We got its first rain of the New Year last night. There was a powerful wind storm accompanying the rain. It knocked down a lot of mangoes as well as old leaves and the seed pods from the teak trees in the compound. Just our luck the workers are starting their time off this week so Kandie and I will be saddled with the job of raking up the mess.
We had several bags of mangoes to leave with Timothy this morning on our way to Nadundo. His wife, Rita, was very happy to see them. Timothy has a mango tree but the children won’t allow them to ripen before they knock them down with sticks and eat them.
Our journey took us through the village of Jegrido where Timothy’s brother, Daniel, lives. Daniel came to the house on market day to get reading glasses but we were in town. Since we didn’t know what power lens he needed, Kandie brought several different lens magnifications for Daniel to try out. He was surprised when we stopped at his house on the way. We left two bags of mangoes at his house also.
Presently the congregation at Nadundo is meeting under several mango trees. The congregation was missing several of their members due to one thing or the other. A total of 4 men and 8 women and 20 children rounded out the total number attending. They were glad to get the gifts for the church. We also gave them some of the crocheted hats for the children. I spoke on the subject “Building the Church ” and used the analogy of comparing the physical building to the actual Church made up of the membership. I thought the lesson appropriate because the congregation is working towards getting enough money to put on a roof on their building.
As we were about to depart for Yendi we were presented with 20 guinea eggs. This is a big gift considering each egg costs about 2 Cedis each. Of course we gave them to Timothy later. He said he had a sitting hen that he was going to put the eggs under so they could hatch.
The chief of the village wasn’t around so the linguist filled in for him. He was happy that we stopped and informed him as to our reason for the visit.
After dropping off Timothy at his house we arrived at the compound. We drove straight back into the back field where two mango trees are located. We picked up more than a bushel of fruit. Late this afternoon we drove around the neighborhood and handed out mangoes to the small children. The kids were HAPPY!
That will wrap up another Sunday for our work. We thank all of you for your prayers and support. Please remember to send your name and email address to our daughter-in-law Melissa at melissajoytaylor @gmail.com if you want to receive the Yendi Notes in the near future. They are waiting to know the number of email addresses before they are able to decide which server will be able to accommodate our emails .
May God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
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