January 1, 2020. The beginning of a new year already. Will this be the year when Jesus comes? Last night, Philemon and Lynn had charge of the game time to see in the New Year. It started at 7:00 and went until a little after midnight. Everyone apparently had a great time. There was lots of laughter and hand clapping. Even though I went to bed around 10:30, sleep was nearly impossible. Consequently, I was tired and wanted to sleep in this morning so slept until the 7:00 bell. Praise the Lord, there was still a good crowd there today even though they were up late last night, and many of the church folks were up early this morning to fix food for all the hungry crowd. It was the last day of the meetings. There were a number of testimonies and special songs. Nuka gave her testimony, as George’s wife had done, sharing about the many troubles she has faced in her life because of marrying an unsaved man. We do pray that many of the young people will take heed to what they have heard. Daddy preached this morning from John 6 on the missions miracle, once again challenging God’s people to give their lives to take the gospel to other places. Amos and family’s desire to go out stands firm, and we praise the Lord for that. Nuanda gave his testimony, showing the picture of himself when he was initiated and telling how, after he got saved, he bought a pair of trousers and a shirt, and he took his initiation clothes and threw them away. We praise the Lord for bringing him out of the time of disobedience and rebellion and back into fellowship with the Lord and many others. He added his challenge to the church to go out everywhere with the gospel, saying that the word preached has spoken to his heart, but he is no longer able to walk the mountain trails. He and the folks of Liberty Baptist Church have already purposed to set aside the toeas (coins) they get for market sales, etc., and put them in an offering just for missions, including the printing of the Scriptures. After the preaching this morning, about 15 young people responded to the call to missions. Benson was among them. Oh, how we pray that someone will come alongside him and seek to encourage him in his decision! And, yes, the other young people as well. Gideon gave his testimony of salvation today. January 2. It was about 11:00 before I went to bed last night, and Daddy said it was 11:15 before he turned the generator off. Instead of preaching, Daddy felt it would be good to turn the time over for testimonies if there were enough people who wanted to give testimonies. Singing went for about an hour, and testimonies went for the next three hours. There were many, many testimonies. Only a few testified that God has called them to go out as missionaries, but quite a few testified that they wanted to use their income and/or talents for support of ministries. There were those who testified as well about how God worked in their hearts in other ways through the meetings. Sadly, there were young people hanging around together outside in the darkness, and some of the church men had to be sent out to handle things. The Lord was so gracious to give us four days without rain, except for during Monday evening’s preaching. Storms were seen coming from different directions, but then seemed to have returned to where they came from before reaching Owena. Last night, it must have rained all night, however, and rained lightly a good part of the morning today. After breakfast and quiet time this morning, I went through the rest of my clothes to see what I could find that fits better and will be suitable for town. Then I got our shopping list made for town and SIL. By then it was going on 11:00, and we needed something for dinner so I headed to the kitchen and got busy washing veggies. Decided soup would be nice to have for a change as we hadn’t had soup for a while. Put lentils in the pot and peeled and cut up kaukau, pumpkin, and onions to add to it. That took a while as both my best knives are dull. Will need to sharpen them after they’re washed. Set the pot on the flame so things could start heating up while I added the seasonings. Once the pressure cooker was locked up, I went and made the bed. Worked on studies in Revelation until soup was done. Had a fairly long nap today. This afternoon, there was more kitchen work to do. Two popos (papayas) to cut up — made a popo crisp for Daddy and put a few pieces away for me to eat plain. Later on, I made some biscuits for Daddy’s supper, prepared some tuna for sandwiches, cut up the last three little tomatoes and a cucumber. Somewhere in between those times, Lewis took the computer up to Matthew’s to try to send the e-mail, but there was no connection. And I did a little more work on the Revelation studies, trying to get quizzes and tests made for the course. After we had eaten and I had done dishes, I went through all the e-mails and wrote down names, e-mail addresses, and notes of their contents so I will know how to answer each one when we get to town. Was hoping to get more e-mails done here, but we have not been able to send any e-mails for days now. Then I took a bath, had a snack, and worked more on Revelation studies.
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