Sister Miller continues to support women who are recent widows and went to lunch with her friends.
We visited an HIV orphanage very close to where we live where 25 all positive HIV children have found a home. LDS charities supports the orphanage in humanitarian projects and food. There are photos on the walls of a former LDS missionary senior couple and also visitors from UNESCO. We played games and were shown the additional needs in their physical facility. They desire projects such as a nursery building and tile for the patio. We look forward to returning to assist in any appropriate way possible. We visited with an LDS Humanitarian Indonesian missionary couple from Jakarta who oversee many projects in ministering to selected communities.
We invited and attended twice a very fun and upbeat musical singing performance with many friends and members of our faith . A Canadian family consisting of mother, father and 6 girls performed, who are traveling throughout Indonesia.
Along with two young Sister Missionaries we brought and played a game, sang, then taught a lesson about strengthening families with a man who also served a mission many years ago but has stopped coming and now lives with his family of 4 children just 30 feet out their front door from a railroad track right out their front door where trains pass every 20-30 minutes.
Elder Miller participated in four special prayers of comfort to Muslim relatives of members of the LDS church. Three desired comfort after the loss of a LDS member father who passed away recently. The other desires strength from the debilitating physical changes from a stroke.
We taught piano lessons to a group of 15.
We visited the home and gallery of a young aspiring University educated artist who is investigating the LDS church and we are helping to teach and fellowship.
We began the process of customizing for people in Indonesia and making it personal a Brigham Young University English foreign language learning teaching program for people in Indonesia and making it personal to begin teaching at the Indonesian Police academy very soon here in Solo. This class is being organized with the help of an Indonesian Stake Public Relations person.
We traveled overnight to Yogyakarta to support a recently baptized young woman who celebrated her 30th birthday whose mother died from cancer and her father had a stroke 3 years ago.
We ate in the hydrophonic grown foods restaurant of a church member.
We asked the owner if there had ever been a choking incident because Elder Miller’s handicapped brother chokes quite often. She then told us a story of how just two weeks ago she thought she was going to die. She was in the airport alone and choked on a piece of candy and had no idea of what to do or how to solicit help. Luckily the candy melted enough that she began to breath. She had never heard of the Heimlich Maneuver as we showed her a “you tube” video.
The last experience is an example of how we find “how” “what” “why” “where” and “when” to serve and minister to others as Member Leadership Support missionaries. We will now organize and find an appropriate way for a qualified person to teach families with small children, members and community friends the maneuver. The restaurant owner felt noone talks about choking in Indonesia. She had never heard of the Heimlich Maneuver and she owns a very large and successful restaurant.
We come home most evenings exhausted from the depth of ministering within our cities! We love this work. We miss our children and grandchildren very much but are grateful for this privilege to minister in the Indonesia Jakarta Mission.
Love Elder and Sister Miller
