Well, it's been quite a week! last week, i emailed late, but we had some really good lessons friday and saturday that i told you about last week. Ricky was supposed to meet us at 4, but after telling us about 3 different places to meet him at, we finally met, and then he led us to his "bible school" to meet his professor, who wanted to meet with us and find out about the devil worshipping mormons... haha. so ya, that was fun. but it was actually really cool. there were 2 preachers, and then the room was PACKED with young adults around my age (they had a service activity that they were meeting together for), and the 2 preachers (the professor was one of them) questioned each other the whole time about our beliefs, and discussed what they thought....while sister bajodo and i just sat there, waiting for a chance to tell them EXACTLY what they wanted to know. it really was crazy. THEN, they finally gave us a few minutes to explain the BofM a bit, but then they had 20 more questions, so then we were silent again as they discussed, and THEN the other preacher had the nerve to tell us that if we came to this school to help them better understand the BofM, we should've prepared ourselves better, with good explanations and scriptures ready to show them. haha. jo was just silent, but i wasn't gonna let him talk to us like that....so i said, and i quote, "excuse me, i mean this with all respect, but you haven't given us an opportunity to explain ANYTHING, and anything we've tried to explain, you interrupt in the middle with 5 MORE questions! we can only answer one question at a time, and we're willing to do that, but you need to give us the time to do so." i wanted to say more, but i stopped there, and the guy asked us 5 questions about our religion (do you believe Christ is the Savior of the world, and that there is not other way whereby man can return to God?....questions like that), and after we answered yes to them all, he said, well that's good enough for me. they're just like us, and i don't see how they're devil worshippors if thats what they believe. and after that he stopped listening. however, the professor/preacher guy wanted more questions answered, and things were a lot smoother after....but we still didn't get too far cuz he had a lot of questions....so ya, he still doesn't know about Joseph smith, just the BofM. maybe next week?
the other appointment was good, but the guy is non-denominational cuz he doesn't like all the churches thinking they're the best or the true church (i definitely had a thought of "oh crap" when he said that, cuz that's basically what i'm doing....but in a very respectful, loving way :). but he loved the BofM, had already read up to first nephi (he'd read all the witnesses and intro and joseph smith's vision with moroni), and he was excited to read the rest of it. i'm not quite sure if he's serious about finding out if it's all from God, but he's definitely interested. his wife was really cool, too, so hopefully.... we'll see.
anyways, there really isn't much else to write about...this week is crazy because it's Lebaran tomorrow, so EVERYONE goes home to their native town/city to celebrate with their family, and bandung is CLOSED DOWN. it's difficult to get appointments cuz no one is around, and then from what i hear, starting tomorrow it's also gonna be hard to go anywhere, cuz no one is out and about. tomorrow is lebaran, and apparently it's something where you gather together with your friends/family/neighbors, and then just go from house to house eating food and talking and stuff. i'm still really confused, but i'll have more info next week. all i know is that there's gonna be lots of food, and a lot of it is SWEETS, so i'm happy :) and willing to eat and enjoy myself :) so,
anywho...i hope you all had a good labor day weekend, and also hope you have a good lebaran weekend, even tho it's normal for you :) i love you and hope alls well wherever you are and whatever you're doing! loves~
~Sister Sara
ps my spiritual thought for this week is that selfishness REALLY DOES NOT COME FROM CHRIST!!! so don't be selfish. serve those you hate, and you'll learn to love them, and they'll learn to love you. even tho it's not easy. amen.
pps crap i almost forgot!!! so funny story for the week...today we were int he angkot, and we passed a guy who had his bare butt showing...sis jo said he was prob crazy, but i avoided seeing anything after we passed him. haha. i love indo :)
ppss oh and dad, guess what!?!?! there's a lady here from finland who came to church on sunday! her son lives here, and she's here visiting him, but she just joined the church 1 1/2 years ago, so she's the only one from her family,but we wanna meet with the family she's staying with cuz the daughter in law is indo and muslim, but says she's always had a thing for christianity...she just can't join cuzo f her family. but if they move backto finland, i think she'd be ok. so we'll see. her name is Iria Alma Sivia Tammilahti, and her son's name is juhani komulainen....i have a feeling you can say those names a lot better than me. i tried translating for her in church, but her english isn't very church based, and she can talk a lot more than she can understand...so it wasn't very easy. but she's cool. nina rakastan sinua! is that true? haha hopefully...it's supposed to be i love you ...if you have anything you want me to tell or ask her, she's here for 3 more sundays. loves!
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