Dear Members and Friends of the Montgomery Branch:
Following up on the message below, we are delighted to report that the today's Sacrament meeting went exceptionally well. We had four terrific guest speakers (all returned missionaries) who gave moving testimonies in still fluent Mandarin of what Christmas means to them and their families. Mr. Dai (a renowned tenor from China - now retired and living in the U.S.) and Elder Kerby sang a beautiful duet. Indeed, after watching an 80 year-old devout Chinese Catholic and a 20 year-old Mormon missionary from Arizona singing together about Jesus Christ in our Sacrament meeting, we became more convinced than ever that it is the gospel of Jesus Christ (and uplifting music) that will unite mankind and transcend any language, cultural and political barriers in this world. We also received many compliments from our visitors about the Chinese proficiency of our four young brethren who spoke, sparking a wonderful conversation about our missionaries program.
It only gets better. In the next two weeks, we will have members from various Chinese community choirs coming to sing Christmas hymns with the Montgomery Branch choir. If you were with us today and had a rewarding experience, please come back and join us again -- only this time bring more of your friends and neighbors. If you weren't able to make it, you have two more opportunties, on the 18th and the 25th.
Hope to see you soon.
The Montgomery Branch Presidency
Following up on the message below, we are delighted to report that the today's Sacrament meeting went exceptionally well. We had four terrific guest speakers (all returned missionaries) who gave moving testimonies in still fluent Mandarin of what Christmas means to them and their families. Mr. Dai (a renowned tenor from China - now retired and living in the U.S.) and Elder Kerby sang a beautiful duet. Indeed, after watching an 80 year-old devout Chinese Catholic and a 20 year-old Mormon missionary from Arizona singing together about Jesus Christ in our Sacrament meeting, we became more convinced than ever that it is the gospel of Jesus Christ (and uplifting music) that will unite mankind and transcend any language, cultural and political barriers in this world. We also received many compliments from our visitors about the Chinese proficiency of our four young brethren who spoke, sparking a wonderful conversation about our missionaries program.
It only gets better. In the next two weeks, we will have members from various Chinese community choirs coming to sing Christmas hymns with the Montgomery Branch choir. If you were with us today and had a rewarding experience, please come back and join us again -- only this time bring more of your friends and neighbors. If you weren't able to make it, you have two more opportunties, on the 18th and the 25th.
Hope to see you soon.
The Montgomery Branch Presidency
