Who would have though??

Lugene and I do not teach classes on Friday, so we use that day to get food from the market. We went to the street market about 9:00. While we were waiting to get some tomatoes, a Chinese man about 30 years old started talking to us in English. Lugene commented to him that he spoke English well. He said he had just returned from the United States where he was working on his doctor’s degree in computer science. I asked him where he was studying in the United States. He said Utah! What a small world. He is getting his degree at Utah State in Logan. We told him we are sponsored by Brigham Young University. He said, “Oh, BYU. I know that school.” Who would have thought we would have this chance meeting among the 1.3 billion people in China.



When we were in China four years ago as tourists, we were in Shanghai. We were at a huge market full of people. We had bought an ice cream cone and were leaning against a wall eating it. A man came up to us and started talking to us in English. He asked where we lived in the United States. We told him Utah. He said, "Oh, are you Mormons?" He had a brother who was a member of the Church who lives in Provo. Who would have thought!!!!