The sun was out long enough for us to wash clothes today. The clothes are almost dry. We will bring them in when the sun goes down and hang them around the house. By tomorrow they should be completely dry. We do not have a clothes dryer; God usually provides more than enough sunshine and hot weather to dry them outside.
Steve spent a good portion of his day working on his lesson for Sunday. The church we are visiting requested a lesson on autonomy. The topic should make for a good question and answer session after the church dismisses.
Steve brought a small tool for Gomda, the mechanic, from the states. It is a clamp tool. You can use almost any wire and make a clamp to join rubber tubing to a metal pipe. The mechanics always have to splice tubes together. Steve had Gomda come to the house this afternoon to show him how to use the tool. Steve made up a sample for him and then he showed him how it worked on a second sample. Gomda thought it was pretty neat; he asked for the samples; he is going to go home, remove the wire and practice.
Red only has 4 more tables to spray paint and he will be done making the 40 communion tables we need for the churches. He came this afternoon and picked up the balance of the money we owed him. He was happy to have the work because it has been too wet for him to haul gravel.
There is a little goat that keeps coming into the compound. We chase him out and in a few minutes he is right back in here. When we chase him we watch to see where he gets out so we can put up wire. We put up about 50 feet of wire today and thought we had blocked him out but in a few minutes he was back in. We can’t tell where he is coming in but he could not seem to find his way out. Nazo caught him and threw him over the wall on the opposite side of the compound. Nazo thought that he would be lost and not know how to get back in. Guess what? He is in the compound right now. It is aggregating because the goats like to eat the plants that are in the yard and they like to eat from the garden. Besides which they poop on the verandas!
I spent a good portion of my day sifting the moths, bugs and worms out of the peanuts. Someone gave us the peanuts before we left in June and we did not have time to roast them. Once they are sifted they look pretty good. We will roast them and make peanut butter out of them. The bugs are terrible here. We have bugs and weevils in all the corn, soybeans, rice and flour. Sifting is a way of life; I guess those that we miss will add protein! Ha!
Keep praying for us and the work!
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
