July 13. Praise the Lord for two important answers to prayer today. Many of the men in the community came out early this morning and cut the grass on the airstrip. Daddy heard officially from Brad that our airstrip has been approved by MAF as long as it is kept up. About the only other thing I accomplished today was drawing up a diagram for a 20 x 32-foot house which is what we have enough roofing iron for if we shall need to rebuild. Praise the Lord for e-mail going out this evening. Now I can go ahead with other e-mails. Thank you, Lord, for all your blessings which you bestowed upon us today. July 14. When we went to bed last night, the sky was full of stars. I said to Daddy, “It will be raining by morning.” Sure enough, it was. The weather was quite cool almost all day, and I was not able to get out. This morning, there was only time for two classes — Revelation and outreach. I had a little time before dinner to start writing the monthly update, but it was hard to get my thoughts organized. This afternoon, Mata brought some bananas and got a pair of shoes for Amos and a sweater for herself. I started writing an e-mail to Pastor Ogle so we could send him the progress report and prayer request regarding the house situation. However, Nandana came by to talk so I put the e-mail aside until this evening. Praise the Lord it went right out. Later in the evening, I wrote another email. I also transferred some photos to the computer and then to a flash drive so I can edit them in Kodak Easy Share in the ACER. “2Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. 3Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.” Luke 10:2-3 July 15. A beautiful, clear, blue-sky day. Praise the Lord for a nice day for hanging out the laundry. Even though we didn’t have school today, the morning was quite busy. Spent about an hour and a half writing an e-mail to C&C. Then Paqo came with three of her grandchildren and stayed about a half hour visiting. Her daughter Susen came along for a short time and joined her. Paqo has not been well for a couple years. Was treated for TB for a year, and for the past year has been slowly gaining back her strength. After they left, we got a snack and then went outside for a while. Daddy wanted to go for a walk, but my hip and knee suddenly started hurting again yesterday. He could have gone for a walk himself, but didn’t. At least we got to enjoy the sunshine and some fresh air. While we were out, the helicopter came to pick up Apa’s daughter Mata at the health center. From what Paqo and Susen said, she was having complications from delivery of a baby (or perhaps twins again) and the lower part of her body was all swollen up. The rest of the morning and part of the afternoon I worked on and completed the monthly update. Praise the Lord for His help. And praise the Lord for one e-mail sending out this morning. Finished the e-mail to the girls this evening right after supper while I was waiting for bath water to heat, and Daddy sent it out while I was bathing. We thank the Lord for e-mails sending well lately. After bath, I had pumpkin to whip up in the blender and put away in the fridge. Not long afterward, Nuanda and Ana came to visit and talk about the house situation. July 16. Another very cold morning. Oyaqava came after our prayer time. He also is upset about the way things have gone, and he is now attending Liberty with his wife. How much better that he and his wife attend the same church anyway. Culture class covered some areas that were very helpful to them in this church matter; and all that has been going on, as a whole, has been good missionary training for them to see how to handle adverse situations that my come about after they go out to do mission work. This afternoon I added acknowledgments to updates so those would be ready to send to our daughters for mailing. Then I added the wet ingredients to the muffins I had started this morning and put those in the oven to bake. Hot ginger-lemon-apple-bran muffins. Yum! After supper and dishes, I read an e-mail and wrote a couple as well. July 17. “Keep praising, keep praising, though the way be dark and drear; Keep praising, keep praising, God will answer, never fear; Keep praising, keep praising, thankful hearts to Him be raising; Has the Lord not said, there is glory on ahead, so keep on praising Him.” ~Wendell P. Loveless Yes, the way is often dark and drear. And often trials come in bundles. How thankful we are that the Lord is in control, and He knows what He is about, and He knows what is ahead. It was a very tiring day, but it is always a blessing to have the missions students around each weekday morning. Their faithfulness and dedication is such a blessing. As we finished music class this morning, news had just come that Jackson’s little girl, about Gideon’s age, had been bitten by a poisonous snake and was in pretty serious condition. Praise the Lord, they were able to get a helicopter to evacuate her. However, several hours had elapsed, and they were concerned about whether she would make it or not. We have been praying for her and for her family’s salvation. We did hear word about Maita, who was evacuated on Wednesday, that she is doing okay and has given birth to another set of twins—a boy and a girl. Her first child was a boy, second was boy twins, third a girl, and fourth another set of twins—six children in all. Praise the Lord for that news. When I wasn’t needed in class or in the kitchen this morning, I did have time to write the e-mail with updates for e-mailing. I put it in drafts, however, until the other two e-mails send out. Tried sending them, but could not get a connection for more than a half minute. Later I worked on a church leadership lesson and finished that this afternoon. Shortly after Sunny left, Daddy went down to start the generator. I had gotten the blender set up to puree the kaukau I had cooked today and was waiting for the power to go on. But it never went on. The generator appears to have some kind of electrical problem. Therefore, I had to put the kaukau in the pressure cooker, and also the pumpkin that was in the freezer, and bring them up to pressure to keep them. We thank the Lord that there isn’t anything else left in the freezer that would spoil quickly. While I was doing dishes, I put my computer on the inverter to charge up so I could use it again this evening. This afternoon, Daddy and I had pretty much decided that we will just stay in this house. We are too old and do not have the health and strength to move everything out and rebuild. And there is no suitable place for us to stay in the meantime. If they want to tear down the house on top of our heads, so be it. What can we do but commit our well-being into the hands of our faithful Creator? “31But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. 32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Luke 12:31-32 July 18. Cool and cloudy most of the day, but not much rain. Since the generator isn’t working, Sunny had to do laundry by hand today. We suggested that she ask Judy to help her, and Judy was happy to do that. Even though there was hardly any sunshine and not much wind, the clothes got mostly dry outside. We brought them in before nap, and we hung the mostly dry clothes in the schoolroom to finish drying. After the girls hung out the clothes, they had a cup of coffee and some bananas. Then Judy went home, and Sunny swept the floors and refilled the buckets which they had used to fill the bathtub with rinse water for the clothes. Early this morning, I had filled the tub from the tap for the washing. Later in the morning, while Sunny was still working, Amos came to help Daddy turn the generator around so he could try putting the old brushes back in to see if that would solve the problem. Well, the generator ran for a half hour and then turned off. Daddy will see if he can have some parts sent in on the plane Thursday (MAF is supposed to be coming for coffee) so he can try to fix the generator. Otherwise he will have to get a new one when he goes out to town. When they were done working on the generator, Amos and Sunny and we two stood around talking for a while — about the house situation and about the translation situation. There was a lot going on down at Wanyapeq today. They were dressing up Erisa’s daughter who already has two children, but was never dressed up for her wedding. Erovi had come earlier this morning to get something to help dress her up. We are wondering what the significance of this dressing up is. When I wasn’t busy with other things today, I was working on the next Revelation lesson. It is such an interesting study that time gets away too fast. It was getting close to 5:00 this afternoon, and I hadn’t put on any eggs yet to boil for sandwiches for supper. I hurried to the kitchen and put the eggs on. After they started boiling, I set the timer and came back to the computer until the bell rang. I put a couple of the hot eggs in cold water so they could cool down a few minutes, enough to be able to handle them and peel the shell off. It was about 5:30 when we had supper. Put bath water on to heat before supper was done as the house was already getting chilly. Then I worked more on Revelation until the computer battery went too low (the computer had been on most of the day). Put the dish water on to heat, plugged the computer into the inverter to charge, and sat down to crochet a few minutes until the dish water was ready.
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