Well, it's officially been 3 months since I left home, time's gone by so fast! This week we've been trying to find new people to teach, but it's hard! Most people work all day and then once it's night time (only 6 pm) and people come home, it's not very safe to go into the neighborhoods and contact. So, we've decided to go through the whole ward list and go to everyone's house and get referrals, hopefully we'll find someone to teach! We can go to the same people as we have been, but we don't have any super interested investigators right now and yeah... we have very few people to teach. So that's been our week, searching. I've been asked a few times about the members in Jogja. This is one of my favorite members, her name is Sister Wuri. She's a returned missionary and she does make up for weddings. If you son't know how cool that is look up Indonesian wedding makeup. Her husband had a stroke sometime ago and is very limited in what he can do, she's a great example of a faithful, charitable person.Many members are so loving and are always willing to help the missionaries. Many members have to go a far, far way to come to church, because it's like a whole state coming to one church. I love this ward, they are so nice to me even though I can barely understand what they say to me! These are 2 of the missionaries that are BRAND NEW! That's right, I'm not the newest missionary in Indonesia anymore! They knew pretty much everyone in my zone at the MTC and so we had a lot of people to talk about! They are doing great, they're both seving in Malang, a very cool city, but there's no sisters there! They're also white-washing, so they're first city is going to be hard, but they'll be great. It was cool to meet them, I've been praying for the new missionaries for a while and I've been so excited to meet them and welcome them into this amazing place. This is the most important part of any email I will ever send. REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD! Since it was zone conference, we got all of our packages, and the new missionaries brought over Yechbar Vahl and some awesome notes from Sister Ahlstrom, Sister Leydsman, and Sister Shoendorfer! I love you guys!
ZTM (Zone Training Meeting) was in Solo, and it was cool to see all of the missionaries in Jawa Tengah Zone. The amazing thing was, I could understand almost all of the Indonesian spoken, if I could concentrate hard enough. Last ZTM I couldn't understand one word, and now it's almost everything, it's so cool! It's crazy how much you can learn in just a month.
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AuthorHOLLEY STRINGHAM: Salt Lake City, born and raised; returned missionary from the Indonesia Jakarta Mission.; a simple folk aimed on changing the world Archives
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