08 February 2008 – Friday

Up at about 6 after a good night’s sleep. I have still not started back at the gym, but my weight keeps falling so that is good. I read some from the Conference talks in the Liahona. It is much easier to read the talks of non-native English speakers because they do not use many difficult words or phrases. I must go back and try to read one of Elder Maxwell’s talks – I can not imagine how they translated his play on words, etc. They must lose a lot in the process – not in basic thought but in construction.

We stopped at the chapel long enough to get Daisy going and to do a few things before heading for the mission office and District Meeting. It was the first district meeting that we had been to in over a month. It turned out to be a very small affair because the office and the Jakarta Raya missionaries were not there. Also the Walkers were gone so it was just us, the sisters, and the AP’s.  It ran a little long for the content but it was good to hear how they were doing and share their spirit. We had a short lesson on Patience and Humility. Both of course Christ like attributes I have been working on for the last year.

After the meeting we stopped for some lunch at a small mall. We tried some 50 cent Quesadillas which were a little short on taste but still not bad, a hamburger and some A&W root beer. Then we went back to the chapel where Mary had a couple of things to do before going back to the apartment.

Daisy came with us and cleaned the apartment – which really needed it. While she was doing that we read some from the Kitab Mormon and then I started watching some talks on BYUTV. While I was watching them I feel asleep and managed to catch a nice nap.

By the time we had read from the Kitab Mormon for the third time we were only 5 pages from the end and so we should finish sometime on Saturday. We are not sure we are going to start right back in on the KM – we are thinking about switching to conference talks which are harder to translate and then starting the KM again on March 1. This will give us 3 months to finish it for the 4th time – 12th actually – before we arrive home.

Before going to sleep I read from the conference issue of the Liahona and worked on vocabulary. It may take 5 years but I am going to learn Indonesian – with the Lord’s help of course.