First, Thanks for praying for Pulding and Telmon – Pulding was able to get his license to drive a motorcycle, and Telmon was able to upgrade to professional. It took three days and a lot of money, but they have them.
We have mentioned in our last two updates about Telmon and his wife planning to move to the lowlands where he has been teaching the Word of God on weekends. They have started building a house there, and they plan to move when it is finished.
Mahan has had three sessions at the airstrip learning to drive our mud truck, and he has now driven it back and forth twice between our village and the airstrip on the old logging road including fording the river. He’s still learning where the wheels are tracking when driving, especially the right wheels, but he is doing well. A couple more trips and he will be ready to solo.
We’ll be flying out to our NTM guesthouse in town as the final proofs of our mountain dialect New Testament are due to arrive there tomorrow or the next day. The lowland dialect is scheduled to arrive later in the week. We’ll look them over to make sure the page margins are okay and then fly to the city and be there for when the printing starts. If there are no changes to make then the printing could start as early as Oct 24 :-).
While in the city Gene will go to a clinic to see if they can help with his chronic malaria. And our mission computer guru, Joe, who is at our mission office there in the city will work on getting our new Windows 7 laptop to network with our older laptops which have Windows XP.
So, please PRAY for safe travel, production of the New Testaments to go well, that the clinic will be able help Gene, and that Joe will be able to get the laptops to network.