Spent the entire day in the library. None of us have ever played librarians
before and so we were somewhat out of our depth. We then discovered a 1965
book of library decimalisation which we used for indexing everything. That
effort went quite well until we discovered on the internet that changes had
been to the system since 1965. Who would have thought. . .
As a result we do know that the job of sorting, categorising and labelling
isn't finished. We don't know if the resident librarian was truly able to
follow our logic or if she simply said "Yes" to everything to please us.
We invited pastor Samuel and his wife over to our house for dinner. There
was a minor glitch when the electricity went off at 3pm and never came on
again and so dinner is an improvisation. A tinned Chili con Carne was
augmented with tomatoes from the market and cooked at a neighbour's house.
Desert was a fruit salad of mangos and bananas.
The Pastor's wife is very quiet although she probably understands most of
what we say. We had a lovely time, eating by candle light and the Pastor was
very friendly and funny. We even sang a hymn after dinner. I do
wonder if they felt like judges on the X Factor.
Pastor Samuel's father is recognized in Mozambique as the founder of mission
work in the Milange area, where he ministered even during the countries Civil War.
We handed over several Bibles and workbooks. George inscribed a
leather-bound Bible with greetings from the Marlow congregation.
We are thankful for fellowship, friendship and support we receive from
everyone here.
We pray that by some miracle we will be able to finalize the library
decimalisation tomorrow and that the new librarian can understand and work
the system.
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