Testament and New Testament) and I have bought
 some books from a local gospel bookstore which I
 will use as a beginning library for our students.
 Mary and I are doing a very interesting bit of
 Bible study in connection with our family worship.
 We are reading through Paul's epistles in two modern
 speech versions (Goodspeed and Moffatt); each
 morning Mary reads a chapter out of one to me and
 I read the same chapter out of the other translation
 to her. We are getting a lot out of it, and sometimes
 we start discussing some of the problems and it takes
 us a while to get through. If we can't have the Lord's
 guidance and blessing we may as well go home. There
 is too much work being carried on without much of
 either for us to add to any such confusion.
Sept. 6-Tomorrow morning at 6:05 the Walkers [mis-
 sionary couple of another denomination] plan to
 arrive at our house and we will start our trip to
 Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic-adding an-
 other country to our list.
 It will take about 6 or 7 hours to drive over
 (about 200 miles) because they hold you up at the
 border with formalities and inspection of baggage
 and the roads aren't too good either. I think we'll
 have a good trip and a good change, if not a rest.
 The poison oak disappeared almost like magic with
 a combination of potassium permanganate baths and
 terramycin salve.
 This afternoon our landlord was putting water
 into our kitchen. He doesn't want to get us a sink-
 wants to make us a concrete sink.
 We bought a bed for Dr. Vanderpool to sleep in,
 so we'll have to get the extra bedroom fixed up for
 him a little.
 Things are progressing quite smoothly for us.
 Several of the other missionaries [other denomina-