Dad has treated me to dinner Thurs. and Fri. Thursday we ate at the "dumpling house" . Dad wanted fried shrimp but she indicated that they didn't have any.
So we ordered sweet and sour shrimp - which was fried shrimp with sauce over it. Then we ordered fried rice with chicken. We've ordered rice 4 times and it is always different. This wasn't exactly fried but OK. Then we had pork dumplings. they weren't as good as last time. Maybe we were more hungry last time.
In a restaurant they serve one part of the meal at a time. You'll get the rice and 5 min. later the shrimp, and 5 min. later the dumplings. But it was good.
Friday is our day off so we went to a huge marketplace. It covers blocks and is 3 stories high. We just wandered around looking at everything and bought a few things - like the cutest China girl outfit in the world for Samantha. She'll wear it in a few years.
Our friend (he reminds me of Mason Smith) told us about an inexpensive restaurant near us that has American food, so we decided to try that. It's called the Cat Palace. We had to wait about 45 min. to get in. You write down your food order and then go downstairs and pay for it before they make it. I
wanted pizza.(it was Fri.) So I ordered a ham and pineapple pizza.Dad ordered Teriaki Chicken and french fries.When he went downstairs to pay he was told they didn't have pineapple pizza and he could choose another pizza. His options were - Tuna pizza - Intestinal Pizza - or fruit pizza. He ordered me fruit pizza! not that I would have wanted the other options! I was served my pizza about 10 min. before he was served. It had a hard crust and then a tomato based spread with apple slices ,cinnamon and white cheese. I ate the apple slices . Dad's chicken was not the way that I make Teriaki chicken and the fries were very greasy and limp. So much for the Cat Palace.
We had our Halloween Party Saturday afternoon at our Branch President's house. We couldn't find a taxi driver who knew where it was. It took us 4 tries/taxis. We finally got there. He is employed by Boeing and they supply his house. It was huge! On a lake,, with an outside club house with a pool table. Very nice. We probably had about 50 people there and a dozen kids. When we have a ward activity everyone invites their friends.The friends are supposed to be foreigners, but that's not always the case. We had a good time. They served pizza and we all brought treats. Their pizza was pretty good.
Our ward consists of foreigners, mostly teachers, and Koreans and Taiwanese. The local Chinese have to meet by themselves. They meet in the same building after us, but we are not alllowed to mingle together.
I had the pleasure of speaking today. They say we'll get to speak alot because there are so few of us in the branch. One family has two teenage girls (our YW Program) who play they violas. they played today too. They are so good! It's wonderful to have that talent.
We heard a neat story - During the Depression there was a very poor family. The children got one joint present for Christmas, a big jigsaw puzzle. It was of a ship on the ocean with a blue sky.The puzzle would take a lot of work to put together, but pretty soon, as they all worked on it, they had the outline of the puzzle done.
The father picked up a piece of the puzzle and asked his young son,"Do you know where this goes?" "No", said the son. Suddenly the father threw it in the fireplace! The little boy was outraged! "Daddy, why did you do that? How can we complete the puzzle with a piece missing?" The father said,"Well, you don't know where it goes or what to do with it." "But," said the boy,when we're done with the puzzle we'll know where it goes." The father explained," That puzzle piece is like the Gospel. If you don't understand some part of it, just put it aside and later you will know what to do with it, and it will all fit into place." He rescued the puzzle piece from the fire and the young boy learned a valuable lesson. We don't always understand all that we should do. Maybe it isn't our time to understand, but we shouldn't worry too much. When it is all put together we will know where all the pieces should go.
One more thought...Follow the Prophet,,you want to go where he's going.
Love you!!! Mom XXOO
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