March 29. At 5:00 this morning, the she stars were shining brightly in the sky. They sky was still clear when we got up, but within a couple hours, the earth had become enshrouded by fog. It stayed cloudy most of the morning, but the Lord sent us sunshine around midday through most of the afternoon. The students had their quiz this morning in Bible class, and then we went right to music class. The students and I had decided that we would make today a church service day and start cleaning up the meeting room. Mike and Elias took down the rotten silver paper that was over the south end of the room. Judy and Anna Jean washed windows. I cleaned all the books off the top of the cupboards and cleaned them. Mike wiped all the dirt off the top, and I washed the tops. The young ladies swept up all the pieces of silver paper that were all over the floor after the men’s job was done. When that work was done, I started checking over Hebrews chapter 11; the two men chopped firewood; Anna Jean filled the washing machine so it is ready for washing clothes in the morning; and Judy went home. Later, I put a pot of rice on to cook for dinner; and closer to dinner time, I browned the rest of the ground beef, added spaghetti sauce and other seasonings, and added it to the rice for Spanish rice. We had just started eating dinner when we heard MAF’s twin otter circling the village. Daddy headed up to the airstrip as we were expecting a couple packages. He also wanted to talk with the pilot about the possibility of flights the end of April and beginning of May so he was glad that Brad was one of the pilots as he knows best what is going on. As it stands, that will be a bad time to go out to town, as that is when MAF will be getting rid of their twin otters and will just be starting to work on getting the caravans checked into the bush airstrips. So he is going to have to try to go out a couple weeks earlier than planned. (That plan didn’t work either as there is no place for Lewis to stay and still hard to get a flight booking. He has, however, been able to book a return flight with NTM.) Note: The Lord did work things out, and we praise Him for help in this. I finished my dinner and put the rest of Daddy’s dinner on the wood stove to warm back up. Shortly Elias and Mike came with the two boxes. Yes, they contain the school books. And after a while, Daddy returned. He finished his dinner, and then we had nap. After nap, I cut up the popo. Then I finished up the checking of Hebrews 11. That took me until almost supper time. After supper, I strained and bottled the boiled water. Then I put the dirty rags (from this morning’s work) in bleach water to soak. After that I opened the boxes of books. and laid them out on the desks. There were no dictionaries, and there was only one reader. The dictionaries I had chosen are out of print. We had ordered 7 readers so the teacher and two extra men could each have one as well as the four students. Well, we’ll just do without reading class for now. They will have plenty of reading to do in science and history class. And I will reorder readers and order other dictionaries. After the ladies’ meeting, Apekio stopped in to visit. She has been sick for several weeks so it was good to see her up and around again. After she and Yunis and Misaina left, I started wringing out the rags so I could dump out the dirty bleach water and rinse the rags in clean water. Before I finished, Susan came by to visit. She had brought Korin’s phone up to be charged. Enjoyed a little visit with her and then went back to rinse the rags. But then I asked Daddy if he would wring them out for me because he has a stronger hand. After that I got busy writing in my journal. Then it was time to wash dishes. Afterward I printed teacher’s copy of the new Bible lesson and the new music lesson. Proofread them and then washed up. March 30. Up at 6:00 as usual. It was a mostly cloudy day with just some little sprinkles of rain and a little bit of sunshine too. Before breakfast and quiet time, I added the laundry detergent to the water in the washing machine and put the first load of clothes in, ready to be agitated as soon as the generator was turned on after lotu. Had breakfast and quiet time. Then it was time for prayer lotu. Matthew was in charge this morning. We sang a couple songs, and then he took prayer requests and chose three men to pray. After lotu, Amos came up to me and said he wanted to come see us this evening. He had a big grin on his face, and I wondered what he had up his sleeve now. Daddy started the generator, and Anna Jean washed and hung out the clothes, washed and cut up greens and onions, swept the floor, and shelled a small batch of peanuts. While she was doing that, I worked on setting up the students’ Bible and music lessons so I could print them out later. Then I started on an e-mail to Carrie at EBC in response to her request for information on a “typical” day in our lives as missionaries. Then it was dinner time. Also after the meeting, Apekio swept the meeting room floor. We were happy to see her back in lotu after being so sick and not even being able to get out of bed for a couple weeks. Mata raked the grass that the men had cut yesterday, and Matthew fixed (hopefully) a leak in the roof in the church area. After dinner, I cleaned up the kitchen and Daddy went out to bring in the clothes. Then we had our nap. After nap, I worked on an e-mail for Rod and Staff as there were some books missing in the order that had arrived. We want to try to get the ones that were missing, but also exchange a couple of them for some different books and add a couple other things to the order. Daddy shaved and washed up right after supper, and I did the dishes and practiced keyboard so we would be ready when Amos came. He showed up shortly after Daddy turned on the generator, and we had a good talk together. He was thinking about the story of Elijah and Elisha and how Elisha received a double portion of Elijah’s blessing when Elijah was taken to heaven. Amos’s desire is to have such a blessing from Daddy. That led to discussions about how to receive God’s blessing as well as other discussions. After Amos left, I was able to get the students’ Bible lessons and music lessons for next week printed out. Also got three e-mails ready to send to C&C. We have been having a really hard time getting e-mails to send lately. “13For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” (Romans 10:13-15) Lord, may your church send out more preachers to preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings to those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death.
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