Minggu 20 A slow week

This week was a little slow.  We spent several days at the Church working on various things.  We went out with the Sisters and Elders to do some visits with inactive families and new member visits.  We also went out with the Sisters for an afternoon when our appointment canceled and looked for some members who no one had seen in a long time.  We went to 4 different peoples addresses and didn't find anyone.  Unfortunately, this is all to common.  We are hoping to get them to try and make contact after they have missed two or three weeks, before they are completely lost. 
Our grandson, Dallin was baptized on Saturday.  We are so proud of him for his good choices.  We also taught English class Saturday afternoon.  It was interesting because we had 3 little girls, maybe 8 yrs old, and then our regular High School, College class combined.  We played short vowel bingo.  I made up different bingo cards with words that had short vowels in them.  Then they all got a card and a little bag of M&M's.  I said a word and Sis. Jibson wrote the word on the board with the Indonesian word next to it.  This was after they had tried to find the word first.  When we had a bingo they had to read me the words they had marked.  Some did make mistakes but we all had fun and we kept going with the same cards and words marked until everyone got a bingo and a snickers bar.  They had lots of fun and then we spent the last few minutes getting them to ask us questions in English.  They ask interesting questions.  Everyone likes to ask what our age is.  The girl that asked this time said, "Wow, you don't look that old."  Here so many die in their 40's and 50's and they really look their age or older.  Afterward we had a great conversation with 4 of the college students about American Universities vs Indonesian Universities.  We all talked for at least a half hour or 45 minutes after class.  None of our regular students are members of the church.
Today we went to church and had Branch Council meeting afterward.  Sister Emma, the Branch Pres.'s wife finally came back to church for the first time after having her baby.  It has been about 6 weeks.  The Chinese customs are interesting.  They don't go out of the house for the first 30 days after having a baby.  Sis. Emma is the YW President so she stayed for Council meeting.  She sat next to me and kept telling Rebecca (the baby) say hi to your grandma Tucker.  She mentioned the other night, "You will be here to see her start walking and running around, that is so good."  That is another good thing about being a Senior missionary we are in one place long enough to really see changes being made in a place and being able to watch converts grow in the gospel.
We got our pictures back from zone conference last week.  Much more efficient this time.

 The Jakarta Zone and the missionaries from Medan.  We are not in a zone or district or stake.

All of the Sisters in the Zone and Medan.