January 9. Went to bed very early last night. Don’t even remember what time it was. Praise the Lord for a much better night’s sleep. Not quite as hot today. Cool and cloudy with periods of rain. We pray for sunshine and dry weather for flights coming up and for re-roofing our house. Up just before 6:00 this morning. After breakfast and some quiet time, we headed to town. To market first where we got potatoes, kaukau (sweet potato), greens, green onions, bananas, tomatoes, carrots, and popo (papaya). Then to the new Seng Da to look around and also do some shopping. Bought a number of grocery items there. Tired now so back to the house, but no time to rest yet. It took over an hour to get things unpacked—some things put away in fridge, some packed in boxes, some set out in baskets; find a bucket and wash the mud-covered kaukau; wash the popo so it is ready to cut up later; have a light snack and something to drink; go through the shopping list and mark off what we purchased at Seng Da and make a list of what is available there. Daddy had gone back out to do some other shopping. After lunch and nap, we went out to Goroka Food Mart and had a successful shopping trip there. We were thankful that they had gotten in a container-load of products as they had a number of things that are unavailable anywhere else, including baking soda, oats, almond milk, whole grain crackers, mustard, dates, raisins. Came back to the house after that. Had a snack of popo and bananas. Washed up the dishes. And went through the Goroka Food Mart shopping list to mark off other items we had purchased and make a list of what is available there. Then remade the shopping list so we can see what we still need to buy. Daddy went out again around 4:00. We hadn’t heard anything from Hannah today, but Daddy wanted to check and see if our suitcase arrived on Air NiuGini this afternoon. No suitcase yet. He filed another claim there at the Goroka Air NiuGini office. I had just sat down to eat my supper when he arrived back. I thought maybe I could do some repacking this evening, but am much too tired out after being so sick yesterday and doing as much as I did today. “9Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy. 10Wherefore David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, LORD God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. 11Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 13Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. 14But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.” I Chronicles 29:9-14 While so many believers today seem to feel that giving is a burden and sacrifice, David and his people felt humbled and they rejoiced that they had such a privilege as to offer willingly unto the Lord. January 10. It has been a very long, very busy, very tiring day. We were up a few minutes before 6:00. I took a shower and washed my hair. (I was thankful there was still warm water. The water is heated by the sun.) It looked like it was going to be a bit nicer day today so before I had breakfast, I put a load of clothes in to wash. When the clothes were done washing, I had this thought, I’d better check the clothesline and make sure it is clean before we hang out clothes. So I took a dry rag out and wiped off the lines. Dirty and then some. After I wiped them a couple times with the dry rag, I rinsed the rag out well and washed the lines with the wet rag. Then I felt much better about hanging out the clothes. I think the clothesline hadn’t been used for a long time. Daddy took the basket of clothes out to the line for me and helped me hang them up too. Then we got ready to go out shopping. Before we left the house, Hannah from Air Niugini in Moresby called and said that our suitcase would be on the plane this morning and would arrive around 10:00. We went and looked around at other things for a while. Went to the computer shop to find a modem so we can get e-mails in the village, but they do not have any modems for windows 10. Then we looked around at Istana store and found good prices on a few things there that we will need. Just before 10:00, we went on over to the terminal. We had to park outside the terminal area across the street. The terminal area is all fenced off, and only those with tickets or who have paid to park inside are allowed in the gate. Air Niugini flight hadn’t arrived yet so we sat in the car and waited about twenty minutes before it landed. We gave them some time to let passengers disembark and to unload cargo. Then we went over, and Daddy showed the security at the gate his claim ticket for our piece of baggage. He let us inside the gate, but we had to stay outside the terminal for a while. Then another security called us over to the entrance, but he would only let Daddy go inside. I had to wait outside. It took a while for the baggage to come into the terminal; but, praise the Lord, our piece of baggage was there. Thank God for answered prayer. Daddy rolled the suitcase across the street and hoisted it into the car. We brought the suitcase back to the house. Had a drink and snack. Put the suitcase up on the bed to open it. After going through the suitcase and pulling out a few things that we’d been needing, we had an early lunch. I did peel and cut up a few potatoes and carrots first, and let them cook while I finished up the rest of the stew. We also had an early nap. Then we brought in the clean clothes before getting ready to go out shopping again. We stopped by Goroka Food Mart first to get some packing tape, but they were out. We picked up a couple empty boxes and then went to Papindo West where we found some packing tape and also got some chicken powder and whole wheat spaghetti. It is the only store in town with whole wheat spaghetti. From there we went to YuYu Trading and got a few items. Then next door to Green’s Variety Store where we found a 4” mattress.* We didn’t buy it right away because we were going to go to Papindo first, and it isn’t safe to leave things in the vehicle for a long time. At Papindo, we looked around and purchased a few items; and after that, we went back to Green’s and got the mattress before heading back to the house. *Foam mattress four inches thick We were really tired, but there was still lots to do. Had a snack and drink first. There were clothes to be folded, and we wanted to repack the suitcases with whatever we don’t need so they can be taken to the hangar tomorrow before we move over to CRMF guesthouse on Saturday. Worked the rest of the afternoon and part of the evening getting that job done. Took time out at supper time to prepare the watercress, green onions, and zucchini we had bought. While they were cooking, I warmed up a bowl full of the taters and carrots I had cooked at noon. Also cut up a couple small tomatoes (Daddy had finished up the others I had cut a couple days ago) and added some to the taters and carrots. Then seasoned it all and added mayo. Voila! Supper at last. (Also sliced up some cheese in between preparing my supper.) We were both really wiped out so, after supper, we took another small nap. After getting the last suitcase all repacked, we packed and taped up one boxful of the groceries we have bought thus far. There are a few groceries left to repack, but not enough to fill a box until we do more shopping. Some of the groceries went into one of the suitcases. “27And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me. 28And he left all, rose up, and followed him.” Luke 5:27,28 As soon as Levi heard Jesus’ call him, he left all, rose up, and followed Him—no hesitation, no questions asked.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
|
newsletterfebruary2024.pdf | |
File Size: | 1988 kb |
File Type: |
islesaresingingchapters1to15pdf.pdf | |
File Size: | 395 kb |
File Type: |
Archives
March 2024
January 2024
December 2023
September 2023
July 2023
June 2023
April 2023
March 2023
January 2023
December 2022
November 2022
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
December 2021
November 2021
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
March 2019
February 2019
January 2019
December 2018
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
April 2016
March 2016