This week we went on a zone trip to Prambanan. It's a hindu temple in JOGJA and it was my second time going there but it's ok, because it's really cool. It was super hot and we are about dead by the end, but it was a really good day. I got to see my child sister Xiao and hang out with my fellow missionaries. Above is my cheesy jumping shot in front of Prambanan. Not much else to say about that.. haha We walked around a couple of the buildings and looked at all of the statues of the Hindu gods. Maybe there isn't a temple here yet, but at least we got to see this one! Some of you might have heard that there was some flooding in Central Java. We are all ok and still alive! We were actually a ways away when it started raining. We were contacting in a mall and were about ready to go somewhere else when it started raining really hard. So we went back in and contacted some more. When we decided the rain was letting up, we went outside again and the rain started again! So we went inside again and contacted some more. Finally we decided to just brave the storm and went out to a dinner appointment. I think we were in the mall from 2:30 to about 6 jut talking to people. I hope we helped at least one of those people.
As we were riding home, the streets were flooded in some areas. The street close to our house was like riding in a river. I think the water was about halfway up my bike. What made it even worse was that the rain was all on my glasses so I couldn't see as well, but we both got home safely and our shoes are still wet. The house across the street from us was flooded. We offered to help but they didn't want it. The next day when we came to church we learned a lot of the members' homes were flooded as well. We offered to help but they all said no too. ok! It was still cool to see how even though their homes were flooded, they still made church a priority and came to church. Love you all! Sister Stringham
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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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