Quite a mind-boggling amount of things have happened (or not happened) since Wednesday. We moved all the books and bookshelves over to SIL and got things fairly sorted out on Wednesday, after being delayed because the police wanted to fine us for parking the truck in the street in front of the bookshop. On Thursday I was over at SIL for a while, but didn’t have some of the things I needed, so went to town and got fabric for new tablecloths – I got 20m, thought I was being totally extravangant, and now I need a bit more! In the meantime, my hairdryer broke and my computer isn’t working – the latter obviously a much bigger problem, it may need to be taken down to SA… We have also had a guest in the house, Melissa Easton, who is helping out at the SIL school for a few weeks. She’s lovely, it’s just different having a strange person in the house. Our househelper hasn’t been in, because of her sister dying last week, so even though we have had some help, in this crazy week we still had to find time to take care of laundry and dishes. My emotions are all over the place, I have had really good days and then days when all the big and little things going wrong were just too much… I know I can really do nothing but leave everything, once again, in the Lord’s hands and trust His perfect sovereignty, even though at times I wonder why certain things had to happen this week of all weeks…
I made a lot of progress setting up the bookshop yesterday and today, but am still not completely finished. The last of our books arrived, so that was exciting, and on Monday morning first thing I need to go get the Bibles I ordered, which are with the customs officials. On Monday our speakers and colleagues arrive, and then things will really get busy. Esp. now that I don’t have a computer of my own available, blogging during the Conference will probably be sketchy…
Thank you so much again to everyone who prayed for the books, for the tent and all the other arrangements – please continue to trust the Lord with us that He will be glorified in spite of all the hassles!
