Rachel: Even the little boy?
Dad: Yes. 
(Read) They prayed for a spiritual breakthrough, but there was none.  The only contact with the villagers was a young boy, who was allowed to sell them chickens and eggs twice a week.  Svea decided that if this was the only African she could talk to, she would try to lead him to Jesus. 
Rachel:  Did he understand enough to accept Jesus as his Savior?
Dad:  He did.  In fact, he was the Floods' only convert.
(Read) But there were no other encouragements.  Meanwhile malaria continued to strike one member of the little band after another.  In time the Ericksons decided they had had enough suffering and left to return to the central mission station.  David and Svea remained near N'dolera to go on alone.  Then of all things, Svea found herself pregnant in the middle of the primitive wilderness.  When the time came for her to give birth, the village chief softened enough to allow a widwife to help her.  A beautiful little girl was born.  But the delivery was exhausting.  Weak from malaria, the delivery was a blow to Svea's stamina.  She lived only seventeen days more.  In her final moments, she whispered to David, "Call our girl Aina."  Then she went to the arms of Jesus.
Rachel:  Boy, her husband must have been so sad.
Dad:  He was more than sad, he was badly shaken by his wife's death.
(Read) Inside David Flood, something snapped.  He made a casket for Svea and put it in a primitive grave on the mountainside.  When he heard his baby daughter's cries from the mud hut, suddenly, bitterness filled his heart.  An anger rose up in him which he couldn't control.  He flew into a rage, crying, "Why did you allow this, God? We came here to give our lives!  You've failed me!  What a waste of life!"
Rachel: He really said that to God? Wow.
Dad: Yeah, he really did.  Let's see, where was I….
(Read) David took his children down the mountain to the mission station. Giving his newborn daughter to the Ericksons, he snarled, "I'm leaving! I've lost my wife and I can't take care of this baby. God has ruined my life." With that, he headed for the port, rejecting not only his calling, but God himself.
Rachel: He left the baby there!? 
Dad: Yes, he was that angry with God. 
Rachel: What happened to her?
Dad:  I was just getting to that…
(Read)  Within eight months both the Ericksons were stricken with a mysterious malady and died within days of each other.  (He talks) They might have been poisoned by a local village chief. 
Rachel: Poisoned?  So far this is not a very good story!
Dad:  Hang in there, kiddo, it gets better. 
(Read) Aina was then turned over to the Bergs, an American missionary couple who were about to go home on furlough.  The Bergs loved this little girl and were afraid that if they tried to return to Africa, some legal obstacle might separate her from them.  So they decided to stay in America, and changed her name from Aina to Aggie.  Aggie grew up and, in time, married a young man named Dewey Hurst who