Zorash came to the mission house this morning to pick up some money that we were sending to a lady in Accra who is buying a couple pieces of fabric for me. While she was here I had her check the shelled peanuts that the ladies at Nalongni gave us a couple weeks ago. Donkey and Mr. Iddrisu have been shelling the peanuts in their spare time. The peanuts were freshly dug so they have to be dried in the sun before we can roast them. Zorash said the peanuts were dry enough and that she was going to come tomorrow to make up the day that she owes from last week so they could spend the morning roasting the peanuts. Amama is coming tomorrow too. We need 10 bowls of peanuts to make the PPP (Peanut Protein Paste) that we give the malnourished children. The ladies at Nalongni had given us 3 bowls so we decided to go to the market and buy the additional 7 bowls that we will need for tomorrow. When I went to Zorash’s house to pick her up so we could go to the market, she had a nice surprise for me. One of her neighbor ladies had shelled peanuts that they wanted to sell so we measured the peanuts; loaded them into the truck and I headed back to the mission house without having to go to the market.
We use firewood to roast the peanuts. We are almost out of firewood; Zorash wanted us to call Divine and get him to bring us a load tomorrow. I thought that was the silliest idea because Divine buys firewood from our neighbor that lives across the lane from the mission house. I told Zorash that we could just have Mr. Iddrisu drive the motor king across the road; load the firewood and bring it to the mission house. Zorash said that we will get cheated on our load because Mr. Iddrisu does not know how to pack a motor king as full as Divine will. But then we have to pay extra for the firewood because Divine will add something to the top for his profit. Divine is supposed to come to town tomorrow because it is Yendi’s big market day but his crop is in the middle of harvesting and shelling his field corn so I am not sure if he will be free to come. If he can’t we will just buy some and have Mr. Iddrisu haul it.
Today was the monthly class for the evangelists and church leaders. Nana Bekum, one of the evangelists, did not get to come to the class today because he is sick with fever and chest pains. Nana is our oldest evangelist and he is not as strong as he used to be. Steve sent him his pay through the mobile money system. He did not want him to be without his pay in case he needed to go to the doctor or buy medicine. Steve gave each man a handkerchief that attended. Steve said they had a great discussion today and that thirty men attended the class.
About 11:00 it started to rain and it rained for a couple hours. Of course the electricity went off as soon as it started raining but then there is nothing new about that! Ha!
Timothy made one of the cloth bags for the offering bags that we are making for the churches. I gave him the one I had made for a sample and told him that I wanted to see the one he made to make sure it was the way we wanted it to be before he made 50 of them. He sent the one he made with Steve today; it looked good but it was not right. These offering bags look like a butterfly net. The metal part is oval shaped and the bags have a rectangular bottom. Timothy did not make the rectangular bottom line up with the oval. I called him and tried to explain over the phone what the problem was; he said he would make another one and show it to us.
Take care, enjoy your day!
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
