Father's Day!

Hi All,

We will make this short as we have a new couple here with us and we need to get back downstairs to visit with them. They arrived at 12:45 a.m. Saturday morning. After a few short hours of sleep, we took them to the Botanical Gardens. They loved it, but I think we wore them out. She had here knee replaced 4 months ago and it started bothering her from all the walking. Plus, the humidity was really getting to them. Maybe we are starting to adjust as it didn't seem too bad to us. They are the Nielsons from Utah. He taught math in the Alpine school district for 35 years. They now run a horse boarding ranch. The haven't served a mission before but worked at an orphanage in Haiti for 6 months and taught English in China for a year. They are the parents of 10 children! We do have them beat in the number of grandchildren though. At last, Dave is not the oldest Senior Elder in the mission! Elder Nielson is 6 months older! I have one Sister who is about 6 months older than me and another one who is 14 years older than me! I guess you are never to old to serve!

We have our new office Elder and he is great, but we still miss Elder Ulrich. At church today in Jahor Bahru, Dave was asked to speak next Sunday on The Family: A Proclamation to The World. It should be an easy subject for him - he loves speaking about the family. You have to keep the talks really basic in JB though.

For Father's Day today he received an e-mail containing Father's Day greetings from almost everyone in our family. He said it was the best Father's Day gift he has ever received - it made him realize how much everyone loves him! We sure miss everyone and miss the family gathering we would have had today to celebrate all the Father's birthdays. Happy Father's Day to all the men who are fathers or future fathers! We are so busy most of the time that we forget what day it even is! What better way to spend our "senior days" though than serving the Lord.

We love and miss all of you and pray for all of you daily.

Mom & Dad, Grandma & Grandpa, family and friends

The Neilsons at the Botanical Gardens in Singapore.

Gecko on the fence outside of our kitchen.

Dragonfly at the Botanical Gardens.

Shanty town in Malaysia close to our chapel.

Couple having wedding pictures taken in the Botanical Gardens.