February 2. The Lord brought us rain during the night and gave us a rainy morning too. This afternoon was hot and sunny with clear skies. Praise the Lord for His help this morning in finishing the printing of all the reading worksheets. Then Daddy and I went for a stretch outside. It was quite warm and humid out and still mostly cloudy. The worst part was the ferocious mosquitoes. There are so many this year. We wish someone could come and spray around the village like they used to do years ago. This is the first year in a long time that the mosquitoes have been so bad. After our walk, I started getting attendance sheets and grading sheets ready for printing. Then I turned the rest of our chicken gravy into patties for our dinner. After nap, I made up a job chart and printed the attendance and grading sheets, the job chart, and a memory verse chart (made up last year) besides the bank statements for Daddy to work on and an outline from an Adrian Rogers sermon. Before supper, I swept the schoolroom before mixing up tuna and cutting up a cucumber for supper. While dish water was heating after supper, I washed the schoolroom floor, and Daddy dried it for me. Then I washed the dishes; and a little while later, I took a bath before evening snack. February 3. The Lord gave us another warm, mostly sunny day. Yes, it was another busy day too. Anna Jean came early, as she usually does on Saturdays, and did the laundry. She couldn’t finish refilling the buckets right away because the water was dirty, and then the water stopped. Daddy had her call for Amos, and he went up to check the water for us. He checked a join that people usually open and water was coming fine; but he checked the next join down, and no water was coming. So it appeared that somehow dirt or something was in the line somewhere. We just had to wait for it to work its way loose. Later the water started running again, sometimes dirty and sometimes clean. After hanging out the clothes, Anna Jean swept the floors, put the 10KG bag of flour in the flour bucket for me, and filled up the salt bucket. After her snack, she went outside and spent the rest of the morning digging out weeds and bad grass. After breakfast, I got the bed made; reorganized some upper years school books into two smaller boxes as the one box they were in was too heavy to handle, got out crayons, pencils, and New Testaments for the school students, and washed the school students’ desks and chairs as well as my own desk area in the schoolroom. Daddy had made contact with C&C via Skype and was talking with them so I went and joined him for a while. Then a message came up that Martha (Dad's sister) wanted Daddy to call her so we signed off from C&C temporarily and called Martha. She needed someone to talk with as her health condition is worsening and the doctors are going to be getting together to see what the next step should be. So she is facing the possibility of not having much longer to live. We are thankful that she has a firm confidence in the Lord and His plan for her life. Daddy prayed with her before we signed off, but she wants him to be available as much as possible so that she can talk with him when she needs to. After that, we reconnected with C&C and talked with them a while longer. In the midst of all that, I had a snack and tried to work on school stuff; and the men (Wan, Mike and Dallas) were here the second half of the morning until after 1:00 working on the meeting room cupboard so we were back and forth guiding them and checking to make sure they were doing things right. We did manage to fit our dinner in in the midst of running back and forth. After all that, I was pretty tired by the time we finished eating so got ready to take a nap while Daddy was helping the men finish up and clean up. This afternoon, I did finish getting everything together for the first day of school. Then there was a little kitchen work to be done — make yogurt, boil water to heat honey so it could be poured into the honey bear, fix a pot of rice, seaweed, and tuna so it is ready for our dinner tomorrow because Sunday is very busy with making pancakes and having two meetings. This evening, the rain has come again, prancing across the roof and moving on, only to return again and again as the lightning flashes and the thunder roars. February 4. Mostly cool and cloudy today. A good group present for the first meeting, and a few of them were early or on time, and others arrived not too much longer afterward. In the first meeting, Daddy covered the importance of baptism following salvation. There was a much smaller group present for the second meeting, but they were those who really seemed keen to learn. Daddy covered the work of every believer as priest, and the two offices of the church being elder and deacon and the two ordinances being baptism and the Lord’s supper. There was a good amount of discussion and questions following the second meeting. It looks like some of the men are finally doing some serious thinking and realizing that most of the ideas that have come here from churches in town have no Scriptural basis. No boys’ meeting this evening. It appears that some of the boys were looking to Nehemiah to lead them; and since Nehemiah started going back to another church, he stopped coming. A couple of the boys (Elias and Dave) do help Mike and Dallas carry Bibles for outreach. This afternoon I worked on the progress report and finished that this evening. Am thankful for the Lord’s help.
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