Less than a week to go! July 16, 2008

It has been a fairly rough week so far, and yet the Lord is so faithful. On Monday I was quite frustrated, because I had this mountain in front of me of doing inventory and packing up the bookstore, and yet the whole morning slipped by with us getting the contents of the conference manual finalised. It was 14h00 by the time I got to the bookstore and naturally, I didn’t get done, but I did feel better organised than I normally am. Yesterday it me and two helpers about 5 1/2 hours to complete everything, which included reorganising our extra stock, which is kept in boxes in the back room for lack of other suitable space. I was sitting on the floor, counting books and putting them into the boxes, and altogether performing too many sideways-turning movements… when I got up from there my back really hurt! I was a bit worried about moving over to SIL today and quite discouraged when I got home. After lying down with some heat applied for a while I started feeling much better, though, praise the Lord. I got some work done late afternoon and early evening, but still the days just speed by with not enough being wrapped up – I will be very grateful once the bookshop is set up and I can focus on my other work.  We have reached about 205 registrants, and I am truly encouraged to see so many new men coming. May the Lord help us all, in spite of our frayed nerves, to strive to se Him glorified through this conference!