That describes what it has been like for the last 2-3 weeks. Janet arrived with some fundis and also with her daughter in law, Antonette with her three daughters. Jason was away building one day churches for a couple weeks so Antonette decided to come and help where she can. She was a great help. Guess what she helped with? Janet brought some window shutters so that we can open some of our windows and they had to be painted with the brown oil base paint I have been painting with for the last few weeks. So we worked on that and as I said she was a great help. She did most of the painting for I was off at times doing other things that needed to be done. I think we had 40 something shutters to paint and we got them done. She also taught health classes to the sewing students.
Our sewing students graduated – we had 11 that graduated on Friday, June 25. The next day, Sabbath, we had eight people get baptized; four from sewing and I think we had a couple from Lupalilo and also a couple of boys from our carpentry class. It was great to see the commitment that was made from these young people. Janet handed out bibles and also bible studies for them to share the gospel with someone and then challenged the congregation with the bible studies also to see who will work also in sharing the gospel. She handed out over 40 bible studies just to the congregation besides the eight that went to those that were baptized.
We have nine fundis working here now and today (Sunday, July 04, 2010) we poured our second flooring in the second of our two buildings we are working on. We have brought gravel, bricks and had sand delivered to the sight so that they can work continually. We also piped down water from our spring water tap that was by the house. We have had a problem with the water. We had a diversion before our dam that collapsed and almost dried up our water before the dam. The pipe was exposed and so we built a wood barrier and put dirt behind it to block off where the water was going so that our dam pipe would fill up our settling tank. This worked for a while and then we ran into more problems. We ran out of problems again and Janet walked out to the spring and dam. We ended up with mud above our 2" pipe in the settling tank. Janet worked with it and got the dirt out, but it was slow going there for a while. But prayer and a little work got us the water we needed to finish the job.
Talking about prayer; I was thinking about that today before we finished the job. The Lord is waiting to answer our request. I was thanking the Lord for His blessings helping me with the first onslaught of water problems and then we had it again. We get tested time and again and we need to show patience and perseverance when things go wrong. I prayed for strength, He gave it to me, both physical and spiritual. I prayed for wisdom, He gave it to me and I was able to fix the problem. I prayed for patience and He gave it to me and as I was contemplating on the many blessings, of course we received more problems. But God is faithful and answer our requests if we just put our trust in Him. He is there for you also. Sometimes it seems He is not answering or listening but that is where trust comes in and waiting on the Lord. My prayer is that we realize that He is there and we just need to trust and obey.
That is it for today and I am signing off here in Mago….
Deniece
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