January 29. What a busy day it has been! Had leftover pancakes for breakfast this morning and had plenty of time for quiet time, too, before lotu started this morning. Also got our “bed” (mattresses, blankets, etc.) moved back into the bedroom and onto the bed frame. It was so hard getting up off the floor so we are thankful that the paint smell has died down and we can sleep in our own bedroom again. The rat smell didn’t die down though. After lotu (Matthew had charge today and preached more from Ephesians chapter 1), a number of men came and tried to help us find where the dead rat is. It wasn’t hard to figure out where it is, however, when flies started coming and going from a small hole that goes into the wall behind the kitchen cupboard. The hole is big enough for flies and other little creatures but not big enough for rats. The only way the rat could have gotten there was from the top down in between the inside and outside layers of wall. No way to get it out so will have to put up with the stink for not too many days, I hope. Then several of the young men worked together cutting firewood; and while they were doing that, Daniel made a new firewood box. It was all ready by the time the firewood was ready to be loaded into it. It looks so nice in place of that crumbled up, torn up, eaten up cardboard box that had been our firewood box for years. (Well, it didn’t actually look like that for years, but it had become that way after so long a time.) While everyone else was busy, I repainted the two chalkboards — one in the schoolroom and one in the meeting room. Then I spent time “making” boxes (actually cutting down small cartons) and organizing my painting supplies on the shelf I had painted last evening. Daddy was back and forth between translating, helping Daniel, and answering the door. The door was opened and closed a lot today as people came and went for one reason or another. After everyone left, I warmed up dinner and we ate and then had our nap. Even during nap time, people knocked on the door, but neither of us got up — we were too tired. I was more tired than I thought as I slept about an hour and a half. After nap, I cut up a popo and washed a couple fresh bananas, and Daddy and I enjoyed a fruit snack. Then we checked the final chapter of Revelation. Praise the Lord for His help in completing that book. After that, I went to the kitchen and washed up a bunch of kavia (greens) and some onions. Set those aside to cut up and cook this evening after the dishes were washed and the pressure cooker was clean. Then I cut up a tomato to go on sandwiches, and we two sat down to eat. Shortly after we sat down to eat, Asenat came to talk with me so we asked her to wait. Then someone came for joint pain medicine, and Daddy asked him to wait. Then Tomas came to talk with Daddy, and he had to wait. As soon as I was done eating, I took the garbage out and then went and called Asenat. She shared about her getting saved and baptized on Sunday. Then she asked for advice regarding knowing God’s will for marriage. After Asenat left, I put dishwater on to heat, finished cleaning up the kitchen, and then did dishes. Then we put bath water on to heat while I dried the pressure cooker and cut up the greens and onions into it. It was also youth meeting night and Amos was here teaching the young people. By the time I got the greens all ready, the bath water was ready so I had my bath before cooking the greens. While the greens were cooking, I got a snack and wrote a quick e-mail to C&C with journal notes to send them. Then I came to write in my journal. “O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.” Isaiah 25:1 January 30. Not so busy a day today. The Lord gave us a nice sunny morning and a rainy afternoon. I got the rest of my painting supplies organized this morning and then put out all my sheep and lambs and my two teddy bears. Then I completed the dictionary in the back of the Revelation booklet, added chapter numbers at the tops of the text pages, and made sure all the verses were properly lined up. Now, I think, it is ready for printing copies for ourselves and for the school students. Daniel came late morning to say that he will be going to town next week, but can try to make the cupboard for us this week before he goes. So he started on that just before noon and got the frame all put together in about five hours. He needed wood for the frame though; and Daddy had wood that was given to him, but it needed to be cut in narrower pieces to be usable for that purpose. So he called out to Matthew to see if he could bring his circular saw and cut the wood for us. Matthew came, and they plugged up the saw to the old generator, making quite a few pieces of wood that could be used, not only for the cupboard frame, but for other projects later. When they were doing that, I made another math review lesson for this coming week and then went and lay down for a nap. This afternoon, I got out the black chalkboard paint again and touched up a few spots I had missed yesterday on the meeting room chalkboard. Then I got out my box of framed and painted pictures and started hanging them up in the bedroom. Daddy helped by drilling a few holes for the screws. This evening, I found some maps in the Bible Collection Suite in the ACER, and copied them into Pictures, and then transferred them to the HP to use in the Studies in Revelation. “He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.” Isaiah 25:8
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