It was rather amazing the way it worked out.  Dorothy has been looking for a job for more than a month now.  And a week  ago Jim decided to hire her.  She is thrilled, overjoyed, ecstatic, and in general delighted to be working for us.  And then today it happened.  A man who is working for the U.S. Embassy phoned asking if she would like a job.  He had phoned five others before her whose names were on their list.  Everybody had already found a job.  So I asked him if he needed help finding a domestique.  He was happy to have our help.  We told him about a friend of Dorothy's from her village.  The lady is here in town and looking for work.  She has worked for Americans in the past.  Has done childcare.  Has cooked American cuisine.  She is so overjoyed she can hardly stand it.  She told Dorothy not to sleep tonight.  Spend the night in prayer.  She has her interview in the morning.  We are so very happy for her.  She will earn between 80 and 100,000 F which is between $160 and $200 per month.  Normal domestiques earn $80.  We are praying with  her, but will manage to sleep, too.

I went into town this morning to pick up some money that had been wired to us.  Friday is pay day.  Actually I only went part way into town to Money Gram.  Sadly the lady said she could not give me the funds.  She sent me to the main office on Avinida Kennedy downtown.  So I went there.  The office was crowded.  Only one lady was taking care of customers.  People were getting annoyed with having to wait f-o-r-e-v-e-r.  After an hour and a half it was finally my turn.  Had no problem getting the funds when she got around to waiting on me.  Have no idea what the original problem was.  What can I say?  We live in Cameroon.

The life they were living to the max came screeching to a halt the instant their one and only beloved ball went flying over Shiloh's wall and disappeared from view.  Three anxious children scampered off and came to a screeching halt at our gate where they began frantically ringing our bell.  Dorothy went to the gate to ask what they wanted.  Their tale of woe came tumbling out with a plea to return their ball to them.  She went off to search and came back empty handed.  They plead and plead with her until she finally opened the gate and let the oldest boy inside.  He ran directly to the shrub when it had come to rest and scooped up his treasured ball.  What a relief!  The lost was found.

Dorothy reported back to us that these boys are from  Bamenda.  Yaounde is filing up with children and whole families from Bamenda.   Though a long ways from home and their old life, children always find a way to have some fun.

Down for day four.  Day two for Jim. We met in the library mid morning for church.  Listened to a Tony Evans sermon on line.  Couldn't get back in bed fast enough.  Just can't  get my strength back.  That's my main symptom.  

Dorothy is running Shiloh.  Four individuals came in today.  She will be doing breakfast in the morning.  What would we ever do without her???

Better today, but not back to normal yet.  Sadly Jim is coming down with malaria this evening.  He's taken some medication and gone to bed.  Where would we be, what would we do, if we didn't have Dorothy living at Shiloh with us?  She's a God's send at this time and every day.

In the middle of the night last night I started feeling bad.  This morning I got up, took a shower, and vomited.  Then I went straight back to bed.  Only because our pastor friend is here, I went down for breakfast.  I had a couple sips of tea and a spoonful of yogurt.  We visited with the pastor for awhile and then I excused myself and returned to bed where I have been all the rest of the day. I've felt better and worse off and on as the day progressed.  I hope to be back to normal soon.

We have been waiting all day long for Pastor Eugene to arrive.  He took the night bus out of Bamenda last night and should have come into the city this morning.  We finally got word that his bus broke down part way down.  They have spent the day along side the road waiting on repairs.  And just now he has texted us with the message that he is just coming into the city.  The guard will give him his room and we will see him in the morning.  I'm sure he will have a story to tell.