November 26. It must have rained for 6 1/2 to 7 hours yesterday afternoon and evening, and “The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.” (Psalm 77:18) Much dirt was washed down the mountain from the rain. The ditches along the mountainside need to be dug out better. Sunny did a little bit of dirt-moving so she could plant flowers along the fence where rain came through. The rain built up dirt in the ditch along the fence and created a ditch where there shouldn’t be one. Sunny also put black dirt on top of the little garden for more nutrition for the flowers. Before that, though, she washed and hung out clothes, swept floors, and filled the wood box. The skies were full of clouds, and there wasn’t much sunshine or wind to help dry the clothes, so we are thankful they dried pretty well anyway. Judy came and practiced her typing for a good while. She needs a lot of practice in order to pick up speed. For my computer work, I moved ahead to John and Acts to see if there were any new words for the dictionary. After Sunny left work, Daddy and I went outside for some fresh air and a wee bit of filtered sunshine. We noticed that the rain had washed away all the dirt off the water pipe that Mike had covered up the other day after he fixed the leak where he had accidentally cut the pipe. So Daddy got the shovel and carried dirt from a short distance to recover the pipe. I went and found stones to put on top of the dirt that was on top of the pipe. Amos saw us working out there and came up with his shovel to help. We were very grateful for his help. He also went up to the middle of the hill between our house and the GBC church house and cleaned out the ditch there that hadn’t been cleaned out for ages. Now when there is a heavy rain, the rivers of water should branch off into the ditch and run downhill outside the fence instead of running through our yard and washing away soil. This evening, Mike, Amos, and Dallas came, and we talked about whether a person should go out to do missionary work even if a church won’t send and support them. We looked at a number of Scriptures together in the book of Acts as well as the great commission verses in Matthew. There were only a few drops of rain today; but in the afternoon, the Lord sent us chilly, howling, mighty winds. November 27. Another day with little sunshine. We went out for a stretch around 10:30 and patched up places where the fence wire had been cut. We talked with Nuxawai a bit after we had finished patching up. He said that rooster and two hens belong to him. Nuxawai went on down to meet his wife at the garden; and when we turned around, lo and behold, there was Mr. Rooster and his two hens roaming through the yard. How did they get in now? We had quite a game of chicken chase before the last of the three, the rooster, finally made his way out. And where did he go out? Through a normal space among the wires of the fence. Well, I guess we really need some chicken wire (we only have pig wire), but chicken wire is quite a bit more expensive than the pig wire. It was after 11:00 by the time we got back inside, and we had had our workout for today. I had the carrots all peeled and ready to cook, but still needed to cook spaghetti and spaghetti sauce. Wanted to make some rolls for myself, too, to put my sauce on. So we decided we would have lunch at noon and dinner this evening. Took a break from computer work today and spent time after nap painting and finished in the evening. Just had a couple more pine trees and the rocks to paint on the scene that I started in town. I had stopped painting when I got sick because too much eye work bothered me, and I hadn’t had a chance to get back to it until today. Tomorrow it should be dry enough to varnish. There was a meal to prepare for supper, too, and quite a stack of dishes to be washed afterward. Praise the Lord for the young men who are catching the vision for preaching the gospel. This afternoon, Lemek came with a group from Emmanuel Baptist Church in Waisara, and he preached at Anyauntapeq. And after that, Nehemiah and Dallas headed to Marivo to do public preaching there November 28. Another mostly cloudy day. Today, I spent time on the Revelation studies and completed the study of the first five verses of chapter 14 — a delightful study. Started on the next section from verses 6-13, but the evening turned out to be extra busy so wasn’t able to get too far on it. I also put two coats of varnish on the painting and took some pictures of it. We were just getting ready to sit down for supper this evening when there was a knock on the door. Five men had come to talk — Amos, Mike, Nehemiah, Rex, and Dallas. They all came to see about ordering Thompson Chain Reference bibles for Nehemiah, Rex, and Dallas. Amos and Mike already have the TCR. Also Mike brought back Daddy’s old TCR that he had been using until he got his new one. Nehemiah snatched it up so he can use it while he is waiting for his new one. We also talked to the future SCMS students about getting together Wednesday after lotu (church) to have orientation for classes and decide when to do the work that needs to be done on the classroom. Nehemiah said there is a young man from Bulolo, too, who would like to come for missionary training. Those five men had no sooner left when Nuanda came along. We told Nuanda about meeting with the students on Wednesday since he plans to be a student. While Nuanda was still there, Elaisa came along. He too wanted to order a TCR. When Nuanda heard that these others were ordering, he wanted to put an order in too. He has an old copy that Daddy left with him years ago, but it is falling apart. It was going on 6:30 before everyone had left. We had supper, did dishes, heated bath water and washed up, had bedtime snack, and had our bedtime devotions. The evening had gone by lickety-split, and it was now time for bed. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12)
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