Berada di Solo! ciyaaaa....

Well, right now i'm sitting in a warnet in solo...we found out last friday that sari and i were being called to Solo, along with my DL and surabaya's DL, to go to a training meeting with these 8 principle things. today was the first day, and it was pretty good. i always learn a lot, but then you leave the meetings, get back to regular life, and sometimes just flat out forget what you SHOULD be doing, and go back to old habits. however, i'm hoping with sari here with me, we can BOTH work on becoming better at making sure we follow as much of these things as possible, so we can become more effective missionaries. i'm here with sis, so it's been fun to catch up with her...we really haven't talked like at all in the last almost 6 months, but it's been amazing how different our experiences have been, and yet the emotions have been the same. i told her there were so many times i just wanted to call her or lani and just bawl, and she started laughing, and was like, "me too!" haha....but we're both glad to be out of our nerakas.

so....drumroll please....i've never been one to really freak out about numbers, cuz mine always seemed so low and if i thought too much about it it just made me putus asa, but last week sari and i had 7 new investigators! the weekly goal for the mission is 2 every week, so we basically rocked the mission last week (words from elder hall in the office :P). of course this week, we're not in malang for 4 of the 7 days, and one of the other days we're gonna be spending getting ready for our movie night...so we'll only have had 2 days this week to follow up on all these people, but i think we'll get to the most important ones. i love actually being able to work!

vivi didn't end up moving to bali...everything fell thru, so she's still here, and now we're just waiting for their marriage certificate to go thru, and then she'll be set! i was pretty excited, actually, to see her still around :) i also got an email from raz (i got permission :) telling me that her mom finally knows she's learning about the church, and it's a slow process, but she's slowly getting used to the idea, and she thinks in a few months she'll be able to get baptized! she's also working on getting her boyfriend interested, so that was fun to hear.

i've been on the phone a lot this last week with the new elders down in bandung, as they're switching the sisters with elders there (ya...sisters alone there was NOT a good idea), and so they've been following up on all my investigators, and it's just breaking my heart to hear that nobody wants to learn anymore....apparently after i left, no one was interested. i just hope it was my enthusiasm and love for them and for the gospel that kept them learning with me, and NOT that i was a bule....i was a bit disappointed yesterday, but they also asked me for good proselying ideas, and so now they're gonna try a few things that i wasn't able to do while i was there...i'm just glad i'll get to go there one last time to talk to the elders and follow up with things there.

well, we got a whole bunch of new investigators, but most of our other investigators have been falling like flies...hopefully with these new investigators, we'll get someone that's really, truly interested in learning. i have REALLY high hopes for this sweet old couple that we met when i was buying material to make me clothes...the wife has been christian her whole life, but the husband just admitted to being christian 2 years ago, but hasn't been baptized yet cuz he doesn't wanna offend his buddhist mom....so the wife is all excited that someone can explain the bible and christ to her husband, and then she likes even more that SHE'S learning right along with him. she's so cute...she said her kids were worried about her learning from the BofM, and so she asked, "once i start reading from the bofm, am i going to be led astray? i've heard it'll only lead me astray, but once i start reading i won't be able to get back on the right road again." haha...i flat out laughed. she's so cute, straightforward, and innocent. it's funny to me how people will tell others not to read the bofm....but thats just satan's plan to keep people from knowing the truth. 2 other new investigators are sisters who's mom lives in hong kong, and joined the church up there and is begging them to learn about the gospel here. the older girl is in college, about 20 and catholic, and the younger daughter is muslim and 15...so it's gonna be interesting teaching the 2 of them, but i'm happy to help the mother. hopefully we have a good effect.

well, i'm about outta time...i love you all so much! hopefully all is well at home, and you're all making good decisions and buyin lots of baby stuff :) sampai minggu depan! loves~

~Sister Sara
ps. sis says hi, btw :)