July 10-We still aren't quite normal physically yet.
 I'm feeling better than Mary but I still have diarrhea
 quite a bit of the time. Mary has it all the time still
 and is sick to her stomach. A lot of the Americans
 and other foreigners are complaining about the same
 thing. Mary was going to go with me, but she just
 isn't able. And I need to go in order to visit some
 new outstations preparatory to deciding where we
 are going to build two chapels for which money has
 been sent
 Last night we went to the missionary fellowship
 meeting. We have invited them to meet at our house
 the next time, on August 14. Well have to borrow
 some chairs or else line them up on our rush rugs
 like Indians.
 Today Firestone got some of their all metal iron-
 ing boards and we got one. Mary is really happy with
 it. Imagine, she doesn't like to iron on a regular
 table!
 This afternoon on our way to Gonaives, we will
 stop off at Petite Riviere d'Artibonite to check on
 some problems there. (We have a real problem-
 preacher keeps asking for money all the time and
 won't work-says he needs some money to start a
 business!) I dread these trips because the roads
 are so terrible and it takes 4 or 5 hours driving time
 each way, but we need to get the business done. The
 consoling fact is that the government has already
 started the proposed highway from P.-au-P. to the
 Cap Haitien, and it is within the realm of possibility
 that they might actually pave the road within the
 next few years. That would mean a new day for
 Haiti-and for missionaries.
 Mary is baking some oatmeal cookies for me to
 take with me on the road, and do they ever smell
 good! I'm also taking my own boiled water and a
 couple of cans of Campbell's pork and beans as a