We had an awesome week this week.
Monday night was an interesting evening.  It has come to be known as, "The Night of the Bat."  We were watching the Women's General Broadcast.  It was nice to has a few moments to just relax.  All of a sudden I noticed what I thought was a small bird flying around the living room.  As we watched we discovered that it was  a bat that had flown in through the open door.  I grabbed our two brooms and closed all the doors that led into the other rooms.  Elder Meyers and I tried to shoo the bat back outside through the open door.  He refused to have anything to do with that.  He would fly as close as he could get without hitting us.  Elder Meyers' broom handle bent and he grabbed my robe to use to shoo the bat away.  The bat finally flew into the ceiling fan in the living room and fell dead onto the couch.  I swept him into the dust pan and threw him over the balcony.  I'm glad there was no one around to take videos of this adventure.
It was time to do both home and visiting teaching so we had a week of trying to get those individuals visited.  We got a few of them and will finish the rest this week, we hope.
We were also able to see President Sunil and his lovely wife, Lilani.  President Sunil was the first district president in Sri Lanka.  His wife is presently the district primary president.  They treated us like royalty.  They had bought lots of sweets for us to enjoy.  What we didn't eat they insisted that we bring them home with us. They are definitely two of Heavenly Father's chosen servants! They were unable to have children of their own.  They always ask about our children and grandchildren.
Friday was Jared's birthday.  He was two years old.  He loves to come and visit us at our apartment because he knows that Elder Meyers will have candy for him. Jared is a relative of President Anton.  His family lives in the Anton home.  His parents had a birthday party for him on Friday.  It was suppose to start at 6pm so we were there on time.  The family came around 7pm and the rest of the guest showed up around 8:30pm.  It was interesting to watch their traditions.  The parents feed little bites of cake to the child and then their grandparents feed them more.  Next they sing Happy Birthday and take pictures with each family that is there.  Then they serve the cake, marshmallows, cutlets(which look like a donut hole but have fish and potato inside), and mints.  After everyone is through with that they serve a meal.  Their meal consisted of stringhoppers, sambol(spicy coconut), coconut potatoes, and spicy chicken.  I tried some of everything.  This was the first time that we have eaten with our fingers like the locals do.  Brother Namal was training us how to do it.  He said, "Use your thumb to push it together."  I tried but it didn't feel too comfortable. My lips were burning from all the spices when I had finished.  They topped the meal off by serving ice cream cones to everyone.  Jared entertained the crowd by dancing to the music that was playing. They also had face painting for anyone that wanted that. There were about 60-65 people in attendance.  It was a wonderful evening.  We walked home around 10pm.
Today was our primary presentation practice.  We were able to go through the program twice.  The practice was hard on the children but most of them were prepared.  They will present the program in Sacrament Meeting next Sunday.  I will be glad when it is over.  I am in charge of the music. 
Be grateful for what you have and acknowledge the hand of Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in your life.  They love you and want you to be happy!

Sister Lilani & President Sunil Arsecularatne

Rylynn at the party

Mythily cutting Jared's cake

Jared the birthday boy!