Exciting News!!!

Our exciting news for this week is that we got approval to do a program that we have been working on. It is to introduce a family Enrichment Program in the country. It is a manual that BYU has published that is a "non-denominational" Family Home Evening program. We started the process of having it translated into Indonesian back in September. Whenever we would meet with people (members of parliament, ambassadors, assistants to the president, the first lady, tv media etc.) about various projects (water projects, wheelchairs, bathrooms for schools, cleft palate surgeries, earthquake relief) we would mention the desire to introduce a Family Enrichment Program to the country. All the while we were working on getting it translated and getting approval for the program from Salt Lake. The leaders of the country have been very excited about this program and they recognize the need to strengthen their families. The biggest TV station has agreed to air commercials about it and even air a program with a demonstration of an actual FHE role play.

We just got approval from Elder Oaks this week to do it. It is very exciting. It is going to change the way missionary work is done in the country. The missionaries will deliver the manual to anyone who wants to receive it and doors will be opened that were never there before. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out. When we told one of our grandson's the exciting news, he said, "I wish we could introduce Family Home Evening to the whole world." Indonesia is a start.

This Family Enrichment program will be presented during a week when a family seminar will be sponsored by LDSC where government, community and religious leader from all over the country will be invited. (we hope there will be about 1000 people) where families subjects will be presented by authors of the FE booklet and other professionals from the US and other countries.