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Hi everyone! I know this is a bit early for this type of question, but does anyone know anything about a mission reunion in April? Just wondering...
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Aloha All,
Greeting from Hawaii. Sister Liew (Elly), Maggie Yuen our friend from Canada and me are going to USA Mainland on 15 Aug to 27 Aug. We will first arrive at Los Angeles and stay there until 19 Aug then we will drive down to Las Vegas and stay there until 22 Aug then we will drive to Utah and stay there until we leave at 27 Aug. That is our plan and we hope we will be able to visit some of our ex-presidents, ex-companions and ex-couple missionaries that we come to be acquaintance with during our mission. If you will please let us know your contact number and address, we might come and visit. See you all soon and take care.
Luv Ya,
Sister To a.k.a Karen To
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We had a great time at the Reunion with President & Sister Collins they did a great job. It was nice to see everyone there, that could be there. The couples that we served with in the Singapore Mission were all there. We had dinner at the Chuck -a rama at 5:oo PM, before the reunion at the Wilkinson Center. We usually get together with the couples every month for dinner, Its nice that we have all become friends. Well all of you have a great day
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I don't know how many of you served in Malacca or knew the Seet family, but I just received an excellent letter from them and felt that all Singapore Missionaires would love this news! I hope everyone is doing well and you all enjoyed the wonderful easter weekend.
Jennifer Larsen
In April 2000, we were working on sending Kee Wee out on his mission. He went to
the Taipei Taiwan Mission and will soon be coming home on 11 April this year.
How proud we are of him.
In April 2001, we were again working on sending out another missionary. Claire
went to the Kaohsiung Taiwan Mission and is still there doing wonderfully.
I guess it's only appropriate that we work on sending out another missionary
this April. So, guess who we're sending out this time? Have you guessed it? We
are so proud to announce to you that it is none other than our very own SAMUEL
LIM!!! Did you guess it right? I can't begin to tell you how much our little
hearts are filled with gratitude for all these wonderful blessings ............
our cup runneth over!
Samuel will be serving in the Taipei Taiwan Temple. His is actually not a
regular mission because he doesn't have a living spouse. President Orgill and
President Boone (the current Singapore mission president) will make arrangements
for him to serve there but there is no fixed period of time that he needs to be
there. In other words, he can come and go anytime he chooses and he has decided
that he would serve until Claire finishes in November this year and come home
together with her. Claire will need to get a special permission to go to Taipei
from Kaohsiung to get him before she comes home. I think this is such a swell
idea. All of us feel so good with this arrangement.
Well, we hope this piece of news has brighten up your day as it has ours
tremendously. Thank you for all that you've done and still continue to do to
have brought about this wonderful event in our lives. Although Melaka is still a
small branch, it has produced 2 great missionaries and on the way to producing
another one who is 75 going on 76! Amazing, huh?
We love you and hope that all is well with you and your loved ones. Take care.
With much love,
Seets
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Turns out, the Wall Street Journal website picked up that story from BYU:
Send In the Mormons
http://opinionjournal.com/best/?id=105001752#mormon
Patras Bukhari, a graduate student at Brigham Young University, is translating the Book of Mormon into Urdu. Bukhari, a Pakistani-born former Catholic, says he hopes to familiarize the people in his native Pakistan with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This sounds like a great idea; we hope someone's at work on an Arabic translation as well.
From the next issue:
Send In the Mormons--II
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=105001755
There's no better way to draw a flurry of reader e-mail than to write about the Mormons. Our item yesterday suggesting wistfully that someone translate the Book of Mormon into Arabic drew 16 responses from readers pointing out that such a translation is already available. You can order it online here from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a mere $2.50 (a bargain at twice the price). And here's a handy list of all the languages in which it is available, including Korean. A Farsi translation, and the entire axis of evil would be covered.
Now all we need to do is flood Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and so forth with copies, and with Mormon missionaries, and soon the Mideast will be as peaceful as Utah. The only drawback is it'll still be difficult to get a drink.
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I just got a message saying that they finally called another Texan to the S'pore mission. Good thing, because somebody's got to fill the gap that was created when I left in August 2001. Long live the Republic of Texas!!!
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From http://newsnet.byu.edu/story/37385
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Y graduate student translates Book of Mormon
By Dan Colton
NewsNet Staff Writer
3/7/2002
Patras Bukhari hopes to bring peace and the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ back to his home country of Pakistan one day.
Bukhari, 33, a graduate student from Lahore, Pakistan, is majoring in educational leadership.
Bukhari has spent the last five years translating the Book of Mormon into Pakistan's official language of Urdu to help the people there become more familiar with the church.
Bukhari's wife Shanaz, who is also from Lahore, Pakistan, said they became acquainted with the church through a friend who was not a member of the church.
"A friend of mine gave me a copy of the Book of Mormon, I read it, and got baptized," Patras said.
Bukhari said that when he was baptized, there were missionaries in Pakistan, but they were couple missionaries. He said right now, though, there aren't any missionaries there.
"We have seven branches and one district," Bukhari said.
Bukhari said he was the first Pakistani District President.
He has translated all of the Book of Mormon, but he his putting the finishing touches on the book. He hopes that when he returns to Pakistan the book will be in print so that he will be able to share it with some people of his country.
This may difficult though, said Bukhari because 97 percent of the country is Muslim.
"In Pakistan they don't proselyte among Muslims because that is not allowed," Bukhari said.
He said that when he first read the Book of Mormon, he had to read it in English, since the book was not translated in any of the eight languages spoken in Pakistan. He also said most of the members of the district read the book in English before they were baptized.
Bukhari is the person that the church is utilizing to translate the Book of Mormon into Urdu. While Urdu is the official language of Pakistan, only eight percent of the people in Pakistan speak it. The eight languages spoken in the country are similar.
Bukhari said he is translating the book so that more Pakistanis can become familiar with it. He said translating the book is not his job. He said he was paid a little money by the church for doing it, but not very much.
Bukhari said that before he joined the church, he and his wife were members of the Catholic Church.
He said the he and his family have been in Prove for three years. He has three years left to study and once he is done, they will return to Pakistan. He said that he is pretty positive that by then, the Book of Mormon will be in print in Urdu.
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After more than three years of holding out, I finally gave in and got engaged! I am getting married May 10th in the Mesa temple to Lindsay Lines. I am so excited and can't wait to start my life with her.
Chad Butterfield
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Hi everybody,
Just announcing the birth of our daughter. Her picture should be on the pictures column. If not, please e-mail me and I'll send you the pictures.
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Where is the Lance Scott of yesteryear?
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