Indonesian Birthday

Since we last updated I've aged!! Another wrinkle and one more gray hair AAAHHH!!! But thankfully I'm still 7 years younger than my husband so I'm just a young'n, always will be? compared to him!

It was neat to celebrate my birthday in Indonesia, it actually was the L O N G E S T birthday ever because apparently you have to celebrate along with the country that you were born in as well as the country that you are now in and since Canada is 13 hours behind us I was celebrating for a LONG time! The day was pretty quite ? spoiled by Randy ? but not much besides that. At night they had a continuation of the challenges that they were having on Friday night against Jonson?s church. The challenges included ping-pong, potato sack races, chess, soccer, baton racing, tug-of-war, and a few other games. After all of the competitions were over we sang for a little bit and then Randy did a devotion for them on Josiah, how he was only 8 years old and yet he served the Lord and continued to do that throughout his reign, it doesn?t matter how young or old you are you can always serve the Lord. After the devotion we taught them how to play hUckle BuckLe-they Loved it! And then one of the boys Pidgen called me up, he wanted to ask me a few questions? he was asking the questions in Indonesian so I had now idea what he was saying and I was trying to answer them?. Without any luck! The people were in stitches laughing over what he was saying, I still don?t know what he all said, anyway I got a bit out of it, he was telling them it was my birthday, I had to show them my expression if I got a surprise and I had to run around with my arms out yelling, then he told me he could do magic and he pulled out a bucket of water and asked me what color it was and told me that he was going to make it black. But in order to that the audience had to cover one eye and I had to cover two, well I?m sure that you can imagine what happened after that?yup he poured that whole bucket of water over my head. Then he gave me a little gift and that?s where I had to put my yelling with my arms spread out into practice. But no worries I got him back. At the very end of the evening they called him up to thank him for all of his work and I stood right behind him and dumped a bucket of water over his head. A little big of revenge is good right?
After the evening at the church we went back to Ed and Femmy?s for a good old birthday supper of rice! But before the rice Manone, Ed?s sister, had baked a beautiful birthday cake for me so they sang Happy Birthday, they have the longest birthday song ever, it has about four or five verses or so and every verse you have to do something different. One verse I had to blow out the candles, another verse I had to cut the cake, and another verse Randy and I had to both bite the cake off of the fork. Then I got a nicely handcrafted crown from Moses and a beautiful scarf from Ed and Femmy.
Sunday? the continuation of my birthday J Church again at 7:30. One of Ed?s students preached, he did a really good job. He preached on John 3:1-5 about how we need to be born again, That it?s a lot of hard work living for the Lord and it?s a constant struggle. After church I got a very pleasant unexpected surprise? a phone call from my parents. I heard all about the cold snowy weather in Ontario and that Toronto was beating Montreal 4-1 in hockey. For the most part the rest of the day was spent relaxing, reading and napping. In the evening we had bible study at the church, they had some really good questions about the sermon and Randy introduced a new word to them that they don?t have in Indonesian ? sanctification, nice guy eh?
Then after Bible study back home for some rice, oh I forgot to mention the nice treat we got at lunch, pizza buns ? it was SOO good! After dinner we played a game of Risk. Missions Risk. I got destroyed but that?s ok, I?ll take one for the team.
Today we began to work on the playground this morning but then it rained, and rained and rained so we came into town to email and buy some toilet paper, all of the essentials eh?
Well thank you for all of the birthday wishes, it?s so good to hear from all of yous at home. And just in case you?re curious we are coming home next Tuesday Feb 6th so hopefully we will see you all in the very near future!
That?s it for the update today tomorrow we head off for a little escapade, can?t remember what the place is called where we are going but it should be fun!