Our First Sunday

Yesterday was Sunday. We had to be ready by 7:30 to get to church by 8:00. We went to the English branch first. Everyone greeted us. It was a very good Sacrament Meeting. Then we went to Sunday School. The teacher was a very capable woman. Just before 10:00 we went back up to the Jakarta Branch Sacrament Meeting. They all speak Indonesia. We went in and everyone there was so anxious to greet us and wanted to shake our hand. The women all greet cheek to cheek and some of the men. It was almost over whelming how friendly they were to us. When the meeting was ready to start Sam one of the drivers came and sat next to me and to my surprise and delight he translated the whole meeting to me. Dad couldn't hear him. He had a hand held device and when there was a scripture he would pull it up and show it to me in English. John our driver is not too great in English. He gets by, but he can't translate like Sam. Then we went to Sunday School and the Missionaries and someone else helped to translate again. In Relief society the sister missionary tried to translate, but she really had a hard time. Then there was a baptism and the whole branch stayed for the baptism.

Our driver and his family invited us to their home for a get together. We went to that home and it was John and his wife and son. Her mother and Dad. His brother in law and wife, her mother and their 4 children. First they gave us some punch and cookie and we were thinking fine. Then they had us eat watermelon and some kind of a set salad. Then they had rice and noodles and some beef with sauce on several kinds of meat. something that looked like green beans and spinach that you put a really hot sauce on. some boiled meat balls. It was quite a feast. They wanted us to eat and eat. At 4:30 we had to leave because we were suppose to be at the presidents house by 5:00 for dinner. We got there and they were ready to eat. OH Boy. They had a chicken with a sauce on rice, watermelon, pineapple, a green salad, veg and bread. It is hard to eat so much.