First thing this morning we went to town to buy paint and to send money to Timothy, the evangelist. Timothy is going to go out to Emmanuel’s village to pay his respects to the family of Emmanuel. They are having the final funeral for Emmanuel this week. We had already given the family a monetary gift but Emmanuel’s brother sent us a message and said that they had bought a cow for the funeral and wanted us to help them pay for it! Please! We only sent a small portion of the cost of the cow but at least they will know that we were thinking about them.
We have been trying to buy bagged water for over a week. The bagged water has been run through a UV type filtering system which makes it safer to drink. We keep bagged water at the mission house for the workers and guests. We also re-filter the water for our drinking water and we use the bagged water to cook with. We are not out of water but our supply is dwindling. We knew that water is getting scarcer and scarcer with each day that we do not get rain so we wanted to go ahead and get a good supply on hand. Steve and Mr. Iddrisu have not had any luck calling the manufacturer. Mr. Iddrisu even talked to one of the delivery truck drivers last week; they promised to bring some but never showed up. While we were out this morning we met one of the drivers; Steve got the manager’s phone number from him and gave him a call. It worked; we got 50 bags of water this morning and a promise of another 50 tomorrow or the next day. There are 30 sachets of water in each bag. A sachet contains about 2 cups of water. Please pray that we will get the much needed rain.
The motor king’s clutch seems to be doing fine. Mr. Iddrisu and Nazo hauled stones again today and we heard no complaints about it.
A caregiver of one of the orphans came this morning. The ladies that work here are all out today for the Easter holiday so we had no interpreter. As we were trying to talk to her Shiabu the electrician drove by on his motorcycle; he stopped to greet us and I asked him to interpret for us. Fortunately she had remembered to bring the Child Center’s ID card with her so we could easily look up her chart.
Red came to the mission house yesterday evening to get the measurements for a gate that we want to put in the back wall of the property. If we put a gate back there it will make it easier for us when we start the next building project. We also needed him to make metal doors and windows for the sleeping quarters and classrooms at Kulkpeni. The termites have eaten all the wooden door and window frames. We will replace them all and hopefully solve the problem once and for all. We will need to spray the rafter or the termites will eat them next.
Thank you for your help!
In His service,
Steve and Kandie
