We were at a nursery looking for something to use as a Christmas tree – they do not do live trees or cut trees here it seems – when it started to pour rain and it kept up for a solid hour. It was the heaviest rain I had experienced except for February 2007 in Jakarta Indonesia when it rain like that for not hours but days.

Notice the size of the splashes in the water which shows how much rain was coming down. It turned the road in our complex into a sheet of water.

However that is nothing compared to what the days of rain did to the streets in Jakarta. Looking back it seems like a great experience and there is a lot to smile about. However for the 3 million or so people who were flooded out of their homes I am sure it was not a very pleasant experience.

Each Saturday a different group of members of the branch gives up part of their Saturday to come and get the school room ready to be a chapel. Sisters Williams and Kujane arrived with umbrellas – not to protect them from the rain but from the sun. They then traded their umbrellas for brooms and mops as the cleaned and then polished the floors. Two priesthood holders showed up soon after these pictures were taken and helped set up the room for sacrament meeting the next day.

While they were working the rain storm pictured above came in and so everyone stayed at the school until the rain pretty much stopped coming down in buckets. I imagine they used the umbrellas to keep off any lingering drops.