May 24. Another cold morning, but very warm in the afternoon. Rain this evening, but broken clouds and visible stars by bedtime. I was thankful for quite a bit of computer time this morning as the students had a fair bit of independent work to do—math exercises to finish, spelling exercises to finish, study for science quiz and take quiz. Made up a Bible quiz as we will finish the current lesson on Monday. Worked on improving the leadership lessons which Daddy wants to start soon. After school, the men cut firewood and Anna Jean filled up the washing machine and buckets. Today is Judy Javin’s birthday, and I had prepared a little gift bag for her. Anna Jean said she would be going that way when she left, and she was willing to drop the gift off at Javin’s house for me. After nap, I made a popo crisp because there is lots of popo, and it goes bad quickly. Then I finished up the first leadership lesson and have that ready to print out. This evening, I printed several items and also wrote a Bible lesson for next week. I had hoped to start on the preaching lessons, but I need to wait until our white card stock comes with our shipment so I can print out pictures for the students to color to go with the chronological lessons. “4Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. 5Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.” Psalm 25:4,5 A special prayer to make my own. How I need the LORD to show me His ways, to teach me His paths, to lead me in His truth. I need to wait on Him the whole day long, for He is the God of my salvation. May 25. Cold again over night. I guess it’s “winter” here. We’re thankful for the wood stove and for sunshine to warm up the morning. If we open the doors and windows somewhat early, that will draw more warm air inside too, as it warms up more quickly outside than it does in. Not very many in lotu this morning. Many people are still picking coffee and digging gardens. Only the faithful few were here—a baker’s dozen all together. After lotu, Mata swept the meeting room floor. It was quite dirty. Anna Jean did our laundry, cut up a pumpkin, and swept our floors. I wrote an e-mail to Christy and Connie, helped Anna Jean hang up the king-size bedsheet, washed the chalkboard, and started a music lesson for Monday’s class. Yunis came a little after 11:00 to pull weeds. I went out with her to show her where to work. My! Some of the weeds under the house were three feet high! We hadn’t even paid any attention to what was under the house until some of the girls asked to pull weeds. There are even two tomato plants growing under there. Yunis worked about 3 3/4 hours and earned K5, plus two lollipops and a chocolate wafer (a favorite of almost everyone). After lunch, Daddy and I went out and got the clothes down. We hung up shirts and blouses and things in the closet. Then we made the bed and lay down for a nice nap. After nap, I went out again to see how Yunis was doing and also to get a bit more sunshine. Spent most of the afternoon working on the music lesson. Just before supper, I took the trash out and burned it. After supper, I graded the math lessons while the dish water was heating. Then washed the dishes. Finished the music lesson this evening and got both teacher’s and students’ copies printed out. Also tried to write discussion questions for the new Bible lesson, but am having a hard time with this one. “8Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way. 9The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.” Psalm 25:8,9 The LORD is good. That means He is bountiful, gracious, kind, loving, precious, and sweet. My wonderful LORD! And He is upright—just, impartial, exercising equity. Therefore He will show or point out to sinners (that’s me) the right road upon which to travel. He will give the meek (the humble, the lowly, the poor and needy) discretion to make the right decisions. And He will instruct the meek, that is, He will goad them so that they will stay on the right course in life.
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