HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ELDER

Birthday card from Madhu. (explained below.) Madhu works for Microsoft. He puts advertising programs together for companies that hire Microsoft.

Chocolate Cake compliments of the Marriot Hotel Restaurant!!
Elders and Sisters from 2nd Branch (6 of them) came to tell Elder Happy Birthday. They brought him a card, some candy bars, and RICE KRISPIE TREATS! We asked them where they got the marshmellows and they said it was a secret. They then told us that they were a gift from home. We were so honored they shared!!! We love the elders and sisters here!

This picture is of Elder Chilling in the afternoon! Taking a break!

Madhu came early this morning to bring Elder K. a surprise. He brought him a CD of classical music of India, (very nice) also a beautiful birthday cake....and a card that says, "Elder Kasper is an awesome singer and guitarist, an amazing teacher, Never says no, less of talk and more of action, ever smiling, and great sense of humourous! (I wrote it just like he said it on the card. ) He has never had fried potatoes and onions before. This was a first. He loved them especially with catsup.
Lime and Mosumbe freeze for our breakfast drink.
The cake Madhu brought Elder. It was also Madhu's mother's birthday today.
Elder cutting the cake. We didn't do the traditional feed it to the people.
Madhu wanted us to take pictures together. Nitin came for a piano lesson and took the picture for us.

LaDukes came about 12:30 to meet us and go to lunch at the Marriott. We took an auto and arrived about 1:15. As we entered Elder K. met William who sings with us in the choir. They were visiting and Elder K. told him we were there with another missionary couple having a celebration of their anniversary and his birthday. William was having lunch with his boss, the Consulate General of the U.S. of America. William H. Boyle is the first secretary and management officer for the C. General.

The management of the Marriott Hotel Restaurant fussed over our table. One of the managers asked if this was a special occasion. We told him we were celebrating a birthday and an anniversary. He congratulated us and left coming back a few minutes later with a whole chocolate cake! Beautiful.
Then another manager came by and asked if we were celebrating. We explained to him, and he said “I should sing for you.” We said, “Yes you should.” So he proceeded to sing happy birthday! We laughed and applauded.
Pres. Gutty met us at 2:30 so he could take the LaDuke’s to finish registering. We tried to pay and the manager said, “The bill is taken care of.” We said, “There must be a mistake.” Then we remembered meeting another American that had stopped by our table. He was LDS and recognized our name tags. He asked if we were in India to build a temple. We told him we wished that were true, but we were just ordinary missionaries, serving in India. We thought maybe he had taken care of our bill as he came by our table later and wished the LaDukes a happy anniversary. Soon the manager returned and told us that the “Consulate General” had paid for our lunch!!!
What a birthday Elder Kasper is having.