Ching Ming Festival 26 Mar 2017

This year like the previous years that, only Daddy going for praying ceremony at Nirvana Memorial Park Kuching.He sent back some photos.

Brother Ambrose was wiping the tomb stones.

Bernadine was scrubbing the floors.

Sister Agatha was decorating the flowers vase.

After the cleaning, the tombstones areas looked clean and new.

Everyone was busy folding the paper offerings in front of the tombstones.

Paper Offerings which were ready for burn.

Double Birthdays Celebration 25 Mar 2017

Last Saturday early in the morning Daddy took the earliest flight and fly back to Kuching to attend together with Sister Agatha, Brother Andrew and Brother Ambrose for the Ching Ming Festival for praying ceremony my deceased father-in-law.

         

Daddy arrived early to prepare the necessary for the ceremony that would be on Sunday, 27 Mar 2017.

In the evening after dinner last Saturday, Daddy sent us the photos through WhatsApp. It was the double birthday celebration for Sister Agatha and Brother Ambrose. This is an early birthday celebration as both of them only difference by one day only.

So nice of Brother Andrew arranged for this for both of them.

Good Manners & Courtesy School ~ Good Manners Classroom

Serving Others #6 ~ Learn about and practice good manners and courtesy.

Just in time for back to school season, this activity is perfect for teaching the children some basics in manners, even though they learned it in school.

They do have a subject about all these called ‘Pendidikan Moral’ previously in Government school.

But now they also have a subject ‘Chapel’ in the Mecaje Academy Home-school.

The content of the subject is a mixture of Bible and Value Studies which are something similar to the ‘Pendidikan Moral’.

There are 4 ‘Classrooms’ in this Good Manners & Courtesy School:

1. Good Manners
2. Personal Hygiene
3. Telephone Manners
4. Table Manners

We kicked off with the most basic ~ Good Manners Classroom, wherever we go:

• In the Home
• At Mealtimes
• Having Guests in Home
• Being a Guest
• General Manners Out and About

Sometimes, kids being kids need to remind again and again, especially during interaction with the family members.

They would forgot and misbehaviour would happen and might hurting each other unintentionally.

As all of us are too familiar with each others, we just forgot about that.

We were playing role-play for some situations at home. Both Issac and Annabelle were merely succeed because they were laughing and playing @.@

We then reversed the roles and re-did on some situations, things were much better the second time around.

As for the manners at Mealtimes, we were discussing what are the Dos and Don’ts during having meals.

Put away hand phone or tablet during the meals time or conversation, close our mouths when eating and chewing and no talking during having food in the mouth, etc.

We touched a little bit on the silverware code  start with cutlery on the outside and work our way in. We would studied that more at the Table Manners session.

Other than that, how and what we should behave Having Guests in Home.

A polite smile, shake hands, introduce the guests to the people in our home, offer drinks and serve the guests, and so on.

What is the proper manner of Being a Guest at people house.

Offer to help out and assist when being a guest in someone’s house, clean up and tidy after ourselves, and the most important is to show our appreciation and ‘thank you’ to the host for their kindness to assist us.

Last and not least, how we behave ourselves during we Out and About in the public areas. Most of it, I would consider some common sense that what to do and what not to do.

                         

The kids were having fun and laughing during our sharing of ideas what suppose to do and what not suppose to do.

                         

LDS Primary Sharing Time ~ Nephi's Courage ^^

Today all the Primary children are practice singing the songs which we are going to learn and sing at the Sacrament Meeting Primary Presentation in the end of the year.

The photos and video clips were taken by Sister Jing Jing. All the children are so cute and having fun during Sister Vivian taught them.

Sister Jennifer was giving the message of this month.

Sister Vivian was teaching the children “Nephi’s Courage” with some actions game for the children, so that thy would learn and memorise the words easily ^^

The children learned the song so fast and fun!

A Sweet Surprise from Missionaries ^^

Today Daddy flied back to Kuching for the Ching Ming Festival, so only left Issac, Annabelle and Mummy in the home. As usual, we went to Citta Mall for children’s art class and Empire Shopping Gallery for Annabelle’s violin class.

Once we were in front of our house, we noticed there is something at our door step. It is a blue colour container with a green card on top of it. We just picked it up and went to our house.

I took a closer look on the card…

It was from the Elders – Elder Boud & Elder Tenner. I was so touched! It is really sweet from the Missionaries to take this extra efforts came to our house and dropped us a sweet surprise!

And, inside the container is the cinnamon rolls! The kids were excited too. I immediately WhatsApp this to Daddy. Daddy was so surprised and feel happy too!

Even though daddy is not here this weekend, this random act of kindness really fill and warm our hearts that Elders still thinking about us…

Princess…

Ask of God

Ever since I had chose and decided to do the things I supposed to do, I can feel the strange atmosphere around whenever we are together.

Finally today on the Sabbath, it turned out to be the odd or rather a kind of threatening conversation at least for me. I remained silence all the time.

I was tired of want to maintain and salvage this little of what I have… I would leave it to the Lord and prepare to accept whatever that would come to my plate. And, if it is not meant to be salvaged in the Lord’s eyes, and it is ok with me.

I kept wondering what did I miss out or not learned the previous lesson? That till today I still walk on almost the same path and consequences again? I admit that I am not perfect being.

I wondered why?

Thus, the beginning of last week, I was thinking a lot about Joseph Smith’s First Vision, as I first watched the video in the Primary Sharing time.

And, so co-incidentally, this topic is one of the lessons of the Faith In God Program which I prepared for both Issac and Annabelle.

It was all started with a little of faith, then grew up to something great. He was a 14 years old boy when he received his first vision. And, it was all started by the verse of the Bible:

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall given him.”

James 1:5

I was thinking and pondered. How can I become like him asking in faith?

At first, I was reading the Joseph Smith – History 1:1-20. Then I was listening to the video clips for few times.

As I wanted to get to know more about that chapter, I was drawn to the Seminary guides which I can learn more of the whole event of the First Vision and the Restored Gospel itself.

After which, I have an impression, that I should study the Doctrine and Covenants. I am not sure is it comes from the Spirit… I do have a desire to know more about the Restored Gospel and how I can learn from young Joseph Smith.

I am in my age of early 40s, and still looking for how can I draw more to the Lord, and learn more how or what He wants me to do, even I am in the midst of my trials.

I can feel Him was there with me, guided me little by little how to go through everyday… It is a blessing and privilege to learn how to walk with His Spirit everyday in my life…