October 7. Another day has nearly passed. Thanks to God for the sunshine and for the rain.. Thanks for safety and sleep through the night and that we weren’t awakened by the trouble in the village. Thanks to God for the trials. Thanks for fresh, warm banana-raisin muffins. Thanks for a good connection for sending and receiving e-mails. Thanks for the wall being finished and the outside door put back on. Thanks for time to pray and time to be encouraged in the Word. Thanks for Judy coming to wash clothes. Thanks for time to get out in the sunshine and bring the dry clothes in, and for the fresh-smelling clean clothes. Thanks for music CD’s to play and for the battery pack for the CD player. We learned from Mike when we got up this morning that a young man had been brought over here from Marivo about 2:00 a.m. seriously injured. A young married lady had seduced him and he was caught by her family. They shot him in the back with an arrow, threw him outside and cut him a number of places with a machete. At first it was thought that the arrow went into his bone, and they were calling for Wayantis to get money together to pay for him to be flown out to the hospital as they expected him to die. There were no planes available to take him out today and everyone was quite concerned. Later they realized that the arrow had only grazed his bone, and he could survive until a plane is available. As a result of all that was going on to try to settle things, nobody came to work on the house this morning. Matthew came for a little while and got a piece of bamboo cut for the wall. However, Matthew came back this afternoon, and Mike was here, as well as Thomas and Gibson. A few more people trickled in later. Praise the Lord they finished getting both layers of wall up with coffee plastic in between and got the door on just after dark. So the house should be a little less vulnerable tonight. It was another very stressful day, but the Lord helped me to be thankful and to think of the great need of being more faithful to share the gospel whenever there is opportunity. The need is so great, and the church has failed to do its job. We are thankful that Nuanda’s church has more of a vision, and we pray that vision will continue to grow and bear much fruit. “32) For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. 33) O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” Romans 11:32-33 October 8. Today was a slow, lazy day. My head hurt too much to do anything, and my stomach was very unhappy too. Late yesterday evening, I came down with a migraine and a super bad headache. When I went to bed, I couldn’t sleep, my head hurt so much. I finally got up and took some aspirin, but not long after that, another migraine came along, followed by an even worse headache. My tummy became even more unhappy. Got up again and took some activated charcoal to see if that would help settle my stomach. It did give just a bit of relief, but I was thankful for any amount of relief. It still took me quite a while to get to sleep after that, but it was a fitful sleep as I was quite restless and could not get comfortable. Didn’t eat much today and took activated charcoal off and on. Went back to bed mid-morning for a nap; but neither that nor my afternoon nap afforded much comfort. I didn’t really feel like doing much when I was up, and I felt pretty weak. Daddy and I did start taking the old screen off the two windows to be put up in the outer room. Wan came around after a while, and he helped put the new screen on. He also helped Daddy put the screen door up. Matthew did only a little work today, but at least got the outer wall framed. I did a little crocheting, wrote an e-mail to Christy for her spiritual birthday, and started making some Bible story note cards to give away and share the good news with people who come. We had a pretty strong tremor around 4:00 this afternoon. Was about ready to go outside, but then it slowed down. We’ve had quite a few tremors lately, most of them small ones. “Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.” Romans 12:12
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