28 December 2007 – Friday

Normal morning with a good workout. There has been almost no one in the gym during the holidays. It is almost like it is my private gym and I get to control all the TVs. When I got back to the apartment there was an e-mail from the Barnards saying that the flooding in Central Java had affected a number of members including their driver. The Roberts are out delivering mail and the elders are mucking out houses. One of the families affected is sister Endang who is our ERS specialists in the district.

When packing up for the day I could not find my scriptures and finally decided I must have left them last night at the Tangerang chapel. I called around to the missionaries and found that I had left them there but no one had brought them home so they were still sitting in the room. I asked that someone pick them up so they did not get lost.

We went to district meeting at the mission office. As usual it was late starting but when it was over Elder Rowberry said that next week he would start it on time even if all the missionaries are not there. I told him that was a great idea.

The meeting was good except that they went back to doing it in Indonesian. We had a good discussions about a number of missionary themes and one gave me the opportunity to give my Widow Mites talk. Later elder Suyono picked up on it.