We spent a couple of days this week trying to find a new place for the Elders in Beksaki to move too. They have been living in a real rattrap and that is no exaggeration. We went one afternoon and looked with four elders at several different places then we took them for pizza. Those guys acted like they were staved too death. I don't think we could have brought enough pizzas to fill them up, but we didn't even try. They were so grateful. We went back the next day with Pres Marchant and the elders to see the places we thought would be OK. They all decided on one it is not real great, but it is 10 times better than what they have been living in.

We went to Zone Conference on Thursday. We had a good conference. It is mostly just instructions for the elders. When we came out of the conference at 3:30 our driver, John was asleep in the car we had a really hard time waking him up. He said he was sick and asked Ralph to give him a blessing. Elder Davis and Ralph gave him a blessing. Another driver said that he had thrown up about 10 times. President Marchant told us to get him right to a dr. He sent his driver with us and he drove his car home. They run a lot of tests on him and finally about 7:00 they came out and said, he had acute appendicitis and we needed to get him right to the hospital. We called Elder Subandriyo to find out where we needed to take him. We picked his wife up on the way to the hospital. We got to this "hospital" not real high tech and they could not read the ultra sound that had been done at the clinic so they had to do X-rays. Finally they came and said after all of this that they didn't have any beds. Boy!!! So we went to find another hospital meanwhile after having the IV that he had been given at the clinic he started to really perk up and he begged us not to take him to the hospital. His wife doesn't speak English and she couldn't understand the danger that he was in. When we got to the hospital he would not sign the paper to give them permission to treat them. We tried to talk to them and we not getting anywhere. Finally Ralph just got mad at him and said he was no longer our driver and that we were just leaving. We went out and Ari the other driver followed us. John grabbed all of the papers of the tests and he followed us out. Ralph turned around and told him that he would just have to find another way home and tried to tell him again that if he went home there was a good possibility that he would die. He finally turned around and went back into the hospital. Wow!!! He had the surgery the next morning. We got home at 12:30 am. He is doing OK now, but we may end up paying for the whole experience because he is our employee. I hope not, but we will have to do whatever. We are without a driver now for a while so I don't know what we will do. The President said that maybe Elder Walker would have to start driving. I believe that is when I will stay home for sure. This traffic is not fun.
On Friday a zone activity to the beach had been planned. They always use the mission couples cars to drive. They assigned one of the Indonesian Elders to drive our car. I was a little nervous at first, but he did a good job.

Anyway, We do have a lot of things to do and we are keeping busy with the humanitarian work, but we have had some distractions. We are trying to still get the wheelchairs off the dock. Which is proving to be quite the thing. The government here really know how to work things in order to get more money. We also have 2 water projects that we are working on getting approval and that is becoming a challenge also. But Dad just keeps plugging away at it. I have been working on this scrapbook this week. I just put 4 pictures on the page with a short paragraph about the project and the amount of money spent. It is not that hard. It is just finding the right pictures and information.

We just learned that the Welfare Service Missionaries in Bogor, who will be going home and end of May, will not be replaced. There are several projects they are currently managing which will fall upon our shoulders to do. This will increase our time traveling by car to clean water projects and to manage other projects as well. They will expect us to keep up with all our other work as well. I don't know how we are going to do it. We are going to be very busy.

The work of the Family Enrichment Program is going forward, we have an organization to finance the seminar in July and the booklet is translated and printed in Bahasa Indonesia. We are preparing to film the family home evening presentation, using a local Indonesian family. We have had some road blocks but the Lord opens another road and we just keep going. We see the hand of the Lord is his work everyday.