Feb 10,2007: This is at the Zone Visit in Melaka. Sue's wearing a sari that a sister gave her.
We had 2190 for the special meeting. It was so nice to meet so many friends, and all the missionary couples serving here.
This couple, Nigel & Lisa, are serving in Klang, and are learning Nepali.















Sorry for the blurry pic. This is all the 'M's,' at our special mtg with the Zone Overseer's.

We had our first vistiors, and of course what else, but take them to try durian! The king of all fruits, perhaps because of the unique smell...

Now we know the proper way to eat durian. We had to go thru the ritual. You wash the durian, then you eat the fruit. Then you put water in the shell of the durian, and you drink out of it. Thats supposed to help digest it better. Which seemed to work, we weren't burping it up as much! :)

Now onto Sabah, on the island of Borneo, East Malaysia. We visited the Sepilok Orangutan Rehab Centre. (Not for alcholic orangutans though) These are a few funny pics.

Don't worry, be happy, as long as you have bananas.

Do you think he believes that humans came from apes???

How flexible are you?? This is our motivational picture to do exercises...

Do you know what the largest flower in the world is??

Some call it the Devil's bowl.

Here's the article from the Awake:
*** g96 6/8 p. 28 Watching the World ***
A Really Big, Really Smelly Flower
The largest flower in the world is a strange creation indeed. Called rafflesia, it is approximately the size of a bus tire and takes as long to bloom as a human takes to grow from conception to birth. And size is not the only reason this flower would make a poor choice for a bouquet. It stinks. To attract the flies it needs to pollinate it, rafflesia smells like rotting flesh. In the past the Malaysian villagers who live in the rain forests where the rafflesia grows have dubbed it the devil’s bowl and have chopped it up on sight. According to the South China Morning Post, however, the Malaysian state park of Kinabalu has moved to protect the rare flower so that scientists may study it further. Local villagers now earn extra money by guiding tourists into the forest to photograph rafflesias. Most, no doubt, keep at a discreet distance.

We had to pay a local villager to see it, and walk about a mile thru the cow patch, thru the woods, and over the barbed wire fences...and then we found it.

Also on our nature walk around Mt. Kinabalu, we saw these pitcher plants. Very interesting. Some can hold over 4 liters of water, and they can close shut and trap insects and animals to eat.

Jehovah's creation is truly amazing! We really need forever to learn about all of Jehovah's beautiful works.

We'll update the rest of our trip on the next blog.

For now here's our Memorial figures. We had 80 in attendance for the English group. Which was great increase for our 24 pubs. There were 12 nationalities and 5 languages going on. 4 simaltaneous translations. We had a Malay section in the second school, and in the back of the hall a Nepali section, with about 20 that came. Then we had Tamil and ASL in the audience. The picture below is of our Nepali section.

We had a nice experience with one of our Nepali studies. This young man, Himalay, as mentioned in our previous blog, has been searching for the truth. Since we weren't able to get together for our study, I sent him an invitaion thru an SMS. I didn't think he would be able to come, since he's a night shify worker. His work starts at 7pm. Well that morning of the Memorial, I got his reply, that he was coming, and begged me to come and pick him up. He told his boss that he was coming into work 3 hours late, starting at 11pm. (Most workers would lose their job for that, or lose a sizeable amount of money). So there he was, so happy to be there for his first meeting. A little sad he didn't have a tie though. Now he's decided to come to every Sunday mtg.

Until the next blog...stay tuned