CLOSE THE WINDOWS!

November 12, 2010 Friday

Tonight we dropped by Brother Davis’ house. He’s a part aborigine who is a doctor. He’s also an RM but married to a non-member Indonesian lady. We’ve been wanting to meet her but haven’t ever been able to connect. She’s not really happy to hang out with Mormons. Anyway, we drove by and his car was there, so we stopped. He was alone. She’d taken the kids over to visit a friend. He was making spaghetti sauce. In my entire life, I’ve never seen so many garlic cloves put in anything! We had a good chat with him. He didn’t do much in his early schooling so when he decided he wanted to be a doctor he couldn’t get into a medical school. So he became a nurse and then was accepted into med school. This country wants aborigine professionals so badly, he probably had his entire schooling paid for. He still has to sit for three tests before he’s a full-fledged doctor, but he’s been working for 5 years. Kind of interesting.
Then we stopped to see Karen Arkeveld, an inactive single 40 year old. (She has 2 kids.) Her house had been broken into a couple of nights ago. She’d just returned from a visit to an orphanage in Thailand that she helps out. The thieves took her purse which had her money, passport, camera with photos, computer and since they had her car keys, they took her car too! She has a dog that sleeps with her who didn’t wake up either since the AC in the bedroom was on which dulled any noise she might have heard. There’s a Thai family staying with her, and none of them woke up either. They lost passports and money also. However, she did admit that she had left a window open because of the “lovely breeze” that was blowing Wednesday evening. (Our house has locks with keys on every window.) We only open sliding doors when we want fresh air.