February 1, 2015
This
morning, Amy and I enjoyed our morning getting up, reading scriptures and
getting ready for the day. Dad and the
kids’ flight was to land in Penang at 8:20am.
I didn’t think they would get here until about 11am, but when we went
down to start watching for them at 10:30am, they were all ready there and had
been waiting for about 40 minutes!!! I
couldn’t believe they caught a bus so fast and got here so quickly!
They were
all sitting out under a large tent that had been set up for a big ceremony
called “The Eye Dotting Ceremony.” There
are several associations of some sort that work to get sponsors to pay for a
dragon head and costume that is used in Chinese New Year Celebrations. There were 50 dragon/lion heads all lines up
in a grid and there were youth that were in matching pants to wear the dragon
head and do a dragon dance. The ceremony
is where they used holy water to dot each eye on the dragon head to consecrate
it for its use during Chinese New Year.
We were told that they get messed up and then are thrown out and new
ones have to be made holy through this ceremony in order to be used for
celebration. It was really interesting. The kids were all starving so we went on up
to our apartment and fed them while Amy stayed down and watched the dragon
dances.
This
afternoon, we just enjoyed being here at the apartment with air conditioning
and a great view out our window. We had
a nice Family Home Evening and we had our first chance to really talk to
Richard about Jesus Christ and the gospel.
It was a very nice experience. He
asked questions throughout the day and we just had a great day.
This
evening, the boys left to go check into their hostel. We made plans for them to arrive at 7:30am to
watch the Super Bowl!! We don’t every
watch the Super Bowl since it is on Sunday, but with the time difference it is
on Monday morning here! We could watch
it!!!
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| Free lunch! |
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