Early Monday morning Elder got a call to keep Elder Hobbs company for the day, and then put him on a plane to Jakarta. The A/C in the living room finally stopped working, and dripped water onto the keyboard, and all over our map of the city, so we turned the AC off for the evening. The drain is clogged. We will see if we can get someone to unclog it.
On Tuesday we went shopping at Lotte Mart (closest thing they have to a costco here) to get all of the things to go into bags for the kids at the Christmas Activity. I was in charge of those since I am Primary President. First time we have been there. Not bad. Elder picked up some plastic tubing and wire to see if he could use it to unclog the drain, He had texted to see if he could get a service man out to do the work but never got a response. We looked to see if they had any kind of drain cleaner at Ace or Brastagi, with no luck. So after thinking about it he decided to try baking soda and vinegar, He mixed the baking soda with water and filled the plastic hose with it and blew it out into the drain line, then used a plastic water bottle and the plastic line (made a hole in the lid so the plastic line barely fit so it would let him apply pressure without leaking) to pour in the vinegar, it all went in the drain line but no indication of whether it worked or not. So then he filled the 2 liter water bottle with water, and started running water down the drain line, eventually the line started sucking the water out of the bottle so he could tell the line had finally opened up and was working, it completely emptied the bottle, even collapsing the bottle with the suction force. So we have AC in the living room again.
On Wednesday we delivered a keyboard to Yosep in the southeast part of city, as we were visiting with Yosep we thought it would be nice if those getting keyboards had stands to put the keyboards on so it would make it much easier for them. For Yosep in their living area the only piece of furniture is a 6 foot plastic folding table. So we stopped at an electronic/music shop to see how much some stands would cost, we ended up getting 4 for about $12 each. We spent an hour at the church, then took another keyboard to Samuel who lives in the northwest part of town. For some reason there was lots of traffic in town most of the day, so it took us a while to get around. We also had to buy water and get a refilled gas bottle for our stove this evening.
On Thursday we received a text requesting we go visit Abdi, so we made preparations to do that and then received another text telling us he went to the hospital, but they had no idea which hospital he went to, finally found out which hospital, but it had taken so long we were already off at other assignments for the afternoon. Pres Rico asked if Elder would be able to do tithing settlement the next couple of weeks because he would be in Dental classes both Sat & Sunday for 2 weeks, and Sunday is the only day he can do interviews. This afternoon and evening we visited Fenny & then Ruf and then drove to also visit with the Sarumaha family, and both Herefa families. We went with the Sisters for these visits. Because Ruf was at work it gave us some time to just visit with Fenny and answer some questions she may not have asked if Ruf was home. We talked about her being uncomfortable trying to do music with the primary, since she really doesn't have the resources to learn and thus teach the primary songs to the kids. So we talked about whether she would prefer being able to teach a short lesson and spend time with the nursery age children during the last hour. She thought that would be a good idea. We thought we could then get another sister who recently moved in and who we discovered, knows the primary songs, to do music with the kids.
Friday we had District Meeting and then lunch. Elder met with the man who will install the AC in Pres. Rico's office, so he could put together an estimate. I had piano with Samuel and Sari. We were supposed to practice for the Christmas program but it never materialized. They were practicing other things. We went shopping this evening at ACE and bought a real small Christmas tree for our apartment. We then stopped at A&W for dinner. Finally, we went to Brestagi to get groceries so we would have what we needed to cook Mexican food for the missionaries on Sunday.
On Saturday we spent the early afternoon helping get everything set up for the Christmas activity tonight. At 4pm we had our English Class for the one student who showed up, he also planned to attend the activity after class with his young daughter. The announced time for the activity was 5 pm, and of course the plan was to actually start at 6 pm. When we finally did a count we came up with 58 members 59 other guests in attendance. It would be nice to get that many members to church on a regular basis. Pres. Rico sent a text saying he didn't think he was going to be able to come to the activity at all, so Elder was on for doing the spiritual thought. As we started he found out that he was also doing the opening comments and welcome, but for that he cheated and did the welcome himself and the comments he used Elder Barlow to translate, since he had no time to think about what he would say. Later in the program Elder Tucker and I had speaking parts in a drama, and a couple of choirs to sing in. At the end we distributed boxed dinners for all the guests, and had a visit from Santa, he handed out about 40 bags of the 50 Elder Tucker and I prepared. Its interesting we can get 40 children to the activity, and still not have a one show up for church each Sunday. We finished cleaning up the building about 10, the same room is our chapel so everything had to be taken down, and headed home, where we each sat down and ate a boxed dinner.
Elder Barlow playing the guitar, Sari Sinaga (her mission paperwork is waiting to be sent in by Pres. Rico), Pres. Buyung, (the 2nd counselor in the Branch Presidency and just returned from his mission in August), and Elizabeth Nainggolan, (I think is in her last year of high school. Sings in all their programs and also plays the violin).
Santa (Elder Zollinger) he was great, did a little dance for the kids and stuff with some of the children
On Sunday we just less than 50 at church. I guess they were all to tired to come. We had no primary children so I was able to go to Relief Society. After church I did a keyboard lesson with Yosep and had a girl named Sara ask if she could also take lessons. So I wil do her on fridays before Sari. A bunch of the members went to the hospital after church to see Abdi. He is unconcious and the doctors say there is nothing else they can do. That evening we had the Elders and Sisters over for mexican food. We had tacos, chicken enchiladas, refried beans, mexican rice and homemade corn tortilla chips and salsa. Elder Barlow also gave up our flight plans for going to Jakarta this week. We go with the Sisters on Tuesday afternoon. So we can get our kitas' renewed and the Elders all follow on Wednesday. We come back on Thursday night after our meetings for the mission tour with Elder Funk.
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