| Dear Friends,
Since my last email, we have spent most of our time planning for our upcoming Day Camps. I think we are making good progress – we have finished planning for the next two weeks.
Yesterday afternoon, after a long day of planning, Brittany and I met up with an officer couple from Australia in the Elevator. They were on their way out to an international fellowship that meets once a month and invited us to join.
We rode the ferry over to Hong Kong Island and then got on another ferry to Lamma Island, where we met up with the other internationals. There was about 10 people in the group from all over, from Canada, Togo (Africa), Asia, and Australia, all working as missionaries in the Hong Kong area.
Lamma Island was a really interesting place also. It is the third largest island in Hong Kong but very different from Hong Kong city. On Lamma island there are no buildings with more than 3 stories and there are no cars, so the atmosphere is a lot more relaxed than the rest of Hong Kong.
While we were there, our group took a walk to the beach and just enjoyed being away from the tall buildings and business of the city for a little while. We also had a nice dinner overlooking the water as the sun was setting.
This morning we went to our first church service in Hong Kong. The service itself was very similar to a service in the U.S. except that everything was in Cantonese. The translation they provided was fun, they gave us each a set of earphones and a radio and the translator spoke through a microphone for us. The only thing was the radios picked up a lot of static so I could hear clearly for a little while and then I had to move my radio around because it would keep losing the signal.
After the church service everyone got into small groups to share about their weeks and to pray for each other. I really enjoyed this time to get to know some of the people from the corps.
Here is a link to some of my pictures from Hong Kong so far. I will continue to add more throughout the summer.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracyp01/sets/72157605747039436/
Thank you very much for all of your prayers.
Tracy
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