January 11. Slept in until about 6:45 this morning and even had a long nap this afternoon. Was awake a while before dawn, the sinuses on the right side of my face now getting filled up. I finally got up and took some ibuprofen. After a while, I was finally able to rest and get back to sleep. I did not go out shopping this morning with Daddy. I started getting things ready here for our move over to CRMF tomorrow—packed up clothes and some of the food that we don’t need any more today or in the morning. Enjoyed a little extra quiet time too. Later in the morning, Brad helped Daddy load our four suitcases, one packed box, and mattress into the car. Then Daddy took them over to MAF hangar. When he came home, I had spaghetti cooked for his dinner, and some carrots too. Spaghetti sauce was already made—Daddy had had it over rice for the past couple days. This afternoon, I did go out with Daddy. We stopped at the hangar first so Daddy could pay for the drum of diesel which the workers would purchase for him. Then we went to Hardware House to see if they had appliances. Last of all, we stopped again at Brian Bell. They had a nice twin tub washer, which we hadn’t seen the other day, an affordable gas stove, and an affordable blender. A man named Paul Opa came by to help us and printed us out a quote of the three items we are interested in. Back to the house for a late afternoon snack and time to just relax. In the evening, I washed the dishes and then read and sang a bit, or tried to sing, that is. It’s a little difficult to make a tune when one has a sinus cold. “22Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. 23Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets…. 27But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you…. 35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.” Luke 6:22,23,27,28,35,36 How shall we respond to and treat our enemies? Rejoice and even leap for joy when they treat you spitefully. Love them, do good to them, bless them, pray for them, show them kindness and mercy. January 12. We arrived in PNG a week ago today. By God’s grace, we have finished this first week, although very tired. Many sleepless hours traveling; + for me, battling sinus infection all week, and for Daddy, the stressful task of driving the land rover through and around giant potholes all over Goroka, and making and keeping up contacts with proper parties to help us arrange flights, transport, lodging, etc., and running here and there checking on availability and prices of building supplies and appliances, etc., the hassle of getting his driver’s license (that’s another story), ad infinitum; and all the running to and fro to dozens of little stores trying to find things we need; repacking the suitcases so they are ready for the airplane; packing boxes of supplies, taping, labeling. I went to bed early again last night. This sinus cold and all the running around has kept me really wiped out. We were both up a little before 6:00 this morning. After packing up for moving, having breakfast, quiet time, etc., we headed out for town to look for a few more things and buy fewer than we looked for. Were just out a couple hours before coming back to the house and packing away the goods we just bought. Then we made a quick call to Christy and Connie. Daddy didn’t have enough time left on the phone to talk long. Then we started doing the rest of the packing up so we could clean out the house. Felt hungry before we finished the job so had an early lunch. Then did the dishes and finished the rest of the cleaning. Around noon, Rachel W came over with the key to the CRMF flat, and Daddy started loading up the car for our move over there. Daddy prayed for help in loading up, and the Lord sent the new pilot, Tim, along to help him. We didn’t have any help carrying things up the long flight of stairs to the flat, however. I was able to carry three or four light loads, and that was my limit, both for carrying and for going up and down the stairs. We were thankful we had already taken the suitcases and a couple other heavy items over to the hangar. After we got the fridge food put away, we lay down for a nap, totally exhausted. Part way through nap, Amos called Daddy and said he was down at the gate. Daddy got up, but I was just too worn out to move. He went down and talked with Amos and Dallas, and they will come back tomorrow morning and visit with us. When I finally got up from nap, I got busy putting away clothing, personal items, and other food items. Felt hungry before that was done, so stopped for a fruit snack. I had set a couple bananas on the counter by the sink; and when I picked them up to wash them so we could add them to our fruit snack, they were covered with ants. I quickly turned on the water and washed the ants down the drain. Then washed the bananas. No more of that kind of food will go on the counter, and all dishes will be immediately washed. They need to be washed right up anyway, as there are not very many of each kind, except for cups, of which there are plenty. After a while, I cut up all the kaukau that we had bought at market the other day so I could cook it for supper. Hmmm! One match box with just one match. Better try the lighter first. That didn’t work. Light the one match, but no flame from the burner. Maybe the gas had been turned off. Daddy went outside and turned on the gas. No more matches now. Here are two more lighters to try. Nope, neither of those work either. Knock on the neighbors’ door. There is a PNG couple staying in the next door flat, who are missionaries to northern Australia. They didn’t have any matches, but the stove in their flat has a pilot. She was getting ready to cook something so would bring me some fire. The fire went out before she got in here with it, however. Talked with her a bit. Her name is Judy, and they have been missionaries for thirty-one years with the Foursquare Gospel Church. What was the next step? Daddy would go out to Bintangor (one of the few stores open Saturday afternoon, but it would soon close) and get some matches. As he was on the way out, however, the missionary man said he was going down the street to see his pastor for a few minutes and would ask him if he had some matches we could have. While we were waiting, I mixed up some tuna and mayonnaise for a sandwich for Daddy. Then he sat down to his sandwich supper, and I decided to eat some crackers with tuna and cheese. The few minutes the missionary was spending with his pastor turned out to be rather long so Daddy texted Rachel to see if she could help us with matches. For some reason, she didn’t receive his text, however, until a half hour or so later. Since we didn’t get an answer back from Rachel, we decided to ask Judy if she would mind putting the pot of kaukau on the stove in their flat. She was happy to do that and said she would bring it over when it was ready. In the mean time, her husband, came back with a box of matches. By now the kaukau was done so he and Judy came over with the pot of kaukau plus a plateful of cooked bananas and a bagful of fruit. They are leaving tomorrow to go back to Australia so wanted to share some of what they had left over. Then we learned that Judy’s husband’s name is Paul. He introduced his wife, whom we had already met, and I told him we were “one name”. She said the word for one name in her language is ahpo (stress on the first syllable). Her language is Gahuku, here in the Bena area. After they left, I ate a small amount of kaukau; but it wasn’t well done so I put it on to cook a little longer. Washed up the handful of supper dishes and then sat down to remake the shopping list again. Later, Daddy and I took time together to read and pray. The Lord is giving us more rain this evening. We are thankful that He gave good weather today for the plane to get into Owena and bring out our empty gas bottle so we can have it filled to send back in. “That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death.” Philippians 3:10 Philippians 3 is the chapter we read together this evening, and verse ten was a special challenge. The spirit desires to know the power of Christ’s resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings; but the flesh, although it may delight to know the power, finds it harder to delight in the sufferings.
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