Happy Mother’s Day (or in NZ-Mum’s Day). To our “Mum’s” and Moms everywhere, thank you.   We were invited last Sunday to have dinner with one of our great YSA’s Matt Yang and his family and several friends.  His family is from Korea.   The Yang's home was beautiful to look at (loved this entry light) and felt beautiful too.      His delightful and talented parents are from South Korea and his sweet grandmother (who joined us but spoke no English) escaped from North Korea alone as a child, never seeing her parents or family again. Pretty fascinating stories of their lives and conversion to the Church.   Lots of THOTL in their lives.   Dinner was Korean, Curry rubbed chicken, curry carrots and yummy food (as usual I forgot to  take the photo until after we ate). A returned missionary from Los Angeles CA, Matt is going to Uni to be a doctor, but is also an incredible musician.  He doesn’t ju...

Taught the Old Testament Book of Numbers in class this week. Some find it not the most exciting but we loved it. Moses was pretty amazing to “herd” that many (possibly 2 million +their “moo-ing bleating herds”).     Took this picture just outside the Hamilton NZ Temple, herds on every side love the surrounding pastures there.  Photo by Adventure.com   NZ' Great Barrier Reef Island, the World's first Dark Sanctuary Island The sands and the stars And multiple scriptures talk about the seed of Abraham being as numerous as the “stars of heaven“ (Deut. 1:10) or the “sands” of the sea (Isaiah 48:19)…whew!    We took a look at those "sands" yesterday and that’s a HEAP!!  The flocks and herds around here are in great numbers as well.   Fascinating.   One of the great mysteries of God for us is how He keeps track of and deals with numbers, His children and His worlds, the math and science of it all, the time and places and where e...