The usual stand-out attire for missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints was set aside for a few hours today in order to provide some sorely needed
landscaping assistance at Tasputra Perkim in downtown Kuala Lumpur. Instead, the
missionaries showed up in casual gym clothes, including tee shirts, basketball shorts
and sneakers, prepared to tackle the yard. Ignoring dripping perspiration and pesky
mosquitoes, weeds were plucked, planters were raked, and bushes were trimmed! The
final result was a neat and tidy yard, rescued once again from the jungle that constantly
threatens to overtake!
- Elders Ajek, Loutzenhiser and Perkes Ready to Serve
- Hard, Hot Weeding
- Thick in the Brush
- Missionaries Serving Tasputra Perkim
- Elder Loutzenhiser wipes sweat from his brow
- Sister Hampton Prunes a Bush
- Sisters Hill, Crandall, and Koford weeding away
- Missionaries Cleaning Up
- Sisters Kane and Patterson with Elahe Norman
- Elder Perkes and Elder Monson weeding
- Zone Leaders Orgill and Stratton Doing Fine Weeding
- Elders Weeding at Tasputra Perkim
- Sister Hampton and Sister Evans Working Hard
- Sister Koford's Tug of War with a Weed
- The coconut tree presented to Elahe
- Missionaries Hard at Work
- Group Photo with One of the Children Served by Tasputra Perkim
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Tasputra Perkim is a daycare center for severely handicapped children, operated under
Elahe Norman's watchful care for more than 25 years. The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints is not unfamiliar with Tasputra Perkim. Previously, LDS Charities
gifted the organization with special therapy chairs as well as wheelchairs. LDS
missionaries have visited and offered service there for more than ten years. A mutually
beneficial relationship continues, and there is a coconut tree to confirm history. As a
young plant, the tree was given to Elahe Norman to remember the Church and the
senior missionary couple that served in KL and came to know Elahe and recognize the
selfless service she provides without government assistance to these children. The tree
is about ten years old.
"I pray that we may be aware of the needs of those around us... May we ever be ready
to extend to them a helping hand and a loving heart" said President Thomas S. Monson,
Prophet and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in speaking to
church membership. Missionaries personify this model of Christlike behavior, helping
those in need.
At the conclusion of the service project, the young Elders and Sisters returned home to
freshen up, don their usual white shirts and ties with dress slacks for the young men,
skirts and blouses for the young women, and continue with their day filled with
interviews, appointments, English instruction, contacting, teaching and other acts of
service, kindness and compassion.