gist of most of the French that we read. But we find
Spanish still easier occasionally when speaking with
a few of our preachers and members who have lived
in Dominican Republic or Cuba.
 The New Year's Eve watch-night service went
 okay. We showed a filmstrip on Daniel in the lions'
 den, which I'm sure was a blessing to the people
 from their periodic "Amens." We prayed over the
 midnight hour. At the close of the service, the preach-
 ers individually expressed their New Year's greet-
 ings publicly to us. Mrs. -- said that she hoped
 that God would give us a "babe" in the new year-
 which rather startled us-but which we fervently
 hope for.
 Wednesday I went down to the immigrations office
to get our visa renewed. It took all morning, and
when I was three-fourths of the way through I dis-
covered that they hadn't included Mary and found
out that she had to get hers separately. So Thursday
morning I took Mary down, and they finished hers
up in about half the time-that's the way they are
about white women down here. I think I'll get Mary
to do all the business, and I'll stay home and cook!
 It looks like we'll have to go over to Ciudad
Trujillo, Dominican Republic, to get our residence
visa, according to the Haitian law that a residence
visa cannot be issued to someone who is in Haiti.
 Mayonnaise is one of our extravagances (often
we use just salad oil and lime juice)-it is 80c a pint,
so we use it somewhat sparingly. A regular box of
salt that I got today was 20c, just twice the price we
used to pay in Kansas City.
 Only one of the lettuce plants has died so far-
it got broken off-all the rest of the lettuce and
tomato plants are living. We now have four kinds of
coleus plants.