Today is my sister Cathy and my Aunt Daris’ birthdays.  It is strange how people in the same family can share birthdates.  Someone told me once that if you are in a room with more than 40 people there is a very good chance that someone will share the same birthday.  That would make a great ice breaker for a Ladies Day or youth activity.

The family of the little girl that we have sent to Tamale 4 times to try to get her umbilical hernia repaired called this morning.  They heard that a team of doctors had come to the Yendi hospital to do inguinal hernia repairs in the men that had been scheduled.  The family decided to take the girl to the hospital and see if they could do the surgery for her here in Yendi.  They sent the child for lab work and her labs were fine; the doctors have accepted her case and they are sending her to the operating theater to attempt the repair.  The family did not have the money to pay for the lab test and we doubt that they will have the money to pay for the surgery or the medicines.  Thanks so much to those that help us with the children!   We are so excited and we know that the family is excited because they have been waiting a long time to get the surgery done.  Hopefully it will be a success!

The wall project is going on.  We had to buy 20 more bags of cement today.  They are using about 15 bags a day.  The neighbor’s guinea fowl love to come onto the mission property to hunt for food.  Almost no one in Yendi keeps their animals in a fence or pen.  This morning there were about 40 or 50 guinea fowl in the field.  Guinea fowl can fly; I wanted to see if they could still fly over the new wall so Steve and I corralled them and forced them to take flight.  Most of them were able to get over the wall without any problem.  A few had to make a couple attempts and others landed on the wall and then flew down.  The wall will be another 1 ½ feet high when we put the razor wire on top.

I used the new leaf blower to blow off the veranda this morning.  It took me a couple of hours to get all around the mission house.  I was a big dust ball when I finished!  I looked like Pig Pen in the Charlie Brown cartoon!  

We drained the lower poly tank this morning.  We sucked as much water as we could into the upper tank.  The lower tank has a tiny leak around the clean out valve.  We want to get that fixed because we do not want to waste even one drop of the rain water that we harvest!  Water is too precious to lose any!

Have a great day!


In His Service,

Steve and Kandie

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