August 26. How thankful we were for some rain this morning! It seemed to have washed away a lot of the smoke, and my eye felt much better this morning. By afternoon, though, the rain had stopped, and there were more fires on the mountains, sending up billows of smoke which made their way this direction. We closed all the north and west windows which helped to keep down the smoke in the house a bit, but definitely didn’t eliminate it all together. The Lord is sending us more rain this evening. In music class, we just sang from the book, rather than my playing the keyboard. They sang a couple familiar songs, and then we sang a couple new ones so they can start learning some of the other songs in the book. After recess, we worked on a new math lesson on multiplying and dividing English measures. It is a bit harder than adding and subtracting, and the book doesn’t give enough practice in learning them or enough exercises to help remember how to do them. So we did the written exercises for more practice; and this evening, I made up a page of written exercises to take the place of the ones in their lesson. In English, they wrote imperative and exclamatory sentences, or tried to anyway. They especially had a hard time with exclamatory. They do not have any such thing in Owena so we will need a lot more practice. Then we started on chapter review, working toward a chapter test. History was a bit easier. Gave back their tests first and went over a few of the questions. Then they read just a few pages of the next chapter and wrote definitions for vocabulary words. They finished a few minutes early so we were able to get to nap a few minutes earlier. After nap, I washed my hair, cleaned the chalkboard, wrote English exercises on large pieces of paper as there is not room on the chalkboard, wrote lesson plans, got carrots peeled and sliced and ready to cook, and made spaghetti for Lewis’s supper. I had a few carrots and a bowl of soup for my supper. After supper, Magaret came by. Magaret has had so many struggles since being saved—from an unsaved husband and other family members as well. I spent some time seeking to comfort her and then praying with her. After she left, I did dishes (and there were lots of them—the big pressure cooker and the blender from last night from pureeing the soup, and several pans from cooking this evening and earlier today, besides the plates and things). After that, I wrote John 3:16 (in Owena) and some math exercises on the chalkboard, got a song sheet ready to print for page 10 in our song book, got math exercises ready to print, printed them, wrote a short e-mail to Christy, and last of all wrote in my journal. August 27. Today was another busy day. I was thankful that the students were all on time for school today. We finished Sóni 3:16 and then worked on memorizing it. Also sang it. Then we started the new Bible lesson. In music class, we sang some new-to-them songs from our song book. In math class, they finished learning how to multiply and divide English measures and did some written exercises. In English class, they continued the review of chapter 1. And, in history, we went over together the pages they had read yesterday. After nap, I finished writing tomorrow’s lesson plans, erased the chalkboard, wrote math practice exercises on the chalkboard to teach multiplying and dividing metric measures. Then we had supper, and I did the dishes and had a bath. I had just started doing dishes this evening when Miriam came to visit. Appreciate Daddy’s finishing the dishes for me so I could visit with Miriam. She stayed quite a while, and I enjoyed the time with her. I don’t get to see her very often. A number of other folks came and went while she was here. Erisa came for a flex card and some ibuprofen. Others brought phones to be charged, and one person brought eggs. Praise the Lord for supplying us with eggs. Prayed with Miriam before she left. Then reheated the bath water and enjoyed my bath. Then I had a snack, photocopied maps of Asia for history class, and read the e-mails that came in this evening. Then I did more work on getting Matthew ready for printing. “1O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. 2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. 3For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. 4In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. 5The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. 6O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. 7For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand….” Psalm 95:1-7
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