Since our recent break-in, we have been trying to figure out how
to best and perhaps least-expensively improve the security in our flat. While I was in SA I bought a motion-detector light, with the thinking that anybody who came close to the veranda would then be full in this bright light and hopefully scared off by it. So one of my friends was here the whole morning yesterday with a Mozambican from his church, they got all dirty and went to a lot of trouble, but the end result is that the lights work and can be used as normal lights, but the motion sensor doesn’t work for some reason. We keep going back and forth on whether we should get the burglar bars on our veranda completely redone, get stronger doors between the veranda and kitchen and living room, get burglar bars on those windows… And nothing can ever happen the next day, we are always dependent on some man who is able to help us out, on someone with transportation to go and get stuff, and the time that we ourselves have available to stay home while someone is working here. I am quite weary of all this delibaration!
This morning, Allison left for Maputo, from where she will go on to Brazil, Lord willing, and will only be back in August. She let us know that the plane had to make an emergency landing because of a fire – but nobody was harmed, praise the Lord! Angie came back from a Bible translation dedication this afternoon, but leaves for a break with another single missionary on Tuesday. so I will be by myself for up to two weeks. I don’t want to be fearful, and I know that our trust is in the Lord and not in any security measures, but I’m still not overjoyed at the thought.
I would appreciate your prayers for the following:
- the safety of us personally and our flat and possessions
- that all the preparations for the Fiel conference would go smoothly and that all our books would arrive in time!
- that I will have energy for all the different things I need to focus on in the weeks ahead, and will yet continue to seek the Lord’s face above anything else
