10 March 2008 – Monday

Due to being awake during the night, I slept in a bit and did not go to the gym. I spent the morning doing normal things such as personal study, writing in this journal, and generally catching up with the world. We read from the Kitab Mormon – continuing in the later parts of Mosiah. I called Sam and found that he still had not recovered from his illness so we could not out visiting today as we had planned.

Instead we caught a taxi to the office where we spent three hours working on getting the files in order. Mainly we are working on the different English classes. But before this Mary sent in our rather late Employment Report for the month. We never did get anything from Central Java but Lukito came through with his this morning. Included with his report was the news that he had more income in the first two months of this year than he had all last year. I believe it is because he has never put business before the work of the kingdom. As I have often written in these pages, if I call him for help, he puts everything aside to do what is needed. Add to this the fact that he never seems to let the trials of the world get him down, and I think you have a perfect example of a Christ centered life.

After getting the filing under control, we returned to the apartment. After lunch we read another hour from the Kitab Mormon and then I went to the gym to make up for the missed session this morning. There were a few folks using the gym – mainly older women – but almost all of them were on the treadmills so I had the rest of the equipment to myself.

I continue to read from the Liahona in Indonesian but I think it would be better if I read with Mary because when we read together we complement each other – to be truthful she needs less help from me than I do from her. Mary is working on making more knitted baby caps. It is a good thing to do when we do not have much to do. Not having Sam to drive us probably gives us too much free time.

After dinner we read from the Kitab Mormon for the third time. At least the extra time give us a chance to read more. Also it gives me more time to edit and caption the thousands of pictures we have taken over the last 15 months.

It was a great day on the family blogs. We got to see a lot of wonderful pictures of our grandchildren. I looked at a picture of Rachel and it struck me how much she has grown since we left on our mission. I still think of her as being Kelli’s age. Krista has also grown into a young woman over the last months.