June 28. The Lord continues to give us cold mornings, but blue skies and sunshine. As I was warming up with my morning drinks, I wondered what I was going to use for syrup on my pancakes this morning. I had used up the rest of my popo (papaya) syrup yesterday. (Someone had brought a popo on Saturday, but it was very green so I did not buy it.) Then there was a knock on the door, one of many, and a young lady was there with a large popo, just the right ripeness for cutting and eating. It was worth the small bottle of oil which she asked for in exchange. I thanked her, and I thanked the Lord. Now I could make popo syrup for my pancakes. My breakfast was enjoyed as well as my quiet time. The other knocks on the door were people bringing phones to charge, except for Wan who came to work on the garbage hole. He had covered it with old bamboo before, and the bamboo has rotted, leaving lots of little holes on top of the garbage hole. Saturday, Wan went and got new bamboo, and today he redid the top of the garbage hole. [*There is no garbage pickup service in Owena. 😊 Any garbage that cannot be burned is buried in a deep hole in the yard.] While Wan was out there working on the garbage hole, I took time to do a little Bible study in Exodus and write a bit in my journal. The rest of the morning was spent going through all my old files, trying to find music for the songs the four former students want to practice for making a CD. It was well after noon before I finished and had my dinner, and some time after 1:00 when I lay down for nap. I must have been tired out because I never heard a sound until I woke up at 3:00. Got up and got ready to wash my hair. Answered the door a few times. Finally got my hair washed and enjoyed a bowl of popo and banana. Washed dishes before supper so I would have time for bath afterward. People kept coming to get phones too before Daddy called. There was no trouble filling up an hour’s time this evening. Daddy had lots of news, and the unhappy news being that MAF won’t have a return flight for him before next Wednesday. Before bed, I spent some time organizing the music sheets. Still have more to go. June 29. Around 4:30 a.m., I heard rain which perhaps continued until daylight. When I arose from sleep, I saw that the world looked very dreary — rain-like clouds above and fog beneath. Even though the weather was warmer, I did start a fire in the wood stove as the air felt very damp. From the time I got up, I saw villagers, one right after the other, carrying coffee up to the airstrip. I figured there must be something going on today. Not long after I had eaten breakfast, I heard the roar of a plane engine. SIL perhaps? I thought, “It’s too bad they didn’t get a weather report first. Or did somebody give a bad report?” The fog was moving pretty quickly, but the plane circled six times before it was able to land. In the meantime, Daddy called and said that MAF would be coming in today and could I get my passport out. He needs to send the passports to our sponsor to have our visas renewed. I told them there was a plane circling, but he said he didn’t think MAF had left yet. Maybe it was SIL. A little bit later, he called back and said that it was MAF. In between times, I had gone and gotten my suitcase down and gotten my passport out to send up to the airstrip; but there was nobody around. Everybody was already up there waiting for the plane to land. And I wouldn’t entrust just anybody with the passport anyway. After the plane was on the ground a little while, I called Daddy to see if he could get in touch with the pilot or have MAF get in touch with her and see if Amos could be sent down to get the passport. But she did not have her phone on. They got the plane all loaded up, but then it started raining again. Next thing I knew, Nuanda and Glenys were at the door. I invited them to come inside. Glenys said she had been given a bad weather report. She circled for twenty minutes and was ready to go back to Goroka, when that layer of fog cleared away. Glenys thought she might spend about ten minutes with me until the rain stopped, but it ended up being about forty-five minutes or an hour. After the rain stopped, there was rain and fog again in Goroka. After that, there was fog again here. It finally cleared away, and she was able to leave here a little before 11:00. It was an answer to prayer as far as getting my passport out. I put it straight into Glenys’s hand and she said she would put it straight into Daddy’s had. I enjoyed the visit together with Glenys. She and Nuanda had a cup of coffee, and I a cup of reishi/ginger tea. She asked about Daddy’s return flight, and I told her what Famiri had told Daddy. She said she would check on that when she gets back, but she said it is hard to cover all the flights because of one pilot being sick and Brad having to be in the office all this week. Therefore, she is pretty much on her own. She said that three pilots should be sufficient for Goroka; but, of course, you don’t plan on one being sick. After she left, I got the bed made, enjoyed a little study in Exodus, and wrote some in my journal. Then it was time for dinner. The afternoon and evening computer time was spent organizing the music sheets. Also got plenty of exercise going back and forth to the door to return phones and to take some. Returned the last of the phones between 6:30 and 7:00. Daddy and I also had a long chat time together. There was a lot to talk about.
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