We made it back from Tamale before dark this evening which is always a blessing! We only had partial success today. We are going to have to go back on Monday to finish the rest of our business. The lawyer was not around but we met with his secretary and were able to collect our receipt and contract. We bought plane tickets for our children’s trip to Ghana. By the way did I mention that our son, daughter-in-law, daughter and granddaughter are coming to help us? I know I did, but I must keep saying it! Ha!
We could not get the air conditioning fixed today because he was in the process of fixing someone else’s air conditioning. He told us to come back on Monday at 8:00 so we would be the first person in line. He volunteered to come to Yendi and pick up the van, drive it to Tamale, keep it a few days to repair it and then drive it back to Yendi for us. What! Do we look crazy? There is no way we want to let someone we barely know have a vehicle; we doubt that he even has a driver’s license. There are so many reasons why that is a terrible idea!
Steve got his Ghanaian nurses license renewed and we got all the vehicle insurance renewed as well as the Child Center’s liability. Let me tell you that the insurance office is so aggravating! They are so slow. I have yet to figure out what all those men are doing! The first thing we did when we got to Tamale was to drop off last year’s insurance policies so they could start working on them right away. We were at their office shortly after they opened this morning. We returned around noon and they had not finished them and the man that was working on them had gone to pray. We went back at 2:00and the policies had been generated but the receipts had not. We sat in the office for almost an hour while they generated the receipts. When we cross checked the policies we noticed that they did not have one of the names right so we had to wait for them to figure out how to make the correction.
The highlight of my day was that I got to go shopping! We found 2 new stores; one had lots of hard to find food items and specialty spices. The other one sold bulk items; they had paper towels and paper napkins! Who knew; lucky me! When you see something in Ghana you had better buy it because there are no guarantees that it will be there the next time.
Thank you for the love, prayers and support.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
