03 February 2008 – Sunday

When we found out that we did not record the funeral last night we looked for a re-broadcast. I was about to give up so Mary took over and quickly found one that would start in 15 minutes. Luckily we got connected and were able to watch most of the funeral before we left for church.  Since the first hour was a KSL special on President Hinckley’s life and I was recording it, we decided to read from the Kitab Mormon until the funeral actually started. We are in Ether and they are about to be told to build some boats.

Sam picked us up and took us to Jakarta Raya and then headed to his own branch. We found out that they would be using the last hour of the block and a couple more to watch the funeral. Since it would all be in Indonesia and we had already seem most of it in English we decided to come home after Sunday School.

A number of the members gave testimonies about their meeting President Hinckley. He was here in 2000 and a number of Saints got to see and meet him then. Hendra meet him when he was a translator for conference. And told the story of that and then later meeting him when he came to Jakarta for a visit. The Saints here have tender memories of the Prophet.

Unlike most Sunday afternoons and evenings, this one was rather busy. We had invited the class over for dinner and an activity. So Mary spent much of the afternoon fixing things for dinner – a Creole dish, salad, and biscuits. I was in charge of cleaning the living room and making the fruit salad. Mary also baked a cake for dessert. We even managed to read from the Kitab Mormon for about an hour.

They arrived at about 5:00 and when we were all sitting down while the food finished cooking they gave us presents. This really surprised us because none of the other classes even gave us a thank-you card. Mary got a really nice butterfly necklace and I got a shirt. We were greatly touched.

Dinner was a success – they hardly used the hot sauce I bought especially for the dinner. While we were eating I started ‘The Bee Movie’ and they laughed all the way through it. Another way we found that this group was different was that they washed the dishes before they left. Since that is usually my task, that made it much easier for me.

Once they were gone we started to read from the Kitab Mormon but not too long after we started Mary hit the wall and had to go to bed. She was asleep before 9:00.