District Conference in Shanghai

Well it was an early morning this Sunday as we got up at 4:30 and grabbed a taxi to the Nanjing Train Station.  We took the high-speed train to Shanghai, which is about the distance from Provo to St. George and we got there in about an hour and a half. We then took the subway over to the Shanghai international trade center where they were holding Branch conference. 

 

Our Sunday lunch that we packed! PB&J's all around!

This weeks "Best Chinese Translation" winner!

 Shanghai is the largest city in China with a population of over 23 million and I think we rode with just about all of them that day on the subway.  The subway car pulled up with faces already smeared up against the windows inside, but when the doors opened the crowd behind us pushed us in and all personal bubbles were popped.  Our stop was about twenty minutes away and it just about took us that long to swim through all the bodies to get out.   All said and done it was really neat to see the conference room packed with hundreds of LDS families and all here for different reasons.  It was a really great meeting and we were very glad we decided to make the long trek over. 

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            We fully expected to find a hotel to spend the night in Shanghai, but a family that was also attending conference heard we were looking and invited us to stay with them.  They were complete strangers but they took us in and fed us an amazing Sunday meal, a bed, and treated us like family.    Such a neat family!  

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            Although time was limited we got to go to “the Bund” in Shanghai. It stretches a mile along the bank of the Huangpu river and gives an amazing view of the cities skyline with all of Shanghai’s biggest sky scrappers, three of which are counted in the top 10 tallest buildings in the world.

I think this one ups the" Dumb and Dumber" dog bus. We give you The Roasted Duck Ferry!

 The Flagship group

 The Skyline

It was incredible. We had a blast in Shanghai!