God calls upon you to believe. Heed His voice. Cease talking of the wrath of God and talk of His compassion and His abundant mercy. Jesus sits as a refiner and purifier of silver. The furnace in which you may be placed may be very hot, yet you will come forth as gold seven times purified, reflecting the image of Jesus. Have courage. Look up, believe, and you shall see of the salvation of God. {HP 119.5}

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Value of Trials

The trials of life are God's workmen, to remove the impurities and roughness from our characters. Their hewing, squaring, and chiseling, their burnishing and polishing, is a painful process, it is hard to be pressed down to the grinding wheel. But the stone is brought forth prepared to fill its place in the heavenly temple. Upon no useless material does the Master bestow such careful, thorough work. Only His precious stones are polished after the similitude of a palace.--"Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing," pp. 23, 24.

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bananas bananas 167 of them

someone was selling bananas today in the village so i bought them. they were very heavy. probably about 40lbs. we were on the motorcycle and so i was squished up front and drove with joel squished to the back and the banana stock plopped on top of us. very heavy and it was sitting on my kidneys and hips. poking me and pressing my back. and joel and i both lost circulation in the lower parts of our bodies. but thank God we made it home without problems and the kids were even there to open the door. because we couldn't get off the motorcycle very well. i cut the bananas apart and counted them and there were 167 of them. all still green.
i would have hung them up like that but it was just way too heavy to hang anywhere. this is donny to show you how big it was.

this is totally vegetarian but it looks like fried fish. it is fried corn meal mush that is hard.

very yummy

Nestor and his son Salomon.

6 months old

step by step pictures of cooking tubani

Tubani: Is a food that is found cooking on street corners early in the morning. It is made with bean flour and salt mixed with water and steamed. The ladies who sell it use 400g tomato paste cans lined with plastic bags. It is a heavy food and thus usually sticks with you a long time. (well not with me but with others). I don’t like waiting for the hour or so that it takes to cook the cans of tubani so I use leaves. We have a tree here that has leaves that are perfect for this, they grow folded over and become like a little pocket. It can also be cooked in plastic bags or in cans or whatever you want.
You need bean flour. Whatever kind you can get or grind. We just take it to the mill and it comes back flour. Take however much bean flour you want (if you want enough for about 4 people or leftovers take 2 cups of bean flour.) add about a teaspoon of salt. And add water bit by bit until it gets to be gloppy. You know, it doesn’t run off your spoon but it glops off.( for those who make cakes, a little thinner then cake batter.) Then heat up a bit of water (about an inch or inch and a half) in the bottom of a kettle. You need either a steaming rack or spoons and forks stacked in the bottom so the stuff doesn’t have to sit in the water. When the water is boiling or almost boiling, start stacking the leaves or whatever you chose to put it in. I just stack up the leaves with the batter in it. If you have a real steaming kettle .. wonderful. You can also use the pressure cooker if you want. Bring it up to the high mark or 3rd mark for my old prestos and turn off the fire. If you are on a gas stove you will need to bring it up to steam again. If you are on an electric stove, probably the hot burner will keep the temperature up until it is cooked. If you cooked them in small portions then it will take about 20 min on a rolling boil, if they are bigger portions then longer. You can test it by using a knife. Same as checking a cake. If it comes out more or less clean without batter on it.. it is done. Take it off the stove. If you are cooking it in an unsealed kettle then you will need to add some water periodically while it is cooking. Bit by bit but not enough to stop it from boiling.
The sauce: Often it is eaten with hot oil and powdered hot red pepper and salt. One sauce I make to go with it: Sautée sliced onions and tomatoes in the oil (several tablespoons) and then add some seasoning salt and other salt. Add a bit of water and cook it down. You can add fresh hot pepper or powered . Each pepper has a different flavor.