13 March 2008 – Thursday

Our days are busy but it does not seem like we are accomplishing much. This morning, after reading from the Kitab Mormon, we cleaned out a shelf full of English books for children. We will give some to members, keep some for future English classes, and send some to other couples to use or give away.

At the office we worked on our English lessons and continued to clean up the English material. I filed what I had organized yesterday and went through some more piles. What I did not do was remember to take some vocabulary books to the mission office so the Taylors could take them to Erna in Jogya. Now we will have to have them mailed.

At the mission office Mary taught her English lesson while I talked to the President, the Taylors and the Davises. As we were visiting with Elder Subandriyo he mentioned that he was correcting his talk for the BYUH devotional. Mary happened to mention she was a experienced proof-reader so he asked her if she would look it over. Later he sent her a copy via e-mail.

We were early getting to Tangerang so we stopped at the mall where we had something to drink and bought donuts for the missionaries and our English class. When we got to the chapel only one companionship was there so we sat around and talked about the mission and other things. Elder Manullang and Elder Prause are having some good success including a family of four that have been coming out regularly. Later Elder Cheney and Elder Worwood joined us so we could have district meeting. As always I enjoyed the meeting because it is great to hear the missionaries share their successes and also their disappointments.

Unfortunately we had no one come for English class. It does not appear that anyone thinks it is important enough to re-schedule other events to come. It is disappointing but it just means we are going to have to do something new to get people to come. At least there was lots of donuts for the missionaries.

The best news of the day was that Sam and Anne are definitely getting married in April. The exact details are still being worked out but it appears that it will be on April 26th. I do not know what that will mean for our English class or our own activities but we will work it out.