As Sisters in Zion & We'll Bring The World His Truth

Sunday, 22 October 2006

We did it! The Miri branch sang "As Sisters in Zion and We'll Bring the World His Truth"! I am so glad we did it at last. And I did it the 2nd time!

The Young Women sang the sopranos, the Young Single Adults - Women (including Young Sisters missionary Ong and Serrao) sang the altos, the Young Men and the Young Single Adults - Men (including the 4 young Elders missionaries) sang the tenors and basses.

I was caught by surprise when I saw Lian and members of the choir group walked up to the front of the assembly hall. YW 1st Counselor signalled me to join them. We were going to sing the EFY Medley as an intermediate hymn! It was in the Sunday sacrament's programme! I have not asked the branch presidency. I had initiated the practice of the hymn and I had announced that it would be presented in the sacrament meeting, when we are ready.

Anyway, someone has spoken to the branch presidency. I didn't think we were ready yet. I was wrong! We only started practising on the 23 September and follow up practices on the 24 September and the 15 October only.

I think we did well because I looked at the congregation's facial expressions - they were touched by the hymn. Personally, I wanted to cry as I sang the words. I fought hard to control my emotions but I know my eyes were watery and my voice quivered a little.

Lian was the chorister and she did an excellent job signalling the respective voices when to come in. Lian and me had sang this, together with the Kuala Lumpur choir, in a sacrament meeting October 2005, so she is familiar with the tune. This is new to our Miri branch chorister.

And our 17 year old branch pianist was fantastic. She has never played this medley before I gave her the sheets! She has practised hard during the past weeks and we are very amazed how well she played this morning.

I love this medley! I fell in love with it when I started to learn to sing it at the Kota Kinabalu branch in January 2005. I didn't get to sing with the Kota Kinabalu branch because I had moved back to Miri.

The Lord knows I love that song very much. You can imagine how delighted and happy I felt when the Couple Missionary invited me to join their Kuala Lumpur choir for practice, after their block meetings, and to find that this is the medley that they are preparing to present in the following Sunday sacrament. And that practice was the first Sunday I was in Kuala Lumpur in
October 2005.

Thank you Sister Beverly for bringing it to Malaysia. And thank you for teaching me to sing properly. Whenever I hear this medley and whenever I sing it, I remember you. Thank you. I love you.