WE GET READY FOR BEIJING, CHINA

WE are going to Beijing on Tuesday. This is something we decided to do this year as Doug is going over there again. He has been to China several times and follows in the path of Elder Nelson and Don Doty who went over there and taught cardiac surgery. Doug goes over there to teach vascular surgery and indeed how to do carotid endarterectomy safely. They treat him like a local hero. He operated in Xian but we will spend a few days in Beijing with Doug and his son Douglas and daughter Rebecca.


We will also try to look up someone we met in Vienna.

At the end of our mission in Germany and Austria, The Elders down there, Elder Marcheski, called and said he had a problem. They had met a young chinese lady who was interested in finding a church and after study wanted to join ours. "What is the problem?"... "She leaves for Beijing the end of the week." Her Husband was there studying in a University in Vienna and he had completed his studies.

"Well, see that she is ready and I will come down and be there as well!" So it was and when I met her, she was absolutley wonderful and was baptized and confirmed a member of the church. She had to go back to China the next day and we have tried to keep contact with her. Doug has visited her and her husband in Beijing on previous trips. Her husband is quite a scholar and also a very good ping-pong player. She is working on her Phd.


So we look forward to meeting them and spend some time with them in Beijing.

I can hardly contain my excitement.

Alles Gute und mit Liebe, Dad