Understanding Changes And Rolling With The Flow

This morning as we arrived at the South Stake Center the gate was closed, but with a little beep of the horn the guard quickly opened it up.  As we went through he shut it behind us, that is not normal, the gate is usually open and stays open.  Likewise, as we got up to the building it looked like the gate into the building was locked, but the gate was just closed with the lock only through one part.  As Elder Oveson had to go back to get something out of the car, this time the gate was locked with us inside.  Again the guard had to come unlock it to let him out.  This afternoon one of the FM employees brought us a key to the locks on the front gates.

We have mentioned the efforts of President and Sister Christensen to encourage the young missionaries to keep their apartments cleaner.  There is also an effort to keep the Church Buildings cleaner and more like a Church instead of another public building.  The buildings have been open to whoever wants to walk in and take advantage of a place to sit down or whatever.  That has been neat in many ways, but in other ways individuals and groups have been coming in and leaving a mess.  The restrooms have been really abused by tuktuk drivers and motodops, and people even come and eat in the classrooms and leave a mess.  So the leaders here have decided that they want to lockup the buildings and not leave them to be abused.  that is sad in someways but very understandable.

We are still working hard in the preparations for Sister Esplin and Sister Marriott's visit next week.  We were suppose to have names turned in to Elder Funk in Hong Kong today, but we did not have them all yet.  We did turn in what we had.  This afternoon we had another meeting with President Christensen, Samnang (the Service Canter Manager) and Tay (the FM Manager).  We thought it would be a quick meeting, but an hour and a half later we finished for today, we are meeting again on Wednesday afternoon.  We just want everything to go right, and with Heaven's help it will.

Tonight's pictures are interesting signs that should have been checked for translation and spelling before they were put up.  In the top sign it says Bebe Confort (Baby Comfort) and in the bottom sign look below the LS at the bottom, Constraction (Construction) Supplies. Someone could create a job of proofing and editing signs before they are posted!