Okay, yesterday was tiring. Marias did not respond in any way so we waited on him. With the help of Jimmie and Linda we were able to locate where our BCC student lives - I know how to get there too. It was suggested (wisely so) that we try to correspond with the student before we show up at his front door. I had not thought of that. I was able to get his phone number from the phone book which took a bit of investigative work in that when he registered for the BCCs he did not actually put in his last name (or what we would consider a last name). You now ask the question: "How can you possibly find someone in the phone book when you do not know the person´s last name?" This is Iceland. No Icelandic person actually has a last name per se. They are given a firstname followed by their fathers first name and then the relationship to their father (i.e. son or daughter). So if I were Iclandic my name would not be William Howard it would be William Marlinsson - I am the son of Marlin. Marriage does not change a woman´s name either. Kristen Jenkins would never be Kristen Jenkins in Icelandic culture. She would always be Kristen Robertsdötter regarless of her marriage to Carl (the name Carl by the way happens to be a common Icelandic name). So what does this have to do with the Icelandic phone book? Everyone is alphabetized by the first name. So all the Carls in Reykjavik are listed together. Thus I was able to match the first name of our BCC student with the facts he provided and the facts listed in the phone book - whew. Aside from that Jimmie found the email address and wrote him. Thus we needed to wait on his response as well.

Morgunblaðið - okay, that is the newspaper just outside Reykjavik. I wanted to get our ad back in it for the next ten weeks or so as we did in January. We left in the morning to Reykjavik and I went on the correct road to get to the Morgunblaðið building, but just in the wrong direction. I discovered this mistake after driving a few Kilometers into the coutry. When I realized my mistake I decided we should just continue in our current direction to look at a few sites we were headed toward. I thought we would be back in a couple of hours or so. I was wrong. The first of the sites was easy enough and I had been there before. The next place was not listed on my map and I had never been there so I follwed the signs. We got back to Keflavik at about 7:15 P.M. tired and hungry. I am ready for a new day.

Today is Saturday morning and Marias has responded. We will meet on Sunday afternoon to discuss details on our meeting and for worship. I am very happy about this. That is moving in the right direction.

My goal for today:
1. Get everything ready for Sunday and next week
2. Let those who need a rest have their rest
3. Find our what our BCC student has said and respond as quicklyto it as possible.