16 February 2008 – Saturday

I still have not started back to the gym but really should since I managed to put on a few pounds while at the conference. We read from the Kitab Mormon for about an hour. We are not reading the English version so we can read 5-6 pages per hour. Reading the Book of Mormon this often is making it much more familiar to us, but I still can not get much of it stick in my memory. We are reading about their journey in the wilderness.

We went to the office for our regular hours. Mary worked on a lesson for her high school class in the afternoon and I answered a lot of e-mail that had gathered during our trip. I tried to call Tom and Bob using our pre-paid phone card but the best we could do was leave a message on Bob’s phone. That pre-paid card is really not worth the money.

Around noon Sam and I went to Sogo to get some things we needed at home and to visit BreadTalk. We were able to do this quite quickly and so we stopped at the apartment to put away the groceries before going back to the office.

When we got there it was about 1:30 and Mary did not have any students. There was some kind of activity going on and they had cancelled Seminary. Mary was very, very tired  so we waited until 2:00 to make sure no students were coming and then caught a taxi back to our apartment. The reason we took a taxi was that Sam was busy organizing a Single Adult activity for the district and had to use the car to pick up the food. He bought food for 50 but only expects 20-30. (It turned out that only 10 came so they certainly had plenty of food.)

Back at the apartment we fought with the internet to try and retrieve our mail but lost the struggle. The internet here is terrible but we have no alternative choice. I almost would get dial-up but they charge by the minute so if you leave the connection on you can run up a huge bill.

We read two more hours from the Kitab Mormon and figure we need to do this for a couple more days to catch up for our lack of reading while at the conference. We also took naps which felt really good.

I read the PH lesson in English and in Bahasa – I am happy to be able to read most of the lesson and understand what is said. I still run into sections I do not understand but hopefully if we continue studying and reading after we get home, we will continue to improve.

During the day I checked with the Kanes to see how sister Kane was doing. She is still under the weather but it is better than when we left them last night at the airport. Hopefully she will get well soon. She really does not like to be ill because she hardly ever has any problems.