Moving Day

We visited a family that lives in a lean-to next to the railroad tracks.  Eventually the train will be on a concrete elevated track, but right now we must walk across the tracks to visit.  A surprise this time:  there was a pet monkey.  It is tied to the shelter so it doesn't get to run into a trains as they pass.

We helped a family in the branch to move.  We put a lot of blankets and boxes into our car, but the refrigerator, TV, and wardrobe cabinets (lemari) were put into a becak.

It was also a reminder to us that we need to be prepared to move in only a month, with only two suitcases and a carry-on each.  I am giving away a lot of shoes and stuff, but Elder Porter has a collections of rocks from every mountain he climbed and volcano that he visited.  That all adds up. :-) We got out our suitcases and weighed stuff this week and it looks like we will still make the weight allowance.

After moving, the family served us a wonderful luncheon.  Then we raced home to shower, made another visit to a woman expecting a baby, then on to church for a devotional broadcast with a visiting counselor in the general Young Women President.

This is the view from our rooftop to the south.  The brown-roofed building on the bottom of the photo is a school.  I hear them singing, especially on Friday mornings.

So it was fun to find out that we knew one of the students!














Below are two videos.  (If you are reading this in an email, you may need to click on the blog title to make the videos live).

The first is our shopping cart coming out of the Lotte store, which is in the basement of a big shopping mall.  We can take a shopping cart up to the parking lot because the cart wheels engage magnetically with the angled moving sidewalk.

The second video is of some youth playing on the ping-pong table that Elder Porter worked so hard to resurrect.  That is one of his lasting gifts to the branch.