time and I feel better now. Gargling with hot salt
 water helps too.
 Tonight we have a late Christmas service, as is
 traditional with the churches here. It will start at
 about ten and run until about midnight. At this
 service I will play the accordion for the first time
 (we got it out of customs Monday) for the accompani-
 ment of the Christmas carols. Also, tonight I will
 use the slide projector in the church for the first
 time to show a roll on the birth of Christ. E- will
 translate the English titles. He was very much
 impressed and delighted that we could have the
 pictures for the Christmas Eve services. He said it
 will be the first time for many of the people to see
 such a thing.

Dec. 27-We have had a good Christmas season with
 a late Christmas Eve service and children's program
 Christmas Day. We expect to have a blessed New
 Year's Eve watch-night service.

Dec. 29-The old year is almost finished! It's hard to
 realize all that has transpired in this past year, such
 a variety of experiences and radical changes. And
 the future-well, that's in God's hands too.
 We really hit the jack-pot on Christmas cards
 this year-91 so far, and half of them from people
 we've never met.
 We can buy the New York Times here just a day
 or two late; we get the week's news summary in
 Time and some nights, like tonight, we can get gulf
 state radio stations quite clear (because it's winter-
 time) and we got the 6 p.m. (E.S.T.) news very
 clearly from Tampa, Florida. We have some nice
 music on now-I'm writing with Mary across the
 table water-coloring flannelgraph figures. Toby has
 been bad, chewing up the rush rug, so he's been
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