January 22. Sunny came a little after 7:30 this morning to wash clothes, sweep floors, and clean Daddy’s town shoes. Later in the morning, Elijah and Nehemiah came to cut more firewood. This morning, after breakfast and quiet time, I put a clean sheet on the bed and made up the bed, wrote a couple short e-mails, did a little Bible study at the computer, went out for a short stretch in the sunshine, made a new journal notebook since my current one is nearly full, prepared uxai to go with our dinner of leftovers. This afternoon and evening, I worked more on the Revelation lesson that I started yesterday. Only Mike and Dallas came to school, but only to tell us that they needed to go and be with the rest of the class and their families for a court case that was going on. Mike and Dallas are going through some very difficult times. Please be praying for them. All that is going on reminds me of Job 5:7 which says that “man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.” This evening, the Lord is sending us another heavy rain. January 23. After the big rain last night, Graham came by to visit. We were thankful to see him come. I had spoken to him at the door a couple days ago when he brought his phone to be charged, asked him how he was doing spiritually, and let him know that I pray for him. He said he would come back and talk to us some time. It was probably around 8:30 when he came. He seemed happy to be with us, and said that, when he told his parents about coming to see us, they encouraged him. We asked him about his salvation and he felt sure he was truly saved. He said that he and most of the other boys pretty much stopped going to church when the church tore down the house church and didn’t have a place to meet and only had Sunday morning meetings. They didn’t decide as a group to do that, but it just happened that each of the boys decided on their own. We asked him if he or the others left church because of us, and he said “no.” He was happy to find out that we still thought of him and wanted him to come around and spend time with us. Graham is going to try to find a school and go back to school next week but asks that we be sure to pray for him. We also pray that he will find a good church near whatever school he is accepted at. He still has to pay the rest of his tenth-grade school fees in order to get his certificate and know if he has to repeat any tenth-grade classes or not. Our time together went so fast, the next thing I looked at the clock, it was already 10:00. But about that time, heavy rains started falling again so we waited a while for them to subside so that he could go home. We waited until 10:30, but the rain was still pouring down in buckets. So we gave Graham a couple blankets and a pillow and let him sleep in the spare room. It was about 10:45 before we got to bed. I was over-tired and could not get to sleep. I finally got up and had a little bite to eat because I was getting a bad headache. It was mid-night and still raining hard. I don’t know how much longer it rained after that because I didn’t look at the clock again for another couple hours. Had apparently gone to sleep for a while sometime during those two hours. Even though I didn’t sleep well last night, I was still up by a little after 6:00. Graham was up a little after we were. He went home and came back later to cut the grass on the north side of the house. Wan came a bit later and patched up more leaks on the roof that manifested themselves during last night’s rain. He also made steps going down to the generator shed as they had long since washed away. I felt pretty tired most of the morning so my concentration wasn’t the best. I did manage to get one e-mail written. Got the song book and the first volume of Kamap Bikpela onto a flash drive to go to Daddy’s computer later for printing. Spent some time on Revelation lessons too. Was thankful for a good long nap. Felt much better afterward. Praise the Lord for helping me finish the section of the lesson that covers Revelation 21. Started on study questions on that part this evening as that needs to be done before going on to chapter 22. Kaipo and Sonkenda came by early this evening so Sonkenda could get some reading glasses. We had bought ten pair in town as the price was good at Papindo and they even gave a discount. Sonkenda had said before that he needed some so I had let Kaipo know that we had gotten some. He was excited about getting them and also took a copy of Genesis/Exodus in Pidgin and a story card showing that one way to know God is through creation. We were thankful for the opportunity to be able to give them a little bit of God’s Word and add some thoughts concerning their spiritual need. Although they listen, and express appreciation, they do not seem to understand that the true message is different from what they get in the SDA meetings. They are such a nice couple, but, oh, how we long to see them saved! January 24. Rained quite a while in the wee hours of the morning until about the time we got up, but not such a hard rain as the night before. No rain today. I did not go out walking this morning as I had bad stomach cramps after breakfast which were worse when I was standing up. I did a little crocheting, had extra time for prayer, did some Bible study, made the bed, folded the clothes, proofread music lessons and outreach lessons and fixed up the outreach pictures a bit. After dinner, I went to nap with the hot water bottle. It did a lot to soothe the cramps. In the afternoon, I printed the music lessons, outreach lessons, and outreach pictures. Punched holes in the lessons and got the outreach lessons put into the students’ notebooks, but didn’t get the students’ music lessons in yet as I printed them later (after adding blanks where they will be writing answers). This evening, I finished Revelation chapter 21 and am now ready to start the last chapter. Then we enjoyed our time to sing and share the word and pray together.
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