We just got back from Kulkpeni for mid-week Bible study. The church has resumed the Wednesday night class and Friday nightprayers. There were only a handful of us there tonight but we had a good discussion on friends and how they can influence you for good or evil.
Today was our day to go to the meat market and buy beef. The meat market is a rather nasty place. The cattle, goats and sheep are slaughtered outside of town and the whole animal is brought to the meat market. There are large cement tables in the building that the meat is placed on after it has been skinned. The entrails are on the end of the table and the quartered beef is on the other end. The heads are stacked on the floor; they will be smoked. They will burn the hair off the skin and smoke it too. Nothing much goes to waste. When we are ready to buy we point at the pieces we want and the butcher cuts out the portion and it is weighed. Today I only wanted fillets but I always end up getting mystery meat that has to be ground into hamburger. We go to the meat market early in the morning so we beat the flies to the meat! We went at 8:00 this morning and we finished working up the meat at 10:45. After the meat was trimmed and cleaned; the best parts were cut into steaks which we tenderized and the smaller pieces will be used for stew meat. The mystery meat and the parts that were too tough were ground into hamburger. There were plenty of scraps left behind that we shared with the workers. They were excited to have “meat” in their stew pots tonight.
A man came by the mission house with metal signs; he was attaching them to the houses in our area. The signs had the GPS address and a street name for the larger buildings on the mission property. We did not ask for the signs. This is a government project to name all the streets in Ghana and give them GPS addresses. The name of our street is “Shave Street”! How bizarre! Who ever heard of a street named “Shave”? The man nailing on the signs said that the names are strange because the Ghana government contracted with China to use the GPS and to name all the streets. The street at the end of the lane is “Bean Street”! I am anxious to drive around Yendi and see what the other streets are named.
Mr. Iddrisu did not come to work today; he has been breaking and hauling stones the past couple days and his back is bothering him. We had planned on counting payroll today because tomorrow is pay day; hopefully he will be back tomorrow.
Thank you for all you do for us and for the work. We really appreciate your help.
In His service,
Steve and Kandie Taylor
