Nazo, the day man, came back to work this morning. We had him spray herbicide to kill the weeds. By the time he finished he had run out of steam and spent the rest of the day resting under the mango tree. He has not gotten his strength back yet.
Steve finished cutting up the tree stump this evening. Nazo’s wife will use the large pieces to make charcoal so Steve cut them into pieces that a woman could pick up. No need making her work any harder than necessary. We hauled most of the wood inside the compound but we left the big pieces outside. Tomorrow morning we will let Mr. Iddrisu use the motor king to haul it back to Nazo’s house. Nazo’s property borders the mission property in the back field.
Sixty-four babies came to the Child Center this morning. Today I kept track of the siblings that we gave clothes and flip flops to; eight siblings received something today too. The mothers are very happy with the clothes. We are beginning to run low on boy clothes but I think we will have enough for the next 2 days. Most of the mothers bring their children every 2 weeks. Thursday will be the end of the 2 week period and the children will start cycling back through the Center.
The meds that Steve ordered a couple weeks ago finally came in today. While we were in town picking up the meds we stopped to see if the “change of ownership” papers had come back for Timothy’s motorcycle. Well, they had a bit of a problem; the guy filling out the papers did not get all the original papers from Steve that was needed to do the change. The office has just opened and we figure that they are not exactly sure what is needed. We came back to the mission house and got the documents they asked for; we hope that is all they need. Timothy is going to have to wait another week to get the motorcycle.
We cook with bottle gas. A couple days ago we ran out of gas in one of the bottles. We have 3 bottles and we try to keep them full at all times because you never know when there will be no gas in Yendi. For years we had to drag the cylinders to Tamale to get them refilled. The first place we stopped did not have gas but the second place did.
While we were out we paid the city water bill. The road workers had broken the water line when they put in the new road a couple years ago. Finally the water company/contractor repaired the water lines. We do not need to buy city water right now because we harvest rain water but we turned the city water on just to be sure that it was actually working and not leaking.
Have a great day!
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
