The roofers got their wires crossed this morning. We talked to Abochi, the foreman yesterday and told him that we wanted to start roofing on Monday. At 7:30 this morning the roofers showed up to start working. We were not ready for them. We had not gotten the list of supplies from Abochi. We did not even have any nails for them to start the framing. Steve called Abochi and he said he had forgotten to tell them to come on Monday. They were not happy to have to go back home; I am sure that they were expecting a payday today.
Zorash and Amama came this morning to make up for the day they were off earlier in the week. Once again we worked on the rice! This is the third day of the rice process! Zorash and I took the rice to town to have it milled. The milling machine was not the best so we have lots of broken grains of rice. Then the women had to winnow the rice to get the chaff off. Steve got tired of watching them struggle to pour the rice from one pan to the other while trying to catch enough breeze to get the chaff to fly away; he went in the house and brought out an electric floor fan. It worked like a charm! At first Zorash was skeptical; she did not think that it would work but it did not take long to convert her to the electric method. We only divided the rice with the ladies that helped wash, clean and steam it. Steve said that the men did nothing in the rice process so they did not deserve the spoils of our labor! I wanted to grind part of the rice into rice flour so we had to pick out all the un-hulled grains of rice and go to a different grinding mill to make the flour. The process took us all morning! We measured the rice and it ended up being a little bit cheaper than if we had just gone to the market and bought rice but if we figured in the labor we would have saved nothing.
This afternoon we went to town and bought 10 more bicycles. We will add these to the ones we had left from the last time we bought. We are trying to gather enough to give to the rest of the church leaders that come to the monthly class. We left them with the bicycle mechanic to put together and grease. We will pick part of them up tomorrow afternoon.
Steve talked to Timothy Niligrini, he said that his wife Rita and the new baby are doing fine.
Take care and keep us and the work in your prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
