Wow..Wow,...We have moved to our new area. We are still unpacking . It's hard to do because we are always out & about. When we do get home we fall into bed. But Oh, we love being missionaries.
Our new assignments for this area are :
   We are part of the mission office staff.  So we are on call day & night for what the Mission President needs.
   We still do the transports of driving a big 15 passenger van, taking the missionaries to & from the airport & ferries. We take them for Transfers and also for MLC meetings.
   We help the office people with the preparation, serving, and cleaning up of the certain meals they serve for the special events for our young missionaries.
    We also work with a set of young Elders and a set of Young Sisters. We can go on splits with them or help with teaching appointments as they need.
   We teach an English class to the Chinese people twice a week on Mondays and Fridays.
   We have a scripture study on Tuesday morning with the awesome office staff.
   We are assigned to the Richmond 1st ward. It's geography is the same size as the Gilbert Arizona Mission. There are 400 people in the ward list. Around 60-100 come to church on Sundays. Our calling is to go out and find the lost sheep and bring them home. So when we're not doing one of our other assignments we are to be out finding. We have had some amazing experiences with that. Last week we found a sweet older Chinese woman who hasn't been to church for many years . She has a real rabbit who runs around her house. "Boho" chews everything like a little mouse. He is not potty trained and doesn't talk so I don' think he's a very good pet. Sister Fan is hiding him out as her apartment doesn't allow pets. She was very interesting . She has about 1,000 books arranged around her living room, ; each has colorful Chinese writing . They are very decorative. She gave us a drink of boiling water and some weird kind of cracker. When I told her we were going to teach an English class and We didn't know Chinese she offered  to come help us teach. She also said she will teach me Chinese. The one phrase she taught us was : "Judy Food". That's how to remember it but not how to pronounce it. It means :"I wish you luck ". She also promised she will start coming back to church. And she gave me a gift of a real crystal hand-tied bead necklace that is purple and means love & wisdom. It has a wee hand crocheted flower on it. Beautiful.
    Another family we met was from Tonga & Fuiji. There are 10 people in the home. There is a 94  year old great grandma, a grandma, her two daughters. One daughter is married to a non member and they have two boys, 3 and 2. The other daughter is divorced and has three children.The mother & two daughters are less active members. They said they would come to church when we invited them.
We'll see. We had great visits with both of them. This is finding I love it. It's so fun !
   Elder Fisher & I have concocted  a secret code for our transfers. Actually a couple of young Elders helped me think it up. So when we do transfers, Stan drives around in  the big van so he doesn't have to park. Parking is crazy. It costs $13.00 for every 5-15 minutes. And finding the level you parked on is a nightmare. Vancouver is a gigantic airport. So I go in the airport with my phone and Stan keeps moving. I call him if the flight has been delayed and when I see the Elders or Sisters we are to pick up. Then he can time it so he drives up to the door just when they have picked up their baggage. So the fun code is:  "operation young cargo."
               "two in the sights"
               "four coming down the barrel ."     It's so fun now.
We attended a Zone Conference. What a spiritual high . It's a long meeting, 6 hours but when it ends everyone just sits there because we don't want to walk away from the wonderful spirit that is there.
  We must get out the door. Missions are an indescribable experience. We love you all.
  Have a great week,.Share the joy of the gospel with someone.
  Elder and Sister Fisher