The mason finally started molding blocks at Kulkpeni today.  Timothy said that they expected 3 men to be working molding the blocks but only one man came to start the work.  Hopefully there will be 3 tomorrow.  We are just happy that blocks are being made.

The electricity is off again at the Child Center.  Steve will have to go back to the electric company tomorrow to see if they can solve the problem.

This morning Donkey brought his son Yahaya to the mission house.  Yahaya has been training at the police academy.   He graduated in February but has not been able to come home until now.  He said that they have not given him a post yet.  He said that it might be a little while before he actually gets a post and starts receiving a salary.  Donkey is very proud of his son.  The Ya-Na (king of Dagbon; the people of this area) was the one who actually got the forms filled so Yahaya could go to the police academy.  

Steve made several trips to town today trying to get a carpenter to make benches for the churches.  One of the carpenters agreed to make the benches if Steve would buy the materials and pay for his workmanship.  Steve is going to have 10 benches made to see if the benches are quality.  If he likes this batch of benches he will probably order more.  The benches will cost about 15 dollars each.  Our thanks goes out to those who give us money for evangelism and whatever comes up.

This afternoon Steve talked to Gomda the mechanic and had him order shocks for the green truck.  Now I wonder why the truck would need shocks?  The roads are so nice and smooth and we hardly ever have to drive on dirt bush roads!  Ha!  The shocks should be here in a day or two.  

The town was alive with children when we took Gomda the money for the shocks.  Even though the fasting in our area finished yesterday, the government announced that today was the official day of celebration to end the fasting.  You could tell which children were brothers and sisters because they were all dressed in the same piece of fabric.  During days of celebration and even Christmas whole families will buy the same cloth and have outfits made for everyone in the family.  We see this during funeral times too.  The whole clan will have the same cloth.  I guess it is a way of identifying who the deceased family members are.

Enjoy your day!

In HIS Service,

Steve and Kandie

Skeeter’s Monkey Business

I am feeling much better.  I have been living in my new home for 10 days and I love it.  Just between you and me I am getting pretty spoiled!  I sure enjoy this new place more than I did when I was living with the 3 men that owned me before.  I am an orphan, the hunters killed my mother to eat.  When Mom and Dad found me I had a shoe string tied around my waist as a leash.   I had been neglected and I missed my real mom; instead of sucking my thumb I started sucking my arm and the hair on my arm to pacify myself.  Sucking on my arm kept me from feeling so hungry and lonely.   The men obviously did not have any towels, rags, blankets or bedding for me to sleep on so they gave me plastic bags.  I became very attached to plastic bags; they are a good place to hide.  Whenever I see a plastic bag I will run over to it, wrap it around myself and go to sleep.  I still have to have a plastic bag in my bed to go to sleep.  Mom cuts the plastic bag open so it is flat and there is less chance of me suffocating!  I do not get to sleep with Mom and Dad; that is not allowed!  I sleep under an upside down laundry basket in a plastic shoe box with lots of bedding and my plastic bag.

Thank you for listening to my rambling!

Love Skeeter

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