May 25-I've had the flu this week. It gave me an in-
 fection in my ear. I guess I must have been doing
 a little too much and my resistance was down.
 I'm afraid my mother's going to give her guardian
 angel a nervous breakdown, and they'll have to put
 on a substitute until he gets back to normal if she
 doesn't take it easy.
 I was able to get Mary some red roses for our
 anniversary-only 50c a dozen!
 What a wonderful anniversary dinner Mary cooked
 -yeast rolls, broiled fillet mignon wrapped in bacon
 strips, Haitian peas, some special kind of mashed
 potato patties browned on top in the broiler, and
 toffee pie! Boy, can she make good rolls!-" . to
 the heart . through the stomach!"
 I am encouraged about the Bible school. We have
 seven students and they seem to be studying and
 are interested.
 E-- tried to give us a little trouble. He went
 to the Department of Religion and talked to the head
 man and also wrote them a letter saying that we had
 kicked him out for no reason at all. I gave the head
 man a surprise when I came in to see him at his re-
 quest. I hadn't been in there for about 9 or 10 months
 -and I've picked up quite a bit of French and Creole
 in that time. He didn't expect me to be able to talk
 to him very well Well, after the introductory para-
 graphs in French, I took the initiative and really told
 him in Creole. I was careful not to make statements
 that E-- could sue me for, but I let him know that
 E- hadn't been an angel and in addition it had
 been E- who had refused our conditions and had
 thereby left us instead of our putting him out. And
 I told the man in the Department of Religion that if
 he was going to recognize me as the head of the
 Church of the Nazarene in Haiti he would have to
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