22 December 2007

22 December 2007 – Saturday

I again slept in until almost 7 – amazing. Spent the morning reading e-mail from friends wishing us a Merry Christmas. Went to the UDOT site to look at the current scene around home. They now have traffic-cams along University Parkway and even Timpview Drive so we can see up towards our house. I am surprised that while I miss being in my own house during this holiday season, I am not at all depressed about it. I feel that the Lord has strengthened my spirit because I am doing what I should be doing, where I should be doing it.

We read from the Kitab Mormon – Alma 35 and 36. Reading Alma’s recounting of his experience in connection with his repentance is always striking. He must first face his sins and then he is able to be brought to be humble. As I just wrote that I thought about how when he mentioned to the poor Zoramites about how some people must be put in a humbling postion before they repent, he was speaking from experience. Because it was only after the Lord had threatened him with destruction that he turns to Jesus Christ and repents. It is amazing that as many times as I had read those two scriptures – which are only about 20 pages apart – I had never put 2 and 2 together like that. Which just goes to show that no matter how many times you read the scriptures, something new always becomes apparent.

We went into the office where Mary worked on English and after Sam had called the PEF holders, she put the info into the computer. She also taught a piano lesson. I spent my time answering some e-mail and going through the ton of paperwork that we have been accumulating. I need to write up some of our new contacts but each time I start my mind seems to go blank. I wrote a couple of pages of lessons based on the Introduction to the Career Workshop. By the time 2 p.m. rolled around I was pretty much done for the day so we did not even go shopping.

During the afternoon and evening, we read from the Kitab Mormon twice, took naps – I really need it, and watched a couple of Christmas stories on TV. I keep reading bits and pieces of the D&C, Liahona, and PMG in Indonesian. At times I am pleased with how much I can read and then I will run into a paragraph that I can not even really figure out what it is about. Mary and I discussed how much Indonesian we really know if it is not in context. Many times we know a word because where it is and not so much what it is. But then many Indonesian words – like English words – have different meanings depending on the context.



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