05 November 2007 – Monday

I am getting use to getting up early and studying before going down to the gym. I also enjoy exercising so the first part of the morning moves right along. When I got back to the apartment, I found a great letter from Jim. It was good to hear from him. His new job requires him to read and answer a lot of e-mail as well as supervising a crew in IT. That combined with Pier Central blog with all the pictures of Olivia made for a good morning for parents and grandparents. Then we read for a short time from the Kitab Mormon. When the IEC is over we will go back to our normal hour in the morning.

I almost forgot about Lukito coming through again. He called just as I was coming in from the gym. He will do the Career Workshop for the soon to be released missionaries at 1:00 p.m. So I called elder Tucksworth and told him it was on. Then later I called the president and told him things were set.

I had an appointment at an airport hotel for 11:00 a.m. So soon after we got to the chapel, I had to leave. First Sam and I dropped the equipment that Lukito would need off at the mission office and checked with elder Rowberry that everyone knew when they should be there. From there we drove to the airport and after getting well lost we found the right hotel.

Edward Jung – his first name is actually Jae Hyun but he chose Edward because of the Prince of Wales – is a new Overseas Sales General Manager for a Korean company that produces a machine that processes rice by using scanning cameras and cost $100,000 US. He contacted us looking for someone to run a service center in Jakarta. But this is down the line and so we spent most of our time talking about the Church and his call as branch president. He has a strong testimony and a believer in prayer. I hope things work out for him because it would be great for him and some of our members here. The traffic back looked really bad so I went to sleep and was surprised when I woke up to find us going in the parking lot of the church only an hour after we had left the airport.

While I was sitting in the car or at the hotel, my poor wife was teaching the IEC. When I got back Sam went to get us some lunch and I started in on printing things we needed for the afternoon. Later, while Mary was back teaching the whole group minus Ronald who was in Bandung for a job interview. I answered a ton of e-mail – I got a little taste of what Jim does every day. We did not get the one I wanted that would set up an interview for Daisy. Hopefully it will come tomorrow.

Back at the apartment, we read from the Kitab Mormon and had dinner. Then I worked on this journal and we watched the new Amazing Race. We are hooked on this program and we hope the Lord will understand. As I have been doing lately, I read from MIN in bed. There are lots of words or phrases I do not know. It is a good experience – not only in learning Indonesian but in studying the Gospel.