07 March 2007

06 March 2007 – Tuesday

Back to the 4 a.m. waking. By 5:15 I was so antsy that I went out and walked/jogged the track for a couple of miles. Went to the gym but after doing sit-ups and a few minutes on the bike I left. I think in the future I am just going to use the track. For some reason that does not bore me like the treadmill or bike.

Had nice conversations with Bob and Cindy on Skype. Was sorry to hear that Mike got run over by a snow boarder and is hurting all over. That can not be fun at all. Thankfully there is nothing broken and hopefully he will be feeling better soon.

Read another chapter from 2nd Nephi. Other than it gives us a chance to read Indonesian, I do not think we get much from this reading. The struggle to try and understand what is being said, rather takes away the spirit. But hopefully by the end of our mission or sooner we will be able to read it and understand the spirit as well as the words.

I got a call from President Jensen who was checking that we were home. He said that the news had just come on that a Garuda flight to Yogokarta had just crashed and he knew that we were scheduled to go there sometime soon. Actually we had decided not to go but if we were going it would be this coming Saturday and it would be on the same flight that crashed. Our friend Agus will be on that flight. We do have a member of one of the branches who is a stewardess for Garuda and I hope she is not on it.

The rest of the day went pretty much as normal. We spent the time at the office working on English, trying to send reports to Hong Kong – the key word here is trying, and other things that seem to fill our day. No one came in for job help.

I mentioned the lack of people coming in to Elder Petersen and he did not seem surprised. I think that Elder Leishman was being a little generous when he said 4 or 5 people came in each week – I think 4 or 5 a month would be more like it.

After office hours we went to Carrefour and got some office supplies, some food and a white shirt for me. It cost $4 and from what I can tell it should last at least 2 months. I almost bought the $6 shirt but it had a button-down collar. I think I will need to go to a little better mall to get a nice shirt.

We came home for an hour before returning for our meeting with Agus and Lukito. The meeting went well and hopefully we will see things start to move so that we will have a better handle on sources for jobs, good schools, and who needs work in the next few months. We need to train the district leaders to have success. I am not worried about the Solo section and I think we can get Lukito to get things done in the Jakarta area, but I do not know about East. He is very busy with lots of callings and business – we will just have to see what happens.

Once we got home we did not have a very productive evening. At least not mission or language wise. We did not read from the Kitab Mormon and I only did a little studying.



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