TRIALS of TERMITES, TRAILS, TV – TRANSLATION…
It’s a week for us where everything seems to start with “T.”
TERMITES…
We noticed some evidence of termites in our house (very common on Palawan!) So we notified the property manager. She looked at it today and is going to schedule some repair by her carpenters, and an exterminator will come and treat the perimeter and parts of the house with termite poison.
This is a concern to us. Bill’s asthma is doing okay lately, but he reacts very severely to the odor of chemicals like bug spray, kerosene and gasoline, etc. (He even avoids the soap aisle of grocery stores.) We will pack up the food and utensils in the kitchen and pack up our bedroom and move to NTM’s Guest Home across town. We will stay out of the house for a week or so. Hopefully the smells will be gone by that time. We don’t want to return to having asthma attacks like he was having a few years ago.
TRANSLATION NEWS
The work with Lini went well. Donna got completely through Galatians with her and they were pushing ahead into Romans. We had planned to have Susing come up next week to finish Romans with Donna. But that is on hold while our life is packed up in plastic bags and boxes and we are living in a single mission home room. We will continue drafting Mark and doing other translation work while we are out of the house and reschedule Susing’s trip as soon as we can.
TRIALS OF TRAIL AND TV
A hardware store is being built on the highway near our house and the unpaved lane which is the only access to and from our property is what the construction crews are using to get to the site. Their heavy equipment is churning up our lane and with all the heavy rain lately, we’re afraid our vehicle will be stuck in the mud one of these days!
The smallest “trial” of all is that our TV died. But we usually prefer to read in the evenings, anyway. Plus our cable provider cancelled the Food Network, which is about the only channel we ever watched, anyway. And it certainly didn’t help our diet to watch that!
PLEASE PRAY WITH US…
- termite problem to be resolved without asthma attacks!
- that we can move back into our house quickly
- rescheduling of Susing’s translation work sessions
- good progress on translation while we are out of our home
- construction to be completed soon (maybe they will gravel the road?)
Reaching Palawanos together with you,
-Bill and Donna
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