Steak anyone? L to R – Elder Herman, Prause, Cheney and Manullang with Anni, Sam and Mary in the background. The Tangerang gang – I mean district – together together – L to R – Elder Prause, Manullang, Cheney, Herman. This is a left over picture from Monday’s trip to the fabric mall. The picture does not do justice to the rainbow of colors, but the size and weight of the load is evident.

03 April 2008 – Thursday

Normal morning including personal study – I continue to work on Indonesian – and reading from the Kitab Mormon.

At the office Mary prepares for her English class and I fight the internet connection until it starts to work. I am afraid my patience was a little thin today. I finally get it to hold and go about handling e-mail, etc. While we were working, Agus came by and told us that there would not be an English class today at the mission office. So we finished up what we were doing and had Sam drive us back to the apartment to eat lunch and read from the Kitab Mormon before heading for Tangerang.

We had a great night at Tangerang but I was sorry to see Elder Worwood had already left for Bogor to be Elder Vatcher’s companion. We got to again meet Elder Herman who we got to meet with for a couple of weeks and then he was sent to Surabaya. He is now Elder Cheney’s companion. There is a lot of moving around going on and this was Elder Manullang’s last DL here. He will be moving to Solo on Monday.

We had a good DM – they have a number of baptisms lined up including two on Sunday just before Elder Manullang leaves. It is a good way to end his time in Tangerang. It is also nice for Elder Prause who is his companion and will be staying here.

Agus and Cathern’s children came to English class along with one of the Elder’s investigators. I had them play ‘Fruit and Vegetable’ Bingo and then we went through some opposites. The younger children and the investigator were helped in all of this by the missionaries. I think they had a good time and learned some things. Just before we left I asked them to repeat a couple of the Articles of Faith and they got 2 of the first 3. That was encouraging.

We closed up the chapel and Mary and I treated the Elders to Warung Steak. We were able to give a good meal to 8 of us for just under $20. The elders were still finishing up when we took our leave for the long trip home.

All in all it was a good day with some chances to gain spiritual strength, to serve others, read and ponder the scriptures, and to share a meal with four fine elders. Add to that finding out where to go to get information we need for one of Elder Subandriyo’s projects and it was a fruitful day indeed.

My day ends much as it started – reading conference talks in Indonesian.