Henri and Melanie and two of their kids arrived safely on Wednesday afternoon, and it has been lovely to have them in the house. For some reason I got up feeling really miserable yesterday morning, though, and was quite displeased that I had to go to Woodrows to get started on payroll when my friends were here and I wasn’t feeling well. I’m almost never sick, why did it have to happen then? But the Lord really turned the day around. After Tuesday’s fiasco at the seminar I has been so discouraged – I had left some flyers about the bookshop, but not that many, because on Tuesday morning I thought I would still be coming the rest of the week and would see whether more were needed or not. After I beat my hasty retreat, I was just feeling like nobody would be interested anyway and it had been a waste of time. Yesterday morning, however, I got this sms saying “We need more of those flyers!” I quickly went by there, and also ran into one of the pastors, who said that I could come by that afternoon at the start of their session and talk a bit about Fiel. Sadly, this didn’t work out, because when I got there they had gone straight on without a break and things were breaking up. I guess the Lord knows why, but at least everyone there got a pamphlet, I am so pleased that they really handed them out and didn’t just leave it up to people’s interest to take one or not. May the Lord use this and get more people to visit the bookshop!
I also ended up feeling more encouraged about the flat. Henri and Melanie are generously letting us borrow practically whatever we want (until they return, Lord willing), and one of the centre overseers at SIL is coming over to help us with our blocked drain and other manly tasks on Saturday morning, so things just seem a bit more doable than they did…
