July 22. The Lord has given us another dry and sunny day. Went to bed early last night with sore throat and earaches and stomachache. Slept restlessly, as my stomach didn’t just ache, it hurt. It hurt worse when I turned on my side. Didn’t eat a lot today as my stomach hurt more when I ate. Daddy made calls to MAF to see about flights. Ben said he thought they could take us to Aiyura tomorrow. He would check with Brad and call back later. But he never called back, and Daddy couldn’t get him on the phone again either. So after lunch Daddy finally went down to check in person. He took the generator while there were workers here to help load it onto the truck. In the mean time, we had gone uptown hoping to get some bananas at the little market. But there were only a handful of vendors there and no bananas. Then we went to Able’s to check on computers. They have a nice Lenovo there. We didn’t want to get it, though, until we are sure that Thompson can’t fix the other one. He still says the hard drive is not bad. It is just the software that is on it. After we got back from town, I felt very tired and had a nap. After lunch, I packed up all that I could while Daddy was gone to MAF. Thompson was working on my computer today, but when Daddy left to go to MAF, I suddenly heard the front gate close. I went down to see if they were closing early today (nobody had said anything), and they were. They let me in the back door to see Thompson. He was going to be leaving too, but the computer wasn’t ready. He stopped whatever it was doing and gave it to me. I’ll take it home and maybe have Daddy bring it back again next time he comes. I’ll just have to use the ACER for now. Don’t know how I’ll print though. I tried putting my journal notes into Daddy’s computer this evening so I could work on them in there, and his computer wouldn’t open the files. Discovered after a while that his computer had changed all my publisher files to internet files. (Dad’s computer does this once in a while. ???) After Daddy got back from MAF, we both had a nap. This evening, Daddy went with the Venters to meet Andrew at Pacific Gardens for supper. I was supposed to go too, but my hurting stomach and sore throat kept me here at the flat. July 23. Slept okay the first part of the night, but strong stomach pains made the rest of the night quite uncomfortable. I was more than ready to get up this morning. We didn’t hurry too much because we didn’t have to be at the hangar until 8:30 or so. Ate breakfast and read Bible before starting to pack up and clean the apartment. Brad called Daddy around 7:00 to let him know that the flight was on and that their agent Robert would be at the SIL hangar to help us store things there. So we just needed to find a ride to the guest house from the hangar. Around 7:30, Daddy called Christopher who offered to pick us up at the hangar and take us to the guest house. A little before 8:30, Daddy called Bryan M to let him know that we were ready to go to the hangar. Bryan would be taking care of the Aibai vehicle we had been using, keeping it for the Aibai folks. So Daddy loaded our cargo into the back seat of the truck, and we headed for the hangar. Bryan was already there, and his two youngest children with him. He helped unload our cargo; and after we got everything weighed up, he still stayed, and we talked for quite a while. Brad got back from his first flight around 9:30, and we left Goroka around 10:15 for Aiyura. We flew above the clouds all the way, until we got to Aiyura where we circled around and around through cloud breaks to descend below the clouds and land at Aiyura. Robert was there to meet the plane and take care of our cargo. Another man was there working for a couple hours on something he enjoyed doing on his day off. He called Christopher for us to let him know we had arrived. Christopher had heard the plane and was on his way. After he arrived, he had a few things to do in the office before we headed out to the base. It was going on 12:00 when we arrived at the guest house. The regular worker (Rebecca) was off for the holiday, and Lavender was there taking her place for the day. Even though Daddy had called yesterday to make a booking, our names were not in the book. Lavender gave us room 11 again. A man named Eric came out from one of the rooms. He said they had told him just to help himself to whatever he could find for lunch. So we did the same. We were pretty hungry. After our nap, we did some reading and relaxing until supper time. Supper was quite late—not ready until 7:30. It was Lavender’s first time to cook, and she was quite nervous about it. But she did okay.
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