We had breakfast and district meeting at our apartment this morning, Tuesday. While at the Church today we printed out a copy of the talk Novita was needing for reference, and she came by the church to pick it up. Elder is getting a bike ready that Mei would like to have, but it still needs some additional work. On the way home we picked up some supplies from Gramedia for the church building.
On Wednesday the Elders came by the Church so they could have an hour on the computer to maintain their Facebook site. Then we took Elders Kyle and Hendro out to see if we could visit a few members. Our first stop was Sister Tri's but she was not home, she was at her home village but Vani was home so we spent a little while visiting with her. Showed them where Marius and Sister Kiky live, thought they were not home as we expected. We then went to see if we could locate Putri Trina, took us a little while to locate the gong (a very small street that sometimes our car can't even get down), but with the map book and GPS we were able to locate it, because there wasn't any convenient parking we sent the Elders in and we stayed at the car. When they came back they explained that Putri had moved some time back, but a distant relative or at least someone who knew her was living at the address, but she didn't know where exactly she had moved to. Also discovered that the sisters had visited there, and were trying to teach the person living there now. Then we thought we would go visit Hendryck Simanjuntak's family, when we got there he was at home, as we visited he explained that he had broken a law, and had indeed been in prison for the last 8 or so months like we thought. We had a good visit and tried to commit him to come to church this coming Sunday. Dropped the Elders off at the church and headed home for the evening.
On Thursday we spent the early afternoon at the Church. In the late afternoon and evening we took Sister Edwards and Mintono to drop off a letter and visit with Fenny, she said she had to get ready for work so only stayed a very short time, the letter was from Elder T. Sinaga for Ruf. Then we went from the north side of town to the south to see Ruf's inactive aunt Fransisca, who has struggled with being confused about the gospel since we started visiting with her when we first arrived in Medan. She can't seem to keep information in her mind for more than a short time.
On Friday afternoon while Elder worked on the MLS and computer problems I went and got the grocery shopping done for the week, and then spent the rest of the day reading and studying.
On Saturday I taught a couple of Piano classes while Elder worked on the computer. We met with the Branch Mission Leader and then got English started. After English, we got the building ready for Family Home Evening (Malam Keluarga), We had a brief opening and lesson, then a game of "do you love your neighbor?" with people having to jump up out of their chair if they had the particular characteristic named by the person asked if they "loved their neighbor" and then everyone scrambles to find a different but available chair, and there is one fewer chairs than people so the person standing has to ask the next question and the game continues. And I am sure it is a great game if you understand the language well and can understand when they speak quickly, and if Elder isn't the only one in the room with white hair. And by the way congratulations Leudell! We then had dinner, and they played another couple of games. We got the building cleaned, set up for church and closed up a little after nine.
Some of the people at our activity. Notice most are Young Single adults or teenagers.
Sister Edwards teaching them how to play "do you love your neighbor". They had a blast playing it.
Playing "do you love your neighbor"
Today we actually got home at a pretty decent time since Pres. Buyung was at church. He was able to find another job that doesn't make him work on Sundays. Pres. Rico was also able to be there for Sacrament meeting. Tonight we had Sari and Mei come to our apartment and we went over Sari's mission call and got her signed into her myldsmail account and went through her paperwork with her. The mission calls and all the paperwork come in English so we sometimes have to help them understand it. We then taught them the first lesson in the Temple Preparation class.
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