We received another very interesting email from a friend. We thought you would enjoy it and when we think we have had a bad day we can remember this.
Hi all,
Mt. 6:19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, …”
Well, thankfully I haven’t had too much trouble with the thieves, but the moth and rust part has really hit hard lately. I would have written sooner, but it took me awhile to get the radio email going. Mice had gotten in and chewed through the wires. Also lightning had struck my antenna and it had fallen. I fixed it all back, but it’s still not working like it did. I arrived on an old, roach infested bus at 2:00 a.m. I had to carry my stuff from the road, down across the creek, and then out across a field, then up the hill to my house. It was about 78 deg. and very muggy. But it did start raining (of course) so it cooled off a bit. By the time I got everything in the house I was really wanting to shower, but the water was off. So I got a machete and started cutting a path up to the water tank. It’s the middle of summer down here so the jungle had grown up a lot. Half an hour later I made it to the tank and got the water valve to the house open. But when I ran back down to the house I found I had a geyser. Ok, nothing like washing off out in the rain, right. Then I wanted to get my little gas refrigerator going. I got the bottle gas hooked up and it lit fine, but I thought I heard something and was crawling around the back for a closer look when – poof! The whole back suddenly burst into flames and there went all the hair from one arm. I rushed out and turned the gas off and decided I’d tackle that one in the morning. Then I carefully killed all the spiders in my bedroom and made the bed. That’s when I discovered that a small tub a margarine had broken open in the luggage and had gotten all over my sheets. No matter. I was so tired I slept until day light. Then the rain woke me up because it was coming right on through the roof and on the floor in several places. The roofing is cement tiles, so when they leak (they always do sooner or later) I have to go up in the attic and move them a bit and that usually does the trick. However, who knows what creatures lurk up there, so I took a small pistol loaded with little “bird shot” shells, just in case. Turned out I was very glad I had the pistol. Rats! Yep, I got two of them. Would have had more but the pistol kept jamming, aahh. Finally went back to work on the fridge and after burning the hair off of my other arm, I found that a seal in the main gas control apparatus had torn. I found out later that there’s no way to fix it. Therefore, it didn’t take long for all of my fresh food to start going bad. I would have gone to town for more food, but my motorcycle is broken down. Still looking for parts to get it fixed.
Meanwhile, Larry and Linda have been out and the grass around the houses had gotten really tall. I went and contacted a young man who
Larry had trained to use the lawn mowers. He almost made it through the day before the lawn mower broke down. We have two but the other one … yeah you know. Despite all of that I have been getting tons of translation work done. I tried to work late one night, but the house batteries gave out. They are 10 years old and are on borrowed time. I have a small generator so I went and got it out, but the cord snapped when I tried starting it. Good grief! I’ve had it up to here with the moth and rust effect! Seems like all my stuff down here is old and worn out. It helps me a appreciate the fact that “God’s mercies are NEW every morning!” If my translation consultant can make it down here, we’ll begin the check on I Timothy next week.