Our version of Kinkos – the woman next to Mary started talking to her and said that she had a Mormon friend. This is how the print shop does it’s trash disposal. Lots of people do this and it just adds to the pollution. Of course having a few thousand buses all needing to be tuned does not help either.
19 June 2007 – Tuesday
It is 9:45 a.m., I am in the office, and I have a headache. Not a good thing since we are teaching both the morning and afternoon classes. I also just messed up some of the printing I am trying to do.
On the positive side, I just read a nice letter from Kristy and sent a reply. It is always great to get something from home. Earlier I looked at a photo display of President Hinckley that McKay forwarded to me.
I jumped right out of bed this morning after a good night’s sleep. I read from Moroni 7 in the Kitab Mormon – it is one of my favorite chapters and so I want to be able to read it in Indonesian. Once I got started it went rather smoothly but there are still many words I must look up. Later we read in 3 Nephi and made it to the day that Christ was born and the great sign that was shown to the Nephites and Lamanites. But even as this sign was being given, it says that Satan was putting into the minds of some that it really was not so – that it was foolish to believe in these things.
Mary is teaching the first part of the morning period – she is a much better teacher and seems to really enjoy the opportunity to teach. I am making copies of vocabulary words for the rest of the classes. It is strange how slowly some mornings go by and at other times they seem to speed by…today is a slow one.
Last night we had dinner with the Peterson’s to celebrate our anniversary and sister Peterson’s birthday –she says that she is now officially a senior-citizen. We talked about how different our missions have been than we expected – even after we knew what we would be doing here. The Petersons, the Kanes and ourselves are the only Humanitarian and Service missionaries in Indonesia. So we do not have the same experiences as the other senior couples who spend most of their time working with the members, the missionaries and the branches. And of course our calling is the only one that has regular office hours…something we are going to do away with in the near future. Or at least cut them down drastically. (Interesting – drastic is one of the vocabulary words they are learning this week.)
I taught the last hour of the morning class and I made a lot of copies of different things that we plan to use over the next week. While we had a break for lunch I got to feeling poorly and asked Mary to take the afternoon classes. While she did that I did more copying and sent off some e-mail. The afternoon – unlike the morning – went quickly.
It is now after 6 and brother Moore is not here yet. He is usually late but tonight he is even later. Hopefully he will show up soon. If he is not here by 7 we will just call it a night and let them go home and do their homework and get an extra hour of sleep.
Brother Moore made it and so we were able to leave before 6:30. We ordered in dinner from the little restaurant downstairs. They have very good food for a reasonable price. We especially like their chicken steak with mushroom sauce, vegetables and french fries. After dinner we watched Nicolas Cage in ‘Next.’ I thought it was very entertaining and it moved right along. The only part that got me was that the bad guys were able to follow the good guys much too easily. This DVD was part of my anniversary present from Mary. I ended the day reading from Moroni 7 – I do not do nearly as well alone as I do with Mary but I will keep plugging along.