September 9. So much smoke again today. It is affecting my voice as well as my eyes. How we pray for rain! Wrote one e-mail today. Had hoped to write more, but there were people to talk to while Daddy was at the airstrip. He went up to see the SIL pilot who had come to get a load of coffee. I also had to make a dinner today — Spanish rice to go with our pumpkin. That’s about the only veggie we have right now. We were thankful that Mata did bring us a few greens today, but otherwise we haven’t had any for a while. Lots of the villagers are building new houses and using lots of greens for their house raising parties. Anna Jean did the laundry, cut up a pumpkin, and swept the floors. Then she had a cup of coffee and practiced computer. I went out and took the dry clothes down while dinner was cooking. For my computer time, I worked on an English Bible primer. September 10. This morning there was kitchen work to do. Washed a popo to cut up in the afternoon. Sorted and washed greens. Cut them up later in the morning and set them on to cook. Washed the last three older kaukau (sweet potato) and later put them in the oven to bake for snacks. Somewhere during that time, Apekio came with fresh kaukau which I put in the cupboard for another day. I also got the bed made, wrote an e-mail, went outside for a little stretch, read a chapter in II Kings, and wrote a bit in my journal before dinner time came along. Worked on English Bible Primer #8 off and on throughout the afternoon and evening and finished it after our devotions this evening. September 11. It was an interesting morning. We had had our pancake breakfast, the kitchen was cleaned up, the bed was made, I had finished quiet time, read a chapter in II Kings, and gotten journal notes ready to put in an e-mail for Christy and Connie. After that, I was thirsty and a little bit hungry for a snack. Had a drink of water and was trying to decide on a simple snack when the house shook with a jerk and then began to shake hard, and then harder. That was shortly before 10:00. As quickly as possible, I went outside. It didn’t matter to me if things fell off the shelves. I thought it was more important to watch for our lives. Daddy, on the other hand, was still inside. I wondered what he was doing. Later he told me that he stayed inside so he could see what was falling. He finally did come outside. Even outside, the ground was shaking quite strongly under our feet. Amos and family came outside while we were out (the shaking had pretty much stopped). We talked for a while about the end times and how much worse it will be during the tribulation. He said his family all came to him and latched onto him because they were scared. He asked the Lord to have mercy on them. After a while, we came back inside to assess the damage. A lot of water had sloshed out of the buckets. It’s a blessing to have a bamboo floor in the laundry room so all the water that sloshed out just went down through the floor. Only a few things fell — shampoos and other unbreakable things in the bathroom. All the things that fell were facing east to west or west to east. Water in kettles on the wood stove sloshed onto the stove. Plates, cups, etc. are all on an open shelf above the kitchen cupboard, and not a one of them even moved. They are all facing south to north. Praise the Lord for caring for even the little things. Up on the hill where Tomas’s house is, where the path goes in front of his house, there was ground and huge stones that moved down toward Matthew’s area. Last time (a couple years ago), that ground split, but this time it broke away. Tomas’s house is on unstable ground. If another earthquake like that hits here, he is in danger of losing his house After a while, Daddy called Christy and asked them to check on the epicenter. When the e-mail came, they said it was near Kainantu and it was 7.6 on the Richter scale. Not long afterward, while I was blending up pumpkin and then greens for our dinner veggies, Daddy received a text from Glennys asking if we were doing okay. How thoughtful of her! According to the email, the epicenter was 78 km NE of Lae and apparently moved from there westward as far as Goroka and who knows how far beyond. The road cracked along the Markham, and there are power outages in Morobe, Madang, Goroka (all the Highlands) plus damages in various places including Goroka and SIL. After Daddy called Christy, I wrote a couple e-mails which Daddy sent while I was fixing dinner. This afternoon, I wrote in my journal, proofread the primer I finished yesterday, and made the cover and introductory page for the next primer. This evening, we listened to a message entitled “How to Prevent Revival” by a Dr. Jim Cook.
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