At first she said we would spend the night in a hotel the people at Daarut Tauhiid recommended. They took us down the road a ways from the Massid to a hotel and we checked in. I took a shower. After I finished my shower she closed the door and said we had to pray. We prayed for some time. Then she told me we should leave because they were going to kill us if we stayed there that night. She called a taxi and I forget where she said we were going at first. After leaving the hotel she said we should go back Abba in Tasik. We worked out the price with the driver and in the middle of the night started back on a 3 hour drive to Tasik. I think it was after midnight when we arrived in Tasik at the Massid for Abba. She talked with the people there and managed to get us a room in some house for the night. We slept on the floor in a room with a curtain drawn in front of it. Morning came and we got up dressed and organized our clothes. Then we went to see Abba. Teti talked with him and got him to pray for us. Then we went outside. It just so happens they were having a wedding party so they had tables set up with lots of food. Teti and Tiara ate a plate of food but I felt to nervous to eat. After eating she said we should go back to Bandung and see her brother. Teti arranged for a driver to take us. He had to take us into Bandung first so I could get some more money from an ATM. Then he took us to the brother's house near to Rancaekek. We went in the house but something really did not feel right. The brother had been sick so she talked with the wife. I could tell things were not working out for us to stay there. She did not ever trust them too much anyway. After maybe one hour of talking Teti said she was ready to go. She tried to call a taxi but it took a long time. After waiting a while she stopped an empty ancott and asked what it would cost to take us to Garut. Garut is a small town about two hours from Bandung that has hot springs. We went there and found a hotel. The rest of the day I think we slept with the doors locked. We stayed there almost three weeks. My passport was expiring so I talked Teti into going to Jakarta. We got a room at the hotel where we were when we first met. Her condition still was not improving. I was a little scared for her. I would have to hold her tighly at night not sleeping myself. We completed everything for my passport and started to go back to Bandung. All of a sudden Teti said she wanted to go to the hospital. Then she said she saw David following us. We finally made it to a small westerner hospital. We went back and talked with the doctor. He then said he wanted to talk with Teti alone. I did not feel comfortable about that but agreed. After about fifteen minutes he came back out and said he wanted to talk with me. He told me that someone practicing black magic was torturing her. He said he had seen it often and that we needed to attend some kind of help group for her the next week. He said she would eventually die if we did not get help. I think I told him that God would take care but I do not remember for sure. I was surprised that an educated doctor would believe that black magic has more power that God. He gave her some medication to help her relax and we headed back to Bandung.
We went to the village where family lives. We moved in with a blind woman she had been taking care of for many years and her dad before that.
It took me several months of getting her back to health. In February Capsugel could no longer wait for return and accepted my resignation. I had started the business on the Internet, which was in a beginning state at http://tradur.com. It was bringing in a small income, very small outside of the holidays. I am presently trying to get involved with selling Indonesian exports to the US and maybe Europe. This I will display on my company site at http://tradur.com. I also do web design for any one in the world. I have completed sites in Australia, Canada and the USA. I do all of this via the Internet. Because I am a US citizen I am not allowed to work here in Indonesia. It takes six years before I can apply for citizenship here in Indonesia. Times will be difficult for sometime but I am happy because here in Indonesia I have a chance to learn more and more about being a good Muslim.

I decide that I would attend an Islamic university. This would allow me to stay in the country as a student and also further my knowledge about Islam. I started a bridging course under the supervision of Syah Muhibbin in May at IAIN in Bandung.