Life is interesting  here in Sri Lanka.  The members of the Church sometimes remind us of the early years of the Church.  Some are steady and very faithful.  Others are offended easily and fall away.  Those that fall away try to make problems for the Church.  In the Kandy area the branch president was hauled into the police station this week for questioning.  When we called Sister Kumari in Kandy to remind her of the seminary/institute inservice, she told us that she no longer was going to church and that someone else would need to be called as the teacher.  It breaks our hearts to see the people struggle like this.
As I think of our upcoming 4th of July in America, I am grateful to be an American who can worship as I please.  I don't have to go to the police station and be questioned by authorities there because I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Be grateful for what you have.  We Americans are indeed blessed!

We had the opportunity to visit with the Augustine family this week.  They live about forty five minutes from the Church.  We were scheduled to visit another family but that fell through so we called Brother Augustine and he was happy to have us come.  The Augustine family consist of the husband, Brother Jeffry, his wife, Sister Darshiny, and three sons, Abishek, Regno and Haran.  They are a faithful family.  Brother Augustine served for a few years as branch president.  He left the country to work for a  year.  He is happy to be home.  They said that they hadn't had any missionaries in their home for a year and a half.  They were pleased that we visited with them.  We enjoyed getting to know them better.


Regno, Bro Jeffry, Sis Darshiny, Haran & Abishek



Beautiful flowers of the area