October 9. The sun is coming up earlier these mornings since the passing of the autumnal equinox, and I have been waking up around 5:30 and getting up around 5:45 or so. Praise the Lord for a beautiful, fog-free morning again! A perfect day for Daddy’s flight home. Lotu started fairly early with about eight people which number gradually became 18 people. Matthew finished his message from Matthew 10:40-42 which he started on Sunday. We were able to start school around 8:15 which gave the students extra time again so they could have art class. And they even had time to go up to the airstrip when the plane came and help bring down cargo and oversee the others who brought cargo in. The plane didn’t come until after 10:30 because of plane trouble with one of the planes and having to wait for the other one to come down from Hagen. The students finished coloring their pictures today that they had traced and started coloring last week, and they hung their finished work on the class bulletin board. I tried to teach them how to do shading, but they didn’t quite get the idea of a gradual contrast. But I’m not grading their work, and we will try again on another picture next Wednesday if we can get an early start again with school. After Daddy came, I was back and forth between the classroom and the kitchen, checking on the students and at times guiding them with their work, loading up the freezer and getting some food put away, putting eggs on to boil (thankful that Daddy was able to get eggs in town). The students were ready to go home by a little after 12:00, and I warmed up leftover soup for Daddy’s and my dinner. Then we had a much-needed nap; and after nap, I organized and put away all the food that gets stored in the footlocker. I had already written tomorrow’s lesson plans and cleaned the chalkboard during school hours so didn’t have to do that in the afternoon. I did have to grade spelling and science lessons and write a few little math exercises on the chalkboard. Daddy filled the washing machine before supper and I sorted the clothes and put a load in to be washed. Daddy turned the generator on at 5:00. I made egg salad for our supper sandwiches and cut up a nice red tomato, one of several which Daddy bought in town. It made a nice change to our supper. Toward the end of our supper, I turned on the washing machine so the clothes could start agitating. I was thankful there was enough water to finish that load of clothes because right after that, when Daddy tried to refill the buckets, the water stopped running. We left the tap on though to see if it would eventually start running again. It didn’t for quite a while, and Daddy had just found someone to go carry a bucket of water for us when the water started running again. A clod of dirt or something must have gotten lodged in the pipe somewhere as the water was a little bit dirty when it first started coming through again. I had planned to wash dishes after I got the clothes hung and had had a few minutes sit down break. I put the dish water on to heat and then tried to send e-mail. Praise the Lord, Christy’s e-mail sent, but the connection was lost before the e-mails came in. Daddy was able to get the incoming e-mail later. Printed out tomorrow’s science quiz papers before I did the dishes. Then wrote in journal before having a snack. After that, I proofread the Galatians lesson I had just written and marked places for putting blanks on the student copy. Then I had a bath. “5They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 6He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” Psalm 126:5,6 October 10. Another beautiful morning; but late this afternoon, the sky grew very dark, and the Lord sent us a good rain. The ground has needed it. I didn’t sleep well last night. My throat and ears were very sore, probably from having to answer the front door a couple times the past couple days before Daddy got home, at a time when the cold west wind was blowing in. (When Daddy is here, he takes care of the door most of the time, especially when the winds are strong. Otherwise, I get a bad sore throat and earaches.) Consequently, I did not feel well most of the day. I do thank the Lord for His grace and strength to see me through classes. I did cut classes a little bit short because I was getting quite tired, but the lessons we were working on were completed, and I didn’t really want to start something new. The students enjoyed doing an experiment for science class. They had to cut a large potato in half, dig a well in each half, put fresh water in one well and very salty water in the other. Then they are to look at the results and make conclusions tomorrow. As soon as the students left, we had lunch, and then a nap. I was grateful for a pretty good sleep at nap time. After nap, I graded the students’ spelling tests and science quizzes, erased the chalkboard, got a gift bag together for Sunny’s birthday (it was today, but we will celebrate tomorrow), cut up, peeled, cored, and diced up a pumpkin and put the pieces in a plastic bag to go in the fridge and be cooked tomorrow for the birthday dinner. Then I just sat and relaxed a short while until supper time because I wasn’t feeling well. After supper, I did the dishes, printed out a song (Jesus Loves the Little Children), read the e-mails that Daddy got in while I was doing dishes, wrote some tenor and bass parts for the song, and then wrote in my journal. It took up most of the rest of the evening to get all the note changes for the song made in the computer file. I’m thankful that is done as it is a very tedious task.
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