It's so complicated
These are two of our missionaries in Indonesia. They are taking part in our sacrament meeting via Skype.
These are the same two missionaries teaching our investigator class via Skype. These are some of our investigators. They are all from the same family except for the man on the far end.
The challenge is they don't speak English well enough nor do I speak Tetun well enough to teach them. They do speak Bahasa as their second language. So the missionaries from Indonesia who speak Bahasa are teaching them. As an added challenge Indonesian Bahasa is a little bit different than the Bahasa Spoken Here. The Book of Mormons they have are in Indonesian Bahasa.
They are a wonderful family and I want to do all that I can to bring them into the gospel. They are a very capable family. They have regular family prayer and nightly scripture study. The mother is already spoken in our sacrament meeting. Almost all of the family members have prayed in our meetings.
They found us. All of the adult members come from our English classes. They asked us if they could come to church. The challenge is how do we Fellowship and nourish them. We are not even an official branch or a group in the church. We are only just a small group of members meeting under the authority of the mission president.
The closest boy is a son of one of our members. The other two children are the remaining members of the investigator family. Some of the best behaved children I've ever seen. They don't understand English at all but they reverently set and listen to Cheryl teach the lesson. The other adult in the room is another investigator who helps Cheryl translate into tetun.
No drinking fountains in our church. It is not safe to drink the public water. We buy 10 liters of water at the grocery store and bring it to church.
These are the same two missionaries teaching our investigator class via Skype. These are some of our investigators. They are all from the same family except for the man on the far end.
The challenge is they don't speak English well enough nor do I speak Tetun well enough to teach them. They do speak Bahasa as their second language. So the missionaries from Indonesia who speak Bahasa are teaching them. As an added challenge Indonesian Bahasa is a little bit different than the Bahasa Spoken Here. The Book of Mormons they have are in Indonesian Bahasa.
They are a wonderful family and I want to do all that I can to bring them into the gospel. They are a very capable family. They have regular family prayer and nightly scripture study. The mother is already spoken in our sacrament meeting. Almost all of the family members have prayed in our meetings.
They found us. All of the adult members come from our English classes. They asked us if they could come to church. The challenge is how do we Fellowship and nourish them. We are not even an official branch or a group in the church. We are only just a small group of members meeting under the authority of the mission president.
The closest boy is a son of one of our members. The other two children are the remaining members of the investigator family. Some of the best behaved children I've ever seen. They don't understand English at all but they reverently set and listen to Cheryl teach the lesson. The other adult in the room is another investigator who helps Cheryl translate into tetun.
No drinking fountains in our church. It is not safe to drink the public water. We buy 10 liters of water at the grocery store and bring it to church.
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