eaves. (Our kitchen has no ceiling, just open rafters,
and corrugated aluminum roofing above and an open
space between the wall and the eaves.) She looked
up and there was a beetle crawling down the wall.
He was only about 3 inches long. She called the yard
boy who impaled him on a nail. He had two huge
mandibles that would be good to pinch you with. We
have aphids, scale, mealey bugs, cutworms-on plants
and in the ground. I'm going to get some bug spray.
 Right now our weather is like the best San Diego
and Long Beach weather that there is. When it rains,
it rains and quits and the sun comes out. There is
usually a little wisp of a breeze and a few fleecy
clouds in the sky. Lovely mornings and evenings.
Just a few nights that we have wanted more than
one blanket over us. We have no storms that amount
to anything. We seldom have much wind. The storms
are almost all dissipated by the time they pass Cuba.
We live 500 or 600 feet above sea level.
 We have drums every Saturday night and on holi-
days. They aren't always all voodoo drums but just
the rhythm for their "Saturday night dances."
 We have all the city noises (cars, sirens, ship horns
in the harbor, radios too loud) plus chickens, roosters,
and dogs with the addition also of street vendors'
cries and chants.
 We have to boil all our drinking water. Today a
doctor told us that we should also boil our "pasteur-
ized" milk to be safe.
 We are starting a series of revival efforts in the
Port-au-Prince area in which the people of the Central
Church go out once a month to a different church
to assist in evangelism. For February it is Merger,
a crossroads to the west along the bay (10 miles from
here). Ten miles sounds like just a short way, but
once you get out of P.-au-P. you have left civilization.