The seminar is now a memory! We are exhausted! We should sleep well tonight! Over all we had a very good seminar; of course with any event that is this big there will be a few hiccups! This morning when Steve did the closing remarks and the vote of thanks he told the people that neither of our vehicles would move toward Yendi until all the canopies had been taken down and the chairs that we rented counted and stacked in piles of 10 so that it would be easier to count.
At the end of the seminar many of the people need a ride back to Yendi so they can get on a bus and go home. Steve and I were using the old van and the green truck to transport people back and forth to Yendi; we lost count of how many trips we made. Mr. Iddrisu made 3 trips to Kulkpeni to bring back the cook pots, utensils, water containers and benches. On my last trip I only had enough people to fill the inside of the green truck so I loaded 3 benches in the back. Wouldn’t you know, on the way back to Yendi I met a group of young men from Bakpaba walking to Yendi. We were able to squeeze them in with some of them sitting on the upside down benches; one guy was standing in the bed of the truck. Now if we had packed 40 people in the old van like we did Thursday night we would not have had to make so many trips.
Zorash and Amama both owed us a day of work from the time they took off last week so I had them come this afternoon and wash all the pots, utensils and 600 bowls and 600 plates. The ladies at the seminar call themselves washing the dishes but they have no running water and no hot water. I do not like to put the dishes away with that oily film on them because the oil will go rancid before next year’s seminar. They got everything washed and set out on tarps to dry. It won’t take them long to dry in this 100+ degree weather!
One of the churches needed a communion table, a communion board and cups. The church leader stopped by the mission house early this morning and loaded the stuff on the back of his motorcycle. It is amazing what they can carry on a motorcycle! We would have helped with the transport to get it to his village but he seemed perfectly happy to haul it himself.
The evangelists were happy with the gift of rice, oil and spaghetti that we gave them for their end of the year gift. We do not have the monthly evangelist /church leader class in December so we had to give them their gift early. The rest of the workers will get their gift closer to the end of the year.
Our thanks go out to all of you who help us with evangelism and money for whatever comes up.
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
I am so happy that the seminar is over; maybe things can return to normal! Oops! I almost forgot that tomorrow is Sunday; another long day for me with no one to talk to!
I was helping Mom pack baby clothes into a suitcase so that she could free up some plastic containers. Zorash is helping with the Ghana presidential election in a couple weeks and she needed to borrow some plastic tubs with lids to put their important stuff in for safe keeping. While we were in the apartment I pooped in my diaper. Mom did not notice right away that I had pooped but a few minutes later she smelled me! When she smells a poopy diaper she starts in with that “Shu-weee! Someone is stinky!” business, and starts hunting for the baby wipes. By that time I had already managed to take my diaper off! There is no way I want to wear a dirty diaper if I don’t have to! I always sit very still while she cleans me up. I have only taken my diaper off a handful of times. Mom was surprised that it was off; she is trying to figure out if I took it off on purpose because it was dirty or if I took it off accidently! We all know it was not an accident! Diapers don’t pop open by themselves!
No stinky diapers!
Love, Skeeter
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