Update...

The saga with Ritha's mother continues. Yesterday she came to our neighbours house saying she wanted to give some stuff to her daughter. She was not let into the yard of course. So she stored those things, a noken, bag with papers and Bible, and some gardening tools and boots, in our yard! Our neighbours guard was there and he knows this woman well and he brought her to the main road and paid a motorcycle taxi guy to bring her down the hill. So Ritha came up later and go the stuff and brought it to her home. Apparently her mother had returned since that terrible episode on Sunday and began yelling at Ritha's husbands (he passed away 2 years ago) sibling saying that she had killed her brother making Ritha a widow.
Today she was at the market telling people that she was angry about how the situation on Sunday night was handled and that she was going to get together some of her relatives and they were going to make some trouble for our neighbours. Yikes! Hopefully by now most people realize that she's got mental issues... Most of her relatives here are sick of dealing with her and want nothing more to do with her. However, people from Wamena are easily riled up and coaxed to do destructive things for no real reason. Therefore our neighbours have hired a day guard now in addition to their night guard.
Ritha and her siblings are feeling very stressed about this situation. They don't know what to do anymore. We've suggested that they contact their mothers siblings that still live in their home village and tell them that they need to take care of her as she has proven that she can't live here in peace. Please remember this troubling issue in your prayers!
In other news, Yokben is sick again. This time he has malaria Tropika +3. That's pretty bad. +4 is the worst. I think he waited too long to come to me again. On Monday afternoon I made a blood slide and brought it to the best slide reader in town. Then that night I brought him some Quinine and explained that if he didn't take the pills as he's supposed to and for how long he's supposed to, he will get malaria again. The problem is that Quinine has some really nasty side effects like your head feels as though it will explode and you become deaf or you hear traffic constantly.