Selamat Malam, semuanya! Hi everyone! This week's been a great, spectacular, awesome week. I'm so happy I'm here in Indonesia and that I can have all of these amazing experiences. This week, we saw a solar eclipse, saw our investigator's baptism, and saw ourselves as Indonesian brides... I'll explain that later... This is the best picture I could take of the solar eclipse. It was only a half eclipse, like a crescent moon but the sun... sorry, I've lost all my English skills. We could watch the eclipse through my x-ray, so that was cool. This was the first time I ever saw a solar eclipse. Yay! An unexpected first that came from my mission! This is MERRY!!! She's been our investigator for about the last 4 months and she got baptized this Sunday. She is the first baptism in Jogja in one year, so that's a big deal for the mission and for our ward. I'm so happy for her. She's the first person I've seen baptized on my mission and it's so cool to see how the gospel has changed her life for the better. I just know she's going to be so blessed because of her decision and I can't wait to see what happens next! Merry, right before being baptized. I like what she said in her testimony in the baptismal service, that she didn't have much faith in Christ before, but after meeting with the missionaries, she finally found and strengthened her faith. I know that this is the true gospel, and I know that Merry and everyone else on earth can and will find hope and strength as they come closer to Christ. We went to Sister Wuri's house today and got all fancied up like an Indonesian bride. It was the first time I really felt PRETTY on my mission. I'm so sweaty and hot, there's no use wearing makeup or fixing your hair nice, so it was really nice. I still have my makeup on, I don't want to take it off! I want to fell perty... but oh well, I'm not here to be pretty, I'm here to be sweaty and work hard. haha!
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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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