April 5. After a few hours of morning sunshine, the Lord started sending us rain late morning. Around mid-afternoon, the sunshine was back again. It is raining gently this evening. We had some good discussions in Bible class this morning, but Mike also asked a question about what a person should do if they realized that a certain work was God’s will and went about to be obedient to the Lord, only to be told by someone else that he couldn’t do it. It was a question based on personal experience, in which he and several young people were going out and preaching the gospel in other villages. Since he was discouraged by another believer from doing that, he stopped. He didn’t say who discouraged him, but it was heart-breaking that someone would hinder the preaching of the gospel to those in other villages. Mike wondered if he had done the right thing in quitting, or what should he have done? I told him that, if we are being obedient to God’s commandments, we often need to endure hardships and just go on doing the Father’s will no matter what others may say. It may be hard, but God will give us strength to carry on and will strengthen our faith through it all. With that discussion, we went over time in Bible class so our music class was shortened. We did have some time to work on the tenor and bass parts for “Ye Must Be Born Again.” I thought they had learned them before, but they said they hadn’t. After school, Anna Jean filled the washing machine so it is ready for washing clothes in the morning, and Judy swept the floor and burned the trash. I worked on Monday’s lesson plans. This afternoon, I readied the monthly updates for mailing, except for acknowledging support. I just copied the spreadsheet from the ACER onto a flash drive this evening and will try to add the acknowledgments tomorrow. This evening, I printed out John 6:68,69 in Pidgin for the students to memorize next week, fixed up a couple music sheets so they are ready for printing, and made up a math lesson to reinforce what they have been learning as three out of the four had a hard time today. April 6, 2019. This morning there was no water running through the pipes when we got up. Amos went up to check it out and found pipes that were separated at the joins. He rejoined them, but there was still no water. All of a sudden, after lotu, water started running again. Praise the Lord for that as we had wondered how we were going to wash clothes. Dallas had charge of lotu this morning. AnnaJean wasn’t at lotu so afterward I asked Judy to wash clothes again. She just started that job when AnnaJean showed up. Since I had already given Judy the job of washing clothes, I gave AnnaJean the job of preparing food—a pressure cooker full of carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and onion. It is a blessing to be getting carrots here in the village now. Kaipo has carrots growing in one of her gardens. The two girls hung the clothes out together. It started raining lightly just as they got started, but I told them to go ahead and hang them up anyway as there wasn’t room to hang them in the house. We were thankful that there wasn’t much rain and it didn’t rain for long. A few of the clothes were dry when we brought them in right after dinner. We had to hang a few around on hangers and on some of the lines in the schoolroom to finish drying. While the girls were working, I wrote an e-mail to Pastor Ogle and got the progress report ready to send. Also worked on Sunday school lessons. After nap, I cut up a popo, cleaned and organized the church cupboard, repainted one coat of undercoat on its door, had a snack, and practiced keyboard. This evening, I finished the last Sunday School lesson in the series about Josep. Now I need to plan a review game to cover those lessons. Also fixed up a coloring page to be used for art class; wrote a short e-mail to send updates to Christy for printing; washed dishes; had snack; printed music lessons, math pages, coloring page, Bible lesson; had bath and devotional time with Daddy. “26For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29That no flesh should glory in his presence.” I Corinthians 1:26-29 Praise God! That means He can use me.
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