Happy 25th (quarter-century) Birthday to our youngest son Joshua!

This morning, Benny and the other men, picked up the UPS, that I took out of service yesterday at the transmitter site, to bring it back to the office. While they were doing that, I helped Virginia identify and label lots of old slides, especially those that were of transmitting equipment over the years.

Larry removing old UPS batteries

When the UPS arrived, it was discovered that some parts had been removed to adapt it for use at the site. Those removed parts had been left at the site, so I focused on removing the old batteries from the UPS and installing new ones. Each battery looks exactly like a heavy duty car battery.

On our way home for lunch we saw the Aggreko containers that left the site yesterday were all located near the pier. Each was on its own trailer ready for transport. Bonaire does not have the equipment to load and unload containers onto ships, so the containers arrive and depart already loaded on trailers. The large container ships probably port in Curacao.

After a lunch of sandwiches, bananas and mango, I went to the site to pick up the needed parts for the UPS. I observed that the United Tenorio was still loading at the Salt Pier. On the way to the office, dropped Virginia in town to do some shopping. She walked home from there.

I now completed swapping the batteries and connecting the new ones to the UPS. To install the previously removed parts, it was necessary to remove all the panels of the UPS. The input had to be changed to an electrical cord with a 60 amp plug on the end, so the UPS could be plugged into UPS(A) socket. [There are two large UPSs for the office and the other is UPS(B)]. A 60 amp receptacle, plus interconnecting wires, had to be remounted on the UPS back panel.

We wanted to have the UPS operating overnight without load to fully charge the batteries before putting it on line tomorrow. We had a dinner appointment and I needed to leave about 4:45pm. I thank the Lord that the UPS was plugged in and successfully just before leaving.

Pastor Totoram Baran, his wife Felicia and Larry

I had just enough time to clean up so we could go to Pastor Baran’s for dinner at 5:30pm. The chicken and rice main dish, salad, and fried plantain were delicious. For desert we had ice cream. They used their nice open back porch for dining this evening.

Bonaire dish -- chicken, rice and fried plantain (banana)

Before dinner was over, the mosquitoes started to find us. They brought out a device that looked like a tennis racquet but when they began to swing it around there were numerous ‘zaps’ as mosquitoes met their demise. It was called an ‘electric swatter’ and this one was rechargeable.

We had great fellowship and learned a lot about Pastor’s ministry. He is both an expository preacher at the International Bible Church and an evangelist. It was interesting to hear him tell about several new believers in the church and their enthusiasm in sharing their new faith. Most of the ones he mentioned were men over 60 years old. One was a Rastafarian, who is now witnessing to his friend who is still a Rastafarian.

We also spent some time reminiscing with his wife Felecia. She had worked for the Dan Harvey family of TWR in the 1960s and Dan led her to faith in Christ. I am pretty sure that I remember her from then. We were able to recall about a dozen TWR families that we both knew in those days and shared about what we knew of their whereabouts now — many are now with their Lord.