March 18. Praise the Lord for a sunny morning and no rain until this evening. Back to school today. Learning about the Bread of Life in Bible class and about godly music in music class. We also practiced “Sing Hosanna” both in Pidgin and English a couple times. They hope to sing for the church and for the glory of God this coming Sunday. After school, they all ate bananas since we have an abundance of them right now. Then Anna Jean stayed and prepared veggies—a potful of kavia greens with onions and a panful of carrots. Then she cleaned all the mud off Daddy’s town shoes. Elias and Mike stayed and cut and chopped firewood. George and his team had come and started building a firewood-cutting shelter so they were out there working while the men were cutting firewood. Matthew was also here putting up a strip of plywood in the space between the outside office wall and the roof as the silver paper was too short there and had come loose allowing a lot of cold air to come in whenever the wind blows. He also cut notches in the piece of plywood we had set aside for the printer shelf and put that shelf up in place of one that was too small. I spent the rest of the morning until dinner time adding verses to the leadership meeting notes. Got up a couple times to see how Anna Jean was doing. Also started the greens cooking when they were ready, and started the carrots later. We ate dinner a little bit late again as we waited until Matthew had finished working. So it was 1:30 before we lay down for nap. Didn’t sleep as long today as yesterday, however. After nap, I cut up one of the two popos that were brought to us this morning. Enjoyed a bowlful of popo, banana, and pecans for snack. Daddy and I took some time to plan out where to put the chalkboard in the schoolroom and how it was going to fit properly over uneven poles. Then I practiced keyboard for a while and afterward revised the shopping list in the computer and started typing in the missionary songs that I had written while we were in town. Worked on that until supper time. After supper, we worked together figuring out the costs and other disadvantages involved in using the generator vs. getting solar power. Solar power wins out by far, the only disadvantage being the total cost having to be paid up front. (We were to learn a couple days later that the lithium battery used for the solar cannot be transported by air, so that is a very big disadvantage to the solar power unless another alternative can be found. Please be in special prayer about this matter. Thank you!) Shortly after we started working on the generator/solar write-up, there was a big POW! right behind us and sparks coming from the power board. At first, we were afraid it was my computer adapter because we looked at my computer and it wasn’t charging. Thankful to find out that I hadn’t turned on the power switch so that was why it wasn’t charging. After looking over the various items that were plugged in, Daddy saw that one switch had turned black. The problem was somebody’s phone that was sent here to be charged. We are thankful that the power board was not on a parallel circuit so only the one outlet on it was damaged. After we finished the generator project, I put water on to heat for dishes and washed the dishes as soon as the water was hot. Also had a colander full of lemons to wash. Two young Waisara girls had brought them this morning. We are very grateful to the Lord for sending us more lemons. After writing in my journal, I finished typing the words to the new missionary songs into the computer. Then I wrote out lesson plan notes for tomorrow’s classes. “I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.” Nehemiah 7:2 Lord, may thy servants be men of such character, faithful men who fear God above many. March 19. The Lord gave us some nice sunshine today and even some hot weather this afternoon. It was 81º in the house and probably a little more outside. The Lord has also sent us some little rain showers off and on throughout the day, with more rain this evening. After school today, Daddy helped the students pick out one of the better pieces of plywood to use for a chalkboard. Then they measured how high to hang it and got it put up. It took extra work to hang it because the wall poles are uneven on one end and pieces had to be added in to make the chalkboard lay straight. Next time they will sand it and put the undercoat on. Then another time, they will paint it with the chalkboard paint. By the time everyone left, there was just a little time left to work at the computer. Since we finished our new Bible lesson in class today, I used the computer time to perfect the quiz and get the students’ quiz page ready to print out for their quiz on Thursday. Also looked over the church service notes I had written in town and made sure they were ready to print out as well. We will start going through them in class on Thursday, after the quiz. Matthew came while I was working and brought the desk frame he had made for me. He set it down in the meeting room and cut a piece of plywood to make the desk top. Then Daddy carried the desk into the bedroom, and I went to the kitchen to make spaghetti. While I was getting dinner, Daddy went up the hill and, praise the Lord, was finally able to get e-mails in. Now we hope to be able to send some out. Dinner was a little bit late again, and it took quite a while to clean up after dinner and get food put away. When I started scooping the spaghetti sauce into a jar to be put in the fridge, what to my horrified eyes should appear but a large cockroach, dead and buried in the tomato sauce! And to think that we had already eaten some of the sauce for dinner! What could be more gross! Out went the cockroach into the garbage, and the rest of the spaghetti sauce went into the jar for storage and future use. We guessed that if it is heated up well, it should be edible. Just don’t think about the cockroach. We finally got to nap around 1:30, and I slept until a little before 3:00. When I got up from nap, the house was very warm, and there was no wind blowing. I decided to wait until the day cooled down a bit before practicing keyboard. Instead I did computer work. Got last week’s journal notes ready to send to C&C and also got an e-mail ready to send to Pastor Ogle with the notes we had written up last night about generator power vs. solar power. After supper, I practiced keyboard, read the e-mails that came in today, got three e-mails ready to send, did the dishes, and wrote in my journal.
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