Yesterday we decided to splurge and get a ham.
It was a Danish ham and was simply wonderful-I
should say "is" because we'll be eating it for the next
several days until it starts coming out of our ears.
Good meat that is tender (beef) is almost impossible
to get, so it is hard to know what to take a chance
on when you are having someone for dinner.
 We may invite the E--s over for dinner while
we have the ham, since they probably have had ham
but very few times in their lives if at all
 I've been hunting houses and land for our P.-au-P.
church, and the prices are very high for what there
is. But we are going to have to move to a better
location, with a bigger church building or hall-we
can't expand where we are. Acquiring land is a big
problem; we may have to have a Haitian corporation
(of which I can be a controlling member) and that
makes it complicated. I'm not sure whether we can
form a committee of Haitians which I will feel are
entirely trustworthy yet. For that reason, I feel that
the Bible school is the most important thing on the
agenda. With a Bible school we can get to know
the men intimately while we are training them into
the type of preachers we want. We're anxious to get
started with the classes.
 I'm getting a slight bit more liberty in preaching
in Creole. The last time I preached I ventured out
on my own (not following my notes) several times,
and made it back to my notes without too much dif-
ficulty.
 Tonight I'm supposed to preach, but I don't know
if I can keep a coat on with this poison oak.
 I'm hoping to get the notes in order for the courses
I will teach, some notes in French and some in Creole.
I have borrowed two very good books in French from
the Salvation Army captain (one each on the Old