January 21. A dreary, rainy morning. Daddy was still not feeling himself so he asked MAF about the possibility of moving our flight up a day if we can’t get things done today. Sosthenes came by around 8:00 this morning. It was good to see him. We visited a while; and, around 9:30, he and Daddy walked over to MAF to pick up the car. When they came back, Sosthenes helped Daddy carry cargo down to the car and load it in. We had a number of items that had been packed up and ready to go. They took that small load over to the hangar. When they got back from the hangar, it was after 10:30. Daddy relaxed a bit and had a snack. A little after 11:00 we headed out, supposing that we were going to market first, but when we got close to the market area, there was nothing there but piles of rubbish. We are wondering where the market went. Did they finally finish renovating the old market place so it was ready for people to move back down there? We will have to try to find out. Went on uptown and stopped at Hot Spot where Daddy got a battery for his phone. Went to Papindo next; and since it was going on 12:00 already, we decided to have lunch first at Papindo Café. I ordered a chunky chicken sandwich, but only ate the chicken. It was full of chicken salad (actually it was shredded, not chunky), and it was plenty for me to eat. Daddy ordered a hamburger. Ate half of it, and was getting full, so left the rest of the bun. Sosthenes ordered chili chicken wings with fries and ate his whole meal, plus my bun and Daddy’s other half of bun. After lunch, we shopped for a few items and looked for pillows which they didn’t have. Realized yesterday that the only pillow we have is the one I brought with me. Hmm! There may be another one in one of the suitcases. Last stop was the bank so Daddy could get some coins for us to buy produce with in the village. Came back to the house, and Sosthenes helped us carry things upstairs. Then he left to go back uptown. He is staying with the pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Temple, which is down a street behind the Bird. Young people from that church were at the same youth meeting that the GIBC youth went to in Kainantu a couple weeks ago. It is a good church. Daddy and I had our nap. Then Daddy went downstairs to pay the bill for our lodging, internet service, etc. here at CRMF. We were going to go out again and look for pillows, but it took a long time for them to get our bill figured out, and then it started raining. When the rain stopped, it was time for Daddy to take the car back because the Ventor’s use it Monday afternoons to take some of the MAF kids to karate class. MAF is behind schedule in their flying because of the weather so we won’t be going in tomorrow so we can do a little shopping tomorrow. MAF will still try to do the fuel flight tomorrow and then take us in on Wednesday. This afternoon and evening, I marked places in the culture course where questions can be asked about how to give Biblical answers to various cultural beliefs and practices. Now I’ll turn it over to Daddy to find appropriate Bible verses. Later this evening, we listened to a good message by Adrian Rogers entitled “Totally Abandoned to the Gospel,” based on Romans 1:14-16: “I am debtor.” “I am ready.” “I am not ashamed.” January 22. Woke up to a foggy morning, but it wasn’t long before the sun broke through. How we enjoyed the sunshine after two quite cool days! Then about mid-afternoon, when I was allowing myself the pleasure of an extended nap, a torrential rain came up, blowing wildly across the front veranda and tossing the curtains up in the air by my bed. That blustery rain didn’t last long, but light rain has continued to fall since. The Ventors had told Daddy that the market was moved to a new place across from the lower end of the airstrip. So we went looking for the market, but found few vendors there. They said that a lot of the vendors have moved back away from town to a bush place. The new market place is quite nice though with new tables placed on a large cement foundation. There were security guards there to keep out individuals who just came to cause trouble. We bought a few carrots, a couple tomatoes, and an avocado. Em tasol (That’s all). There were no potatoes, and the onions were rather expensive. Maybe someone in Owena will have onions and potatoes to sell us. We brought the market food back to the house and then went out looking for pillows. Seng Da was all out of pillows too. Well, I said, if anyone has pillows, it is probably The Green Fern, one of the little Asian stores in the center of town. That’s where we got our mattress. So we headed there next; and sure ‘nuf, they had lots of pillows. Bought a couple pillows and headed next to the Digicel office to register our phones. Made a pit stop at the Bird before going to Papindo Café for lunch. It was a bit early, but we didn’t want to go all the way back to the house and then come back uptown again. And we didn’t have anything left to eat at the house. We each got a chicken chunk sandwich today, but only ate the chicken. It was loaded with chicken salad and was more than we could eat. We only ate about half and then asked for a box to take the rest home. It will be good for lunch tomorrow, if we are still here, which it looks like we shall be, but that is in the Lord’s hands. After lunch, we made one more stop—at another Digicel office upstairs from where Gouna Center used to be, to see if they had any modems. They would be getting some soon, but the worker didn’t know if the new ones will be compatible with windows 10, or not. Oh, I almost forgot, we did make one other stop. We went by EBC to see about buying honey. The worker was on his lunch hour, but he kindly took us to the little room where the honey is kept and sold us a 2.5 litre bottle of honey. We took everything back to the flat, and then Daddy took the car back to the Ventors. We will not need to go anywhere tomorrow, unless we go to Owena; but we won’t know until the last minute. We just need to be ready. I waited sleepily for Daddy to come back from MAF before I had my nap. It was a hot walk back in the early afternoon sun. But we are glad he took the car back early because it would have been raining if he had waited until after nap. After our naps, I washed my hair, did some packing, wrote an e-mail, wrote in my journal, washed a load of clothes, peeled and cut up and cooked a few little potatoes to go with our noon meal tomorrow. When the clothes were done washing, I hung them out on the middle veranda. Then I had supper, adding a few pieces of the just-cooked potatoes to some leftover carrots, a little dab of leftover beef with broth, a little dab of egg salad (left after Daddy made his sandwich), a couple pieces of diced cucumber, and one slice of diced tomato (left after Daddy made his sandwich). Tossed it all together with some mayonnaise, fennel powder, and 3-in-1 garlic, ginger, onion powder. Voila! Tasty and filling. This evening, I did the dishes, and we listened to another challenging Adrian Rogers’ message on the life of faith from Hebrews 11:1-3 and 12:1-2.
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