These past days have been rather uneventful. We are continuing to do what God has for us to do here in Swaziland and we are so thankful we are able to be here.
The sunrise from our house.
Friday, I attended a ladies Bible study. They are studying ‘Peter, Learning to Be Like Jesus’. I spent some time this morning studying the next lesson. I didn’t finish the lesson because I tend to find something interesting and study that particular thought before I go on. I have one page written in a notebook from my morning study. The thought that I pursued this morning was from John 13:34 “…love one another, even as I have loved you….” Jesus loves ALL people. No matter how dirty, hurtful, sinful, proud, arrogant, etc. they are. He loves us so much that He suffered on the cross for us. Love will be expressed in deeds for the unlovable as well as the lovable. It will be an overflow of our love for Christ, to bring Him glory, not ourselves and a love without end.
My notebook contained much more than just this, but these are the main thoughts for today. Now I need to go back to the study book and fill in the blanks.
Saturday we spent a delightful evening with another TWR family, the Clarks, and her parents from Port Elizabeth. We enjoyed the wonderful meal and fellowship. It is interesting that we and her parents have mutual friends in South Africa. It truly is a small world where God’s children are concerned.
Sunday we had a very nice time of worship in song before Larry shared his testimony and a challenge during the morning service.
After church, we stopped at a place near our house where they sell grilled chicken, mealie pap
All this food for less than $3.00! Not for each serving, but for both of us. Right now, it is probably closer to $2.50 for all this food.
and salad and brought some home for dinner. It was very tasty. After we ate, we decided to visit the glass blowing factory. They were not blowing glass on Sunday, but did have things for sale and we did go to the observation deck to look at the furnace where they fire and blow the glass. We enjoyed looking around, but saved our money and didn’t purchase anything.
Today, Tuesday, a stack of parts are supposed to arrive late this evening from South Africa for the AM antenna upgrade. Larry is anxious to get started doing the work after spending the past weeks planning, designing, finding a machine shop capable of making and ordering the parts. There are other parts yet to come and he is hoping they will be ready soon. It seems like things, that take a few days to get done in Elkhart, take weeks or months here. He would love to have this project very near completion or even finished before we leave.
Also today, the missionaries, that work at the site with Larry, had work to do in town so Larry rode to the site with the Swazi technician. They decided to repair the 100,000-watt shortwave antenna that Larry designed and built in 1984. One small bolt had failed after 32 years of service. Although the failure was such that the antenna performance was not compromised, it affected the appearance of the antenna. After completing the repair, Larry asked the technician, “If we don’t tell anyone, how long will it be before the repair was noticed?” The technician replied, “One or two months!” [So if you are reading this, please don’t ‘let the cat out of the bag’!]
TWR antennas at sunset. The antenna that was repaired is connected to the shorter towers behind the curtain antenna which is in the front of this photo.