The weeks are beginning to pass quickly.  We started the week with news that Sister Rosemary's father, Eric Carl Rozairo, had passed away. He was 89 years old.  They had his funeral on Wednesday at 4 pm.  We were unable to attend the funeral due to our commitment to teach  English class at that time.  We went to the funeral home and visited with the family and expressed our love and condolences.  Brother Rozairo was living with his son, who is a Catholic.  His son decided that he wanted to do a Catholic service so the LDS people weren't asked to help with the service in any way.  Rosemary said that she would have the grave dedicated later.
On Friday we went to visit with one of our institute students, Raj.  Raj has been a member of the Church for about eight years.  His sister, mother, and father were baptized at the same time as Raj.  Raj is the only one that has remained active in the Church.  He is 23 years old and a very dedicated member of the Church.  When we arrived at the humble home Raj was very surprised.  He was the only one home.  In a while his mom came home and we had a lovely visit.  I told her that we would like to invite her back to Church.  That the Lord loved her and He wanted her to come back.  She told us that she and the other members of her family were attending a church near their home because it was easier.  I said we each have choices to make.  Know that you are needed and missed.  She said that she couldn't come this week but she would be there in a few weeks.  The next day Raj came into institute class and said that his mom had asked that we come to dinner on Tuesday.  We said we would be glad to do that.  Raj said that his mom was very impressed with us and happy to see us.  Raj's dad is an Elder so they were active for a while.  It would be wonderful to see them reactivated!
Today we went to Negombo. Elder Meyers and I both spoke in Sacrament meeting. This is the first time that we had to have a translator.  It was very difficult to have a translator.  You can only say a sentence or two before the translator is repeating what you say.  I had to really concentrate on what I was saying.  After Sacrament I helped with music in the Primary.  Sister Fluckiger played and I helped them sing.  After Church we attended seminary/institute class.  It was taught in Sinhalese so we didn't understand most of what was said.  They do read the scriptures in English.  To complete the day we had lunch with Elder and Sister Fluckiger. 
HOORAY FOR ISRAEL!

One of our English classes

Sussiladevy and Raj