Our youth had a great time ice skating at Cabin John on a no school Monday . Thanks to Bro Fugal and Bro Ly helping to watch the kids. They even had pizza during their break.
1/15/2024
2024-01-15 Youth Ice Skating
12/31/2023
2023-12-31 Baptism of Lizhong Huang
On this the last day of 2023, Brother Lizhong Huang was baptized by Elder Cook in the Kentlands Chapel. Brothers Patrick Shen and Charles Huang delivered the talks on baptism and on the gift of the Holy Ghost. Ben Tsai welcomed him to the Elders Quorum, after which President Da Zhao welcomed him to the branch. The music, prayers, and witnesses were provided mostly by the full-time missionaries. Elder Whisenant played the piano, while Sophy Fugal directed the music. Sister Nelson offered the invocation, and Sister Yang offered the benediction. Sisters Yang and Nelson and their companions were asked to act as witnesses for the actual baptismal ordinance.
Brother Huang was accompanied by his two daughters, who traveled from California to visit him and to attend his baptism. Although most of us have accustomed to seeing Brother Huang attending church and quorum meetings and activities this whole past year, it was a great joy to witness his baptism today. Congratulations, Brother Huang, and welcome to the Montgomery Mandarin Branch.
Brother Huang was accompanied by his two daughters, who traveled from California to visit him and to attend his baptism. Although most of us have accustomed to seeing Brother Huang attending church and quorum meetings and activities this whole past year, it was a great joy to witness his baptism today. Congratulations, Brother Huang, and welcome to the Montgomery Mandarin Branch.
12/24/2023
2023-12-24 Christmas Eve - youth performance
The youth practiced and performed some special musical numbers for our Branch Sacrament on Christmas Eve. They practiced very hard and had an excellent performance
12/16/2023
2023-12-16 Branch Christmas Gathering
Thanks to the help of our wonderful members, this year's Christmas Party was a success.
Special thanks to our brothers who helped setting up and serving food. Jason and I braved the early morning trip to Costco as we were serving American food for the party this year. We served pulled pork, roasted chicken, honey honey, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, green beans with bacon and dinner rolls for dinner.
We not only had new friends joining us for the evening. We had a special guest Santa Claus visit us again. Brother Jewel graciously offered to show up as Santa for our party. It brought back so many memories for the years in the past when members took pictures with Santa every year during the Christmas party. I even found the picture back in 2006 when Brennan was two.
Sophy and Liz did a wonderful job organizing the youth to play a few hymns when the Primary performed the nativity story. The choir sang "The Drummer Boy" followed by the fun session of picture taking with our beloved Santa Claus - Brother Jewel.
Before the end of the party, we also enjoyed the nativity show with lighting and beautiful narration setup by Kentland members.
I am grateful that everyone helped out cleaning up after the party which made the cleanup time a lot shorter. Another successful Christmas Party is in the books.
Abbey Zhao
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