quick story about the funny pic with all of us doing the "peace sign". the one brother who isn't smiling is Enjun, he is from Korea. In absolutely EVERY picture taken of him he is tossing up a "peace" sign and smiling the biggest silliest smile. So, I wanted a picture of all of us doing that and him being the serious one. After we took the photo, he was like "that was so hard. so hard." Not being able to be a goof for the camera was almost too much strain for him:-)

okay, another "quick" story:-) Since being here we have noticed that the Russians, both tourists and the brothers and sisters in the congregation, like to pose for pictures. Not goofy, or ironic or comical pictures. Serious pictures. Its cute, (except when its pasty white tourists in small swimming attire posing in the waves a la "swimsuit edition", then it isn't so cute). Anyway, after the memorial, all the Russian sisters were taking turns posing with the flower arrangements. When they saw us watching them, the made us do it to. Mine and Jake's absolute inability to pose with plant life in a serious way probably frustrated them...so they asked more brothers and sisters to join in the fun:-)