HAPPY BIRTHDAY - FEBRUARY 5TH - ELDER DE PAULA!
We love our Bay Shore Ward Institute class. It's quite unlike our other classes - a real cross-section of diversity in every way. We love sharing and learning together. We have new converts and life-long member transplants to keep things interesting.
After our lesson/discussion on the last few chapters of Romans and the first seven chapaters of I Corinthians, we retired to the serving area for a little party. There, our dear class members had prepared hot homemade soup and crackers, drinks, all kinds of desserts and had also decorated with colorful birthday balloons! We enjoyed pleasant mingling and munching for the better part of an hour. We've going to miss this ward when our mission ends.
What a thoughtful gift - a Bay Shore Sweatshirt! Perfect for taking home to Utah:-)
Elder de Paula reads his birthday card from the Bay Shore Institute class. Isn't he the greatest-looking 72-year-old (ssshhh!) you've ever seen?
Isn't this cake beautiful? Sister Cruz is an expert at cake making! I see why there's a rule about no lighting candles in the church. Well....on this cake 1) you wouldn't be able to see the cake and 2) those 72 candles would burn the church down! It's a good rule.
5 comments:
Happy Happy Birthday Elder De Paula!!! I would have never guessed you were 72...more like 65! Have a great time!
Looks like fun! How nice of the members to give a gift, make a cake, etc.. for the b-day boy.
Soonee soon sue kwai lu - say it out loud.
It's happy birthday in Chinese, no it's not spelled right, but most people won't know when you say it out loud to them. Hope you had one of 'THE BEST' birthday's ever.
Love, Matt/Rachelle
I had so hoped to visit you in New York before you left, but it looks like I'll have to wait and see you when you get home. Home. Home....(sigh)
Happy Birthday, Lin. Yes, indeed, you are a young 72.
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