More from Hong Kong

I hope you were able to see us here using the webcam. We are having fun watching ourselves on the laptops. Today we worked around the base helping out. In the morning we prepared lunch. In the afternoon we washed the base vehicles and pulled weeds, cleaned the food court and mopped floors. Now we are hanging out until supper. The outreach teams are having good results. Something like 80 people coming to Jesus. There are 13 temples surrounding the base. Lots of incense. Today is a big holiday in China. It's the first day of winter. Families spend the day together. It's hard to believe Christmas is this weekend. We still have to go shopping. We are exchanging gifts with each other on the team. There is a fancy breakfast buffet and supper on Christmas. Check us out on the web camera. I think the time difference is 12 hours in Canada. We found out we leave for Guangdong Province on the 28th. This is the province Maelyn was born in (although we will never know for sure where she was born but that is the province that her orphanage is in). We are going to stay in a hotel (yippee).
We will be teaching in a school there. Teaching a grade five class math and english. We will also be in the kindergarten class too. We are there for over a week and than back to here (Hong Kong) for another five days before heading out to central China. It was really hot here today. Hard to believe it's Christmas because it's so hot but I'm not complaining. Can't think of anything else to say. I have worship going on beside me so it's hard to concentrate. We have freedom in Hong Kong to talk about our faith on the computers but not the mainland China. The cars have steering wheels on the right side because of the British influence. That takes a while to get used to. Our living conditions here are really crammed because the base is at it's max because of the christmas outreach. It's a good thing our team gets along and we love each other!
The toilets are ancient here like 800 years old and we can't put the toilet paper in the toilet. It goes in a basket. The pipes can't handle the paper. Fun times! Anyway I should go.