as I start writing a bit about this current trip I am now on. I am in Hong Kong island for the past two days in preparation to visit my ancestral village in mainland China. These words came from President Spencer W. Kimball of our Church whom I had mentioned in is same spiritual blog of mine for a trip to Australia that I made roughly the same time of the year in November month of 2014 shared <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.hk/2014/11/the-stone-cut-without-hands.html" target="_blank">here</a>. If in that trip of mine to Australia was symbolically considered a visit to my 'Holy land', this trip to China would aptly be considered symbolically as a visit to my 'Motherland'.</b></span></div>
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On this trip to Hong Kong in Nov 2015, I am with my former mission companion, Wu Yuk Choi, on the right of the photo above i.e. Elder Wu. He not only offered me a place to stay in Hong Kong but would also accompany me to find my Ancestral village. In the middle is Sophie, a person whom we taught the gospel and baptized in Petaling Jaya over 30 years ago when we were volunteer missionaries!</b></span></div>
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He took me down town to check out tour packages to mainland China as well as helping me talk to some contacts on the mainland recommended to assist me in finding my ancestral village.<br />
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By 19th of November, it is confirmed the places we would leave the next day for our adventure. It would be the places my ancestors have walked together with millions of other Hakka people, the clan that we belong to in the history of China. This would include Chaozhou, Shantou, Meizhou, Xiamen and others. Interesting that his ancestry and mine share similar ancestors higher up in the tree as he is also a Hakka. He is free to do this trip with me as he had also recently officially retired from his service to the HK Marine Police and is happily looking forward to travel with me in China and will come <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2016/01/reunions-after-my-mission-service-years.html?fbclid=IwAR2SUTynAVZCJWOLaUaEYbu9YliKBH65wy-MFcXIYESMtGgo2cbIBkCRtIs">visit Malaysia again</a> to meet up with more friends from our mission days too!</b></span></div>
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He even guided me in Hong Kong to find some lost relatives I had lost contact after years of not keeping in touch due to distance and time. These are my cousins and spouses where I had only met one previously, Stephen Cheung on my left in a dark blue shirt. One cousin 3rd from the right, who is married and living in the UK, happened to be in town to make to make it for the impromptu reunion dinner meet, an occasion to be remembered. She is the oldest of the 4 children of my uncle and carries the middle generation name of Sow as had been named for the 20th generation of female descendants from the time our ancestors moved to Song Kou (松口) village in Meixian (梅县) which I am planning to visit. (Song Kou had different names previously such as 'Chung Kow' and others to be mentioned here later.)<br />
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Her father had sent me hand written <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.hk/2013/07/the-spirit-of-elijah.html#tm" target="_blank">mails</a> following his visits to Kuala Lumpur and that of my father to Hong Kong, to include a type written two page brief history of our ancestry that stated in the opening paragraph, "In our genealogy book, those ancestors living before the date-line of Leong Kung (Chinese characters to be provided later) who migrated to Chung Kow (松口) are entirely not traceable. Our original clan known as Hakka race lived, because of their nomadic nature as wandering group in Hopeh Province in North China three thousand years ago."<br />
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Stephen had followed his parents in a trip to Kuala Lumpur where his father met mine in a special reunion of 2 brothers with the same father but different mother, seen in the above photo taken on 20 April 1984.<br />
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I promised them I would meet again before I left Hong Kong and did with Stephen and his older brother Man Hin and wife in the pic above.</b></span></div>
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Within a few days, as I transverse the island, I am reminded of how mountainous Hong Kong is and this led me to remember the words, "Give me This Mountain" and the talk of President Kimball which you can read, listen and watch him speak by <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/1979/10/give-me-this-mountain?lang=eng&media=audio#watch=video" target="_blank">clicking here.</a><br />
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The figurative 'Mountain' in my adult life to trace the roots to the ancestors of my earthly family seems similar to follow up with the 'Mountain' during my younger life to trace the roots to a spiritual 'Father in Heaven' that took a long time as I had only discovered it when I was turning 21 shared in the <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.hk/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank">beginning</a> of this same continuing blog. My father had been just as silent talking about a father in heaven as he was silent talking about his father on earth. Interestingly that as I write this paragraph about my father about 5am in the morning in Hong Kong, preparing to leave for the mainland to follow the trail of my ancestors, starting by meeting my good friend and guide Wu Yuk Choi (who met my father when we were missionaries together in Kuala Lumpur) at 7am in Yuen Long town nearby, I just realized the date of 20 Nov 2015 on this day is the <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.sg/2009/11/sudden-departure-of-my-father.html" target="_blank">anniversary</a> of his passing on 20 Nov 2009.<br />
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The Journey of finding my Hakka ancestral trail begins with the Chao-Chow Swatow Railway<br />
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Hong Kong became a base for us to leave from and return through Shenzhen, the border town on mainland China to our targeted destination.</b></span></div>
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We would want to visit the cities of Shentou and Chaozhou as this was where my great grandfather, Tjong Yong Hian (Indonesian name) and also known as Cheong Yuk Nam or Zhang Yu Nan (Chinese names) had invested large sums of money to built a railway that was to run between the region of Chao-Chow (Chaozhou)and the City of Swatow (Shan Tou)<br />
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Opening day 25 Nov 1906 of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chao_Chow_and_Swatow_Railway" target="_blank">Chao-Chow Swatow railway</a>. Tjong Yong Hian(a.k.a Cheong Yuk Nam) is standing in the front row second from the right.<br />
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In the above given wiki link, it is written, "In late 1903 a group of affluent overseas and Hong Kong Chinese, headed by Cheong Yuk Nam (pinyin: zhāng yù nán, 张煜南), invested a total of $300,000 and registered the Chao Chow and Swatow Railway Company with the Chamber of Commerce in Peking (Beijing) and also under Hong Kong laws. Cheong, who was Director-general of the company, had amassed a fortune from sago plantations in Sumatra and from other enterprises in Penang and South China.<br />
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Construction commenced in 1904 under the direction of a Japanese railway engineer Kennosuke Sato (佐藤謙之助). The 39 km (24 mi) line to Chao Chow was completed and opened to traffic on November 16, 1906. In 1908 a short branch line of just over 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) was extended beyond Chao Chow to the river frontage at I-Chi, a.k.a. Yee Kai (pinyin yì xī, 意溪), in order to earn revenue from freight traffic when the low river prevented navigation by boat.<br />
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The railway’s senior operations staff, including the drivers and guards, were all Japanese employees, with Chinese staff engaged on less important functions. This situation endured until the railway was eventually taken over by Chinese National Railways in the 1920s. The railway company imported three 2-6-2 tank locomotives from the American Locomotive Company (Brooks plant) and 24 carriages of corridor plan were manufactured in Japan."<br />
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Standing there on the railroad track brought some sensations from the memory of my research on China and it's history at the time when foreign powers were trying to get a piece of the vast country, bringing with them their latest technologies which included gunships besides the railways. My feelings was about the difficulties encountered in the past to build the railways in China due to the resistance of the Chinese people caused purely by superstitions! They believed that the smoke and noise of the steam engine was a bad omen like a dragon crossing over lands that were formerly burial grounds of the ancestors to disturb the spirits!.<br />
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Empress Dowager Cixi, unlike her husband Xian Feng and her father-in-law Dao Guang(1821-50) who passed the reign as Emperor to her husband both did not like foreigners, was in favor of modernization and accepting foreigners openly into China for trade. After her husband had passed away, she became the shadow ruler of China as their son was too young to reign as an Emperor. My great grandfather had a connection with the Empress as revealed below :</b></span></div>
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Quoting from the above book received from Chang Huin Kuin (Budihardjo Chandra), my "Cousin" in English Western terms or my 'Clan brother' in Chinese Eastern terms who is from Medan Indonesia, in Pg 42, it reads : </b></span></div>
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"Tjong Yong Hian received several awards and accolades from the Qing rulers for his philanthropic contributions in China. In 1903, he received an imperial decree to have his official headwear adorned with a precious stone on top. The colour of the button indicates the rank of official. In some of the old photographs of Tjong Yong Hian, his headwear button had been painted red.</b></span></div>
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That same year, he was twice received in Beijing by Empress Cixi and the Guangxu emperor. First to discuss China and later to put forward his plans for the Chao-Chow Swatow railway. He received their support and went ahead to build the railway. The Empress was impressed with his contributions. In October 1903, she bestowed gifts of calligraphy scroll with word 'shou' meaning longevity inscribed, (Chinese character to be included later) a Chinese painting of peonies and a piece of jade (Chinese description to be included - an S-shaped ornamental jade which symbolises good luck) to congratulate him on his birthday.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">To find the ancestral village, SongKou</span></b></div>
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My anticipation of finally visiting the village my fore-fathers came from was like a dream come true. It was a dream kept for 33 years since I started with the presence of my wife when we were dating in 1982 recorded <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.hk/2006/05/following-up-on-search-for-my-genealogy.html" target="_blank">here</a>, where as I plodded step by step to find my roots, the closer I felt I was getting towards fulfilling it. It took years as I was busy with a large family, running businesses and volunteering time for Church service. After my wife passed away in Nov 6 2012, I posted the page of her favorite dream song <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.hk/2012/10/touching-lives.html#dm" target="_blank">here.</a> I believed she would have returned to a world where she could meet with all our ancestors and being together for 30 years, I felt her spirit close to me whenever there was something I felt she wanted to communicate to me. This was strongly felt in my room while in Kuantan as shared <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.hk/2014/03/the-body-mind-and-spirit-of-man.html#sp" target="_blank">here.</a> Other spiritual experiences related to family history can also be found in a blog as <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.hk/2014/03/spirit-and-power-of-elijah-needed-to.html" target="_blank">this one.</a></b></span></div>
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Singapore seemed a conducive centre for my ancestral research when I was somehow inspired to walk into the Nanyang Khek Community Guild (南洋客属总会) <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.sg/2013/08/the-chong-family-history.html#ny" target="_blank">office</a> by chance in Singapore one day in August 2013 to meet the secretary-in-charge Theresa Lew. Since that day, she had indeed quickened my journey to be at SongKou village on this day of November 2015!</b></span></div>
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Through messages Teresa passed on from her office in Singapore, Mr Tang, the Vice-Chairman from the Meizhou City Returned overseas Chinese Association could meet us when we arrived to take us to the <a href="https://www.expedia.com.hk/Meizhou-Hotels-Howard-Johnson-Changsheng-Plaza-Meizhou.h7065411.Hotel-Information" target="_blank">hotel</a> booked for us in advance.</b></span></div>
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We met his youngest son at the hotel in the evening named Kwok Wah. He brought his only son to meet us named Tsz Ming. He informed us that Hung Meng was his father's name and his grandfather's name was Tung Yen. However he could not establish who his grandfather's father was or under which of the four sons of Tjong Yong Hian was his grandfather the son of.</b></span></div>
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He stated that his father Hung Meng who was about 67 years old had one older sister and one younger from him. He also mentioned he was 37 years old and had one older brother named Kwok Hung who was 41 years old at this time of writing, giving us his contact number as well as his brother's. The information are all summarized in the photo above.</b></span></div>
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The rear section of the house has the familiar semi-circular curved Hakka defensive designed wall structure</b></span></div>
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Behind the red temporary construction wall is the mansion of Tjong Yong Hian by the pomelo orchard with the mountains in the background<br />
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<br /> While my family was having a family reunion in Kuala Lumpur, I received a WhatsApp message from my friend Wu Yuk Choi who traveled with me when I first found my ancestral village in China. He was in my great-grandfather's home again and sent me this video with other photos seen below:<br />
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You can hear my friend calling my name and naming my great-grandfather's name Tjong Yong Hian with his Cantonese accent as he is from Hong Kong. The video shows the outside and inside of the home looking different from the above photos when renovation to the home was just starting in Nov 2015 when my friend and I first found the village and home.</b></span></div>
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I looked above and could see the moon in the day light!. Everything seemed so perfect as if the stars and the moon were all present to rejoice on this moment of unification. It was this exact moment that I began to feel the emotions of the reality of where I was. It took me a long time to get here. Along the journey, there were many hills to climb and some times mountains too but no matter how difficult it was, I just remember like riding my bike or running up a hill each time, I just had to keep moving one leg at a time to push or move forward until I reached the final destination.</b></span></div>
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Step by Step is all it takes for anyone like myself, to reach whatever goal we have set our sights on I like to believe. However I cannot deny that along the journey, besides my own strength or determination to carry on, there was a kind of motivation from above. They were spiritual moments where I felt I was being helped or guided in the way to go, with a shining light when I felt lost in darkness, the same way I started my unique life from age 21 recorded at the <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.sg/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank">start</a> of this very blog that carried on to this post today!</b></span></div>
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Two maps provided above to locate the Mansion. Left is the larger map while the right is more detailed</b></span></div>
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Google Earth gives the coordinates of Songkou (松口) village which can be viewed by <a href="https://goo.gl/8lJ27c" target="_blank">clicking here.</a></b></span></div>
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(One can match the photos below the map with the photos of Songkou by the riverside found below to pin point the village by moving the cursor to touch on the matching photo.)</b></span></div>
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Map that shows Songkou town(highest tick mark) by the tributary Meijiang that flows into the Hanjiang river that passes Chaozhao(lowest tick mark) to Shantou(out of map south-easterly) for the open sea in the south. (In the direction of the red arrow markers)</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The beautiful village of Songkou (松口) at the riverside. </span></b></div>
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A Chinese Baidu search description of Songkou in Chinese with translation to English can be read by <a href="http://goo.gl/nfI9WO" target="_blank">clicking here.</a></b></span></div>
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I found Songkou after my years of focused research as shared in this <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2013/08/the-chong-family-history.html" target="_blank">post.</a></b></span></div>
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On this trip, my eyes were focused on this feature of the Hakka architecture to snap old and newer buildings with it. The following pics were taken in Meizhou, the <a href="http://blogs.bootsnall.com/llew/the-hakka-capital-of-the-world.html" target="_blank">Hakka Capital</a> of the world. :<br />
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Xiamen<br />
<br /> After going back to Hong Kong when we finished our first trip that got us to Shentou, Chaozhou and Meizhou, we left Hong Kong again to take a fast train to Xiamen, a port in between Shangai and Shentou. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4bSOjKJKOh778Xg0qkbY446viKaqzecIpCrhPSvmViWTW7XVWGHFnxkQ_Wi8ypNRlQj8A7WqhqT8Ii_VqEucdu8yPRJvPZx9Bc6zyGuafVliQCjk7arCrUq3GBXq9biztcXYq/s5472/DSC08836.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4bSOjKJKOh778Xg0qkbY446viKaqzecIpCrhPSvmViWTW7XVWGHFnxkQ_Wi8ypNRlQj8A7WqhqT8Ii_VqEucdu8yPRJvPZx9Bc6zyGuafVliQCjk7arCrUq3GBXq9biztcXYq/w320-h213/DSC08836.JPG" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>We crossed over from Hong Kong to Shenzhen on the mainland to find <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futian_Checkpoint_station">Futian Checkpoint.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CAwVcqxmi84YE5EVeujmuRIcsVT330QDdAvX2FJbdh7qBv7j9_3r-qtr0qGJuvcVYIkesQyprcDxmm0d62kL9gvUDQrK1Nsq9xfymEo_7LXCuDX-82_MiKtCP4kHq82PH-OP/s5472/DSC08851.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CAwVcqxmi84YE5EVeujmuRIcsVT330QDdAvX2FJbdh7qBv7j9_3r-qtr0qGJuvcVYIkesQyprcDxmm0d62kL9gvUDQrK1Nsq9xfymEo_7LXCuDX-82_MiKtCP4kHq82PH-OP/s320/DSC08851.JPG" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_aHvBUDRoYG_CJaDhEdZ4ZLNokoktszj_xYf5Rx9BUeKTGxItxQhKWpM046yjuNsfBD4W5wQAbYmEXTZoKVxXeyN5Wo-m93x1J1DOsNE98ieu5H34lp1rngbhxe7MxwttUNg8/s1696/Map-ShenzhenToXiamen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="1006" data-original-width="1696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_aHvBUDRoYG_CJaDhEdZ4ZLNokoktszj_xYf5Rx9BUeKTGxItxQhKWpM046yjuNsfBD4W5wQAbYmEXTZoKVxXeyN5Wo-m93x1J1DOsNE98ieu5H34lp1rngbhxe7MxwttUNg8/s320/Map-ShenzhenToXiamen.jpg" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The journey would take about <a href="https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Shenzhen/Xiamen">5 hours</a> by the speed train to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen">Xiamen</a>. From the link of Xiamen, one can find historically interesting information that the former name was Amoy and was the port the British forced China to open up for trade at the end of the Opium war. Under the Qing, both before and after the war, there was a large-scale emigration of Chinese from southern Fujian who spread Hokkien-speaking communities to Singapore, Malaysia (especially in Penang), Indonesia (Medan and Riau Province) and the Philippines.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3_pUijBWS6Lbmv_5FWOIHRAtqm-CAIeUMJl2_Wf9nG8PIBW0Jdhl2f6cpkP8-GS7jAkTwciN9ouu8Iu7APpfTFX3MAtB_jJwy5K_usMJ0CuH8Z1wQcU_yoCY3Tw8sJE3U9hj/s5472/DSC08957.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3_pUijBWS6Lbmv_5FWOIHRAtqm-CAIeUMJl2_Wf9nG8PIBW0Jdhl2f6cpkP8-GS7jAkTwciN9ouu8Iu7APpfTFX3MAtB_jJwy5K_usMJ0CuH8Z1wQcU_yoCY3Tw8sJE3U9hj/s320/DSC08957.JPG" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>We were brought to an observatory tower where we could have a 360 degree view of Xiamen city.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggSxj5Wc-ACAX5d0qqpM90RegGAmoJrGNXEIj2ZDEMhXols9ivdxYxflccxEVnfQc3VWrh7JFNv7p9KQ6NeqGRPRKQ2u-2WhlB34kWTL5UpSdX_BBm0NwEob38KwJRUaw3XJYH/s5472/DSC08964.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggSxj5Wc-ACAX5d0qqpM90RegGAmoJrGNXEIj2ZDEMhXols9ivdxYxflccxEVnfQc3VWrh7JFNv7p9KQ6NeqGRPRKQ2u-2WhlB34kWTL5UpSdX_BBm0NwEob38KwJRUaw3XJYH/s320/DSC08964.JPG" width="320" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Walking to the observatory deck above, we were treated with a display of art work made of sea shells beneath our feet as we walked to the top floor.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/puQ3WLi8D5M?start=1" width="560"></iframe><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVMkqYsPSv2kwIawH6fEvphd52VJv3Qc0pVxvr9cfKwvNuL94t4zUpPCewhv3hh64xYK2m5QQvRvvGEzmYD2LlGwU6QjmVblXN5IvsXfaSRrs0LyJxVwnJxW3q9slP33Ho9w1c/s5472/DSC08988.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVMkqYsPSv2kwIawH6fEvphd52VJv3Qc0pVxvr9cfKwvNuL94t4zUpPCewhv3hh64xYK2m5QQvRvvGEzmYD2LlGwU6QjmVblXN5IvsXfaSRrs0LyJxVwnJxW3q9slP33Ho9w1c/w400-h266/DSC08988.JPG" width="400" /></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Click the <a href="https://www.google.com.my/maps/place/Xiamen,+Fujian,+China/@23.7678466,117.1855512,7.19z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x34148379e5bfeb27:0x28a0670a9668d056!8m2!3d24.479833!4d118.089425">Map</a> to see Xiamen's relative position to Taiwan. The city looks like Singapore or Hong Kong with rapid modern development and skyscrapers. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Gulangyu Island</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Click this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulangyu">link</a> to appreciate the interesting history of this island and it's location <a href="https://www.google.com.my/maps/place/Haoyueyuan/@24.460439,118.0478802,13z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x34148370475cfc6f:0xca52877c0ce50400!8m2!3d24.4418851!4d118.0756205">map</a> before enjoying the photos and videos of our exploration shared below:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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Chengqilou (承啟樓) nicknamed "the king of tulou", of Gaobei Tulou cluster 高北土樓群 at Gaobei Village (Gaotou Township) of Yongding County was built in 1709. Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site 1113-003 in 2008. It is massive round tulou with four concentric rings surrounding an ancestral hall at the center, the outer ring is 62.6 metres in diameter and four storeys tall, 288 rooms, with 72 rooms on each level, circular corridor on 2nd to 4th floor, with four sets of staircases at cardinal points connecting ground to top floors. A large outward extending roof covers the main ring. The ground floor rooms are kitchens for family branches, the second level rooms are grain storage rooms, and the 3rd and 4th floor rooms are living quarters and bedrooms. The second ring of 80 rooms is two storeys high, with 40 rooms on each level, the third ring served as community library, one storey with 32 rooms; there are 370 rooms in all. The 4th ring is a circular covered corridor surrounding the ancestral hall. If a person stayed for one night in each room, it would take him more than a year to go through all the rooms.[12] The ancestral hall is at the centre. Chengqilou has two main gates and two side gates. 15th generation Jiang clan with 57 families and 300 people live here. At its heyday, there were more than 80 family branches lived in Chengqilou. (Source : <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian_Tulou" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)<br />
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Video of the inside of the Chengqilou with a part that has a tour guide speaking in Cantonese.</b></span></div>
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<br /> It was 5.30am in the morning when I woke up in this smaller 'Tulou' where I had spent a very peaceful night, on a harder than normal bed duet to it's hard board below with a thinner mattress, but with the usual good sleep that I've enjoyed all my life. My former mission companion who has been with me throughout my China adventure, sleeping on the other bed, was surprisingly still asleep as he would always be the first to arise early in the morning to do his run. This time I was up first to feel the euphoria on realizing where I was and appreciating how well the whole trip had turned up to be. I got into my shorts and shoes to go out for my run, looking for the nearest mountain or hill to run up!<br />
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I came out of our 'Tulou' to see the moon still up above it on the top left of it.<br />
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I saw some lower hills near by amidst the mountainous landscape that surrounds us in the valley below in the direction of the moon.<br />
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I started heading towards the direction, running pass some women up early doing their laundry...<br />
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... passing by vegetable garden plots among the houses...<br />
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...and seeing some ducklings further up stream from where the women were.<br />
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I found rows of planted <a href="https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=shrubbery&espv=2&biw=2133&bih=1052&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk-4Hv2rnJAhVFOJQKHbbHC_AQsAQIKw&dpr=0.9" target="_blank">shrubbery</a>...</b></span></div>
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...where on closer observation had flowers I recognized in the flower tea that was served in the area different from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum_tea" target="_blank">Chrysanthemum tea</a> I am used to drinking elsewhere.<br />
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Lo and hehold, the side path ended in an open area with a large tomb stone!</b></span></div>
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From the highland area, the bus took us down to Xiamen city to catch our train.</b></span></div>
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Thumbs up and thanks to all who have helped me climb this mountain to find my ancestral village!.</b></span></div>
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Is there a significant meaning of my China adventure trip in seeking my ancestral village that began in this <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2015/11/give-me-this-mountain.html#rw" target="_blank">earlier pos</a>t by following the the railway history of my great grandfather to find the Chao-Chow Swatow railway tracks? As now I get to take a fast-speed train back to the base I started in Hong Kong, making me feel as if the past is closely linked to our future. </b></span></div>
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When wind conditions change, the peak is more visible</b></span></div>
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Here is the two of us again at the end of our China trips, on the last day before I would fly back home. Not bad some would think for a couple of men in their mid 50s to make it up to the peak?</b></span></div>
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Not such a feat really to realize when we met this 'Ah Poh' or Auntie at the peak who is close to 80 years old! She was seen jogging up the peak with her mature son who ran up and down ahead of her! I am simply inspired by her to continue in my life to say, "Give Me This Mountain"!<br />
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The video above was viewed by me in an unearthly hour some time about 3am on Sunday morning. I had suddenly just woken up in bed to get a thought of viewing the early messages coming from the leaders of our Church during General Conference time in Salt Lake City Utah. The prompting must have come because just the night before, I was consoling a member of our Church who was feeling negative on a recent x-ray made that showed a lump in the chest area. I could feel that listening to too many different opinions of well meaning friends and family members at this early stage of the examination was making this member overly concerned leading to negative thoughts of a doom's day occurrence!<br />
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I suggested that since it was Sunday the next day, it may be best to spend time at Church to meditate and pray to feel the spirit of God that may help clear the troubled heart and mind. I also suggested that since this same weekend was General Conference, one could further get revelation from listening to the speakers online who were leaders of the Church whom we call prophets and apostles!<br />
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So I woke up in the middle of my sleep to hear the first speaker of the Saturday morning session in Utah time, as in the video above, to talk about his own medical checkup experience! Wow, let anyone tell me my faith is in vain and that miracles do not occur in these modern times and I will refer the person to my story that started 36 years ago shared in the beginning of this same journal that carried on to this day.</b></span></div>
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At a later time on Sunday morning, I found myself at Church to briefly share the above experience at the fast and testimony meeting in KL branch. By 1pm, Church was over and not too long after I got notification that a family hangout had just started and I joined in with my iPad.</b></span></div>
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It was Su's birthday on Oct 4th, the first of the October babies of our immediate family that we celebrate their birthdays as recorded in this <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2014/10/happy-birthday-october-babies.html" target="_blank">birthday post</a> of the past year. I got to wish Su Happy Birthday right in the Church foyer. She also took time to report on the progress of her baby's development, a girl identified in a recent scan, due to be born in late January next year which could roll over to early February.</b></span></div>
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Another thing that happened during the Sunday school hour worth noting was that the lesson covered the book of Hebrews as this year we are covering the New Testament. It is interesting to note that the whole world in the Church follows a curriculum well laid out to study all the books or scriptures that we recognize as revelations from God through a 4 year rotation program. Thus as I've been a member of the Church for 36 years, I have covered the Standard Works encompassing The Old Testament, The New Testament, The Book of Mormon and The Pearl of Great Price 9 times in total! All the churches throughout the world are in unison for their Sunday school lessons except that the timing might be off a week or two to teach a specific lesson due to scheduling differences that may occur in each unit of the Church. This may be caused by other special meetings planned by local leaders that may disrupt a Sunday School class by postponing the lesson to the following week.</b></span></div>
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Organized manuals for <a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/new-testament-gospel-doctrine-teachers-manual/lesson-37-jesus-christ-the-author-and-finisher-of-our-faith?lang=eng" target="_blank">Teacher</a> and <a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/new-testament-class-member-study-guide/lesson-37-jesus-christ-the-author-and-finisher-of-our-faith?lang=eng" target="_blank">Students</a> are made available through <a href="http://www.lds.org/" target="_blank">www.lds.org</a> website or the 'Gospel Library' apps on smart phones or the iPad. On this Sunday, Lesson 37 was a repeat for me as I was in Kuantan earlier in the meeting group there where the leader Duncan Horne had taught a great lesson even though he admitted at the beginning that he was struggling a little during the preparation time as Hebrews in not an easy scripture to understand based on the writings of the ancient apostle Paul. Reading <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/heb/10?lang=eng" target="_blank">Hebrews Chapter 10</a> is a good example. But the miracle of having the Spirit of God for a small group of members gathered together in the Savior's name in Kuantan occurred when all of us became edified by the spirit present to make the morning's lesson a great success for Duncan! The lesson became centered on faith and Duncan concluded by sharing that while trying to prepare the lesson, he felt the difficulty or challenge of it but nevertheless continued on with faith to just 'Do It' with the result of turning out a great lesson that he didn't expect! He was elated. I was too and was snapping my digital camera of him teaching and close-ups of his well prepared A4 paper illustrations. Then I suddenly realized I didn't have my memory card on the camera but today I've used my faith to recall the experience to write at least a thousand words to replace a picture that I could have shared here!</b></span></div>
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Back to KL Church where they were covering the same lesson on the Hebrews scripture and I raised my hand to comment about faith to the same teacher that I had noted in a <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.my/2015/04/the-role-of-philosophy-religion-and.html#sc" target="_blank">previous post</a> teaching the Sunday class then as today. I would just share my thoughts as the teachers often asked who would like to share their thoughts in class. I shared the following, " I think faith has more to do with our sub-conscious mind then our conscious mind thus making it more powerful than what the world often teach about i.e. to have a positive mind. For example many try to have a positive mind to change their life but fail because their sub conscious mind containing all the negative memories overwhelms their conscious mind trying to think positively. Faith in Jesus Christ is more powerful as the bible alone records that there are over 300 references of how the the spirit works on the mind which I believe is the sub-conscious mind of Man." To be more complete, I believe it works deep even to the Heart of Man so deeply that just being told to think positively cannot match the power to change the Heart and Mind of Man as it did to me. This I have my own life's experience to draw from so that I have supportive evidence that this is true!</b></span></div>
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Things often happen in a timely way which led to my continuing <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2011/03/story-of-7-continuing-into-2011.html" target="_blank">'Story of 7'</a> journal post to remember them.</b></span></div>
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With so many timely things happening within the past 48 hours, the spirit prompted me to shoot out this <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10207754739205989" target="_blank">post on facebook</a>, first with photos only as I can share them faster on photos than writing captions or stories for them.</b></span></div>
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I receive the cake and card from a Staff nurse friend nicknamed 'Didi' working in a nearby KL hospital who may be an answer to my question of who can be my optimal life long companion since my wife passed away coming to 3 years this November. If I never try I guess I will new know, hmmmm.....a '<a href="https://goo.gl/C265qI" target="_blank">What if</a>...?' thought looms in my mind again!</b></span></div>
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Steven Kok, a friend and former junior staff trained in ITC who is today a senior IT team leader in the US, at a timely moment chatted with me on facebook. He wasn't aware it was my birthday about his feelings of growing old as he researched on the 12 apostles and first presidency back when he joined the church in '84 to find that all of them have passed on except 1 which is President Thomas S. Monson, the current prophet of the Church. He didn't know about my birthday then nor this post, as per his chat with me below, and shared a song with me which has a nice tune and very appropriate lyrics! </b></span></div>
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Now in the middle of the year, I was spending time in Kuantan where I had been working on my writings. Jannah or nicked named 'Didi', that I find rhymes to my childhood name of<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sunfu.chong/posts/10207762985212134" target="_blank"> 'Boynie'</a>, was invited to make a short trip to Kuantan. Only the house helper was home then as my brother and wife were on a trip to Eastern Europe. </b></span></div>
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By October at this time, the first one in the family to meet this special person in my life was Shuan who came in to stop over a night in KL on the way to Kuantan. I explained who she was and we had lunch with her near the hospital where she worked before we left for Kuantan. Next to get the news personally was my brother when I told him the next morning over breakfast that a young staff nurse friend I was going out with surprised me with a birthday cake and showed him the card I had received. I explained that she was interested to be my life long companion and the writings of her card confirmed it. His response took me by surprise when he asked suddenly, "Can I stand in for you?" I was stunned for a few seconds and then he broke the silence by a laughter to ask if I didn't catch the joke? I responded that it did sound like a joke but I was just taken by surprise that he would crack a joke with me as he was usually a more serious person. I guess that was his humorous way to congratulate me to find a young staff nurse that would be interested in a long term relationship with me.</b></span></div>
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Shuan had agreed to spend a month in Kuantan from Singapore to be here to accompany my brother as the house helper was returning home for a month's vacation while his wife was away in Australia to be back only later in the month and I had to spend more time in KL for business meetings and following up with my Didi on our future plans!</b></span></div>
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This is the start of our story which 'Didi and Boynie' have termed to be 'The Longest Ride', the title of a movie we had watched independently of each other besides Superman's Man of Steel movie. She just happened to wear a tee shirt of Superman one day, different from the one I had, when we went out to a movie together and I bought one from a stall close by to match hers as seen in the above photo. This story is to be continued in <a href="http://goo.gl/1ZNEAl" target="_blank">another post</a> depicting the start of my new life with Didi and how we would embark on 'The Longest Ride' together as we had contemplated it for some time now.</b></span></div>
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On 26th June 2015, the United States Supreme court made a decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the USA which also becomes law in Canada as I understand. I wasn't aware of this news when I was away in Kuantan on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. But the news came to me in a strange way through social media very early in the morning of <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2015/06/happenings-in-kuantan-after-i-return.html#ms2" target="_blank" title="More Spiritual experiences">1 July, Month 7 of the year!</a> <br />
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My response then was more a concern of why my good American friend and potential business partner today Carlos made a bold declaration that he would leave his Church and never come back again after listening to his pastor speak in a way that he felt was oppressive to the gays and lesbians especially in the United States, the land of the free! I spent some time to critique and gave my comments to what he had published, from one writer to another as an exercise of improving our craftsmanship of the written word if one may call it.<br />
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Then my good Aussie friend Murray who brought me out surfboard paddling at <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2014/11/visiting-australia-again-with-lots-of.html#tq" target="_blank" title="Torquay Beach with Murray Ceff">Torquay Beach</a> in the Aussie summer last year had messaged me on facebook the following :<br />
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He invited me to a group to address the 'Marriage Equality' question and while I was driving, I told him I would do it 'shortly' and that was on July 12th. I had just finished entertaining a visitor friend in Kuantan over the weekend. It is 9 days later that I'm beginning to respond to him as I had to do another one of my criss-cross trip from Kuantan to KL to be caught up with meetings and preparations in the early stage of launching a new business in North America that will spread to the rest of the world. </b></span></div>
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Furthermore, it was a controversial topic that started quite a long time ago by an increasing number of people trying to get same-sex marriages to be recognized by the law and given equal status to the traditional marriage. I thought I could handle the topic easier after doing the critique/commentary of the article published by Carlos but I soon realized it was now a more specific focus with the decision whether I am for or against same-sex marriage! I needed to fast to draw more inspiration to craft my words so that it may not offend anyone but I was too busy running around to do it so I just prayed for inspiration and it came.<br />
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I was reminded that it was something to do with the ancient philosophy of the existence of the Body Mind and Spirit of Man which I had unraveled by some coincidence when I was in New York City in <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.com/2011/07/introduction-fastlane-is-about-mind.html" target="_blank" title="The Mind and New York City experience">October 2005.</a> It was from there that I created a simple table of words divided into a table of 3 columns to symbolize the 3 pillars of life perhaps that I had perceived but didn't invent as it has been passed on from ancient history or philosophy. "The relationship between body and spirit, or body and mind, has always been one of the most puzzling questions in the history of human experience and self-reflection." This is the opening line of a 9-page article written by Philip van der Eijk who is the Research Professor of Greek at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne which can be read <a href="https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Philip%20van%20der%20Eijk%20Body%20and%20Spirit%20in%20Greek%20medicine%20and%20philosophyx.pdf" target="_blank" title="‘Body and Spirit in Greek medicine and philosophy’">here.</a><br />
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Recently I've added some descriptive statements to my <a href="http://familylane.info/personal#p3" target="_blank" title="3 Pillars of Man">original</a> table of words to create a <a href="http://familylane.info/3pillars/" target="_blank" title="3 Pillars of Man">new</a> version compatible with mobile phones of today. Click the 'new' link to see how I have created a simplified table that can fit into a tiny smartphone with minimum words to understand the philosophy of the Body, Mind, and Spirit with its respective roles or purposes. It started with just words and words are all we have in writing which I scribbled on a napkin in the New York cafe. From there I began to feel the relevance and meaning of words and became more adept in metaphorical thinking as if I was acquiring a new skill of communication that has multi-sensory attributes. It improved as I progressively worked on writing in my three different websites and blogs of Familylane, Fastlane and Spiritlane. In writing this post, I would click on my cell phone the new site for reference to ensure that what I write here is consistent with the concepts perceived in the metaphorical table with a screenshot seen below. Clicking it will open up the website in a new tab in your browser :<br />
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How did this dilemma come about? This is due to:<br />
1. The drive of the <span style="color: red;">Body</span> for some have sexual feelings for another of the same sex. These individuals have been classified in a group with the acronym <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT" target="_blank" title="LBGT">LGBT</a> that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.<br />
2. The human <span style="color: blue;">Mind</span> began to identify the group with the LGBT label just like how different species or things in life are named and classified. The mind also creates laws to ensure justice and fairness to members of society.<br />
3. The <span style="color: lime;">Spirit </span>of man, however, is a different element altogether. It is the 3rd pillar of our being that is made of a far more refined element that aspires man to believe in heavenly values, therefore, causing different reactions to the laws made by man.<br />
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What we have is a situation that those who FEEL with their BODY(EQ) sensations, love for another of the same sex, have influenced legal men to THINK with their MIND(IQ) to make the judgment and hence the law that makes same-sex marriage legal or equal to the traditional marriage of a man and a woman. This judgment is perceived by those who BELIEVE with their SPIRIT(SQ) in higher values that may respond differently to the law made by man.<br />
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One could say that the judgment may cause many to follow the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law!<br />
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I was the pure science and math student at school, even though I graduated in business school, possessing a polished language based on logic and evidence. That is why I thought I could understand anyone and anything by using my learned man's approach until I first encountered the world of spirituality and love relationship with the opposite sex. Why so? Well as a Chinese born in a conservative family, spirituality was only a ritual done on certain festive days taught by my mother with no teachings of divinity while my father believed primarily in education and hard work. So in short, spirituality to me then was only a ritual practiced due to respect of customs while love relationships were equated to parental love of guiding, caring, providing material things as well as education.<br />
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So coming close to adulthood, I felt I was the happiest man in the world as I had achieved everything my parents had expected of me. I was ready to embark on a happy and successful life ahead of me. Neither spirituality or love from the opposite sex was in my radar screen for the near future.<br />
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(Something just happened to my windows 8 notebook as it just turned black as if there was a power failure! Luckily with Chrome browser's ability to restore every tab of the browser I was working on, which is usually far too many, I could recover everything that was saved up to the point of the blackout. I just lost a couple of unsaved paragraphs on this post which led me to new thoughts to save me from straying away from the topic of this post that I was starting to stray away from! This is seen as just another spiritual blessing in my life!)<br />
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Writing a journal is indeed a kind of spiritual practice and this started when my life changed totally after my spiritual conversion. This is actually the blog containing details of where, when, why, who, what and how it all started, progressively recorded from the <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank" title="1st post of the Spiritlane blog">1st post</a> to current day if anyone was curious to read.<br />
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One of the new thoughts NOW I have is that I just realized in reviewing my history that I now can appreciate why some may miss out the third spiritual element of life if they were born in similar circumstances as mine. Also if they had found spiritual practices or beliefs, the modern world of openness, freedom, and democracy today provides a wide array of choices. Even major religions of the world have within themselves many splinter groups or breakaways from the original itself. As I have shared in my <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-spirituality-behind-stories-i-write.html#sp" target="_blank" title="The Spirituality behind the stories I write...">writings</a>, spirituality today may also not necessarily refer to God or religion.<br />
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The other thought I have is that at the age 21 of adulthood and a couple of years after that, I did not fully appreciate or understand the need of romantic love from a woman which is the motivation behind traditional marriages between and man and a woman. So when I see single men and women who never married but live fulfilled lives without a soulmate, I am not surprised at the outcome. However, when members of the LGBT find intimate partners of the same sex, it does make me wonder. My first experience of knowing a gay friend was with a close college mate in Australia that loved to dance at the discotheque with me in the seventies. I learned that in his later years at college, he was spending time with the high-class society of lawyers and accountants who were gay and from there he justified that being gay is perfectly fine!<br />
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Then in my business life, there was two male staff whom everyone felt were gay as there was a senior masculine male who hired a more feminine male in the same department. We respected that they were different and most staff just accepted them on the grounds that they performed well at work and were friendly and cooperative to everyone including customers and colleagues.<br />
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This reminded me of the time when my wife and I were in Lake Tahoe jeeping around North Western USA. We were sitting by the lakeside that was crowded with people and right behind me was an elderly couple minding two boys, probably their grandchildren playing with sand close to us and I could hear their conversations. The two boys about 10 to 11 years of age were chatting and giggling about gay people. Soon grandma called them to come to her and she basically pulled them close to her and said words to this effect that I still remember vividly, "Now boys, we shouldn't talk and laugh about the men you two are talking about as what they do in the privacy of their own home is none of our business!" Much later I talked to my wife about the experience to say this is how America raise their young to be color blind as well as blind to anyone who is sexually different too! This was in 2004.<br />
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Another experience to share is one of our Church member friends from overseas emailed her personal thoughts as the mother of a daughter who was about to be married to another woman. Basically, she experienced the dilemma of whether to attend the wedding or not as attendance could be interpreted as her support for same-sex marriage but her absence might reflect that she did not have unconditional love for her daughter! If my memory serves me right, she did attend the wedding but did communicate to her daughter that she personally didn't feel what she was doing was right!<br />
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<br /> The inspiration I sought for in writing this post is clear. It would be difficult for anyone to come to a conclusion or make a stand that would satisfy all parties. Why so? Take the gospel of Jesus Christ for example. A special spirit sent to earth in a physical body to suffer and die for Man's sins, called the atonement so that they can be forgiven and not face the punishment. It was not easy for Man to understand or believe this. A young girl once asked a minister, teaching her the simple principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, "Why would a loving Father in Heaven or God allow his only beloved son to suffer so much and die on the cross to save Man? Couldn't he, as God the Father with all the powers of the universe, find another way to pardon Man for his sins? The minister responded, "Who taught you to ask me these questions?"<br />
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The principle as I understand it is that whoever God is must be someone very perfect and whose power is his honor. God would never lie nor deceive others as if he did that, he would never qualify to be God. So if God had created his laws on earth to judge our faithfulness or obedience saying for every law we obey we are blessed and for every law we break we must suffer its consequences, he must be consistent in administering his laws. He would also give man total freedom to choose for himself else Man cannot be held accountable for his own actions. It is therefore not possible for God to lie or change from what he had said. If he did that, he will lose his honor which is his power. The result is that he could never waive the consequences from those who broke the law as this will tantamount to unfairness to all the other spirit children of God who will demand justice. (While preparing this post, I came to know China's Chairman Mao understood this concept in a <a href="https://goo.gl/r44W0O" target="_blank">letter</a> he wrote for the execution of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Murder_Beside_Yanhe_River" target="_blank">Huang Gedong</a>.) One can see the role of a 3rd element or party involved in the redemption process i.e. the lawgiver, the sinner, and the savior or advocate.<br />
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Another example of a dilemma solved by having a 3rd party is the demands of mercy by a debtor to his creditor when the debtor fails to repay his creditor. The creditor responded that if he showed mercy to the debtor for not paying his debt on time, who would give him justice as the debtor had promised to return the debt but failed to do so. A 3rd party comes along to see the problem and offers to pay the creditor for the sum owed by the debtor thus satisfying his demand for justice. As he does this, he has also satisfied the demands of mercy from the debtor and would be fair that he is able to impose conditions for this merciful act. The 3rd party can demand from the debtor that he obeys his will and follow him.<br />
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(Postdated talk assignment on 29 April 2018 on "The Atonement - Love and the Law" that gives a more detailed answer to the question asked by a young girl above can be found <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2018/04/atonement-love-and-law.html?fbclid=IwAR13gejn7gkwPGYhZVn2bZGZxu9-juhqjF7w7AjKGkB3104AuB6vOBYqbO0">here.</a>)<br />
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I have, after my conversion, always believed that marriage is a sacred covenant between a man and a woman with God as the 3rd element in that covenant to make it a marriage with eternal blessings to look forward to. When children come, as a process that I believe that God too has a hand in it, a family is created which brings blessings of joy and happiness both to parents and the children, not forgetting the contribution that the family can make to their community or society. I am just an ordinary man who first didn't even understand what is the spirit of God or the love of a woman and merely by an exercise of faith, did my best to follow these beliefs that the 3rd element has given me comfort and peace to accept. What is the result? I've done my best to record our truthful joys and sorrows as a family, without offence to anyone, at <a href="http://familylane.info/" target="_blank" title="Familylane for Desktop">www.familylane.info</a> for traditional desktop views and at <a href="http://familylane.info/photolinks" target="_blank" title="Familylane for Mobiles">www.familylane.info/photolinks</a> for latest mobile views that I'm following the letter of the technical law to produce them but not the spirit of it as it is not my preference to be seen looking down on my phone especially when I am with another unless it is for important messages.<br />
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Am I for or against the laws making same-sex marriage equal to traditional marriage?<br />
<br /> I am going to respond to my friend Murray now by sending off this post to him in facebook with my apologies for being late and giving him a possibly incomplete comment post as I have been a busy man crisscrossing between Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Kuantan with multi-tasking activities in the past couple of months. I may complete this post somewhere in my journey on the way to the US and Canada to meet my potential male partner, in business i.e., Carlos E. Jean-Gilles for a possible exciting new <a href="http://goo.gl/JtGo3o" target="_blank">venture</a> for both of us! If you already know the answer to the above question in bold, it may not be necessary for me to add any more words to this post. Thanks, Murray for asking me to comment and for hearing me out through my usual way of writing my views in a blog post with its related links.<br />
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I cried watching several of the videos on this <a href="http://mormonsandgays.org/" target="_blank" title="Mormons and Gays">website.</a> <br />
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<i>To be continued if necessary!</i><br />
<i><br /></i> Of course it is necessary as the reader with a trained western mind would wonder what is the conclusion or my opinion of the law especially if the reader may have read my very long post, with its corresponding links, and may still be found guessing which side of the fence am I at or may conclude that I have decided to be a fence sitter like many Asians tend to be as some felt of the <a href="http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/compassionate_or_confusing_the_dalai_lama_on_same_sex_marriage" target="_blank" title="The Dalai Lama on same-sex marriage">Dalai Lama</a> with his comments. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2015/04/12/why-hasnt-gay-marriage-caught-on-in-east-asia/" target="_blank" title="Article in Forbes magazine">East Asia</a> definitely has cultures and traditions different from the Western world which may be the reason why they have been slow to jump to adopt such controversial laws America has come up with. It is interesting to note that China with its long history of an ancient civilization that has just opened up to the world could show only a rare existence of family relationships that is different from the norm where a matriarchal order exists with women from the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/19/china-mosuo-tribe-matriarchy" target="_blank" title="China's Mosuo tribe">Mosuo</a> tribe do not marry, take as many lovers as they wish and have no word for "father" or "husband".<br />
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I am against the law of marriage of the same sex. Reason? For my life at the 'better late than never' time or age when I was just turning to the legal full adult of age 21, was touched by the 3rd element or Spirit. Not only is it just a one-time incident to completely change my life and thinking with regards to Spirituality, but spiritual events also continued to this day as recorded on this blog post and another coined by me, the journal writer, as The <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2011/03/story-of-7-continuing-into-2011.html" target="_blank" title="Story of 7">Story of 7.</a> <br />
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As a result I can only testify that Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of a Heavenly Father and most likely a Mother too, is for real and forgiveness of sins for our mistakes or breaking of his divine laws is possible based upon the basic principles and ordinances of the gospel which includes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, repentance, baptism and receiving the Holy Spirit as the comforter. Now I have also <a href="http://familylane.info/personal/" target="_blank" title="My Heart and Mind">declared</a> that I am one who cannot deny that "I have received great spiritual experiences but despite this, much is still a mystery. '<a href="https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/julene-butler_see-as-we-are-seen/" target="_blank">For now we see through a glass, darkly;</a>' and I believe I must continue to remain open-minded and respectful of the different faiths and beliefs that others have."<br />
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Besides my spiritual knowledge with long rich experiences during my sojourn on earth, my secular knowledge also gives me concern about how the new law will further cause the decline of human progress on this earth. As communities become more civil in creating and obeying the laws of the land, this new law to accept same sex marriage equal to traditional marriage will lead to more <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2014/10/happiness-with-more-options.html" target="_blank" title="Daniel Kahneman, author of THINKING, FAST & SLOW">'systematic errors'</a> in thinking of Man as already evidenced in human history.<br />
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With all that I have shared sincerely from my life's intellectual and spiritual learning with its accompanying experiences, I reiterate again my stand that I am against the law of same sex marriage recently announced in the United States. I also like to add that for those in the LGBT classification, I stand for them to be respected as children of God who must be accorded fair rights for their welfare and human decency needs which is in no way contrary to the spiritual laws that already have been revealed by prophets past and present of this world. I would welcome them in my home or our Church like any other imperfect beings, to learn together with me the true teachings of our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ. They can always also enjoy my personal and sincere friendship and love.<br />
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<br />I would also share with them what qualified medical doctors such as Paul McHugh, who spent forty years as the University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School have to say<a href="http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/" target="_blank"> here.</a><br />
<br /> On the topic of same-sex marriage, I am reminded of the visit of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wilkins_(law)#cite_note-12" target="_blank">Richard Wilkins</a> with the photo I took with him in Oct 2004 in Kuala Lumpur, holding a book of which he was a co-author entitled, "A Sacred Duty". Click his name with a link to learn of his life's work.<br />
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The book is about his journey as a BYU law professor to defend the world's families based on his 1996 participation in an international conference on the family at Istanbul. This is just after the Church had issued 'The Family, a Proclamation to the World' in September 1995. (This proclamation was read by President Gordon B. Hinckley as part of his message at the General Relief Society Meeting held September 23, 1995, in Salt Lake City, Utah.)<br />
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I learnt from him how in these United Nations' organized conferences that certain Non-Government Organisations(NGOs) who are are pro-same-sex marriage were attempting to influence the change in the definition of a family from the traditional view of one that is made up of a mother and father in order to justify legalizing same-sex marriage eventually in their own country. His emphasis in the conference was, therefore, the importance of language in UN policy statements as if not worded accurately may wrongly influence or be used to influence local legislation accordingly.</b></span></div>
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<br /> For the first time in the history of the Church, a new President appointed to lead the Church, Russell M. Nelson, has a live broadcast to the world found<a href="https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/russell-m-nelson-17th-church-president?cid=HP_TU_16-1-2018_dPAD_fMNWS_xLIDyL1-A_" target="_blank"> here</a>.<br />
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Since I started writing journals formally in 1979, when I finished my tertiary education and was embarking into spiritual education to make my life complete or optimal, I began to appreciate the passing of time. Time is only measured by Man as in the eternities with an eternal perspective of a never-ending life, continuity of my thoughts over time seems necessary to add to the understanding I've gained at an earlier time which progressively increases and I must also write these down as a continuing perspective of my Spiritual Quotient SQ which is the last frontier of Man after IQ and EQ. My Life Long Learning and continual research in Human Consciousness led me to the thoughts and works of Dr. Jordan Peterson. Listen to his views on this equality issue amidst protests of these young liberals in an established <a href="https://www.queensu.ca/" target="_blank">Queen's University</a> in Canada :<br />
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About how to be happy, to be chirpy in the morning of a brand new day</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
To rejoice with the rays of the sun, to soar in the sky</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
Enjoying the freedom of movement, and the feeling of flight</span><br />
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What could they share with us?</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
About beauty and courtship, about the art of love and nature</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
To know how to twitter sweet words to each other, to know how to love</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
Rejoicing in beauty and going with the flow</span><br />
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What If...Birds could Talk?</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
To tell how they learned to build a nest and to choose where they would build it?</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
That they can sometimes be so close to the humans they have watched</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
As if they have lessons to teach us, allowing themselves to be watched instead</span><br />
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What do they know about parenting?</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
That the mother bird could keep the eggs warm enough till they hatch</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
While father bird stays close by to protect the nest and hunts for food when the eggs hatch</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
To take turns to feed the birdlings, who eventually grow feathers and leave the nest</span><br />
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What If...Birds could Talk?</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
What can they tell us about Humans, of why we can't synchronize with each other?</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
Wanting to be free but unable to work together in perfect harmony</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
Wishing to learn from the birds to have perfect formations, moving with speed to get everyone there</span><br />
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Why are they symbolic of peace?</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
The Spirit of God descended like a dove so that Man can be at peace, to love one another</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
To teach us there is abundance, and not to hoard more that prevents others to have enough</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">
This is the truth of life on earth, that the birds remind us without a word uttered, just its coo will do.</span><br />
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Inspired by the Bird Stories <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.sg/2005/05/bird-story.html" target="_blank" title="Bird Story 1">1,</a> <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/08/bird-story-continued.html" target="_blank" title="Bird Story 2">2,</a> <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2005/02/the-bird-story-photos-on-chinese-new.html" target="_blank" title="Bird Story 3">3,</a> <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2011/05/unstoppable-mom-hospitalized-but.html#bs" target="_blank" title="Bird Story 4">4,</a> <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2015/05/happenings-in-singapore-after-i.html" target="_blank" title="Bird Story 5">5,</a> <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2015/06/happenings-in-kuantan-after-i-return.html#bs" target="_blank" title="Bird Story 6">6</a> and <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2015/06/happenings-in-kuantan-after-i-return.html#kl" target="_blank" title="Bird Story 7">7</a></span></b> <br />
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The above facebook post is now shared in two other blog posts of mine. One as an event to kick off the new year of 2017 found <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2017/01/1-quarter-post-of-new-year-of-2017.html" target="_blank">here</a> and the other to be classified as a sort of miracle and is therefore included in my continuing story of 7 journal post found <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2011/03/story-of-7-continuing-into-2011.html" target="_blank">here.</a></b></span></center><center style="text-align: left;"><br /></center>
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Being Monday, after Sunday, I did my laundry in the morning and took out the machine washed clothes to dry out on the balcony. The KL apartment doesn't have a dryer like in our Singapore home which I call the 'boys camp' that is on the ground floor. I came out and saw the most amazing thing I've never seen before in all the years I've lived in this apartment. Two birds were sitting at the top rung of the clothes hanger at the end of the balcony. Now I wished I could have taken a pic of them but when I came out, they saw me and were frightened off to fly away immediately.</b></span></center>
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Now just a few days earlier I saw lots of birds flying in the air by the forest. I actually spoke out to the birds, as if one of them would be the bird that I had saved in the story above, to invite the bird back to the familiar balcony that it had spent a night in January of the year! I was disappointed that none came by as I had my camera waiting and anticipating. I didn't know it took a few days for those two birds to appear but it caught my surprise and didn't have my camera ready. However, my multi-sensory mind, writing this portion of the blog post on Friday, Aug 11 can realize the appearance of the two birds was a preamble to related events over the week. I merely have to capture my facebook posts of significant events this week to embed them below :</b></span></center>
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On Monday over lunch itself, I managed to have my good friend be introduced to a 'yellow bird' indeed that was indeed a most pleasant company to us as seen in the pic below who has been a guest of mine in my <a href="https://vimeo.com/185114462" target="_blank">TalkLane interview.</a></b></span></center><center style="text-align: left;"><br /></center>
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I had chosen Kuala Lumpur to be my base of writing my book and inspiration is high as I do my writing work in the apartment. It's a forest outside and a very inspiring scenery to look out from the balcony as per the video below:</b></span></center><center style="text-align: left;"><br /></center>
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I recall as a small child by my mother's side who was packing the suitcase for my Dad, then a district land surveyor of the Government Survey Department, who had to travel town to town in Malaysia to supervise the surveyors throughout the country. My mother remarked in Hokkien dialect, "Lang siang ka Chiao" meaning "Man is like a Bird" adding "Chi meh chi peng, ko chi meh oh peng" meaning "One night here. another night over there" with reference to each night that he would be in another town. She had to pack sufficient attire for my Father for each of the night or day that he would be spending on his trip! Little did I know then that in my life, I will be like a bird too in terms of travel as shared in this new <a href="https://explorerlane.blogspot.com/2021/09/introduction-to-this-explorelane-journal.html">ExploreLane journal</a> that has a lot more places to be updated over time!</b></span></center><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">28 May 2020</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Another bird, a special one, came to visit me during the COVID-19 pandemic of our world history!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizwoucxJQQJY8tReLqKzW76U-iattaFeoo3KKk-W-yAjd1iIgkB_Q365kFKmXIGrZAXKcwbRq5gwpa-vqvEMb8LApimyK54mm6bDA3dzkRqV8E5m1jZte9rJPNL3egawAwOZ0/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="4864" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgizwoucxJQQJY8tReLqKzW76U-iattaFeoo3KKk-W-yAjd1iIgkB_Q365kFKmXIGrZAXKcwbRq5gwpa-vqvEMb8LApimyK54mm6bDA3dzkRqV8E5m1jZte9rJPNL3egawAwOZ0/w400-h300/P1100279.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwSfqWoxXo7v5xi6r9tRG2ofB9yAxpRchPexvCoBPx6gpLi7KUT-4cB_UZAduI8gdIqGLU304YSJIiYS60nAChaNrRM0DKThZl_zUsEXBJVpsMzFD19SkLQYyXEyOUdsCc2WAW/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="4864" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwSfqWoxXo7v5xi6r9tRG2ofB9yAxpRchPexvCoBPx6gpLi7KUT-4cB_UZAduI8gdIqGLU304YSJIiYS60nAChaNrRM0DKThZl_zUsEXBJVpsMzFD19SkLQYyXEyOUdsCc2WAW/w400-h300/P1100288.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTewTkB-ahX5RESlQqIifLH0ca9Paoh_mBJUDadvyf8qvZE93z09sbUqFyb0XqoI8yfA3KJt2dEVYRkhHHwf-dJKm3V27jpL5Guj1PostQwAvNSvfcgkGFskWSeyGr6tvvrbVQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="4864" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTewTkB-ahX5RESlQqIifLH0ca9Paoh_mBJUDadvyf8qvZE93z09sbUqFyb0XqoI8yfA3KJt2dEVYRkhHHwf-dJKm3V27jpL5Guj1PostQwAvNSvfcgkGFskWSeyGr6tvvrbVQ/w400-h300/P1100290.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRtVmyiiuftXyB7StbOC01-ZrTYRUnUsxoyrx_CnpIYY8OKQwkFr9tKG1ANFqy2gl2d8JdXLk_-7ZyO7SBkdNaZQWvZud1OFUo1F3odRf1uKVxVV-y1VBpIvxsLOnkH6MC5Wc/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="4864" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNRtVmyiiuftXyB7StbOC01-ZrTYRUnUsxoyrx_CnpIYY8OKQwkFr9tKG1ANFqy2gl2d8JdXLk_-7ZyO7SBkdNaZQWvZud1OFUo1F3odRf1uKVxVV-y1VBpIvxsLOnkH6MC5Wc/w400-h300/P1100294.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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I am reminded that my life has been one full of experience with plenty of exercises in multi-tasking over my life time. Writing this post has an embedded hope to help me fulfill several of the tasks I have accumulated pertaining to my writing vocation that I have chosen in the latter-years of my life. I can only completely explain how the content of this post will help me fulfill all my other writing tasks after I have successfully filled it with content right? haha It also reflects the great faith I have in fasting to help me fulfill the challenge of writing this post as I did start a personal fast myself that began on Friday night to end after I delivered a talk on the Law of Fast in KL branch on Sunday as assigned by the branch presidency.<br />
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In the past three weeks, I have been bogged down in Kuala Lumpur before planning to return to Singapore after having spent about 10 days up north in Penang earlier. Many are amazed how mobile a person I am and this may only seem more obvious today to others due to the existence of social media technology on the internet of which I am an active contributor of content in stories, photos and videos. To the few who remarked directly to me in person about my mobility when they do meet me, my usual response is that this has been the mark of my life since I was younger and I guess I have consistently carried on this philosophy of travel as seen in the map of all the places I've been in the world found <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.my/2014/11/my-travelogue-through-time-places-and.html" target="_blank">here.</a><br />
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The key word, philosophy, applied even in my travels as mentioned earlier, has great significance in my life to make me who I am today. Why philosophy? In the words of C.E.M Joad , " Because it is concerned with the study of value or good, philosophy offers a medicine for the sickness of the age. It is not merely that the inquiries which it pursues are in themselves satisfying and noble. More important is the fact that in following them we come to see meanings which were previously denied, and to apprehend values which have hitherto been ignored.<br />
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It is difficult to conceive a greater service which could be rendered to the age. Surveying the contemporary world, one is almost tempted to say that any meaning is better than none, any values, even false ones, than the denial that values exist. For those who deny the values of life are apt to find that their lives are without value. A life without objectives, a life unregulated by principle, a life inspired by no dominating purpose, is not only a bored and a boring life, but a tired and a tiring life. Those who have a zest for living are in general those whose lives are inspired by a purpose, who are convinced of certain truths, and who conceive certain ends to be supremely worth while. In the interests of this purpose, in the service of these truths, in pursuit of these ends, they are prepared to make sacrifices, to forgo immediate delights, to discipline their desires, to sharpen their faculties and train their bodies. By these means they capture incidentally that which is denied to those who seek it directly, the secret of the enjoyment of living. If we are always feasting and never fasting, our feasting loses its savor ; yet there can be no motive for fasting unless there is a belief in something which makes fasting worth while. Even if the object of our endeavour is to discover ourselves, it is an object that can best be realized by losing ourselves in that which is greater than the self." (From his book PHILOSOPHY FOR OUR TIMES)</b></span><div id="to"> </div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br />
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On Sunday morning of 19 April 2015 I woke up to find a facebook message from my oldest brother Sun Yit who referred me to a book of his friend entitled "GOD and MAN." It was a book that took him 5 years to research. Being internet savvy, I quickly found his webpage with his name Tony Yeap and the title of his book. From the webpage I got his email address and used it to find his facebook page. I immediately sent him a message as follows :<br />
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"Hi Tony, Sun Yit is my oldest brother who informed me about your book GOD and MAN. Being an internet savy youngest brother of his I searched your name and found your webpage and read briefs about your book and your discoveries at <a href="http://godandman.biz/contact.html" target="_blank" title="GOD and MAN website of Tony Yeap">http://godandman.biz/contact.html.</a> <br />
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It's Sunday morning and I'm rushing out to give a talk at my Church and thought I'll just quickly share with you my true story that started from 1979 to 2015 which begins on my blog post here : <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank" title="A silent testimony to the world">http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html</a> <br />
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He told me you will be in Penang with him in the first week of May. I hope to meet you some time to collaborate our life's knowledge and experience together which would be quite interesting I would say.<br />
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Bye for now"<br />
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For this talk, I started a fast from Friday evening to obtain the spirit to speak to the KL branch and will report on this later. This spiritual blog post has become a live reporting of the progress of my spirituality at this time of my life inspired by the Spirit of God.<br />
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<i><br /></i> At Church I presented my talk based on my preparation with extracts from Church publication and my personal testimony inspired by the holy spirit. With the wonderful resource of the church website at <a href="https://www.lds.org/" target="_blank" title="LDS website">www.lds.org</a> I shared some highlights from the talk of Joseph B, Wirthlin Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on "The Law of the Fast" where the full text and even a video of his talk can be viewed <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2001/04/the-law-of-the-fast?lang=eng" target="_blank" title="The Law of the Fast">here.</a> <br />
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"In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, <span style="background-color: yellow;">members are encouraged to fast whenever their faith needs special fortification and to fast regularly once each month on fast day.</span> On that day, we go without eating or drinking for two consecutive meals, commune with our Heavenly Father, and contribute a fast offering to help the poor. The offering should be at least equal to the value of the food that would have been eaten. Typically, the first Sunday of each month is designated as fast Sunday. On that day, members who are physically able are encouraged to fast, pray, bear witness to the truthfulness of the gospel, and pay a generous fast offering.<br />
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We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it’s simply going hungry. If we want our fasting to be more than just going without eating, we must lift our hearts, our minds, and our voices in communion with our Heavenly Father. Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful. It can fill our minds with the revelations of the Spirit. It can strengthen us against times of temptation."<br />
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I highlighted that members can fast more than the regular once a month fast on the first Sunday of the month as I had done since last Friday night, noting though that our purpose of fasting should not be to impress others. The Lord counseled : "Morever when ye fast, be not, as hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast."<br />
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I brought laughter from the congregation to say that in as much as I had mentioned of my special fast over the weekend for this talk, I did not show a sad countenance at all! Indeed I believe in the power and miracle of the fast that there are times when I've fasted longer to experience some little miracles and clarity of mind as recorded in a previous post <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-body-mind-and-spirit-of-man.html" target="_blank" title="Body Mind Spirit and the MH370 connection">here</a> but I did not mention this in my talk. I did however quote scripture from the Book of Mormon highlighting that through fasting and prayers we can learn of truth for ourselves :<br />
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"Behold, I say unto you they are made known unto me by the Holy Spirit of God. Behold, I have fasted and prayed many days that I might know these things of myself. And now I do know of myself that they are true; for the Lord God hath made them manifest unto me by his Holy Spirit; and this is the spirit of revelation which is in me." <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/5.46?lang=eng#45" target="_blank" title="Alma 5:46">(Alma 5:46)</a><br />
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I shared my testimony that it was from fasting and prayers that helped me gain my knowledge of truth and attain the spiritual understanding of many things that made me who I am today since I joined the Church in July 1979. Philosophies and religions may be many and confusing in this world and I believe through fasting and prayers, we can get clarity, understanding and a witness of what we know is the truth when we receive them.<br />
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My thoughts then turned to content from The Gospel and the Productive Life Teacher Manual Religion 150, with the title, "Seek Learning by Study and by Faith", found <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/the-gospel-and-the-productive-life-teacher-manual-2018/chapter-10?lang=eng" target="_blank" title="Seek Learning by Study and by Faith">here.</a> <br />
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I wanted to highlight our Church principles in education which is aptly covered in the Introduction section of the manual :<br />
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"The Lord taught that we should seek learning, even by study and also by faith' <a _blank="" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.118?lang=eng#117" title="The Doctrine and Covenants">(D&C 88:118).</a> As we seek both spiritual and secular knowledge the Lord will bless us. Education is a key to opportunity and should become a lifetime endeavor. It can prepare us to support our families and contribute to the Church and community. Help students understand the need to take advantage of opportunities to improve themselves and further their education. There are always exciting new truths to learn and share with others."<br />
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In reading the Principles to Understand, I highlighted the following and shared it with the congregation :<br />
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"•We should seek knowledge and wisdom.<br />
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•The Lord will guide us to areas of learning that will help us better serve others.<br />
•Learning is a lifetime endeavor."<br />
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Reviewing the principles taught in this manual, it referred to a favorite chapter in the scripture of mine that our Church uses i.e. Section 88 of our scripture from modern revelation of our living prophets we call Doctrines and Covenants where verse 118 was quoted as the title of the manual as given in the reference above. During my talk, in my introduction, I pointed out that I was a show and tell speaker, to bring out my manual books of scriptures on that day.<br />
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....that is it wonderful, I use them thoroughly from computers to tablets and gadgets but the problem is when the energy source is depleted, I am grateful that I have my manual book and scriptures with me. I showed them the well marked scriptures I had with me that were the ones I had used during my mission in 1980-82 and the pages well marked as seen in the 1st photo are from Section 88.<br />
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A little more about this 'energy' source later but meanwhile my focus is on the law of the Fast and the spiritual knowledge we can derive from it and will talk about other secular knowledge we should acquire! Let's read Doctrine and Covenants 88:77-80 by clicking <a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/88.77-80?lang=eng#76" target="_blank" title="Section 88:77-80">here</a> to see the importance of secular knowledge.<br />
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Read the following teaching from Elder John A. Widtsoe, who was then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, which relates to the scripture referred to above :<br />
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“Theology is not the only subject in which the Elders should be interested. They should study:<br />
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“Things both in heaven—Astronomy.<br />
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“And under the earth—Mineralogy, geology, etc.<br />
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“Things which have been—History, in all its branches.<br />
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“Things which must shortly come to pass—Prophecies.<br />
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“Things which are at home and abroad—Domestic and foreign politics.<br />
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“Wars—perplexities—judgments—The signs of the times, by which the observer may know that the day of the Lord is at hand.<br />
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“These studies, the Lord considers necessary. [Sec. 88:80.] God does not require all His servants to become doctors, or professors, or even profound students of these subjects, but He expects them to know enough of these things to be able to magnify their calling as His ambassadors to the world” (Priesthood and Church Government in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [1939], 55–56).<br />
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My time to speak was short as there were two earlier speakers and an intermediate hymn after them before I could begin. I had just about 10mins to talk about the the fundamentals about the 'Law of the Fast' and to highlight that attaining spirituality was the major purpose of the fast, which is usually followed by a prayer, which leads to the priority goal of spiritual knowledge.<br />
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Sunday School followed the next hour with an unusual experience I felt I like to share:<br />
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Following a uniform Church<i> </i>Sunday school lesson schedule throughout the world, the day's class had a teacher to teach Lesson 15: “I Am the Light of the World”<br />
New Testament: Gospel Doctrine Teacher’s Manual, (2002), 61–64<br />
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The teacher had volunteers read a few scriptures on the topic and asked a question what is "Light" which caused me to raise my hand to answer the first thing that came to my head which was "Energy"!<br />
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Then he led the class to understand that energy is described by scientists to be in the form of a particle or a wave.<br />
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He then started writing on the white board from left to right the following types of <a href="https://www.e-education.psu.edu/astro801/content/l3_p4.html" target="_blank" title="Radio to Gamma waves">waves</a> :<br />
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Radio ----->Microwave----->Infrared-----Visible Light----->UV----->Xray----->Gamma<br />
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He also touched on Absolute Hot to -273 degrees Celsius/-460 degrees Fahrenheit or Absolute Zero temperatures and wrote the brief information on the white board.<br />
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I was amazed that the Sunday school lesson on the light of Christ had touched upon the science realm and when I went home to look online for the <a href="https://www.lds.org/manual/new-testament-gospel-doctrine-teachers-manual/lesson-15-i-am-the-light-of-the-world?lang=eng" target="_blank" title="Lesson 15 I Am the Light of the World">lesson 15</a> on the manual, I found there were no reference to the advance scientific terms that the teacher had mentioned. I guess the spirit must have inspired the him to have prepared the lesson that way using some references to science and since I was fasting, it became a spiritual experience for me too to find the teacher demonstrating something in class beyond the lesson manual that collaborates with the key points of my talk.<br />
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Reconciling the different facets of life<br />
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My appreciation of learning about the Church at the age of 21 in the final year of my formal institutional education is that I didn't have to prove that God exists using science for the rest of my life. The reason is I had a real and personal relationship with him with spiritual experiences that are well documented starting from <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2005/04/silent-testimony-in-busy-busy-world.html" target="_blank" title="A silent testimony to the world">here</a> that continued to today in this blog post. I had never doubted God from that beginning of time of my spiritual life and if there were any doubts in my faith, it would be more about myself and my mortal weaknesses of whether I can fully fulfill the purpose of my life that God may have foreordained for me. Before joining the Church, I tended to depend more on reason and critical thinking as my education was focused on the Sciences and later on Commerce. It can be said that I had developed to become a philosophical person who is well grounded through the institutionalized education I had received. After joining the Church and having to exercise faith in God, my whole perspective of life changed to have lived an extraordinary life as my official webpage <a href="http://fastlane.info/profile" target="_blank" title="Webpage profile">profile</a> depicts today. I even wrote a <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2013/11/writing-my-resume-with-strong-spiritual.html" target="_blank" title="My Spiritual Resume">spiritual resume</a> for myself to see how different it would look like from a regular normal resume!<br />
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<br /> I did mention in the beginning of this post that writing it would fulfill several of my tasks as a writer and this is with reference to a writer's block I was experiencing that I called a 'Gordian Knot' in a post <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2014/04/family-history-part-4-chinese-history.html#gk" target="_blank" title="Family History Part 4">here.</a> Fasting helps me cut the knot to have a breakthrough in reconciling and understanding the synergy of what I have considered to be the 3 strong legs or pillars of an optimal life in our sojourn on this earth i.e. of the Body Mind and Spirit. This is an ancient philosophy based on a holistic or integrating approach of life. My life and my writings covered all three very strongly which made me adopt this ancient philosophy, strangely that began in a city far away in the western part of the world as recorded <a href="http://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.com/2011/07/introduction-fastlane-is-about-mind.html" target="_blank" title="Fastlane">here</a> and first published and introduced under a series of writings under the heading of My Heart and Mind <a href="http://familylane.info/personal/" target="_blank" title="My Heart and Mind">here.</a> (This link at the time of writing is best viewed on the PC screen as it is not modified to be mobile friendly yet as some pages like this <a href="http://familylane.info/personal/pg1/" target="_blank">one.</a>)<br />
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My Gordian Knot may have come about as I tackled to reconcile or write about conflicts between philosophies and religions against science and technologies perhaps. Then there could be issues about humanity and passion versus politics and capitalism where only the bottom line seem to matter these days. How about the higher rate of breakdowns in relationships between couples these days with the result of broken families due to the fight between the flesh of love that bends to the mind that seeks for justice, equality and freedom? Love versus selfishness or pride perhaps? More specifically, I felt the fast would clear the lack of clarity to continue the following blog posts that I felt I needed to write and started them as parallel tasks to stop them all until I would complete this key or strategic 'Sword post' that would break the 'Gordian Knot' metaphorically speaking before I can carry on working on each of the following blog posts with a desired flow.<br />
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<a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2014/04/family-history-part-4-chinese-history.html" target="_blank" title="Chinese History">Family History Part 4 - Chinese History and the Family Tree (BODY-race)</a><br />
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<a href="http://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-politics-freedom-and-harmony-in.html" target="_blank" title="In Malaysia">On Politics, Freedom and Harmony in Malaysia (MIND-politics)</a><br />
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<a href="http://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2015/04/on-politics-freedom-and-harmony-in.html" target="_blank" title="In Singapore">On Politics, Freedom and Harmony in Singapore (MIND-politics)</a><br />
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<a href="http://csfjournals.blogspot.com/2015/04/on-politics-freedom-and-harmony-in.html" target="_blank" title="Secular and Spiritual knowledge">The role of Philosophy, Religion, Education and "The Law of the Fast" (SPIRIT-religion)</a><br />
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The last blog post above is of course referring to this exact blog post being read nearing its completion at this point in writing. As I briefly analyzed and classified the blog posts above, I can suddenly understand why writing on any of the three topics of Politics, Sex and Religion can be tough as even in the Toastmasters public speaking club, they are discouraged to be a speech topic by policy(in Malaysia) to avoid causing intimidation or raising dissension.<br />
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I would say it would be tough for anyone to intimately write on this 3 bandwidths so to speak if they have never been tuned to all three of them. They may write what they may have researched from reading other related books or websites. Doing this can be equated to Americans who can speak Mandarin fluently and assume they can be successful to deal with the Chinese people in business. The same applies if the reverse occurred. Similarly it is difficult for anyone to do well in a profession if one does not have enough exposure or experience in the field though they may have been academically qualified in the profession.<br />
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Having been exposed or experienced in several as well as key aspects of the Body, Mind and Spirit in my life, I feel qualified to be a unique writer who can unravel the mysteries of life but more importantly to be able to find what I call Optimal Performance and Thinking during our lifetime which should derive the authentic happiness that many are seeking for.<br />
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As a Chinese growing up in Malaysia, cut off from China for many years of my early life, it is difficult but not impossible to learn of my ancestry and the culture they were exposed to as the Chinese race are proud to proclaim they have a culture that dates back to 4,000 years of history or more. As one who was not adequately exposed to politics, it is difficult but not impossible for me as one who is educated well to have an intellectual mind to understand the politics that I am exposed to in Malaysia and Singapore which are the two countries that I and my family have the strongest roots in. Being a Mormon in a religion that found oppression and persecution from others, it is difficult but not impossible for me to have the spirituality to understand and respect people from all other religions as well as working with them for a common good.<br />
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<i>To be continued...</i><br />
<i><br /></i> This blog post is continued much later in a place that I have considered some time back to be optimal for the needs of my Body Mind and Spirit with happenings recorded <a href="http://familylane.blogspot.com/2015/06/happenings-in-kuantan-after-i-return.html" target="_blank" title="Happenings in Kuantan after I return for more inspiration">here.</a> <br />
<i><br /></i>Yes I fasted in Kuantan too on a Sunday when I had expressed that "...I was maintaining an optimal flow in Kuantan on this trip even on spiritual matters!" Here is how I'm concluding this spiritual post that some may classify as religious which I will explain is not. Is this a question of purely semantics?<br />
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We can blame it on Western culture dominant in the 21st century where vocabulary is strongly influenced by science and technology where precision and accuracy means everything has to be classified under a proper name or species. A prophet of God when named as the President of the Church is more politically correct. Likewise the 12 Apostles need to be more appropriately named the Quorum of Twelve. Sounds familiar?<br />
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Indeed in this modern knowledge world of ours, facts become increasingly more important and I appreciate it that there are even hoax warning websites to counter those trying to spread false information to unsuspecting users of social media websites! An old post of mine that may help readers appreciate the value of faith in a world of knowledge is entitled, "Faith and Knowledge, Not Faith versus Knowledge" is worth visiting <a href="http://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2011/03/faith-and-knowledge.html" target="_blank" title="Faith and Knowledge, Not Faith versus Knowledge">here.</a><br />
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I can on this day add further comments to avoid irresponsible comments from certain people like the above person coming from USA, who tend to be what the world today is more fully aware of. They are the ones who may innocently and easily pass on "Fake News" through social media without their own proper research or study or they may be the very ones who created them for their own popularity and ultimately for the intent of earning money in devious ways, copying their own large institutions in their own country where corruption has been found to be rampant.<br />
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My Consciousness research in preparing to publish my book from my birth country of Malaysia which in this year, removed our own corrupt government leader and parties peacefully, to the surprise of America and the rest of the Western and Eastern democratic countries! My writings are based on the <a href="https://familylane.blogspot.com/2016/11/before-and-after-storm-of-bersih-5.html" target="_blank">Body</a> <a href="https://fastlaneinfo.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-05-16T23:13:00%2B08:00&max-results=1&reverse-paginate=true&start=1&by-date=false" target="_blank">Mind</a> <a href="https://spiritlane.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-years-of-research-on-anti-mormon.html" target="_blank">Spirit</a> or Feelings Thinking Spirit or as Plato in ancient Greece as progenitors of democracy naming the tripartite nature of Man as Appetites Reason Spirit. In lay man's term, we can call "Fake News" as the result of the devil's Greed Schemes Influences to make mankind as miserable as he is at the end of the day or the world!<br />
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<br /> Here is a deeper scientific explanation of why fasting helps to increase our brain power. It is interesting to note that the speaker from JohnsHopkinsUniversity believes that communication can help improve our health, creating awareness of what the worldly businesses are doing to promote activities that generate billions for them when science reveals the real truth about our human biological systems. <br />
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