Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Consultants and Cookies

A good day today. 
This is Angela.  She is 19 years old. She lives in Matang a suburb of Kuching.  She went with her parents to the Manila Temple in May to be sealed to them. She loved doing baptisms in the temple during the week we were there.  She is a student at a local college.  She is planning on serving a mission after she completes this course of study in two years.  She is the only Christian in most of her classes.  She is a wonderful, strong member of the Church and a great example to those who know her and..... 
She is a Family History Consultant! 

Because she is on break from school we were able to pick her up and bring her to our apartment to use our internet so she could enter the family information into Family Tree for a family in her branch who are going to the temple with us next week.  Brother Aret and his family do not have computers.  Sister Angela does not have internet at her house but she has a computer which she uses at school.  We have WiFi so we brought her to us so she could do this work for Brother Aret and Sister Linyang.

Elder Moulder helping Angela delete a duplicate record for Sister Linyang in our apartment.  MacDonald's was the dinner of choice by Angela also as you can see.


While she was working I asked her if she was hungry and needed something to munch on.  I told her I had carrots or M & M's.  Guess which she chose.

She was very fast entering the information we had some time before the Young Single Adult Family Home Evening group began so we decided to make cookies.  Angela had never made cookies before.  Her family, like most here, does not have an oven so they do not bake things like we do, they cook everything on a stove which doesn't work well for chocolate chip cookies. 



We had a great time making the cookies and Angela even enjoyed eating them!



She took some home to her family and we took the rest to District meeting with the missionaries on Tuesday.  They appreciated Angela's cookies.

I do love missionary work!!!








1 comment:

Kelly Vowles said...

Miss you guys but love reading about your experiences, mission related and culture related. The people you are serving and writing about are so uplifting. I am so glad they have you for this time.
Can you imagine a life with out cookies!!!! How unjust! Happy that you rectified that situation for at least one person.
Love you!