On Monday morning we visited with Benjamin and his family. He looked like a different person, he stayed home from church with Madelyn who wasn't feeling well and when the rest of the family got home he had shaved his beard off.
Not a lot of appointments this time of year, so we spent our day at the church, seeing if we could figure out any more about the electrical. Elder replaced the breaker that kept blowing with a larger Amp breaker. Then before heading home we did our shopping for the week.
On New Years Eve we took all the missionaries over to dinner with Pres. Rico & Emma, his family was out of town. They are hoping to move into their new home sometime in January. We got all the missionaries home before 10 pm, except us as trying to get through the traffic in the center of the city was not the easiest. It took us about 40 minutes to travel the 4 km as a crow flies to our apartment, Elder is sure he could have walked it faster.
We did have fireworks real close, they were setting them off in the street right outside our apartment window, so they would explode at about our room level to within reach of our window.
Lots of good food at Pres. Rico's and fun times.
We spent a relaxing New Years day. We gave our driver the day off.
On Friday we had District meeting and our usual lunch with the missionaries. That night we attended a non-church sponsored FHE at Sister Imelda's home. We saw our text message inviting us at about 4 in the afternoon. We were told they planned to have pork for dinner. which made me think it would be a standard pork dish they prepare, which we do not care for (pretty much involves most parts of the pig, which I would rather not have as part of my dinner. We were very pleasantly surprised they grilled the pork and cut the MEAT into small pieces, instead of the standard pork dish they prepare, which we do not care for (pretty much involves most parts of the pig, which we would rather not have as part of our dinner). Then they had some nicely grilled fish, and there was also seasoned and fried tempi, a salad, which consisted of pineapple, cucumber, onion and a few other veg/fruits, Elder has enjoyed it the couple of time it has been served before, and of course rice, sambal (hot), and a hot sweet sauce that is used with Rujak (sp), of course I don't add the hot sauce but Elder does. It was a very nice dinner. There were about 25 people who came. We got home in time to Skype with Erin's family (their Friday morning) who was opening Christmas presents since Ben just got home the night before from his 2 week shift flying. So the first presents they opened were things like a dog collar, leash, food, etc. So they are getting a puppy for Christmas. Seth and family also got a dog for Christmas.
Some of the food we ate at Sister Imeldas. Lots of it.
Some of the people there. A few inactives and fairly new members.
On Saturday we did home inspections at the Elders and then the Sisters. The Sisters needed their cooking gas tank replaced. So while we were there we had Bro. Manalu go get them a new one. While checking the gas line it was very cracked and hard where it had been exposed to heat from the cooking element. So Elder cut the bad part of the line off, and got everything hooked up again. We then took a drive to Home Centra to see if they had a "weed whacker" so we can use it for cutting the lawn, since the gardener the branch employees to do the yard work around the church hasn't been doing anything for the last couple of months, and Elder hasn't seen anyone in the neighborhood to give the lawn mowing job to. Well unfortunately they didn't have any "weed whackers" of any kind. So we headed back to the church, because Sari was coming today to work at the building and had Samuel coming for piano. We only had a 8 (3 of which were missionaries, 2 were Indonesian, though) for English today, because of the extended holiday everyone around here takes off, heading back to their home villages. Then we took the missionaries and went to KFC for dinner in preparation for fast Sunday.
Today we were at the church until about 3:30. Mula was the only one in Primary today. After church I did 3 piano lessons while Elder had meetings and tithing, etc. We then came home and I cooked for the missionaries to break or fast. We had a special Mission fast.
We want to Wish Everyone a Happy New Year. We love you all.
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