We spent the first two days of Chinese New Year at home to receive visitors. In keeping to tradition our children and grandchildren were the first to visit us. They brought their mandarin oranges and gifts and we in turn reciprocated.
Later in the morning, other relatives - our nieces and their spouses and children paid their visits.
It was good to have our Territorial Commander Colonel Gillian Downer and her two friends from England, now on holidays here come to pay their respects.
Most of the visitors came on the second day. Our grandchildren came with their youth group from Central Corps. Good to have young people visiting us. All of them knew how to bring mandarin oranges to greet us. The Lord has blessed us with many friends. It was good we were able to share prayers with them.
On the third day, we went to visit a lady living nearby. She has been sick for several weeks and have not been able to attend our meetings. We came home for lunch and in the evening had more visitors.
Well, we had two days of quietness all around us- less traffic on the roads. Construction work stopped for two days as most of the foremen are Chinese or Korean and they want to celebrate Chinese New Year.
To day we were out visiting some more housebound elderly folk. We do this while we still have the strength and the means to do so. God has so wonderfully blessed us, and it is our duty to share His blessings with others.
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