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It worked!! Dad, we’ve got to talk so I can show you how to do this. –Jim

Hari Kamis – Kah-mees – Thursday

26 April 2007 – Thursday

Slept OK but work up with a sore throat and coughing. The cold continues to progress. We read from the Kitab Mormon but I do not think my heart was in it at all.

At the office I spent part of my time working on tonight’s English class and then switched to the Couples’ Conference presentation. I am trying to develop some report forms that they can fill out and send to via e-mail. To do that I need to learn how to make templates in Word. Luckily I found a set of instruction for making templates – hopefully it is a good one. I also sent out some e-mails to some people.

We left the office soon after noon and came home to rest. I had a good nap and felt much better. I really did not feel like going to teach English but decided I would at least go along and see how I felt when we got there.

Sam picked us up at about 3:15 and we went to the mission office to get the mail for the Tangerang elders. I spoke to Elder Subandriyo about the mushroom idea and he said they had tried this once before and failed. In listening to him, I guessed that they tried it in the wrong place and without any real research. I told him I would look at the project in Bogor and see how it is being done there and if we can send people to be trained. Later I talked to Elder Kane and he said that the woman would be happy to help. I would not be opposed to paying her to run a franchise that our members could join.

After the mission home we headed for Tangerang and my good feelings quickly disappeared. The traffic was terrible and Sam decided to take an alternate route which proved to be much longer and probably slower than if we had just fought our way through the regular way. One thing about Sam is he is determined and so he just kept moving along. Mary had to remind me to be patient – but with my cold that was not easy.

Anyway after touring some places we had not seen before we arrived only about 5 minutes late. When we walked into the class they all sang Happy Birthday to me. I was touched – if I was not feeling so bad I would have been more touched. The English class went OK. Agus and Katherine had sick children so they could not come. This means I have 3 real students and babysit two more. With the Elder’s help I got through it.

After the meeting I asked elder Wight and elder Smith to give me a blessing for my cold. I am not sure that elder Smith had ever anointed before and elder Wight gave my blessing in Indonesian so I really did not catch much. But I was sure the Lord told me what I needed.

The trip home was much easier but by the time we got back here I was very tired so we went to bed without reading Kitab Mormon.

For feeling as poorly as I did, the day went well. My talk with Elder Subandriyo gave me encouragement to move ahead in looking into the mushroom business. It is another case of too many things coming together at one time to not be directed by the Lord. Now it is up to us on the ground to find out what needs to be done and how to do it.