June 23. Rain off and on during the night. Another day like yesterday, as far as weather goes, but with even less sunshine, and with more afternoon rain. Late afternoon, it rained and rained and rained and kept on raining into the evening. Woke up a little before 6:00 to the sound of a rat chewing on something. Couldn’t get back to sleep after that so just got up and ready to start the day. Got pancake mix all made and cut up the rest of the popo to cook to put on my breakfast pancakes. Then just before 7:00, I called Daddy. He said he had tried to call me several times, but my phone never rang. After a nice chat with him, I started cooking breakfast. After breakfast, I started looking through the leadership lessons and didn’t find anything clearly laid out about how to handle situations with pastors or their family members who sin (or are overtaken in faults) and keep short accounts with God and with those who may have been wronged. After the computer battery ran low, I washed up the small bunch of greens that Misaina brought yesterday and also a pumpkin so I could cut them up later and put them into a soup. I tried charging the computer while I was working in the kitchen, but the inverter just wanted to go beep, beep, beep. There probably wasn’t enough sunshine yet for the inverter to work properly. When I finished in the kitchen, I was able to finish charging the battery. While it was charging, I crocheted until church time. Mike never showed up for Sunday school, and we learned later that he is sick. A group of young people were there early, and they spent an hour or more singing through the song book. Church didn’t start until around 10:40, and then Matthew had to start because the song leader wasn’t there. It was a little after 12:00 before the preaching even started. It was about 12:45 before the morning service ended. Then they had a break, and afterward Matthew just shared a few verses and then they had a business meeting for something. I had sandwiches for lunch because my soup wasn’t made yet. Had a nap and worked on some notes with thoughts from the Word regarding recent events. Then I started preparing the soup. It took a lot longer than I expected. (I was glad I had already washed the greens and pumpkin in the morning.) It was 4:30 before I had everything in the pot and the pot on the stove for the soup to cook. Used up a lot of boiled water too so had to put a pot of drinking/cooking water on to boil. I knew the soup wouldn’t be ready in time for supper so warmed up a pancake which I ate topped with butter and a mixture of honey and mangosteen powder. So thankful that my small batch of pancake batter produced a few extra pancakes. While the soup was cooking, I sat down to write in my journal. After the battery ran low and was recharging, I put water on to heat for dishes and sat down to eat a bowlful of soup. Just what was needed for a rainy day. So refreshing to the taste. By the time dishes were done, the battery was recharged. I looked through some old song files to find a song I had translated that is not in the printed book. During the next recharge, I put water on to heat for bath, crocheted until the bath water was ready, and then had bath. When I finished, the computer was recharged. I didn’t really feel like doing anything on the computer right away though so just did more crocheting and some praying. Then I opened up the computer, did a couple jigsaw puzzles, and then finished writing in my journal. “To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.” Psalm 40:1 If I but wait patiently for the LORD, He will surely reach out to me and hear my cry for help.
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