15 May 2007 – Tuesday

I woke early and Mary slept in. She said it made up for her tossing and turning all night. She is still not feeling 100% – something to do with her stomach.

I am amazed at how fast the morning goes by. I was up before 5 and the next thing I knew it was time to read the Kitab Mormon – three hours had just zipped past. And other than taking time out to eat some breakfast I was doing useful things. Including trying to learn more vocabulary, studying phrases, writing and posting my journal – it did take much too long for me to get the pictures into the blog – and writing some e-mail.

Our Kitab Mormon reading went well – as always mainly thanks to Mary who remembers so many words. I manage to contribute now and then but not to the extent that Mary does. We have decided to look up words instead of guessing at them. Most of the time our guess is close but other times it misses completely and in that way we miss the real meaning of the verse.

An annoying day at the office. The internet kept coming and going – even when it was on it was terribly slow. Talk about learning patience. Egha – not Edgar as I wrote last week – came in to help but we did not have much for him to do so he became our English lesson guinea pig. We had him take some tests. When we tried to explain the mistakes he made, we quickly learned that we do not know how to teach English because we do not know the rules well enough. It is going to be a real challenge to teach a month long course. As I have been saying – the Lord is going to have to step in here at sometime. We have 5 applications for our class – 3 young men and 2 young women. We will probably go with that combination. I think Elder Subandriyo just wants to see something happen.

I tried to send out e-mails to all the couples with some report templates as attachments. I did not think they were sent but when we got home there was an e-mail from one of the couples saying that they did not know how to open the attachment. I wrote back giving instructions but I am still not sure they are even there. I should have us on the list so we can be sure what we sent is correct.

Mary is still not feeling well. We read early and she then went to bed. I stayed up mindlessly watching something on TV. Not what I would call a productive evening.