Category Yendi Notes

Hopefully the roofers will have all the wood put on the roof tomorrow.  Abochi, the carpenter wants the masons to come back and do the masonry work before they actually put the metal roofing on because he is afraid that… Continue Reading →

It took us 90 minutes to get to our destination this morning.  We traveled northeast to Saboba and from there north 30 minutes to the village of Timbu where we worshiped with the Timbu and Bungbali joint service.  We had… Continue Reading →

We have fooled around and fooled around and finally we got the drivers or whatever we needed downloaded onto the computer so we can use the new printer / scanner.  We are beyond happy that we can finally use it;… Continue Reading →

We ran into a hiccup this morning when the roofers started putting the rafters on the training center.  The building is big and if the pillars in the center of the building are not very tall the roof will not… Continue Reading →

The rains have started to taper off but the flooding of the lowland areas still make it impossible for us to visit some of the congregations.  I was joking with the brothers at this monthly class; I said we complain… Continue Reading →

The guys we hired this morning to help Donkey and Mr. Iddrisu were surprised when we showed them how to dip the boards!  They usually use a knapsack sprayer and have to flip every board several times to get all… Continue Reading →

The lumber has arrived!!!  It not only arrived in Yendi but it arrived at the mission house.  It has been off loaded at the jobsite and Donkey and Mr. Iddrisu are going to start dipping it tomorrow.  This morning we… Continue Reading →

I broke my tooth and our roofer got arrested!  Now that makes for an exciting day!  At least my tooth is not hurting me.  If it gets to hurting we will make a trip to Accra to visit the dentist. … Continue Reading →

We were pleased that Mr. Iddrisu was well enough to come back to work today.  He is still coughing and his voice sounds strange but at least he is up and going again.  Donkey also came back to work today;… Continue Reading →

By the time you get to read this you will have forgotten if the extra hour of sleep helped or not. The time change takes some time for us to get used to because now we are 6 hours ahead… Continue Reading →