Feb. 2-Wednesday the stove was delivered, and Mary
 is really enjoying it. Last night she baked some tart
 shells and filled them with something that tastes
 almost like spicy apple sauce. It was made from
 grenadine, a kind of melon, which our girl got us,
 for the first time. Very good! Of course Mary added
 some other things, like lime juice, etc., which the
 recipe called for.
 Last Sunday we made a trip in the morning to
 Merger, about 10 miles from P.-au-P. It is just a
 tiny village on the side of a steep hill close to the
 bay shore (Port-au-Prince Bay). The place of wor-
 ship is just a brush arbor, but the view of the bay
 and palm dotted landscape is magnificent.
 We got there early and they sent a boy up a
 cocoanut tree to knock down some cocoanuts for us.
 A young boy deftly whacked off the outer husk, and
 cut a hole for us to drink the juice. We like it fairly
 well It is clear, slightly sweet, and almost tastes
 carbonated. E-- can drink cocoanuts by the half-
 dozen. Two filled me up completely, and one Mary.
 We had a good service with over 50 people there,
 many coming from a long ways. The man in charge
 of that congregation has seven sons, all Christians,
 and six were in the service. We're hoping the Lord
 will call some of them into the ministry.
 We're getting so that we can understand and use
 more Creole now. French will take longer. Tuesday
 I did my first Bible translating into Creole-the Sun-
 day School lessons for February 4th and 11th. I
 translated from Greek but very carefully consulted
 the French in order to include as many cognate
 words and phrases as possible. E--- is proofreading
 it today. We hope to hektograph about thirty copies
 for use in the Sunday School
 Our electric bill was less for last month, only
 $8.62.