This morning Meri and Amama helped wash the pots, pans, tubs, trash containers and jerry cans that we will need at the seminar while Steve and Zorash manned the Child Center. They did a really good job but 4 jerry cans still had something inside them. Tomorrow they will have to heat water and put sand inside the containers as an abrasive to get them clean. Each of the rooms that house people will have a 5 gallon plastic jerry can of water so they will have clean drinking water. The ladies will fetch the water from the well.
We started soaking the dried field corn this morning. It has to ferment for 2 days before we grind it. After it is ground it will continue to ferment for an additional 2 days before it is ready to be made into breakfast porridge; sugar, ground ginger, ground cloves and salt will be added to the porridge. YUM! Actually it is not really yummy! The fermented porridge is just something that we have never cultivated a taste for.
I spent the morning gathering things for the seminar. It is amazing how many things we have to carry out to Kulkpeni. I got the name tags fixed for the ladies that will be cooking and for the men who are in charge of the supplies that will be cooked. I also got out the tablets, name tags, pens, markers and folding tables that the men will need for the registration.
After lunch we made a run out to Kulkpeni and took a load. While we were there we hung the curtains in the church building so the ladies sleeping there could have privacy.
Steve was pretty put out when we got out to Kulkpeni because one of the padlocks on the sleeping quarters would not open so someone ripped the padlock off the door and took the hasp with it. The doors are metal so the only way to put the hasp back on is to hire someone with a portable welder to come and fix it. Steve is hopeful that he has a hasp with nuts so he can fix it with washers and nuts. Early in the year he fixed one of the gates at the mission house with one of these special hasps. He brought them from the states so if he does not have one we will have to figure out another way to lock the room.
On our way back to town we went to the market and bought office pins (that is what they call straight pins) that we use to hold the name tags in place. We also bought a couple light fixtures and plastic drinking cups. Some of our cups went missing at last year’s seminar.
Dawda, the mason, called this afternoon and said that he was going to come with his crew tomorrow to start plastering the training center. We are happy that he is going to come one day earlier than we expected.
Have a great day!
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
