On Tuesday we picked up the Sisters to help them locate the address for a referral they had received. We discovered the name to the street they were looking for and looked it up in the map book, there were three streets with the same name, but were able to figure out the correct one, but it took a long time to actually locate it. Once we found it we spent about an hour visiting with the two adult sons of the person they had received as a referral. It was a pleasant visit, left some literature on the family and the Plan of Salvation, also made arrangements to contact them again, when their mother was home. Dropped the sisters off so they could meet up with Mei Naingollan and teach a young lady. That evening we went to see about purchasing a new Tablet (ended up getting the same one that Elder had lost on Saturday. Wednesday we met with the Language training administrator assigned to us, and had our final meeting with him, and shared our thoughts about the program and possible changes or improvements they might make. We were asked. Elder met with Pres Rico for Presidency Meeting, then we went to Jalan Aisa to look for a new keyboard for the building. We had Brother Manalu go into the stores to check pricing so we wouldn't get the Buleh price. None of the shops had the unit we were looking for, in fact the last store we checked told us it was not available anywhere on Sumatra. That evening Elder called Bishop Agus, who told us we could buy any one of several units available.Thursday on our way to the church we stopped and bought a keyboard piano. When the Elders showed up at the Church for a teaching appointment we had them move the keyboard into the church. We met with Novita to help her get her LDS account working again, then helped do a little family history with her. Ali Reza and family came by to visit with a couple of the Elders, but as they were not there we visited for about an hour until the Elders were there and had finished getting some information printed off upstairs on the computer. Visited with the Harefa's, had a good visit, and also got Elder Sutarno and Davies introduced to the Surumaha, and Nidianus Harefa families. The Elders are planning to try and teach in both the Harefa and Surumaha homes. At about 8:30, on our way home that night we were going to stop and get some dinner, but got a text asking if we could stop by the hospital to visit Sister Desni whose condition has taken a turn for the worse, she was back in ICU again. Because she was in ICU we only sent up the Elders to go visit, and give her a blessing. The Elders did not think she would be alive more than another day. On Friday early morning we recieved some text messages informing us that Sister Desni had died at 4 AM. We attended DDM for about an hour, then Elder went with President Rico to visit the family of Sister Desni. It took them a while to figure out where the family was, as there was no one at the one location we knew about. Got back to the church about 3, just in time for DDM to have finished, they went for quite a long time in their meeting. We then assembled the piano. This evening we went to Brastagi to do a little shopping. We needed bread just in case for Sacrament on Sunday.
The funeral for Sister Desni is scheduled for today, Saturday. We finally showed up at the families' home for the funeral, we visited for a while, then after the family had finished meeting, and had the body placed in the coffin, we went into the home and were able to address the assembled family and shared what messages and words of comfort we could. At this funeral of the 6 people in our group Elder and 2 of the young missionaries were asked to speak, this time Elder did manage to share his thoughts in Indonesian. We then took the young missionaries and dropped them off at the church, then Elder Tucker and I headed to the Grand Asten Hotel to see President and Sister Donald. As we were traveling there we got a text redirecting us to Pres. Rico and Sister Emma's dental office as Sister Donald decided to have some dental work done while they were here. So while she waited to see Emma, we visited in the lobby of the office. I am going to have Emma do a dental cleaning for me in the near future. Later we left Sister Donald at the office and took President to their hotel, and Elder Tucker and I went to the church to get set up for English & a disciplinary council. I left to go spend time with Sister Donald and President Donald and Elder finished up about 7, and met up with us and we had dinner together in the Hotel Restaurant. It was really nice to just visit with another woman who speaks your language and just hang out. We don't get that here often because we are out by our selves and don't get visited very often. Then we called it a day and went home and got ready for church.
Today we had only 2 children in Primary and they did not speak Indonesian at all or English very well. They are the kids of Ali and Mesi that the Elders are teaching. Pres. Rico took President and Sister Donald to the train station so they could take it to the airport so we got a taxi home. A fairly quiet evening sending emails to the branch missionaries and working on this, etc.
This was taken today after church. Elder Tucker was upstairs doing tithing. President and Sister Donald (Australia), Elder Davies (England), Elder Headrick (Ohio) and our new district leader, seems like a very on the ball, hard worker, Elder Sutarno (Solo), Elder Suwarsid (Bakasi), Sister Believe (Manado), Elder teases her about being short, myself and Sister Zabriskie (St. George, Utah) and only been in country about three weeks. She is doing really well with her language.
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