way we could. But it will be such an improvement,
 and we thank the Lord for it.
 Easter is close at hand. Mary is going to give the
 Easter story with her flannelgraph in Sunday School.
 At night we will give a running commentary on the
 Easter story in Creole to match Mary's story in Creole
 in the morning. We are trying to do something
 tangible in Creole-though we haven't been here six
 months yet. Sometimes we feel sort of useless when
 we can understand and speak so little in church, but
 we're gradually understanding and speaking more.
March 20-We can't tell much of any improvement in
 Brother E- 's paralysis yet, but he is taking the
 medicine faithfully. I gave him a little booklet in
 French on proper nutrition and hope it will do him
 good.
March 21-We got one of our preachers a well-paying
 job with an embassy department ($480.00 a year is
 very good for here).
 We've both had the Haitian grippee" which is
 a mild, long-lasting combination of a sore throat and
 laryngitis. Mary's over it, but I'm still croaking
 around. We've been drinking lots of juice and when
 we first came down with it we got some extra rest.
 It should soon be over.
 We have often wondered how the board happened
 to send us here instead of a more mature couple with
 former missionary experience. But we're learning a
 lot, and we're enjoying it.
March 27-We ate our first orange tomato today. It was
 very good, not bitter at all as we had feared. We've
 got a lot of them that will be ripe in a very short
 time. If we have to leave for Dominican Republic
 soon, most of them will be ripe when we are gone!
 sob, sob!