March 11. It was around 6:15 when we got up this morning. In between breakfast and quiet time, we also did packing and cleaning and getting ready to move out of the flat. We had the beds all stripped and bedding and towels in the laundry basket for the house worker to wash. I was doing dishes and Daddy was sweeping the floor when she came to work. She wondered why we were moving out. Christie hadn’t told her to wash up the bedding from this apartment. “I’ll go down and talk to Christie,” she said. When she came back, she said that Christie would call us. We waited and waited quite a while before Christie called. She said that she thought people would be staying in here for a board meeting; but they won’t be, so the flat is free for you to stay until Wednesday. We were thankful that we could stay. Daddy then called Emmanuel Lodge and canceled our booking there. We hadn’t made any down payment or signed any agreement. Later in the morning, Daddy received another call. It was from MAF Hagen. They said that a package had come for us from the states, and they were needing some kind of payment for it. It wasn’t clear who the box is from or what is in it. The worker in Hagen got our e-mail address so he could send us the information and copies of the documents he had received. The package had come via FedEx from New Jersey and contains printed matter. It is in Moresby, and they are wanting K515.22 for customs and other costs. Even when we looked at the documents, it wasn’t clear who the box was from; but the US vale of the package indicated that it is likely the school books we had ordered. But why would it come from New Jersey and why would it not have Rod & Staff’s return address? What should we do? If it is the school books, we don’t want to abandon it. K515.22—that’s about $150, an added expense, but not too bad for customs, airport terminal fees, and getting it sent up to Goroka. Daddy would have to walk over to MAF and give them the payment to send up to the main office in Hagen. So that is what he did. We do hope that the school books is what is in the package. We don’t know what else it could possibly be. It was already noon when Daddy left and was around 1:00 before he got back. He had run into Danny while he was there, and Danny wanted to talk with him about going back on the flight with us. Then Daddy was thirsty and stopped at the store to get something cold to drink. While Daddy was gone, I set up last week’s journal notes in a file to send to Connie. After he got home, we had our dinner and then had our nap. After nap, I wrote a thank you note and another note to send to C&C to deliver. Then wrote C&C a couple e-mails, attaching the two notes and the journal notes. Started writing today’s journal notes before supper and continued in the evening. Worked on music lessons after that. Listened to a message by Pastor Weiss and also one by Adrian Rogers. Around 10:00, Graham called Daddy to ask him to send him more tracts. He has given out all that he had, and one student took a bunch of tracts back to his village to give out. Praise the Lord that the word is getting out through the printed page. May the Lord raise up laborers to take the whole word of God to those in need of a Saviour. March 12. Washed a load of clothes this morning, checked over Hebrews 6 for grammar and spelling, worked on notes with ideas for church service for the school students, and made up the quiz for the coming Bible lesson. Daddy had to go out about 11:30. MAF called and wanted him to come pay for tomorrow’s flight ahead of time. Philemon came by and walked with him over to the hangar. He had to pay the whole amount, and the other passengers would be responsible to pay him back. They also made him pay a surcharge for building materials which is to cover possible damage to the plane. He was gone an hour or more, but still hadn’t heard from Michelle about the car. After he had been back here a few minutes, she texted to say we could use the car now. So he walked over to MAF and picked up the Land Rover. It was around 1:15 when we left here to go to Papindo for lunch. After a little lunch, Daddy bought bread to take back to Owena, and we bought another carton of milk to use here. Then we drove over to YuYu to get nails for Mike. Drove back to Papindo, but Philemon still wasn’t there so we drove over to NTM to pay for the plane flight for our fuel. Back to Papindo again to pick up Philemon and his wife and child and one of Katherine’s workers. A quick stop after that at Chemica to pick up an axe head and some 3” nails which weren’t available at YuYu. Then we had to hurry on over to MAF with Philemon’s cargo and meet all the people over there who would be going on the plane tomorrow, weigh up their cargo, and settle accounts with them. MAF would close at 3:00 and it was already 2:45. Finally after that, we got to go back to the apartment. It was going on 4:00, and I was dog tired. Had a light snack and then a welcome nap. Daddy didn’t get a chance for a nap though. He had to go downstairs to pay our lodging bill, and to get some black ink for our Canon printer and a box to pack the solar light in. Then he had to take the vehicle back to the Venters. When I got up, I did a little packing, and then it was supper time. The Lord is sending us more rain this evening. Checked over Hebrews chapter 7. March 13. Rain through the night and woke up to a very foggy morning. Up around 5:45 for a quick breakfast, house cleaning, and packing up once again so we would be ready around 7:00 to go to the hangar. It was around 7:30 when the MAF truck came for us. Loaded our cargo into the truck and then ourselves and headed fro the hangar. Unloaded and got weighed up. It was still raining lightly in Goroka with lots of fog on the mountain ridges, and weather all over the Highlands was the same. At 8:30, it was still raining in Owena, so our flight was moved ahead; and as soon as it was clear enough in Goroka, they loaded up the plane and headed for another airstrip. While they were gone, Daddy and I went for a walk across the street to the West stores to get something for snack. At 10:00/10:30, it was still raining in Owena so they canceled the flight because the Owena strip would be too wet even if the rain stopped. Other places had opened up so the plane would make other scheduled flights. Daddy called CRMF to see if the flat were still open. Praise the Lord, we could come back here for the night. We picked out a few items we would need to bring back to the flat with us. Then we waited quite a while for a ride. Ben had said he would bring us back, but he was busy unloading the plane that had just come in and loading it up for the next flight. Finally pilot Tim said he would get the key and take us back. It was now going on lunch time. When we got back to CRMF, we unloaded the truck, Daddy got the keys to the apartment, and we took stuff upstairs. Then Tim took Daddy over to Papindo café to get us some take-out lunch. Right after lunch, I had a long nap. Have been having a bad earache in my right ear for the past three days and felt really wiped out today. Praise the Lord for a little sunshine this afternoon. This evening, I spent more time working on the Reading and Writing Pidgin course.
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