August 30. A chilly and mostly cloudy day with brief periods of rain. It was a blessing to hear Elias’s and Judy’s testimonies of salvation in Bible class this morning. While the students were doing their math lesson, I finished a sewing project I had started fixing yesterday evening. After school, Anna Jean filled the washing machine, and Mike and Elias had several jobs to do. The first was to get rid of a rat we heard in the wall over my desk in the office. It was easiest to open the wall from the meeting room side. Elias started on that job while Mike was still finishing up something in school. As soon as he pulled the top corner of the wall down, the rat took off in a flash. There in between the office wall and meeting room wall was a nest. No babies in it yet. She must have been getting close to having them as we heard her crying. That’s how we knew she was in there. Dallas took the nest out, and he and Mike put the wall back together. Then the rat started working its way back across the office between the silver paper and the roof toward her next area. Daddy tried to hit her with the broom, but she got away into the meeting room. Dallas and Mike saw her and tried to get her too. On one whack that Mike had at her, she fell down inside the east wall. They couldn’t find her after that. If we start smelling death odor in a couple days, we’ll know that she died. If not, maybe she got outside somehow and took off. Hopefully, if she is still alive, she got a good enough scare to stay away. A lot of mess fell down from the nest area onto my desk from which we had removed all papers, computer, and other things ahead of time. I swept it all off and then disinfected it before putting stuff back. So that was the end of the rat chase. After that, Mike and Elias (Dallas) went outside and chopped firewood and then finished cutting the grass. And Daddy and I went for a nap. This afternoon, I fixed a dress that needed a small repair, cleaned the chalkboard, finished writing Monday’s lesson plans, and made a couple changes in the song sheet I had done yesterday and proofread the first lesson in Galatians. This evening, I put bath water on to heat while we were eating supper and had my bath as soon as supper was over as it was already getting cold before we even had supper. Then I proofread the Galatians lesson and made the student copy. Afterward I washed the dishes and then printed out five copies of the gospel of Matthew so the men can finally start checking that. Had a little trouble with the printer before the job was done. It was flashing red and yellow, and I didn’t know what was wrong with it. Nothing came up on the screen until I exited out of the file I was printing. Oh, I see. Change toner cartridge. Okay. That presented a little problem too. The new toner cartridge is generic, and there were no instructions with it. It took us a while to figure out how to put the new one in. Praise the Lord, we finally got it up and working again so we could finish the printing. We’ve been having small, evening invasions of giant crickets lately; and this evening, Daddy killed eleven of them that were flying around the house. Now the day is ended and we are ready to have our devotions together and head to bed. Good-night, all. “1A Psalm. O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. 2The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen…. 4Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. 5Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm. 6With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King. 7Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 8Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together….” Psalm 98:1-8 August 31. Last day of August. Where is this year going in such a hurry? It was a day of mixed sunshine, clouds, and rain. Amos wasn’t in lotu this morning as he is sick with a bad boil from a stick that went into his finger. After lotu, Daddy showed those who came one of the crickets he killed last night. The people said that they eat them, and they taste good. The crickets make a nest in the ground, and when the people hear them singing, they dig into their nest and find lots of those large crickets. They eat the little ones too. They’re of the same family, but the little ones are black, and the bigger ones are brown. After that, Daddy turned on the generator and Sunny did the laundry. Mike and Daniel and Daddy worked in the bedroom, putting up more plywood on the walls. There is just a little bit left to do. Dallas and his wife and Mike’s wife and the children all worked out in the yard. (Well, the children didn’t really do much work; they just played.) They raked up the grass that Dallas and Mike had been cutting during the week, and they pulled a lot of weeds, and the yard looks so nice. Afterward Elise got some salt and soap and a lollipop for Dalista. Taqita got yarn and soap and lollipops for each of her children. After Sunny hung out the clothes, she had a cup of coffee, and then peeled and cut up kaukau (a type of white sweet potato) for me which I baked in the oven for our dinner. It tasted so good. Also I cut up and cooked the other piece of chicken with our last bulb onion, and made a gravy so we had chicken gravy to go on our kaukau. Leftover greens was our vegetable. Sunny left after sweeping the floor. While Sunny was washing clothes, I did some work in the computer while the generator was on. Started on the next Bible lesson for school. Just before Sunny left, I cut a piece of linoleum to fit one end of the top shelf of the kitchen cupboard and did some snipping here and there to fit it around the frame parts of the cupboard. Before the morning was over, we were having rain showers, and the clothes were getting a little extra rinse. I ran out and brought in our bedsheet and pillow cases, and hung them in the schoolroom, hoping they would be dry by nap time. They were, praise the Lord! By dinner time, the sun had come back out, and all but a couple of the clothes were dry before we had our nap. After nap, I worked for a while again on the Bible lesson. Afterward, I had a fruit snack. Gathered up the trash and took it out to burn while Daddy and I enjoyed the fresh air and sunshine for a while. At supper time, I was looking at the picture of the rye cracker on the Rye-Vita box. The cracker had cream cheese and avocado on it, and I mentioned to Daddy how good it would taste to have some avocado on my crackers. He wondered what happened to Kristina’s avocado tree as she always used to bring us avocadoes. Shortly after supper, when Daddy went down to start the generator, who should be coming along but Kristina with some avocadoes. Thank you, Lord, for this special blessing. Kristina said that the eighth or ninth month is usually when the tree bears. She also brought a nice pineapple which we can’t eat, but we bought it to put in the offering tomorrow. When I was done doing dishes this evening, I cut another piece of linoleum for the other end of the top shelf of the cupboard. This one was a bit more tricky to snip and make fit as there were pipes to fit it around. But praise the Lord, it turned out looking nice; and now all the pots and pans and a few other things are back in their places in the cupboard instead of resting in boxes under the kitchen table. Then it was time to sit down a while so wrote in my journal before getting a sponge bath. Had a snack after bath, and then came back to do a bit more work in the computer. “2The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people. 3Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy…. 5Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy…. 9Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.” Psalm 99:2-9
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