Kumaha damang? reporting live in JAKARTA UTARA.
Sister Ratu this week has been living a life parallel to Lizzie McGuire. If you are familiar with the Lizzie McGuire movie (in which, you should be), Lizzie goes to Italy and gets mistaken as an Italian pop star, and ends up running away with an Italian pop star, and becomes an Italian pop star. Well, this week, Sister Ratu is contacting at a national monument called Monas, and a man comes up to her and tells her she is "Novia Kalopaking".. aka AN INDONESIAN POP STAR HAHAHAH. It doesn't stop there, Sister Ratu is eating ayam bakar for dinner, and another person tells her that she is "Novia Kalopaking". She ends up running away with an Indonesian pop star, and ends up performing at the Asian Games! That last part didn't happen, but it actually made me laugh/cry that I have been mistaken as an Indonesian Pop star here in Jakarta hahahhahahaha.
ANYWAYS- on to some important things, and not so important things.
Not So Important Things
1) I am mastering the technique of contacting in under a minute
2) I am mastering the technique of peeling a mango in under 15 minutes (work in progress)
3) I am mastering the technique of pancake cooking in rice cookers (gas is out :/ )
Important things
1) I had my first Jamba Juice last week, the first in 11 months (MANGO A GO GO!!)
2) We got 5 new investigators this week- A MIRACLE CUZ LAST WEEK WE HAD NO ONE
3) We are working really really really hard and relying on the Lord more than everrr
Sabtu Malam Mukjizat
My homecomp, Sister Fuglsang, and I are working real hard to get to know the area, and to find the people Heavenly Father has prepared for us. We are walking down streets and gangs, talking to people, asking for referrals, loving and living and working. But still at 7 o'clock on Saturday night, we still found our selves janji-less and clueless about it all. We get to the bus halte and just stare at the map of where we can possible go. Hahahaha at this moment my brain was going at 500 different directions, and the Spirit so kindly reminded me that we just gotta pray!! so we PRAYED and Sister Fuglsang had a thought to go to Pasar Baru, and so we went, and on the bus ride there, we met a lovely lady who wants to come to church with us, and feels unsatisfied with the churches she has gone to in the past! We then met a man who asks "Are you guys Mormons?" and we had the chance to testify of our message and the truth of it.
It is amazing how something as simple as a prayer will guide you to exactly what He needs us to do. I am so so so thankful for the power of prayer, and for our Father's love for us.
THERE IS POWER IN PRAYER THATS FOR SURE AND I AM THANKFUL!
There are 100 different things I wish I can say, but if you are that interested, in the future- you may read my journal entries of my experoiences in this crazy and beautiful city.
I sure can testify of God's infinite love, and of the power and strength we obtain as we pray, ponder, and ask for His help. It is only through and with Him, that we can!
LOVE YA HAVE A STELLAR WEEK!!
XO SISTER RATU! :)
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