Chad Wells Family Blog

This is Beverlyn, the girl who got saved yesterday. We spent the day preparing everything for leaving. We are getting closer. We worked with Bro. Kay some more, preparing him for our absence as well. I think all copying is finally done and all classes are accounted for.

We had an excellent youth class today! We ended up having 69 kids, 18 of whom were visitors. I preached both other services today, too. After the morning service a girl (one of the visitors) came forward. Kirsten dealt with her and she asked Christ to save her! So, it was a great day!

We had an all day youth activity today. There were just under 50 kids. This is their meal – “hot dogs”, rice, and cabbage sop. We played softball and had a message inside the church. The kids all had a really good time!

Kirsten just snapped this picture during Sunday School. Obviously, shoes are “optional”! I’m down to just a very swollen hand and pink arm. So, recovering nicely! Eunice spent the night with Amber this evening for the first time. She was very uncomfortable, but we did our best to make her feel at home. We had calzones for dinner and a strawberry crisp for dessert. Eunice liked them, but they are very different from what she is used to! Also, she’s not so used to sitting on a couch or around a dining room table. Even Pastor Sam, Eunice’s dad, with how often he’s been in the house, is not entirely comfortable.

I ended up staying down all day, still recovering from the bee stings. It seems quite ridiculous to me that I’m down because of that, but there’s nothing I can do about it. But, I took this opportunity to have a nice, long meeting with Bro. Kay. We went over everything about Sunday School and the RI class (religious instruction) at the high school (since he’ll be doing both of those). I hope I was able to answer all his questions and that he’s confident to move forward. Our cat, Kitty, is very pregnant. She often sleeps snuggled up to the duck (when the duck is sitting on her eggs). Now she’s sleeping on the eggs herself! We have a very strange cat!

I made more copies today. Maybe I’m done, but I’m not going to assume! This afternoon I checked on the bees. I think we’ll be ready to get out the honey when we return. I’ve been stung several times before and have never had a problem. Today, however, was different. I got stung twice. I finished out my work, but by the time I got back to the house I was feeling funny. Within a few minutes I was itchy, red, swollen (tongue, too), and covered in hives! We got some Benadryl in me right away but it didn’t seem to help. Bro. Kay ended up bringing a pen and a scalpel in case my throat closed up. Thankfully, we didn’t need an emergency tracheotomy! But, I was done for the day. I spent the rest of the day in bed, recovering from 2 little bee stings! We decided a bee sting kit is definitely going to be gotten in the States and brought back! These are taro leaves. They measure up to 3′ long!

This morning dad brought more items to be copied and collated. So, hopefully, I have now finished all that’s needed. Part of this copying is copying the books of Exodus, Daniel, and Ezekiel for each student since we do not have the King James translated Pidgin Old Testament…yet! The translation work is completed, we are just waiting to purchase a couple of pieces of equipment, and finish the printing press building, and then we’ll be ready to print whole Bibles translated from the King James English Bible! The screens (for the school uniforms I started yesterday) didn’t work out. As I tried to finish them today I discovered that the emulsion I tried to use was too old and did not cure properly. So I will have to re-make these after we get back in a couple months. I will have to bring new emulsion back with me from the States.

Here’s a picture of the “after”. Everything’s definitely burned and gone! I spent today making all the handouts for Bro. Kay, dad, and Pastor Sam for their Bible School classes. After the print shop is up and running we will finalize the Bible School curriculum and print out the whole curriculum so that it will be ready to go from year to year. Until then, I’m making copies for everyone as needed. So today I made all the copies they will need for the 2 months we’ll be gone. I also made the screens for screen printing the uniform shirts for mom’s school kids. They’ve been so excited to have uniforms (even though it is just a shirt!).

We were woken up at 2:00am to the call that “Pastor Sam’s house is on fire!”. We rushed out and saw huge flames! I helped with the bucket brigade (getting water from the creek with buckets). We doused the next house (10 feet away) with water and the guys were already uprooting banana trees and laying them over the grass roof. The 1st house was completely engulfed so we were just trying to save the one next to it. It was not the house Pastor Sam and his family sleep in (the church here is in the process of finishing a metal roofed, wood house for them that they are living in). They cook in their old house and use it for guests. There were 2 girls sleeping in there. They feed long logs into the fire to cook with or for warmth. It looks like the girls didn’t pull them back out before they went to sleep (they were cold). The log continued to smolder and eventually fell onto the woven mat used for a floor. It caught the woven floor on fire and it traveled to the woven mat wall. The girls woke up at that point because they felt “really hot”. They rushed outside to get help. A few seconds later the grass roof caught fire. In less than a minute the entire house was totally engulfed. We were (and still are!) praising God that the girls woke up when they did since they didn’t even have a minute to spare. Thank you, God, for waking them up so that we only have a replaceable house burned instead of 2 little girls! We had a great Sunday School class. Geson, one of the boys living with us here, accepted Christ today! I taught my lesson on the trials God uses to get our attention. He listened to that and realized God was trying to get his attention and he needed to accept Christ as his Savior. There were 3 others saved today as well. Bro. Matt Keenan preached for us this afternoon. Joseph, our 2nd year Bible School student, did the translating. Also, the power came back on this afternoon. Just in time for Sunday night nachos!

Tomorrow is Connor’s 10th birthday so we had a little birthday party for him here. His favorite present was one that Kirsten’s parents sent to him – a rock tumbler. He is so excited about it! He had made one on his own, with a metal baking powder can, but it just didn’t seem to do much. He is always finding rocks and proclaiming “this is quartz!” Or “this is feldspar!” Kirsten is constantly pulling rocks out of his pockets at laundry time. He really wants to be a geologist, a truck driver, or a missionary! Kirsten made his favorite for dinner – spaghetti!