email From Dr. Bacon dated Monday monrning 2/20/06 This morning we begin the work on the Burmese Psalter in earnest. We hope to get a Psalter consisting of at least 150 settings (not all 150 Psalms as of yet). This means some "long days" over the next week, and we've already negotiated a bonus for getting the job done right and on-time. The folks from RBI have said not to pay them, but I think "a laborer is worthy of his wages." So I will also give a bonus to the men from RBI even though they will not be bringing as much "expertise" to the table, they will be the only ones there with any actual experience in singing the Psalms in Burmese so their opinion will be worthwhile. I think I may have mentioned that I took a dozen or so Burmese Psalters (the ones that have only 25 or 27 settings) to Dawnga and he loved them. Wanted some of the "expanded" ones when they are ready.
I had a pretty uneventful Sabbath. It was a chance to get caught up on my own reading. Jeff Easley gave me a copy of _God Is The Gospel_ by John Piper. I've been really enjoying it. It was a nice "break" from the Pastoral epistles which I've spent most of my time on since arriving.
I don't know if I mentioned that I wore my windbreaker jacket in the jeep to and from Kalemyo from Mandalay. It was partly for the chill and partly for the dust (I think the dust is the source of my cough, by the way). Anyway, it was pretty well "embedded" with dust, so I asked Nay Yee if she could get the cleaners to give an opinion of whether they could wash it. There were washing directions on a label inside the jacket. She went ahead and washed the jacket on Saturday. But what I didn't know until this AM was that she took all my other laundry and set it aside because the laundryman didn't come on Saturday and she knew that I would not want it picked up on the Sabbath. She is getting to know us, regardless of how "different" she may think of us as being.
Well, I need to run make sure my classrooms are set up the way they need to be. I want two groups working independently and then checking one another's work just to make sure that we are getting the best possible metric translation.
In short, I had a restful Sabbath and I'm ready to get "back at 'em" this AM.
God's blessings,
Richard Bacon GOLDEN GUEST INN Yangon, Myanmar
email from Dr. Bacon After Church Sunday 2/19/06 I've had a little bit of a cough since my trip up north. I think I picked it up on the way back. I got a new cap while I was up there that comes down over my ears (we used to call them stocking caps, but I understand that they are now called "beanies" which was something totally different in my day). I wore that over my head and ears and a scarf that Rev. Moses bought for me around my neck and throat, but I still seem to have developed a tickle in my chest. I've been taking some of that echinacea spray that the Moores gave me and have also been dissolving some of the airborne tablets in water, but still seems to be a "nagging" cough. I'll get over it once my immune system builds back up I think.
I mentioned in a previous email (one I'm not at all sure you received) that Allen Richardson has quite a story dating back to WW2 and beyond. It would be really neat to get John Moore over here with his camera and get Allen's story told while he is still around to tell it. I was especially thinking about that today since you mentioned that Ray Joseph passed away. I got him to write down some of his story for me (about three pages) but there is so much more to tell. It would make a great book, for that matter. It would be fun to tell the whole story of these people up here.
As I was thinking about when I might be able to come back again (I suspect I'll be in my 60s before I can do it again), I was remembering that Dr. Joel Beeke said he would like to come over here with me and go up north. I think we could get an auditorium for close to 500-600 people that I found out while I was up north this trip. It would not be cheap, but maybe his church in Grand Rapids could help pay for it. We could do a reformed conference during the day and then have preaching in the evening. If we could get John to figure out a way to get over here, we could document the entire trip on film for distribution. Maybe John could justify the expense as a "project" similar to the one he did with the old gentleman who writes "Jesus Saves" on the mountains.
Just a quick word on my eating -- I'm doing fine. I had some Crumpy [chocolate spread - a favorite of Mrs. Bacon] and crackers plus bananas and protein bar so far today. Actually, I just had to mention that I'm getting to eat Crumpy again and you're not. They didn't have your favorite flavor at the City Mart, so I got a "duo" of hazelnut and cocoa in the same jar.
This is the middle of your night, so maybe this will be sitting in your in-basket if you have time to check your mail before going to church.
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