Saturday Noon I've been sleeping pretty well. I sleep for about three or four hours, get up and take a melatonin or Tylenol PM and then sleep for another four hours or so. It is working very well this trip.
You asked about Siama, who came to see me yesterday. He is the key assistant to Dr. Thang Bwee. Even though most of the people associated with Thang Bwee are Khumi Chin, Siama is Mizo. He has nothing at all to do with the orphanage. He has taken Greek, OT Intro, NT Intro, Covenant Theology, and Hermeneutics from me in the past. Then you asked about Ruata -- who I hoped would come by this AM but so far no show. He is the secretary of the NLO and the father of Anna, whom I baptized last rainy season. Miss Hannah will remember him or at least she will remember going by his house to baptize Anna. It is not such a big mistake [I had them confused in my last email-db], because both are Mizo and have distinctively Mizo names.
This morning I had breakfast with Carl Hunt and Wayne Curles. Both of them teach for BEE (Biblical Education by Extension). Carl is from Arkansas and Wayne is from South GA. Then as we were eating, Jeff Easley and Ed Adams from the Aquila Project came to breakfast. They also had a young man with them named Jim (but I've already forgotten his last name). They had a graduation of the school where they teach, so they left right after breakfast. Jeff gave me John Piper's newest book. We plan to study through Iain Muray's _The Old Evangelicalism_ while we're here. Each of us brought a copy (Ed, Jeff, and I).
Then, right after Ed and Jeff left, who should show up but our old friend Mang Khan Suan. He is married now and has a daughter Lydia. Suan is Teddim Chin and Debby, you met him when you were here the first time. He is the tiny man we took to eat at the Royal Garden restaurant and he wanted to hunker on the wall outside. Anyway, when I get back from Kalemyo, I promised to go visit him and his family in their flat. I told him that I would visit and pray for a blessing on their house and then I would take him to a restaurant to eat. I told him that western stomachs are very picky and that probably Cho-cho (his wife) would have too much trouble to cook for me. That relieved him, because I don't think he has mentioned bringing any Americans home yet.
It looks like the airplane to Kalemyo is still giving them problems. Some of these days it will just drop out of the sky and they'll quit pretending to have a flight up there. Anyway, I'm taking the plane as far as Mandalay on Monday and then will catch a bus on Monday evening and travel all night and arrive in Tahan on Tuesday AM. This is the best plan, I think, because there are several airlines that fly to Mandalay and that cuts a day and half off the trip (actually a total of 3 days up and back). That way I can spend the time with the orphans rather than sitting in a bus.
Tell everyone there I'm praying for them...especially Todd as he prepares to preach tomorrow and David S. as he follows up on all the property arrangements.
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