we might be able to get along fairly well in Creole
 (which everyone here speaks), if we study hard. It
 seems to be much easier than French-sort of "Pidgin
 French" with a few English, Spanish and African
 words. We are trusting the Lord to help us.
Oct. 13-Our faith is high. We are expecting the Lord
 to do even greater things in the future than He has
 in the past. The Lord has been so good to us in pro-
 tecting us from harm and expense and in giving His
 rich blessings.
Oct. 15-Have been house-hunting. Studying Creole in
 our spare time. Haven't made appreciable headway
 in Creole, but then we've only been studying it a
 week or so. Well let French wait until later.
 Have contacted some missionaries-Wallace Turn-
 bull and his wife, who are just about our age, were
 married just a few months after we were, and have
 a 16-months-old boy. They invited us to their place
 for the evening and dinner. They live out from town
 15 miles quite high in the mountains-about 4,000
 feet I believe.
 After dinner we sat around the table and talked
 about all the characters who live in P.-au-P. (sup-
 posed to be some former Nazis here) and voodoo.
 Very interesting. (Drums going now, I can hear.)
 This a.m. we had our first baptismal service. They
 all wore white gowns over old clothes and it was
 quite a spectacle. The worst thing was that it started
 raining when they were half through and everyone
 got pretty soaked. Back at the church afterwards,
 we officially received the baptized Christians as mem-
 bers of the church.
 We are praying about our relations with E--.
 We're going to have to "crack down" on his idea of
 the abundance of our American money. There are
 also other problems.