February 18. No rain during the night and sunny the first part of the morning. Then light gray clouds came and covered the sky, hiding the sun from view. This afternoon, the rain fell out of the sky with gusto, creating a deafening noise on the roof. And late this afternoon, the sun came back out. It was a busy school morning for the students. We started learning a new verse. Actually it was the same verse we learned last week—John 6:37; but last week we learned it in English, and this week we are learning it in Pidgin. Next they had a quiz on last week’s Bible lesson. It was a little bit difficult for them, but they all did well. Then they had a Bible passage to read, with questions to answer. In music class today, we drilled flash cards and stirred up their memory of names of musical parts, notes, etc. They also learned about two new things—flats and ties (slurs). In the few minutes that were left, we sang “Aleluya” and its English counterpart “Sing Hosana.” Before they went home, they had a snack of cucumbers and peanuts. Judy (Bonita) stayed to cut up a pumpkin for me. I wrote down my teaching schedule for tomorrow and started making up the next Bible quiz. Then I started the pumpkin cooking and prepared kaukau and potatoes while it was cooking. When the pumpkin was done, I added it to the soup, and then cooked the kaukau and potatoes in the same pot that the pumpkin had been in. After lunch until nap time, I finished the quiz and started on next week’s Bible lesson. Enjoyed a nice nap and then boiled some eggs to use for supper sandwiches, filtered the water that had boiled on the wood stove this morning, emptied the water out of the Pur pitcher into its jug and refilled the pitcher, practiced keyboard, had a snack, worked more on the Bible lessons. Daddy went up to Matthew’s house and was able to get e-mails sent just before the rain came. Praise the Lord that the e-mails went out. Maybe cloudy days are good for sending e-mails?! This evening, I printed out Sunday school lessons and memory verse reminders to go with them. I finished next week’s Bible lesson. Then had a snack and a wash-up. February 19. At 1:00 a.m., the moon was shining brightly, and likewise the planets and stars. At 4:00 a.m., the sky was dark and cloudy. When we got up this morning, the world was enshrouded by fog, and a light rain started falling. The Lord gave us a couple short periods of sunshine, but mostly He has given us clouds today. After school today, the students helped us remove the freezer from the box and foam it was sitting on and place it on a couple boards. We have been wondering if the freezer has been affecting the generator because there was no way for air to circulate underneath. Rather it was embedded down into the foam and cardboard box. When that was taken care of, Daddy and I sat down and checked Titus chapter 2. It is the first time we have been able to get back to translation in a while. There have been so many other things going on and many interruptions. We actually had several interruptions this morning, but were still able to finish the chapter in about an hour and a half. It was a short chapter, but there were a number of words we had to study out, besides the interruptions. I still had a few minutes before getting dinner on the table to make the corrections in the computer and get the chapter set up in the print file. After nap, I spent time proofreading Hebrews and revising grammar where needed to try to get it ready for the final check as soon as we finish Titus and Philemon. This afternoon, Daddy wasn’t feeling well, so a little before 6:00, I went down by the fence to call out to Amos and let him know that he needed to let the men know that there would be no meeting this evening, and also to ask him to start the generator at 6:30. Then the rains came, and it has been raining quite hard. Have also had to look after the fire in the wood stove. We kept it burning because we could see storms threatening throughout the afternoon. Before I did the dishes, I cut up the popo that Mike brought us a couple days ago. Also answered the door a couple times—a couple girls came with onions for us to buy, and Erisa’s boy Tera came with a couple eggs. Some of the men also came because they hadn’t gotten word yet that there would be no meeting. When the dishes were done, I saved the dish water and washed out several hand towels or dish towels. Now at last, I am sitting down. It is already 7:45 so it will soon be time to get a snack and have my evening supplements. After snack, I printed out a copy of the next Bible lesson so I could proofread it and make the student lesson. My quiet time reading this morning was John 19 which brought deep gratitude to my heart and tears to my eyes as I thought on the suffering that the Saviour endured because of my sin. It seemed strange to me that it says He bore “his” cross, when it was my sin that He bore. I see that He took my sin and made my cross His own. “17And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: 18Where they crucified him….” John 19:17,18a
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