06 May 2008 – Tuesday

For some reason I had a lot of trouble writing about today. Not because it was not a good day but for some reason I almost decided to not to write much if anything.

At the office I worked on the vocabulary exercises – there is still a lot to do but I am determined to finish them before we go home. We had a man come who wanted some help with finding a job. At first he said he did not have much English but it turned out he had spent years in the US and on cruise ships so his English was very good. He was a little strange but really seemed to know how to cook – that is what he mostly did. During the interview we discovered he had a secured a green card through a lawyer but it turned out to be fake. So it is a good thing he left the US voluntarily. He really wants to go back. Anyway I gave his name and number to brother Page who needs a cook.

After he left I found out from talking to the elders – especially elder Thiemann that they had worked with him in Bogor and they thought he was only interested in the Church because he thought it could get him back to America. I then told brother Page about their thoughts.

We went to the mission office by taxi so Mary could teach her lesson. While she was doing that I talked to most of the staff that was not in her class and to the elders.

We read from the A&P three times today. Other than becoming better in reading Indonesian, I am not sure that we are getting much from this exercise. We worry so much about the meaning of each word, we do not get much of the spirit of this great set of revelations. But in another way we do have a unique experience because we find ourselves asking questions about the meaning of words and sentences that we just read through in English. When we read in Englis it is only when we stop and ponder the scripture do we really understand the valuable lesson that are being taught.