Mission Blog of Chuck and Cheri Lambson

  Chinese New Year this week - The year of the Rabbit As Communications Missionaries, one of our responsibilities is to write news stories about important events and publish those stories on the Church's social media sites or the Newsroom for the country we are in. We just finished this story about the FSY (For the Strength of  Youth conference) that took place in December in Kuching. See the link below. Link to FSY Story We are currently working on two other stories. One of them is about the Humanitarian work of the Church in East Malaysia and the other one is a personal interest story about one of our members who is a clinical psychologist and volunteers whenever disasters occur to provide counselling to victims. When we finish these stories I will include something about them in this blog.  We attend events, take pictures, and conduct interviews to gather the data for our stories. I brought my Nikon digital SLR with me which I sometimes use but very often our smart pho...

Night Markets are a thing in many places in Asia. On Monday we had our first opportunity to visit a Malaysian night market. Sister Letty brought us in her car and showed us all around. Night markets are temporary markets that are set up on empty streets on certain nights. All sorts of vendors come to sell their special foods and wares and lots of people come for a fun night out of shopping and eating. I will caption a few pictures here to hopefully give you a taste of what this night market experience was like. Deep Fried Chilli Crab Rolls. What could be better right? Cheri bought some and brought them home and they make a great breakfast food. The famous fruit called Durian. This is a favorite many places in Asia. Indonesian and Malaysians grow them and love them. Most westerners don't like them because the smell is quite pungent and the actual fruit has a very soft texture unlike most fruits that we enjoy. People here keep telling me to try it and I have tried it so many times bu...

  It was another week of meetings and working on articles at home so Cheri suggested that I make another post about culture. Food is cultural too right? One of our favorite delicacies here is satay, spelled "sate" in Bahasa Indonesia. We travelled by train 1.5 hours on our P-day yesterday to try to the satay shown above. Here in Kuala Lumpur the locals told us that the best satay is in a place called Kajang, so we went there to check it out and it was pretty good indeed. We got 10 sticks of beef and 10 of chicken. We have not found pork satay in Malaysia or Indonesia because it is not halal but we have had it in Singapore. The little bowl on the side contains peanut sauce. The meat is marinated overnight before it is cooked over hot coals and the peanut sauce is made by roasting and then grinding peanuts and mixing them with fresh ingredients such as shallots, candelnut, ginger root... We generally order some rice to go with this which is not shown in the picture. This man is...