Oct 2nd

We went to church today. We meet about 15 min. from our house. We have to take a taxi and it costs about $3.00 each way. Our building is a 3 story home in a gated community that's rented by the Church. there are about 37 members in our ward. The sacrament is blessed by our 2 YM , both priests. Today there was no bread to begin with and then a young man walked in with bread!They got the bread ready and then another family came in so they had to add more bread. Then they blessed it and began to pass it and they ran out, so they had to get more and bless it again. Sometimes the blessing is said in Chinese and sometimes in English. One boy blesses it and the other boy passes it. Luckily we have a very talented musical family that moved in 2 months ago. They have two daughters, Elli 17 and Alice 15. Both of the girls play the violin,piano and viola. The mother plays the piano for us in sacrament and the dad plays the piano too. They'll be here for 3 years. He works for John Deer. They are still waiting for their household goods to arrive from Iowa. The girls go to an International christian school. They like it better than their school in Iowa.
I taught YM today, all three of them. The other girl is a 17 yr. old Korean girl. Her English is  good.
We also have 5 Young adults. They all are here teaching English, but not through the BYU Program.
All of the BYU teachers from our University and our neighboring University are on a tour of the Silk Road this week.
We couldn't afford to go on this trip and with Ernie's kidney stone it's a good thing we didn't have reservations. Also we haven't had our interview with the police dept yet. In fact some of our paperwork isn't even here yet. You're supposed to do the police interview within a month of arriving with all of your paperwork. We might have a slight problem there.
 Oh well. We have a saying,"This is China." We've shortened it to TIC. So we often say TIC,TIC,TIC.
And life goes on. Love you all!!   Mom