10 February 2008 – Sunday

We went to the Tangerang branches today. We went to the T2 sacrament meeting – it was good to see so many members that have become our friends over the last year. After the meeting we waited to greet the T1 members. They have a very small branch but it has a good spirit. Unfortunately we did not have much in the way of translators so I did not get a lot of what was being said, but I could feel the spirit as they spoke. T2 had one of their speakers not show up and not call in advance – that is the first time we have seen this happen – so we got to hear from President Jgarot.

The best meeting of the day for me was Priesthood at T1. They only had about 7 PH members in attendance but I had a great interpreter and the instructor got everyone involved. He would make a comment or have a scripture read and then have the class talk about it. This is completely different from what we had just experienced in SS where the teacher talked for 90% of the time.

After the meetings we came home and started packing. We decided to take two big suitcases and an extra carry-on so we had room for souvenirs that we knew we would buy. It turned out to be a good thing.

At about 8, we started reading the Kitab Mormon for the fourth time since we started our mission. This time we are just going to read it in Indonesian and translate it into English. We will not read the English version except where we feel we did not do a good job of translating. We are thinking that we will should be able to read it in 75 days or so.