Elder Taylor: Ban family update for Ian...week 68

Notes from Mom: On Sundays I send Ian pictures if I haven't through the week and then I write him as much letter as I have time. We had the Noll family over for dinner. They are so great and have 2 return missionaries. We have known them since we moved to Springville. I was talking to their son Ryan about ancient church folklore in Asia, about which he was familiar. Ian said he'd heard a story and related it: "Yup. A more famous one here is about Gunyam (I don't know if that's correct spelling). They now think that it is a woman, but in the original legend, there is no specified gender. A pale, brown haired individual came down from heaven, taught the people, and then left...3 Nephew 11-27 anyone?"

Today he didn't write his traditional letter again. I still appreciate the comments and pictures. His great grandmother Fina lives in Azul, Argentina and she turned 95! We love her dearly and I sent him some pictures as well.

"AAAH! THEY ALL LOOK SO GREAT! HAPPY TIMES IN BUENOS AIRES!"

I told him about the Ban family from Guandong that he interviewed for baptism. They moved to Salt Lake and are attending the Mandarin ward. Elder Darrington's mom has their contact information. What languages did you have to do their baptismal interviews in? This was amazing: "Actually, they each had a different language. I did the Cantonese for the husband and the English for Vivian. Sister Ban was actually interviewed by President Lam, so I don't know what language, but she speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English all pretty much fluently..That was a stressful day...that's how you know it was good though right?!"

Elder Darrington's mom posted some pictures on Facebook and I sent them to Ian and to Sister Hugo. She is one of the sisters serving in Sheung Shui and is hilarious. He wrote that "Sister hugo will be emailing you momentarily to get the pictures (I'm not allowed to send them to her...)" I sent them to her and now she sends me her weekly emails. Yes! Speaking of Sister Hugo, Annie Fong posted pictures of a talent show, which included Sister Hugo and Sister Hoxer, who was in the MTC with Ian.

Us at the apple store (right now).

The other is from last night. We had a family home evening visit and we brought our investigator Ken with us. This is the Chiu family. You have Sister Chin, her oldest daughter Cathy, her daughter that just had a baby Shelly (the baby's name is Hannah and her husband's name is Steven. These past mentioned people have all served missions ALL IN HONG KONG!). We have sister Chiu's daughter Ariel with the short hair. She has another daughter at BYU Hawaii and a son on a mission in Oregon right now. Her husband was busy that night and couldn't come, but we had a BLAST!