02 February 2008 – Saturday

I have repented of my failure to keep up this journal in January and hopefully will write each day.

As the English Class winds down, the days are starting to blur together. Mary seems to not feel too well this morning so we cut short our reading from the Kitab Mormon so she could rest for a few minutes more. Hopefully she will get to feeling better because she has the High School class to teach today. I will try to take most of the morning so perhaps she can get more rest for this afternoon.

I should note that due to the rain, there is flooding in parts of Jakarta. This is not new for Jakarta but it was enough flooding to make the news and to get people talking about it. It is nothing like last year at this time so there was no need to start a public kitchen.

We taught the IEC – both morning and afternoon. We shared the morning and then in the afternoon I taught our class while Mary taught the High School class. We are only getting 2 to 4 to the class. Once we get done with IEC and the couple’s conference, we will try to meet with all the young people and their parents and see if we can get more of them to come regularly. It would be good for them and also for the seminary class that comes after the class.

After the class we came to the apartment and read from the Kitab Mormon – once soon after we got home and once before heading off to bed. During Zone Conference, the Zone Leaders challenged us to each choose 4 or 5 things that we could do one more of each day. One of the things we chose was to read one more page from the Kitab Mormon and we are trying to do that by reading a page or two before we go to bed.

Later in the evening I tried to hook into one of the streams that would broadcast President Hinckley’s funeral. We watched a special program on President Hinckley and I set Total Recorder to kick in when the funeral started. Unfortunately when we woke, we found that the stream had stopped before the funeral started so all we got was noise.