June 28. The Lord sent us a little rain yesterday evening and a little during the night. Woke up to cloudy skies this morning, but it was perfect weather here for the plane flight. The clouds were somewhat low, but were above the mountain ridges. The only fog I could see was on the other side of the long ridge that goes up to the approach; and it didn’t seem to be moving this way, but rather down river. Also there was no wind that I could detect. Daddy called between 7:00 and 7:30 as he had said he would. As soon as I gave the weather report, they loaded up the plane. The empty diesel drum had to be at the airstrip to go out on the back flight. There were no men around, but when I went down to the fence, there were several young ladies in Amos’s yard. Bonita and Magaret T offered to take the drum up to the airstrip. I was thankful for their help. The plane arrived here a little after 8:00, just as we finished praying at the start of school. The students took off for the airstrip to help. After all the cargo was brought to the house, the students came back to class. They had their Bible quiz and then their music quiz back-to-back. There were about fifteen minutes left before recess time, so we sang “Olgeta Promis” (“Every Promise”) and “Olgeta Promis Em I Tru” (“Every Promise of the Bible Is True”). Dallas finished his math early so went to help Daddy tie down the new generator and get it ready for use. When Mike finished, he went to help too. The ladies finished shortly afterward; and when the men came back, we started looking at the next math lesson. While the students were doing independent work, I loaded up the freezer and helped put supplies away. Nap was a bit late, as after school the two men helped Daddy finish getting the generator ready for use and Sunny filled the washing machine so she can wash clothes tomorrow. Most of my time after nap until supper time was spent working on next Monday’s lesson plans. After supper, I transferred files from ACER back to LENOVO, did the dishes, took a quick bath (because it is cold this evening), and wrote journal notes. Most of the day was damp and chilly. For a while there were very strong winds, and there was a little rain. We also enjoyed a few moments of sunshine. The generator shut down twice this evening during the four hours that it was on. It was supposed to go for another hour, but it was too dark for Daddy to look for the problem tonight. “1To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God….” Psalm 42:1,2a June 29. Slept in a little extra this morning as I was awake for a while during the night. Had gotten up to the sound of a rat chewing behind the kitchen cupboards. I certainly wouldn’t sleep to the sound of that noise, and certainly don’t want the rat chewing up my cupboard either. So I got out the moth balls and dropped them one by one into the small space that goes behind the cupboard, until the rat ran up the pole behind the plywood and across the cross pole to the outside. Praise the Lord, the rest of the night was quiet, except for Daddy moving around restlessly; but he said he never heard the rat nor did he hear me get up. There was no one around to ring the lotu bell this morning so Daddy finally went out to ring it. Several young children came running up from Amos’s house, and Daddy had no trouble getting a volunteer to ring the bell. It was around 8:00, I think, before lotu started. Philemon looked after lotu. There were a good number of folks there this morning. It was good to see Steve and Thania afterward and talk with them a few minutes. They are home from school for a couple weeks’ holiday. Daddy and several others went down to the generator shed to see what they could do about the generator, but there was nothing they could do. They reinstalled the old generator; and at first, it didn’t want to start. Finally one of the men pulled really hard and we heard the wonderful roar of the generator. Praise the Lord! We were then able to wash clothes. I sorted out the clothes and put the first load in the machine. Sunny had been sweeping the floors and was just about done so she was ready to handle the laundry. Praise the Lord for giving us a nice clothes-drying day too. I started writing an e-mail to C&C after Sunny started washing clothes, but there were lots of interruptions, mostly with Daddy and I discussing different things that came up; and I still hadn’t finished the e-mail before the battery went low after the power was off. So I turned off the computer and set it to charge on the inverter. Then I went and started dinner—a pot of rice with chicken sausages, and some pumpkin. After dinner, Daddy started getting the clothes in while I cleaned up the kitchen. Then I went out and helped him. A few clothes were left on the line to finish drying. After we got clean clothes hung up in the closet, we made the bed and lay down for a nap. I was pretty tired after losing some sleep last night so had a somewhat long nap. After nap, I finished the e-mail and, with what time was left on the battery, Daddy tried to send it, but no go. I suddenly remembered that I didn’t have any tortillas left for supper, but it was too late to start tortillas then. So I made some quick flat bread and stuck it in the oven. It didn’t take long to cook and was ready to eat in time for supper. Washed dishes right after supper, with a short interruption to buy some greens from Nuandauro. Tomas came just when I was finishing up the dishes, and Daddy and I searched for some Bible verses he was looking for. Then bath water was ready so I went to take a bath, and Daddy went to try again to send the e-mail. After trying a number of times, he decided to check and see if we still had time on our modem. No time left. So he added K20 worth of time, and soon was able to send and receive e-mails. After bath, I had a snack, read the e-mails, continued writing in my journal, and worked on the next Bible lesson for school.
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