Our whole family walked out to the garden again this morning to harvest cassava and weed. When we came home, we ate a quick lunch and then began working to make cassava pudding (lelenga), our first one in twenty months. We were a little bit slow and rusty, but we finished up most of the work in time for the kids to go out and play.
In addition to Aaron's "official" work of Bible translation, we have several goals that we want to accomplish in our village and in the Russell Islands. One of those is to serve as part of the community. When Marulaon holds a fundraiser, we contribute; if the village calls for a work day, we work; if there is a school graduation, we attend; and on Saturdays, we make lelenga to share with our neighbors.
I went down to check on our kids and found Benjamin and Katherine swimming with their friends and Olivia and Sarah cooking cutnuts on a motu with their friends.
I walked up the hill from checking on the kids so I could get my slippery cabbage planted now that the hottest part of the day was finished. One of the amazing things about the Solomon Islands is the rich soil. After you eat the leaves of slippery cabbage (yes, they are slimy, but they are our best option for greens here), you just take the stem and poke it in the ground. It grows! Aaron was beginning the fire to heat up the stones to cook our lelenga. The fire has to burn for about an hour to get the stones good and hot. The kids are really good at helping now. How different from when we arrived in Marulaon in 2009 with a nine, seven, five, and one year old. Not only do my kids know how things work now, but they are strong and capable, too! We worked together to move the stones, place the tray of lelenga on the hot coals, replace the stones, cover the stones with leaves, and cover the whole things with burlap bags. Just in time, we all finished showering (we WERE a little sweaty and smoky!) and filed into the evening prayer service.
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