No we did not go to the fabric store today – these pictures come from our Monday trip. Loads of fabrics are carried, pushed, and driven everywhere. Some loads -like the ones pictured are huge and we are amazed that they can be carried at all. As you know carefully packed fabric is not light. But these folks do this many times a day, 6 days a week.

02 April 2008 – Wednesday

We woke much too early and while Mary tried to go back to sleep I walked/jogged a mile and then went to the gym to finish off my exercise for the day. Back at the apartment I worked on the journal before having breakfast and then reading from the Kitab Mormon.

Since it was P-day there was laundry to do and we needed to neaten the house before the cleaning lady came. We went back to the company we had used before and this time they sent us a great housekeeper who spent 4 hours deep cleaning most of the house. It really, really needed it. While she was finishing up I managed to catch a much needed short nap.

Later I was thinking about yesterday and remembered becoming enthralled with the April issue of the Ensign and decided to write some comments on the articles.

We read again from the Kitab Mormon – we have passed the 2/3 mark and should finish before the end of April. It is still really hard to translate some of the sections correctly or at least to get them to agree with the English version. Part of this is because it does not translate exactly but some of it is because we mistake words or the sequence of the words.

The other day I was talking to Sam about spoken Indonesian and he said that they shorten many words when speaking that are used in full when writing. I continue to gain respect for Indonesians who have learned to speak English.

Mary spent much of the day crocheting baby caps – she now has done 10.