10 November 2007 – Saturday

I got in almost an hour on PMG before heading down to the gym for an hour. So I managed to exercise both my spirit and my body and all before 7:00! It is interesting that both studying Indonesian and working my muscles bring some temporary pain – How could I forget THAT word? & Do I have to do two more? – but hopefully long term gains.

I spend the rest of the morning on this journal, reading the Kitab Mormon with Mary, and doing some more vocabulary in context exercises. The time goes by quickly and we take a taxi over to the chapel. Sam is using the car to drive out to see his folks and later go on a date.

We have one client – Wawang from our English class – it is almost good that there were not more because we did not have Sam to help with translation. It takes almost 2 hours to get a person set up on Jobsdb and run them through how to use it and then apply for a few jobs. Mary did most of it because of the typing needed.

I spent most of the time cleaning up the office by putting away a lot of the things we used for the English class. For some I found storage space and for a large part I just got it all together in a single box so we can go through and organize it later this week. I also worked on the vocabulary exercises. Mary wants me to do some that are specific to her business class. Later in the day I decided I needed to do easier ones for beginners.

Just about the time we were packing up to come home, President and sister Lee dropped in to chat. We spent about a half hour with them – I gave sister Lee a vocabulary book to take home – and then caught a cab back to the apartment. We caught a ‘Silver Bird’ taxi – this is an upscale version of the ‘Blue Bird’ that we usually use. The strange thing about this is that while all Blue Birds are blue, all Silver Birds are black. Silver Birds are a little more expensive but are bigger and nicer – also the drivers usually speaks much better English. Our driver was great and we taught him Volcano, eruption and lava. He learned English so he could drive the better taxi and talk to his riders. He had learned from reading English books. So even if you drive a taxi, it is important that you speak English for the best jobs and tips.

Until Mary left for choir practice, we spent most of the day reading Kitab Mormon, napping, and such. Off and on I read from PMG Ind. I am reading are re-reading the part on the Kitab Mormon. Both to learn the language but also to understand the message the bretheren are trying to get across to us as missionaries.