I thought that since none of the workers came to work today that we would have a quiet day with no interruptions but I was wrong. The electricity went off last night during a thunderstorm and was off all night; it remained off most of the morning. Steve called the electric company and talked to someone that said they would report the outage but he was not convinced that they were going to do anything so he decided to go to the office himself and see if he could find someone that would come out and work on it. The neighbor’s trees have grown very tall and are in the power lines; he thought that might be the problem. He came back from the office with a couple guys and their equipment. They worked around and found out that the fault was a blown fuse. They said that if we want the trees cut out of the power lines we would have to hire someone to cut them. What in the world are they talking about? How much trouble do you think we would be in if we hired someone to enter the neighbor’s property and start cutting down their tree? That is one of the dumbest things I have heard of. Now the power company has the authority to cut trees that are in the power lines but we don’t. We told the men that was a sure way to start problems with our neighbors!
Francis, the evangelist that lives in Duni came for a visit today; he bought a friend of his that lives in Bawku. Francis wanted his friend to meet Steve. Most of the time strangers don’t come to the mission house just to visit; they usually need something. This guy wanted to know if Steve would set him up in a business of some sort. Steve let him know that he did not have any money that was allocated to start businesses. The men stayed for a couple hours.
Red came by this afternoon to get the measurements for the metal doors for the church building at Nalongni. The church would like their doors to be painted blue. Red said that he had almost finished making the offering basket wires and if all went well he would start working on the doors tomorrow. While he was here he said that one of his brother’s died yesterday from high blood pressure; we are not sure if it is his real brother or a cousin or a village brother. He said that he was afraid he was going to die from high blood pressure and he wanted to know if we would bring him a blood pressure monitor from the states on our next trip back to Ghana. We did one better than that. Someone had given us a blood pressure monitor to bring to Ghana last time we were in the states so Red now is the proud owner of his own blood pressure monitor. It only took a few minutes to teach him how to use it. Fortunately this one only uses batteries so there is no need for a transformer. Of course he wanted to take his blood pressure right away and it was fine.
Hope that you are having a good day! Please keep us and the work in your prayers.
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
