After a week of work

Greetings!

Well, I have now been working for a full week, and I enjoy it. Monday I spent eight hours doing required reading before I could start working, and for the first hour to hour and a half on Tuesday, I finished that up. Before being able to work here, I had to read (and in some cases, just skim) several hundred pages of government regulations and company procedures/organization. But I got that done, and was put to work right away working on the Islander, a roughly 30 year old twin engine airplane that we're getting ready to sell. After working on that for awhile, I was sent to go ride along in the Super King Air for it's Return to Service flight, but due to another problem, we weren't able to fly.

Wednesday morning I got picked up at 6:30 to go in so we could do that flight at 7:30, but the fog (or "snow" as they call it in tok pidgin) was too heavy until 9:00. We went and flew it then, and everything was good, and it was an enjoyable flight. Then I got put to work calibrating torque wrenches, which is a good workout, and very boring. Thursday we didn't have work int he morning because it was the Half Day of Prayer (a monthly occurrence) which means that there was a three hour prayer meeting in the morning, which was good. Went back to work and spent most of the afternoon working on torque wrenches, then was assigned to work on some lights inside the Islander. I worked on those for a while on Thursday, all day Friday, and didn't quite get it finished.

Church was quite good again today. There is a different speaker pretty much every week, and today the speaker was a Swiss man who finished doing his translation about 2 years ago, and has been working in the high school here. The graduating seniors got to choose who to ask to speak, because this is the last Sunday before they graduate, and many of them return to other countries. He spoke on integrity, and it was a good message.

Tomorrow I have the day off; it's the queen's birthday, so most businesses are closed. Tuesday I'll go back down to aviation, and find out then what I'll be working on.

This past week I heard from several of you, and I really enjoyed that. Please continue to be praying that this trip be glorifying to God.

Have a great week!