Lily Dale

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Our visit to a school for the blind

We were able to tour a blind school. One of our members volunteers her skills as a physical therapist.

A blind girl using the braille computer

Blind children learning math through a grid and tiles

We are happy that Wendy was baptized on October 2, 2010. Her aunt came from California to volu

We were walking around a village and came upon this beautiful pond

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Finally a new post!

Kitty (Ohn Mar Lwin) receiving news of her mission call on August 16th. She has been called to the London England Mission.

Dale took this picture of a gas station that was pouring the gas in containers and selling it for 2,500 ks ($2.50).

This is Zaw Hein (Happy), he is a trainer for Para-Olympics. He is a member of the church. Recently, he injured his foot and the untreated infection led to having his foot being amputated.

Happy is happy, he is training for Para-Olympic game. He trains athletes in the shot put and discus.

We are visiting the National Disabled Rehabilitation hospital

Little orphan girl, isn't she so cute

Recently, Tun took us to a Shan Noodle restaurant. It is a hole in the wall ma and pa shop. This is the only dish they serve. Every time we go out to Palay, we like to stop and get a bowl of these delicious Shan noodles. It has rice vermicelli noodles,shredded chicken, cilantro, crispy chips, a slice of an egg, and a squeeze of lime.

This is the first time driving on this road and when we saw the VW, we had a good laugh, stopped our car and took these photos. We thought of Joshua and his VW van. This is a cool idea if your van is no longer running. Just turn it into a roadside store.

After working on San San Aye's home, dirty and tired, we came upon this scene.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Wheelchairs, filters and fruits!

This is Myat Thu Win and his family, CEO of Shwe Minn Tha. He has partnered with LDSC in our wheel chair projects. He designs wheel chairs to fit many different types of disabilities.

This is Shwe Minn tha's secretary, Nwe Ya and Elder and Sister Smith. We just completed a donation of 87 wheel chairs.

This is our Wednesday afternoon English class

Dr. Win's water filter factory.

We love walking around and seeing all the fresh vegetables of the street vendors. The other day I bought apples, asian pears, a large bunch of bananas and a pomelo for $3.00.

Planting trees

Our planting day at Hlawga Park. We accompanied 200 disabled people and planted trees. Each person planted two trees each and attached their names to the tree they planted. Later we enjoyed their karaoke singing.

Some of the things we've been up to.

We had a wonderful visit with President and Sister Smith of the Thailand Bangkok Mission. He interviewed the 5 missionaries.

Our police force, Special forces, this is the day we went out to the shooting range.

Dale had a chance to try his sharp shooting skills with the Myanmar SWAT Team trainers.

San San Aye swishing the water to bring up the leeches.

San San Aye and many of her neighbors in Palay all are suffering from dissentary. Very very sick.
This is a picture of the leeches found in the pond she is drinking from.

Saw Polo and Susan's home was renovated. We brought in 3 truckload of sand, raised the house 3 feet, put on a new tin roof and bamboo woven walls. They tore apart their bed frame to use inside the home. Susan is very happy with a bigger kitchen.

We are digging a latrine for San San Aye.

Yangon Branch members helping out with Sister San San Aye's home. We put in a new thatched roof, bamboo woven walls, bamboo floor and sandbagged around her home. Her husband is blind and they have a little girl.