Joseph Skipps reflects on the Latter Day Saints in Malaysia (Part 4)

A interesting mission layout. You're just constantly hopping on flights all the time to different conferences and areas. And, and it's, it's wild. But 2026. 2026 stands as the 30th year since the dedication of the preaching of gospel. Preaching of the gospel in, in Malaysia. And I wonder, I. I have two questions here. First is can you recall what, what was different about being a Latter Day Saint in Malaysia in the 90s compared to. To now? 30 years on? Crazy. That. That's 30 years on, by the way, because I was born in 1998 and I. That makes me, that makes me feel old. That that was, that was almost 30 years ago. Anyway, on a separate point, but the second, the second point of that is you were kind of uniquely involved in the dedication as kind of organizing it. And I'd love to know how you were personally involved in that process back in 1996. Thank you. You know, it's a tender mercy that in 2026 I happened to be here again. And so if I take you back to 1996, actually let me take you back to 1994 because I think this was a significant event that led to the 1996. And not many people are aware of this. The pioneer members would be here and some of the archives and the church records would be aware of it. And so in 1994 was when the church was officially recognized and registered in terms of being a registered, want of a better word, organization or a business, for example, up until that time, the church was recognized, but tithing funds and being able to purchase property under the church's name, it wasn't a registered or recognized entity, although the church was recognized. And so April of 1994, this all opened. I was running a new hotel in Kuala Lumpur before you were born, the center of the city happened to be in punishment.