Takhamao Chapel Open House

On March 19th, a day before the open house, Minh Kin, the Minister of Cults and Religions called the Service Center and told them that he had decided to come. That means that the stand needed to be put up different with pictures and names in the background. There needed to be two comfortable chairs for him and his wife. Scott and I were seated on black leather chairs one of us on each side. We greeted him and his wife when they got out of their car and walked up the aisle with the congregation on either side of us. I felt like a first lady or something, because I needed to walk by his wife and greet her. She was pleased with my attempt at speaking her language and told me that she had enjoyed the apples from our orchard. He also told the members and non-members there that he had been to Utah and there were many kind people. He had been to our home and met our children and they also were very kind to him. After his talk school bags were given to a school that needs help and the man in the blue shirt is the principal of that school. The students came and we all handed out bags to them.


We did the protocol thing with handing out the bags. First it was Minh Kin then his wife then Scott then me. The Senior Couples had met at the service center and put them together. Scott spoke and then Minh Kin spoke, then we all went on a tour of the church. My only regret here is that I never got a picture of the whole building finished. I have a picture earlier several posts back of the unfinished building. It is very nice and built so that it can be added on to.

There were members in every room who explained what happened in that room. This is the room for teaching the Young Men. I was very proud of the members. They all were dressed appropriately and did an excellent job.

This former missionary is telling about lessons taught here and gave a very good five minute lesson on the Restoration. The very first room we went to was the cultural hall/chapel where they had some of the LDSC things set up like the puppet show, the CES information and Family History Information. They were most interested in that and took some material.

This is the Young Women room and they were explaining Personal Progress. In the Relief Society Room Her Excellency Mrs. Kinh was most impressed with a picture of a husband helping his wife in the kitchen. She looked at her husband and thought that was a good idea. He smiled and didn't comment.

In the Primary Room they were impressed again with things that were taught the children and the songs sung. I"m sure they were thinking of their grandchildren being taught those things!
They were impressed with the building, got in their car and left. It was very gracious of them to come to the open house and we surely appreciated their interest in the building.