Our travels took us to the village of Attado located in the Nanumba North District south of Yendi. We left Yendi around 8:15 this morning and arrived a little past 9:30. Before the Eastern Corridor road was completed this trip would have taken us 2.5 hours but today it was reduced to half that time. Before we leave Yendi every Sunday we stop at various food vendors so Timothy can get some breakfast. It is hard to teach/preach on an empty stomach!
The sun was doing a good job this morning getting everything hot. The Harmattan ( dust from off the Sahara Desert) has arrived but the A/C in the truck was working hard to keep it cool. The last 20 minutes of the trip is made on bad roads. The green truck is a 5 speed stick shift; sometimes on these awful roads I can’t shift out of 3rd gear; which makes the A/C not as efficient.
Shortly after we arrived we were informed that a teenage boy and girl wished to be baptized. Wonderful! They were not ready for the service to start so we drove down the road ½ mile and they were baptized into Christ.
I repeated my lesson about “Seeing what we can do for God” . Timothy has interpreted the lesson so many times he could preach it himself. After the question and answer time the men of the congregation told us they wanted to plaster the interior walls and concrete the floor this year after harvesting. We told the Church that if we helped with some money to purchase the cement they in turn would have to provide the sand for the work. They agreed to the matching funds and we gave them the money.
Several of the lady’s of the congregation cooked us a meal consisting of native rice with some pieces of beef and covered with a spicy tomato and oil sauce. It was very good! The church also gave us a guinea fowl along with some yams as a going away gift. Before leaving the village we stopped by the chief’s house to greet him. He said he had come from the nearby clinic. They said he was anemic so they gave him a blood tonic. We also gave the chief his kola along with some extra money to get more blood tonic when his medicine runs out. He was very pleased.
As soon as we arrived back at the compound we helped Iddrisu load up the water tank onto the motor king and had him take it out to Kulkpeni because the masons are to begin the work on the bath houses tomorrow. We followed him out to Kulkpeni after picking up the doors our friend Red had made for the bath houses. On our way back to the compound I purchased some pvc pipe for the bath drains and at another place I bought some microphones to replace the bad ones that the speaker systems needs for the seminar next week.
When we arrived at Kulkpeni tonight for class Timothy told us the motor king they were going to use to haul the 10 bags of cement tomorrow had a flat tire. He said if we could get the cement tonight or early tomorrow it would be a better situation so several of the young guys went with me to haul the cement before we had class.
We have had a pretty full day of it so with that said we will bid you a good night. May God bless!
In his service,
Stephen, Kandie, & Skeeter
