11 June 2007 – Monday –

I slept well but was still tired when I got up. It has been a rather busy morning. We received an e-mail from Cindy and she is blogging so we got to see a picture of Tyler and found out that they had weeded our yard on Saturday. We also talked to Bob and Tom for a short time – the static is still terrible with Skype. It must be because of the poor bandwidth here. So we had a good morning. We read 2 ½ pages from the Kitab Mormon and are now getting ready to head off to the office and our class. We are teaching all the classes today and having them over for Family Home Evening – we are going to be tired by the time they leave. But it should be a good feeling tiredness.

Mary did most of the teaching in the morning and then we gave them an hour for lunch so we could finish the afternoon classes early. We need to get home and prepare for FHE. Mary taught the first part of the afternoon class and then Sam took her home.

I finished up the class by playing a game with them. I hid a whiteboard eraser and had them question me to find it. I soon found that their minds do not really grasp the way of asking limiting questions especially not when it comes to space. Also they did not really listen to what the others were saying so they would ask the same question that someone else asked. By the time we were done I am sure all of us were frustrated.

I finished the class at about 4:00 and had Sam take me home. He will bring them all over at 6. At home the young lady was cleaning the house and Mary was working on dinner. I helped a little but not much.

FHE went OK – they liked the food. Spaghetti, potato salad, green salad, and garlic bread. Toni was especially excited about the potato salad because he had it before and it is not really available in Indonesia. (Maybe he can open a potato salad business?  How about baked potato business. How much are potatoes in Indonesia?  How about potatoes with tempe?) There was a on of food left over – at least tons of potato salad (Only Toni was very interested in it), green salad – we needed salad bowls – and penne (But most of the sauce was gone)

After dinner we played a pretty lame pioneer game that took too long to play. Everyone was happy when Vita and Ekjo won.  After they left for their home, we cleaned up and washed a ton of dishes. For Mary it was the fourth load of dishes for the day.