We work our students until they drop – or until we do!
18 June 2007 – Monday

Our 47th Anniversary – We taught all day – Skype call from Bob – Letters from Shauna and Tom – lots of Father’s Day Greeting. We taught all day – Mary taught and then we split the class. Ate from the street – hot stuff. Mary did some shopping and then went home. I took the afternoon class – the class is covered for FHE and P-Day for the rest of the time. Dinner at the Park with the Peterson’s – it was her birthday as well as our anniversary. We agreed that we will do it again next year in Utah Valley. I got Mary a white gold heart for our anniversary – she got me a pile of DVD movies. After we got home from eating, I fell asleep on the couch. I did not send a letter to the president.

I wrote this note to remind myself of what went on but never got around to filling in details. The one thing I would mention is that my personal study is reading either from the D&C or the Kitab Mormon. As I read in the D&C I feel the spirit of the early Church to know exactly what the Lord wants them to do. To hear from the Prophet God’s words to them personally. What an experience that must have been to lay the foundations of a world-wide church by so few people with so few resources.

Now that we are serving in the true ‘mission field,’ I can better relate to this experience. We are helping to lay a solid foundation for the church in Indonesia. To help strengthen and train future leaders – men and women who will lead stakes, be temple workers, and temple presidents. Who will raise their children to be missionaries and to become general authorities. To bring a nation of hundreds of millions of souls to the truths of the Gospel. What a wonderful blessing it is to serve here where there is so much to be done. When I think of the trust and responsibility that the Lord has given us, I wonder if I am spiritually up for the task.