Mission Blog of Chuck and Cheri Lambson

  This is the view out the window of our 25th floor apartment in Jakarta. Its good to be back in the Jakarta Indonesia mission again. We are quickly getting involved in the work here again. We have new leadership for the Indonesia Communication Council so it has been nice to get to know them and we will help to facilitate training. The "Light The World" Christmas campaign has started which probably won't require our direct involvement but we will help wherever we can. We are also planning some trips with our humanitarian missionaries so that we can make newsroom articles from the great work that is ongoing around the country. We will keep you posted as the exciting events of the next six months in Indonesia unfold. We recieved a visit from this wonderful couple who we have not met for many years. This is Looky and Diana Samad. They stayed in our home in Hong Kong back in about 1999 when they came to be sealed in the HK temple just after they got married. We have kept in t

On our last night in Hong Kong we made it up to Victoria's peak to look out over the city of Hong Kong. It was a beautiful evening with clear air. The clouds are illuminated by the glow of the city. We went for a harbor cruise on the Aqua Luna. It is a wooden ship that is made after the fashion of the old Chinese sailing vessels. We did this with our Area Director, Annie Wong, who lives here. At Church we met our old friends from when we lived in Hong Kong. Matt Hossford and Staci Ford and Allen and Jill Anderson. It was great to meet a few people who still live here that we knew from our time here in 1998 - 2001 One afternoon we paid a visit to our old Church building which is called Kam Tong Hall. When the church moved to the new building in Wan Chai they sold this buiding and it has been perserved and restored as a historic site. We walked through it and learned more about the history of the building. Before it was used as a church, it was the home of a wealthy and influential c