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\"blog<\/a>We have a couple of Swedish nurses, Lisa and Emma, helping out for about 3 months here, and we had to have some repairs done on their house before they came. \u00a0This particular repair job was done by Lisa, not our local repairmen. \u00a0Ingenious way to keep the water from shooting out the top of the faucet, eh? That particular faucet had been one of the repair jobs, and it was a brand new one. \u00a0Oh well. \u00a0I put in a request for another fix-it job, and thought it had been taken care of. \u00a03 days later, I found out that it hadn’t been done yet, as Kim Cone came to me looking for a new faucet from the missionary houses’ stockroom of parts so he could help Lisa & Emma out. \u00a0I didn’t find one there, and Kim had gone off to help out at the CEFA farm, so I went to our mission’s\u00a0garage and repair center’s stockroom and bought a new faucet. \u00a0Later that day I heard from Emma and Lisa that it had just been fixed, only a couple of days late, so Kim wouldn’t need to do it. \u00a0I went to return the faucet, and when I tried to hand it to the stockroom manager, he turned to me (I have to admit I was interrupting some other work) and said, “WHAT am I supposed to do with that???!!?!” in a not very pleasant tone. \u00a0I was apologetic when I found out he was doing an inventory prior to leaving on vacation, and he wasn’t going back in to the stockroom office. \u00a0His “vacation” will entail trying to find his brother in the capital, who was abducted by Sel-xka soldiers a couple of weeks ago. \u00a0You can imagine his state of mind. \u00a0When \u00a0I heard his quick and tense response, rather than getting defensive, I immediately thought of my post this past week of “if I don’t have love”. \u00a0I heard myself in his tone, in his quick retort, with no preamble of greetings and care. \u00a0I have responded like that so many times, and without the background of a possibly dead brother to make me short on words and patience. \u00a0Lord grant me the ability to bite my tongue and hold back on the acid, Lord grant me the ability to greet with love and care for the person I’m interacting with.<\/p>\n

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