We are still without electricity! Today is a national holiday so all the businesses were closed including the electric company. We are celebrating Kwame Nkruma’s birthday. Mr. Iddrisu worked today to pay back the loan he took for his portion of the funeral and Donkey worked to pay back the days he took off to celebrate the Damba festival last week.
We were just about to finish our walk this morning when it started to rain. Luckily, we had carried an umbrella with us so we did not get wet. Moments after we got to the mission house the bottom fell out and it rained buckets and buckets. It also rained during the night. Which meant Donkey could not spray the weeds nor could they use the motor king to haul rubble to fill the soakaway pits. Instead of them just sitting idly on the veranda we had them fill the small containers with Shea butter that we give to the mothers for diaper rash. They worked up about 4 gallons of Shea butter today. That will be a big help in the Child Center. The ladies that work the Center struggle keeping up with demand because they can only package it after the Center is closed for the day. They will be surprised that someone helped them with their work and by someone I mean MEN helped them with their work! I love it when a plan comes together!
Steve spent the bulk of his day going through the Child Center files gathering numbers and data to put in the Social Welfare report that he is working on. It is a weird job because our year actually runs from June 1st to May 31st. He has most of the physical report written and now he has to plug in the numbers.
I finally finished all the blocks for the quilt top I am making and started piecing the blocks together. This quilt top has taken a lot of time to get together. There have just been too many interruptions for me to carve out large blocks of time to work on it. I will be happy when this one is finished and I can start the next one.
Steve also made up the envelopes for the food money gifts that will be distributed to the Church leaders and evangelists at the monthly class at the end of the week.
Mr. Hayes the pharmacist delivered the medicine that Steve ordered last week. We would have gone to the pharmacy and picked the medicine up but Mr. Hayes wanted to deliver it. He hired a motor king to bring the meds from town to the mission house. That was so sweet of him but totally unnecessary. People are very good to us!
Please continue to pray for the work!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
The Monkeyshines
I did not have a very good day today! I was kept on a leash almost all day because Dad was working on his books and Mom was sewing! They said they could not have me running and jumping on everything, making a mess! I do delight in making a mess and knocking things off the bookshelf. I love to watch things fall and hear the noise it makes. I did not get to play outside today because it was raining and the guys were packaging Shea butter on the veranda. I would have loved to help them; it sure looked like fun! All those small containers with their blue and yellow lids; Oh! What a mess I could have made! But I was not allowed to help them.
The only saving grace was that I was in the house with them almost all day. I also got my afternoon nap. My one weakness is snuggling up and taking a nap. I am still a baby and I need my naps. Mom takes naps for her “beauty sleep” and boy does she need it! My favorite thing to do when I nap is to crawl inside Mom’s shirt; sometimes I stick my head out the arm hole but most of the time no one can see me. If I am inside her shirt she can still work on the computer and sew. Dad won’t let me crawl inside his shirt because I can’t help but nip at him and he hates that! He will let me snuggle up under his neck! Sometimes his snoring disturbs my sleep!
Don’t forget to get your beauty sleep!
Love, Skeeter
