Monday, November 28, 2011

Nov 20th (forgot to post this one...)

Today was our Primary program. We have 3 children in Primary and 2 in nursery. They are all Korean. The primary children gave talks and sang and recited scriptures...in Korean and English. Our Church is made up of the English expatriates (us) and Taiwanese and Koreans. The Koreans don't speak English, but because they are also expatriates(hold passports) they have to come to our branch, as the Taiwanese do. But the Taiwanese also speak Chinese or English and the Koreans can understand Chinese. So the Taiwanese can speak Chinese and the Koreans can understand them. There is always somebody translating in the background during the meetings. It's sort'a confusing.
The Primary has their sharetime as the first part of Primary and it's led my the Primary president and her first counselor (both English,but one speaks Chinese)) and then they have their lesson by Korean teachers, mostly their mothers.And there is a Korean mother in the nursery. The kids are a regular wild bunch.
The Young Women's program only has a president and she also teaches the three girls in Y.M.. They're all 14-16 years old.
The Young Men have a president (Ernie) and one counselor. They have two priests in Y.M. The sacrament prayers are said in Chinese and English. Since our ward is only about 35 people the sacrament is passed really fast!
There is also a Chinese Branch that meets in our building after us. These are native Chinese and we are not allowed to associate with them. It's the rules of the government.
Although there are no missionaries here they have probably been baptized while they were out of the country either U.S. or Hong Kong.
The Church is true , even in China!!
Love Mom

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