Today we heard a good sermon on prayer. The evangelist spoke about how important it is to pray from the heart and not just out of ritual habit and that we should do it no matter what our situation is. It is a way that we surrender to God and have a good relationship with Him.
This past week Hugo and I went out and ordered all our appliances for our home in Sentani along with a generator and a few beds and stuff like that. We’ve decided to buy the majority of our stuff here and ship it to Sentani. There is a lot more selection here, the prices are lower, we have the opportunity, and we can get it without dragging kids along. Once we are in Sentani we have two days before Hugo has to start work. So that doesn’t really leave a lot of time to go to Jayapura, one hours drive away, and look for stuff. We’ve had friends look there for the appliances we liked but they were either really expensive, or out of stock and if we wanted one we’d have to pay for the shipping. So we are going to be sending a container to Papua along with 2 other families the beginning of June. This means that we have to live for two months without a lot of stuff that we’ve bought and are already using like our mattress topper and cover, TV, laundry baskets, microwave etc… That’ll be interesting… especially because the kids will be out of school for the majority of that time… Anyways, it was fun picking things out, but also rather painful… I think our bank card nearly burned up…
Tomorrow we begin week three of Unit 7!! Half way done so that means 2.5 units more to go… Today someone was cooking something around here and it reminded me of good Dutch Sunday soup and I realized how much I so miss good soup. They don’t have soup packages here like back home. All you can get here is cream of chicken and cream of asparagus soup… yeah… We’ve been here for nearly nine months now and I’m starting to miss some things. I was looking at the pictures of Crescent Beach on Nicole VW’s blogsite and realized how much I missed being able to see the sights around where we live. I guess when you’ve been gone this length of time, you can start to feel this way. Last time we lived in Papua we were only there for 5.5 months so we didn’t get to this point like now. Ah well, I’m sure I’ll get over it, don’t really have a choice.