Friday morning the refrigerator we ordered from
Firestone was installed, and we should have the
apartment-sized gas stove in a week or two, as soon
as they get a shipment. [They actually waited two
months.]
 We have many nice plants and flowers. Orange
 colored cosmos almost grow wild in some places. We
 have the plain sansevaria growing practically wild
 in our back yard on the edge of the ravine. Have
 potted a few plants to put in the house. There are
 many plants grown here for their colored leaves,
 many I've seen in florists but don't know the names
 of. The crotans come in all shades and styles of
 leaves. I've gotten slips of about 6 or 7 kinds of
 crotans from the hotel proprietor where we stayed.
 I hope they grow.
 I've made cabinets (?) out of 3 crates and boxes
so that we have one in the kitchen for dishes, etc.,
one in the dining room for linens, and one in the
bedroom for our clothes. Also I've made a bookcase.
 I have planed off the shutters so that even Mary
can open and close most of them.
 We are planning a conference of all of our preach-
ers in Haiti. It will start one night and end the next
night with four services-evening, morning, after-
noon, and evening. We are planning this conference
in lieu of an immediate trip to visit all the churches,
so that we can get acquainted with the preachers
and try to get some spiritual and instructional ideas
across to them. We don't plan to tour all the churches
until we have the jeep.
 Since the Gospel of Luke is the only Creole
scripture available from the American Bible Society
so far, Mary and I are making a special study of
Luke so that we will be all the more familiar with
the text. We are following the plan I suggested to
the church people of reading one chapter every day