Bits and Bites...

Here's a photo of our new entrance sign above our newly renovated check-in area. The middle photo on the left and the first girl after the words going to the right are photos that I had taken and submitted for the new sign. Pretty cool eh?

Anyways, things seemed to have settle down a bit for us this week. V is at home with the baby and things are going great. She's super cute! Her parents are so proud and excited! They asked my neighbour and I to name their new daughter. Yikes, that's some pressure... So we came up with what we thought was a lovely name and told them this past Wednesday. The tradition is that they will cook some food and have their close relatives over, eat and pray together and then give the child his/her name. So I can't tell you yet what the name will be as the ceremony hasn't happened yet...

Y has begun working for us again. Last Tuesday, the brother-in-law who had been getting all the money while not working, came to the door in the afternoon as I was preparing dinner. I was a little nervous about why he might be at the door, wearing an old t-shirt of Hugo's that we'd given a long time ago... He talks very interior-like so he's not always the easiest to understand. He looks like a city person, but he doesn't talk like one. The basic jist of what I understood was that he wanted to say thank-you, they're not offended (really??) and they're thankful that we chose his brother-in-law to work for us and not someone from outside their family. That whole statement at the end there gave me the idea he still thinks he's going to get money... The next day I told Yokben about the visit. We've agreed to keep his money at our house and he can come and get it as he needs it. Although I did tell him that if he keeps living with his sister and her husband, he should give them some money but certainly not all of it. Y is very excited to be working again and we're glad he's back!

There have been a number of strange events occurring here that just leave one feeling rather unsettled. I can't go into great detail regarding all of them but one is that the wife of a missionary interior got run over by their vehicle in a freak accident involving brakes that stopped working and broke her femur. The son of one of our pilots broke his leg. The new plane we've been waiting for broke down on one of the Christmas islands and now someone has to hand carry a part over there via Australia. A fire in one of our planes, thankfully not during flight... And there are more... It is especially at times like these that we are reminded of who is in control but it is difficult for us to give things over and simply trust in God's ultimate plan. Please pray!