The lady is a painting – actually oil pastel – that I bought at the Solo airport. I love the way the whole work comes together. The man is our faithful gardener who is there each morning when we arrive. I keep forgetting his name – what a surprise – but I try to go out and say hello to him so that he knows I know he is there keeping the grounds beautiful. When I took this picture he asked for a copy – it has taken me 3 days but it is now printed and I will give it to him tomorrow. I was thinking if all of us did our calling in the church as diligently as he keeps up the grounds, both the church and ourselves would be much more clean and worthy to be called the Lord’s.
20 June 2007 – Wednesday

I had a good night’s sleep but was still soon tired. I think it is because almost I am not getting enough physical exercise and too much mental. At least that is my excuse for being tired much of the day. We read the Kitab Mormon for about an hour – we had to look up a lot of words today.

On the letter front, we got a nice letter from Keith – he seems to be doing well. That is good for us because this means we have rent coming in for at least the next couple of years. We also got a nice letter from Kelli telling about her trip to a park with her mother and friend. It is great to get letters – we can not get too many.

Mary took most of the class today. I helped get things ready and made lots of copies of things, but she did all the teaching. I am working with a young man who is at the BYUH and is coming home soon. I hope to have a couple of interviews for him by the time he gets here. I have already contacted president Gjarot about getting his resume out to the computer community and today I talked to Joel about him working for Conoco Philips. It helps to have good contacts.

I did take four of the students and worked with them the last hour on today’s vocabulary words. Sam got me lunch and Sister Park also brought food. I mixed hers in with the street food Sam bought and so I had a big lunch. After eating I stretched out over two chairs and took a short nap.

The Petersons came right on time and so once we neaten the office we could head for home. The nap was long enough that I did not need another so the afternoon and evening was spent reading from the Kitab Mormon and the D&C, having dinner, and watching some TV. It is almost as if we were home.

Joel called after the class had left his house and was very excited because he held a vocabulary bee of the words that I had e-mailed him. He said they had a great time and everyone got involved – even after they were eliminated they were right in the game. I was surprised when Jin-young was one of the last two standing. I was not surprised that Vita was the winner. That young lady just sucks up knowledge. I am going to keep increasing her work until she says stop.

Obviously Jin-young is also spending lots of time on her school work. When we went over the vocabulary this morning she was not well prepared – so she must have made her flash cards and studied them. Hopefully others will do the same – it is a shame we did not start this from day one. But then we did not have the book that has all the vocabulary words.