Reporting Is Part of Heavenly Father's Plan

Over the years it has been easy to grumble and complain about having to do monthly reports.  At times it has felt like it got in the way of what we really want to be doing instead.  But if you stop and think about it, returning and reporting is something that Heavenly Father wants us to do.  We are asked to pray every morning and every night.  In the morning we pray for those things ahead of us that day and at night we return and report about how the day went.

With today being the first day of August that we worked in our office it was report day.  Since we have a mission car, we have to report to the Mission Office and the Service Center the condition of the car.  Likewise, we do several of the reports that go to Hong Kong, the Asia Area Office, about the Perpetual Education Fund and what we have been doing as a team during the last month.  It felt like we took all day working on reports, but it is also good to see the progress that is happening here.  We are definitely on an upward pattern on the aspects that we are asked to report about.

In the newspaper today it said that Saturday's storm was a record breaker at 103 millimeters, about four inches.  That makes sense why the streets were so flooded when you flow everything off of the roofs into the street that is at least two feet and then it drains all down hill.  One benefit of the rain storm was the skies were a beautiful blue today.  Often the city is smoky and so it was nice to see the sky, so it is one of pictures for today.

As we took a walk this afternoon to get a breath of fresh air and stretch our old legs, we watched as they added more bamboo scaffolding to the back of the Church Building. If you look close you can see the men rolling paint as they stand on the bamboo.  It is amazing how strong dried bamboo is considering how fast it grows.  We hope that you are not getting tired of seeing the scaffolding, we are still fascinated by them.