the house by now. But I'm afraid he's a little too young
 to house-break. I've really got him cowed when I
 talk rough to him. But he's awfully cute-naughty
 and nice at the same time. Right now he's at the
 stage where he wants to chew up everything. We
 just try to keep everything out of his reach-includ-
 ing our hands and fingers. He has a plastic bracelet
 to chew on, but he prefers live meat.

Dec. 15-Urgent need for a visit to Gonaives to improve
 the morale of the people in the churches in that area.
 Finding the work here so much more extensively
 developed than we had supposed, we might easily
 have asked for a much larger budget. And we may
 not be able to hold our own on the budget we have
 asked for. But we would rather suffer an initial
 setback than to overspend in assisting preachers and
 churches financially. We are confident that the Lord
 will direct.
 Honestly, if we didn't know that the Lord is on
 our side and we on His, we would have quit this
 business trying to obtain a permanent visa long ago.
 But now it's getting to be humorous.
 We got word today that the reason why we don't
 have our jeep is that it is being held up in New Or-
 leans until they get a permit to send it here.
 Very exasperating here! This noon (and noon
 is not their busiest time) it took me almost an hour
 to deposit two checks from Kansas City on our check-
 ing account. I had to go to five separate places to
 five different men to deposit those two checks, and
 I had to go to one of them twice. It's no wonder
 that we can't get much done when it takes so much
 time to do everything. But we're almost used to it
 now. If I have to go to town to get mail, mail letters,
 and do business at the bank, I just don't plan on do-
 ing anything else that a.m.
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