23 May 2008 – Friday

Ok so we may be getting just a little trunky – that is we are thinking more about what we need to do before we go home.

At the office today we had great internet connection and I was working my way through the things I needed to do when they turned off all the power to the whole area. Luckily we have the battery back-up so we could save what we were doing and shut down the computers. Sam went out and checked if he could find out when it would come back on but they would only say they had no idea.

We called it quits and came back to the apartment where at least some things could be accomplished before we went to have lunch with our friend Rudi.  We met him and Yanni Mongan from Tangerang 2 at a restaurant that served traditional Indonesian food and had gado-gado – which is basically vegetables and rice in a sauce. In this case it was peanut sauce. After that we had something that was definitely not traditional – some very good ice cream. It was nice to meet with Rudi and talk some about our brief friendship. I doubt if we will ever meet again in this life, but I hope that sometime we will on the other side.

After lunch we went to the mission office for just a few minutes to deliver the Tangerang elder’s weekly reports and to talk to the translation folks for a few minutes. The President was busy talking to the office elders – they are very busy because right now there is only one assistant and he is in Medan. So they get to do all the work. Then we made a quick stop at Sogo to get some orange juice and of course a visit to BreadTalk for our next-to-the-last bunch of goodies.

We came home and basically did not much except read from the A&P, work on this journal and pictures. Our date night was watching the first two episodes of the life of John Adams that was made for TV. It was pretty good and they seemed to stick to history well. I like the fact that Abigail Adams is shown as the strong and intelligent woman that she was. That their marriage was one between equals and filled with love. I need to read her biography. Before turning off the light I read from the Teaching of Joseph Smith in Indonesian. It is at times challenging.