March 15. Praise the Lord for a good night’s rest. Woke up to a very foggy morning, and it turned out to be another cloudy, rainy day. After breakfast and quiet time, I got busy with housework. There was much to do. The tall kitchen cupboard that I sprayed with bug spray last night needed to be cleaned today. First, I threw out the three dead cockroaches that were inside. The others must have run away somewhere. Then I sprayed each shelf area one section at a time, with bleach solution and scrubbed it with soapy water. After drying off the interior, I climbed onto a chair to see about cleaning off the top of the cupboard. So dirty! I guess it hadn’t been cleaned for the past three years. First I took a rag and wiped off all the loose dirt and dust. Then I sprayed all over with bleach solution. Then I washed it several times with the soapy water until it looked clean again. After that, I found a jar lid and filled it with cockroach powder. Then I started filling the cupboard back up with food and dishes and things. After that the boiled water needed to be strained and put into its jug. By the time all that was done, it was around 11:00. I would need to prepare a veggie for dinner, and there was still the bed to be made, my town bag to clean out and put away, and the floor to be swept. Daddy went down to shut off the generator, and he called for Judy (Bonita) to come and prepare veggies for me. I was certainly thankful for her help. She prepared a pressure cooker full of pumpkin greens, onions, and uxai. Stopped several times in between all that work to talk to sellers who came to the door, bringing us veggies, cucumbers, bananas. The bunches of bananas had to be hung, and we asked the sellers to help us hang them up, hopefully out of reach of rats. I asked Judy if her mother had taught ladies’ meetings the last three weeks, and she said “yes” so I knew she would need verse reminders for today’s meeting. While Judy was preparing veggies, I plugged the printer up to the inverter and printed out the pages of verse reminders for this week and next. When Judy was done preparing the veggies, I added water and salt and put them on to cook. It was already after 12:00 so our dinner wasn’t ready until 12:30. While the veggies were cooking, Judy swept the floor and I made the bed. Judy finished her work and left, and I sat down and started cutting up the pages of verse reminders until dinner was ready. Once the veggies were done, I warmed up the kaukau and fish from yesterday, and then we had dinner. It was about 1:45 before we got to nap. This afternoon, I finished cutting out the verse reminders. Cleaned out my town bag and put it away. Proofread the next set of ladies’ lessons so they are ready to print. There are just six more lessons, and then I will need to write more. I don’t know if I can keep up with weekly lessons, especially with all the other lessons and projects I am working on. After supper, I wrote in my journal and proofread the notes for the first music lesson, did the dishes, and then printed out copies of the lesson. Decided to try using the Brother printer again as the Canon uses up the ink so quickly. It didn’t seem to affect the generator any extra, but it did chew the corner off one of my papers, and the corner got stuck way back in the corner beyond the paper tray where it was almost impossible to get it out. It was almost impossible to even find it at first. The only way we could get it out of that corner was with a long-pointed object, and the only thing we found the right length was a knife. It took some maneuvering to finally work the little corner of paper loose; but, praise the Lord, it finally loosened up and we were able to pull it out with the knife. I was almost afraid to try printing again, but everything went fine after that. “So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.” Nehemiah 4:6 Lord, that your people will have a mind to work, and that we will work until the wall is builded and fitly joined together as one. March 16. Woke up this morning to cold winds and rain. Daddy has kept the fire burning all day. I wore my cold weather jacket all morning and a warm sweater the rest of the day. It was a blessing to see a good number of people show up for prayer lotu in spite of the damp and chilly weather. Daddy stayed inside the house and even lay down in bed for a while during lotu so he wouldn’t be coughing and disturbing people. Today was wash day too so the laundry had to be done in spite of the weather. Sunny stayed after lotu and washed clothes. Even though there wasn’t any sunshine, the wind was quite strong so the clothes got a good start at drying outside on the clothesline. Eric’s two sons Benson and Uriah stayed after lotu too and cut the grass (or should I say the weeds) out in front of the house. They had grown a foot or so high while we were gone. While Anna Jean (Sunny) was washing clothes, I had to strain boiled water and put it into the jug and also had the bed to make. About 11:00, I put a pot of rice on the wood stove to cook for our dinner. I was also working on the next Bible lesson for school and finished that before dinner. After dinner, I went out and brought in the dry clothes. Then went back out and brought in the not-so-dry clothes. Praise the Lord, about half of them were already dry, and the rest were mostly dry. The mostly dry clothes we hung in the house to finish drying. It was about 1:30 when we lay down for nap, but nap had a couple interruptions with knocks on the door and noises. So I didn’t get up until about 3:15. When I got up, the fire was almost died out, and Daddy was still lying down, so I added firewood to the fire. Then I spent a good while practicing keyboard as I hadn’t been able to do any practicing the past two weeks. I spent much of the evening working on music lessons for school. “Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?” Nehemiah 5:9 How important our testimony is before the unsaved! We must be very careful to walk in the fear of the Lord.
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