Recently we have really been focusing on finding new people. Because of this we teach the first lesson a lot. My Indonesian is definitely the strongest in the first lesson. And in ordering food. We try and find families and the rising generation, but we often get stuck with old people because they are the only ones home during the day. It is a real struggle to get them to follow through with our commitments. They are always willing to have us come and teach, but they won't do much else. Out of fear of offending, oftentimes people will continue to take the lessons, when in their minds they are not interested at all. It is very important for us as missionaries to know who has good intents and who is wasting our time.
Each day I wake up at 6:10, and normally start working out around 6:25. My workout lasts until 7:00. I use the next hour to shower, change, eat, and prepare for the day. From 8-9 is personal study, and 9-10 is companion study. At 10:00 we leave the home and start proselyting. We will normally target a few areas and check up on our investigators. We eat lunch and dinner on the road. We are back home by 8:30. We do training for new missionaries, then plan out the next day. After that the time is up to us. I normally will do some extra study for a half hour, shower, then just unwind until bedtime at 10:30. Each day we probably bike for at least an hour.
Attached are pictures of a meal I recently ate, the best watermelon I ever ate (and it was yellow!), and a drink called "Es Tebu." I am not quite sure what that translates into. It is made from a juice that is extracted from sugar canes. There will be someone on the side of the road with a table and a big pile of sugar canes. They have a machine they feed the sugar canes through that grinds them up, and out comes the juice. They just add ice to it and pour it into a bag. It is really good. We can buy four bags of it for 10,000 rupiah, which is less than a dollar.
