October 14. It was pretty quiet here this morning until after lotu. Then Judy came to do laundry, the men came to work on the front veranda, and Wan came to work on the roof. Dallas didn’t do much work as he is feeling sick again, but he was happy to get out in the sunshine where he could be warm. He brought his and Elise’s health books and the pills that had been given them so we could see what their treatments had been and what the diagnoses were. Elise had bronchial pneumonia, but there was no diagnosis written down for Dallas. We got to thinking later, however, that there was no mention of malaria treatment either; and they almost always treat people for malaria. I remember how weak I was years ago when I had chronic malaria, until after we discovered the supplement ParaFactors (no longer made now). This morning, I proofread the story cards, added a Bible verse, and printed out two pages of the first story. Spent most of the rest of the morning and afternoon proofreading the next three outreach lessons, translating verses from Numbers to add in, printing out the lessons, fixing the pictures that go with them, and printing out the pictures. Dallas was not here for classes this afternoon. This evening Repeka came to get Philemon’s laptop. When I went to the door, she hugged me and cried on my shoulder. I feel so sorry for the wives of these men as they are deprived of the fellowship and encouragement they need. She also asked if I would like some popo and some uxai*, and, of course, I would. So after she took the laptop home, she brought down a couple popo and a bunch of uxai. She got some yarn in exchange for the food. *Uxai is a long vegetable that looks somewhat like lemongrass. It has husks that can be peeled like corn. The “meat” of the uxai is somewhat mealy, and the taste is somewhat reminiscent of corn but hard to describe to one who hasn’t tasted it. It is a very delicious vegetable. October 15. The morning was warm and sunny, but rainy season came back in the afternoon and evening. Amos went up early this morning to try to make the water pipe joint more secure so that neither the water pressure nor the people can keep pulling it apart, and so that Daddy or Amos don’t have to run up there several times a day (or in the dark in the rain like Daddy did last night) and put it back together. Erick came early this morning too and took all the poles away from the porch area, the ones that the men had set aside for the porch work. He put them all on the ground a ways away from the house. Also started taking limbum* off the foundation and taking nails out of it. So when Amos, Dallas, and Mike came to work, they decided they would work all day today and finish the job. They didn’t quite get the porch done because of the rain, but they did get all of the old foundation taken down and set aside limbum and poles that they will be needing. So there was no school this afternoon as they men used the time to get as much work done as they could. Today I wrote an e-mail to C&C, revised and printed out a new attendance sheet for school, worked a bit on the elder-deacon lessons (finished that just before supper), did some cleaning, folded and put away clothes, visited a while with Paqo, answered the door a few times, and I don’t remember what else. *Limbum - a type of wood that can be made into nice boards and is good for flooring
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