Sunday, June 27
Even though we had rough seas today, God gave us a perfect cloudy and cool day for traveling on the Bikoi. Lots of SITAG and Wycliffe Associates folks came to see us off, some of them were even brave enough to get on the ship and look around. It was packed! The Bikoi is known for being reliable and being on time, but today we left an hour and a half late. So, we didn't get into our house until almost five o'clock. But aside from a little nausea (and most of that was caused from all the people smoking cigarettes around us), we enjoyed a great trip as the boat rocked back and forth through the waves! Thanks for all of your prayers. We did find a welcome home present - a long-dead rat in the bathroom, so dead it didn't even smell anymore. We're just thankful it was dead.
My garden disappointed me again. The root crops and Chinese cabbage were dug up by dogs, and Marulaon hasn't received much rain while we were gone so the green beans were all shriveled up. But the lady we hired to look after our ground had replanted some Chinese cabbage, nursed the bell pepper through the drought, and kept the weeds down. We'll just be buying our root crops at the market this time out, and we'll continue to plant and learn as we go. The manioko (papaya) trees that we planted last year are thriving, and we're hoping to get to taste some of their fruit while we are here. The pineapples are all doing well, too, but they are slow growers so it will be a while before we get to eat them. God blessed Marulaon with a big rain just a few days before we came back, and all three of our rain tanks (two for the community and one for us) are full.
Each time we transition back and forth, it gets a little easier and we get a little more efficient. Saying goodbye is always hard, though. We're really hoping to get some intensive language learning done during this stay, so here we go!
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