Arrival

By: Cindy

Monday, May 30th – We arrived in Lorakau at our house and were greeted in “hotel” fashion. Our house was clean and neat, well taken care of by our friend Lina during our absence. In addition to the neat apprearance, she and one of Tess and Harry’s daughters, Joslynn, had placed a large bouquet of fresh tropical flowers on our table and a red hybiscus on each of our beds. A lovely greeting that brought a smile to my face!

However, our “hotel” does have one problem that became quite apparent as the day went on. You see, it was raining in Tanna the day we arrived and what had been six leaks in our house when we left has now grown to about 15. These leaks range from an occasional drip-drip when the downpour comes to a near-constant stream of water in one place and puddles on the floor in others. The hardest leaks to control are the holes in the roof that are so close the wall that the water just dribbles down the wall onto the floor making it impossible to place a bowl to catch the rainwater. Needless to say, we are praying for an end to all this rain and several days of sunshine.

We have some Flash Tac to fix the holes in the tin roof, unfortunately it is coming on the ship and won’t arrive until Thursday. In the mean time we’ll keep mopping up the water and asking God for perserverance!

Tuesday morning – Due to the downpours during the night we collected approximately 2 gallons of rainwater. I hope the ship gets here soon!!!