Timothy called early this morning to tell us that the church leader from Nanjuni was going to come to the mission house. One of the women in his village died; she had a 3 week old baby and they needed formula for the child. We have so many maternal deaths; and most of them are unexplained and many of the mothers die at home. Steve said that the baby looked fine. We always send the caregivers to the hospital with the baby to be checked out and to get a prescription for the formula. We don’t want to take any chances with these little ones.
We finally got all the suitcases packed and weighed. It really does not matter how much they weigh on the trip from Tamale to Accra but the overseas flight is very strict on poundage. All day long I kept finding little things that needed to be packed; I am a packing pro! Ha! We still have a little bit of room left so I will be able to do some shopping while we are in Accra!
While we were helping the employees fill out their annual returns we realized that Nazo (who’s new name is Donkey) had given us the wrong Ghana Card number. We think we got the problem fixed with the GRA (IRS) office but I realized today that the bad number is on all the documents that we use to pay the tax for Social Security and the monthly taxes. The tax office is supposed to be combining the old numbers with the new numbers but we have no idea how all that will work out. I spent a good portion of the afternoon editing and printing the new documents and receipts; then we had to chase down and destroy the old documents so that we don’t get them mixed up. When Mr. Iddrisu comes to work on Saturday we will have to go through his files and change out the old ones with the new ones.
I told you that Nazo got a new position that is called “Donkey” or “Father Donkey”. I asked him what he wanted to be called and he said that he likes “Donkey” so now we are trying to remember to call him Donkey; Steve said that he will probably always be Nazo to him.
Sometimes Amama has to bring her niece to work with her because her sister is a nurse and Amama babysits for her when she is working. The little girl is about 2 years old; at first she was very afraid of us but she is beginning to think that I am pretty fine. I tempted her with cookies and toys. Today I gave her a couple matchbox type cars and a cardboard tube to drive them through; she thought that was pretty cool. A couple days ago I gave her a baby; I guess she had never seen a baby doll and she was having nothing to do with that weird thing! She went and hid behind Amama’s dress when I showed it to her.
Timothy, the evangelist brought his motorcycle to the house this morning so Steve could look at the tires. He needed new tires on both the front and the back and he needed a new tube for the rear tire. Steve gave him the money to purchase both the tires and tube. Thank you to all of you who give money to help with evangelism.
Have a great day!
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
