26 September 2007

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Mary’s 2nd Indonesian cross-stitch.  Mugi our intrepid house cleaner

26 September 2007 – Wednesday

P-day!  A day of rest and for studying Indonesia. We read 11 pages from the Kitab Mormon today. I also read from the Indonesian translations of a couple of conference talks. Usually I can get the basic idea of a sentence from just reading, but to get what was actually said, I must look up some of the words. I am determined to get to a point where I can at least read Indonesian fluently before we leave the mission. Speaking and hearing seems still to be a long term goal. I think just the challenge of learning something completely new is good for my mind and the knowledge that I need the Lord’s help is good for my humility.

I spent part of the day cleaning up my nightstand drawers. I just shove things into them and it had become impossible for me to find anything. So I just took everything out and went through it piece by piece. Now I can at least open and close the drawers and might even be able to find something. Being on a mission has not helped my neatness skills.

The Kanes dropped by for a short time so we could exchange some things we bought for each other. Elder Kane has been ill also – his was not from left over pizza. They found out last night that Elder Burr from Hong Kong wanted to see a water project. So they had to change all their plans for today and tomorrow to fit it in. The Kanes are a great couple and one of the blessings of the mission has been getting to know them.

Mary is working hard on some genealogy she got interested in. She has pages and pages of information that she needs to update on individual records. I forgot to mention that on Tuesday she got her framed cross-stitch work back and it looks great.

It was a good day and by bed time I was feeling about 95% of my usual self.



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