We got a wonderful rain this evening. The cistern/reservoir is about half full. That will be enough water for at least 2 months. After this rain most of the water pots and containers in Yendi should be filled! The women will be so happy! The heavy rain caused some of the gutters around the mission house to overflow because they were clogged with dry leaves. We got drenched while we were unclogging them but the rain was not cold; I guess that is because it was so hot today. The high temperature today was 108 degrees with a heat index of 117 degrees. It has really cooled off. Right now the temperature is 76 degrees; don’t you know the Ghanaians are freezing! Time for the winter coats and toboggans!
Steve actually buys toboggans and brings them to the night watchmen because they are so cold sitting outside at night on the verandas; they are also provided with rain coats. They wear the raincoats even when it is not raining to keep warm. Maybe we will have a cooler worship service tomorrow.
We went out to Timothy Niligrini’s house today to pick up a 220 pound bag of dried cassava. Cassava is the root that tapioca is made from. The Ghanaians use it as a thickener when they are making TZ (cornmeal porridge) and Banku (fermented cornmeal porridge). We are going to take the cassava to Daniel Batoln tomorrow when we go to Mulpido to visit the church that he works with. Daniel is one of the evangelists. He bought the cassava when he came to Yendi last week for the monthly class. If we were not visiting him he would have had to pay to have it carried to his village on public transport.
There has been a bit of a miscommunication between us and the church members at Kulkpeni( “language barrier”). We have been waiting on them to tell us when they want to start molding and they have been waiting on us to tell them when they should start. We got that cleared up today so maybe they will start next week but with the rain many of the members will want to go to the farm. Timothy said they are hiring a mason to mold the block so maybe this stage of the project won’t take so many church members.
We did not pick up many mangoes today; the trees have almost stopped producing. We did not get enough to drive through town to pass out. We will give the ones that we got to Timothy tomorrow when we get back from the village.
We sat outside for a little while this morning with the baby monkey; he was afraid of everything! He tried to catch the ants and the only way I could get him to climb in the bush at the front of the house was to dangle my arm in it like I was the one climbing it. He is very entertaining!
Enjoy your weekend!
In HIS Service,
Steve and Kandie
