I guess I could post 8 or 10 times a day. The missionaries in the district will put on a big Christmas program on Saturday. Mary will play a solo and I will try to hide in the back. More Catch Up –

 07 December 2007 – Friday

I slept in and did not exercise. No ‘Exactly Obey’ for me today. I did manage personal study and we read from the Kitab Mormon. I got a call from elder Cheney that Looky’s young son did die and the funeral will be tomorrow morning. Agus K. told me that he felt the family was doing fine and all the relatives are giving them support. The power of the church to comfort and support is one of its great strengths. 

We went to district meeting in a pouring rain storm. We only got wet going from the car to the building, but some of the missionaries arrived completely soaked. It seems some of them do not have umbrellas. Later we heard that elder Thiemann, who had already been soaked once, fell into a hole up to his chest. I guess it is a good thing he is tall. If his companion would have fallen in, it would have been up to his neck. 

We found that president Marchant was ill and so he had cancelled Zone Conference in Solo. It turned out he has something that exhausts him after working for an hour or so. He also is running a fever. Hopefully it is not dengue fever – if it is he is going to be down for quite a while.  

Due to the storm delays of missionaries coming in, the district meeting was an hour late getting started, but since there was little activity in the district and elder Rowberry gave a good but short lesson on “adjusting your teaching to meet needs,” it was finished in 30 minutes. I asked the missionaries if they ever had the experience of being prompted by the spirit to change what they were going to teach. Elder Rowberry gave a good example of how this does work. He was prompted to teach the Word of Wisdom early on and his investigator gave up all his vices that day.  

We then went to Sogo so Mary could buy even more supplies for cookie making. I told her we could have bought 20 or 30 dozen of good cookies for what she is paying for supplies and it would have saved her the work of making them. She agreed but it was too late by then. 

We hit terrible traffic coming back to the apartment. It took us an hour to travel what usually takes us 20 minutes. Rain and it being Friday seems to have been the cause. It was not fun. I tried reading from MIK but only for a short time. For some reason reading in the car does not work for me. I do not get sick, it just does not sink in. 

Daisy came to clean our apartment – she needs some income until she gets a job. I took a short – for me – nap while she was cleaning. She did an excellent job and Mary gave her a little more than we usually pay for getting our apartment cleaned. Daisy said she would like to clean our apartment even if she gets a regular job. She is a hard worker and I think she wants to save money to go to school. 

It was a strange evening for us. We had pizza and soon after we were finished, Mary lay down on the couch and hardly moved for a couple of hours. I finally got her to go to bed where she immediately woke up and started working on English games she found on the web. She has been spending hours finding and downloading games and activities for our English classes.