Wednesday, April 6
Several little girls walked by while I was weeding our yard this afternoon, and they thought it was great fun to help me. When we were finished, I gave them each an orange. They settled in underneath the house, and it started to rain. Several other kids joined them, so we had lots of little ones playing underneath the house. I took the Pijin story Bible down and read some stories to them. I was amused to find them watching my mouth while Pijin streamed forth somewhat awkwardly!
Thursday, April 7
Benjamin hustled and finished some of his school work yesterday so he and Aaron could paddle over to Pavuvu and "pick up" coconuts in preparation for working copra tomorrow. Benjamin came back filthy, covered in ant bites, and very happy!
Friday, April 8
Our family cleaned with the community again for penance this morning. We worked around the clinic and the new house for the nurse. Hopefully, everything will be ready soon, and we will once again have a clinic in Marulaon. It would certainly be easier to walk a few yards than to paddle a while and then walk through a coconut plantation to get to the clinic.
Later, Aaron went back to Pavuvu with Hensi and Walter to open the coconuts and then cut the coconut meat out of the shells. Aaron came home after a few hours with a nice cut on his thumb from the curved copra knife. He said it provided some great language learning!
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