I got up a little earlier than normal today; I thought that I was going to be able to finish the paperwork on the Withholding Tax but things did not go as planned because I obviously can’t operate a calculator! Ha!
As soon as 9:00 rolled around Steve headed to town to go to the Social Security office and the GRA (Ghana IRS office) to see exactly what he needed to do to get Kwabena, the new night watchman registered. He was told that Kwabena had to come to the office in person. Around 10:00 Kwabena came to the mission house and brought all the information he needed to get him registered with the Social Security system and to fill out the paperwork for Social Security tier 2. Last night before we went to bed we made a list and sent it home with him so he would be able to gather all the information he needed for himself and for his beneficiaries. Kwabena lives at Kulkpeni which is 5 or 6 miles from Yendi. It took about an hour to get him registered with Social Security and GRA was even easier; when we get ready to pay on him at the end of the month all we do is add him to the list with the other employees.
I decided that I did not like the fabric Zorash and I bought on Saturday. It is not 100 % cotton and it has an odd shine to it; it looks like a plastic tablecloth. Zorash assured me that if I washed it the shine would go away. Well, we bought 2 pieces and I washed the light blue piece 5 times and the shine was still there. I did not touch the black piece because I did not want to keep it. Around noon we went back to the lady that we bought the fabric from and I switched the black out for another non-shiny piece.
Timothy has finished translating the first of the lessons on the family and the home. We had him start translating where they were teaching from. So the lesson he translated was lesson 8; he hopes to get lesson 9 translated before next month’s class so the men can have it for their study guide. Many of the men do not read English so all they can do is look up the scriptures and hope they remember what the lesson was about. They were very excited when Steve and Timothy told them that the lessons were going to be translated into Konkomba.
Timothy’s wife Rita gave us some freshly dug peanuts; we had Amama cook them this morning and we shared them with the workers. They enjoyed their mid-morning treat!
Steve went to the electric company today to see if someone could come and check the meter in the Child Center. Even when nothing is turned on it uses about 5 Cedis of electricity per day. We think that the fault might be from the meter; the guy at the office told Steve to pull the breaker and see if the meter still used electricity; it did not, so now he is going to call Sayibu the electrician and see if he can find a fault in the wiring or plugs.
Thank you for all you do for us and for the work. We appreciate you!
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
