Category Yendi Notes

When members from the congregation at Binamondo visited us last week   they   invited us to worship with the congregation today.  The congregation is just a two miles from where we worshipped two weeks ago.  Today I took the long way… Continue Reading →

We may be sleeping in the spare room tonight because the air conditioner in our bedroom has stopped cooling; it is a split unit and it is frozen up inside and outside.  It has not been cooling very well for… Continue Reading →

We were so happy this morning when we heard the sanitation truck coming down the lane!  We really did not think that they would come back today even though they promised.  Steve had just finished chiseling a 6 inch hole… Continue Reading →

Divine stopped by this afternoon.  He was all smiles!  He finally got his “national service” transferred to Yendi District.  They re-assigned him to be a teacher at his home village of Kpamang.  We are so happy for him.  He is… Continue Reading →

When Steve talked to Jimmy and Mary Stroud yesterday they were almost home – Athens, Alabama.  They were tired but still in good spirits.  Jimmy will go to rehab for a few days to regain his strength. This afternoon the… Continue Reading →

It rained off and on all night.  We decided that we would not cook corn today because the house is falling apart and Timothy came back to paint.  In order for him to paint in one of the bedrooms we… Continue Reading →

My hands stink!  We have been making ointment for ringworm.   We used sulfur powder in the ointment.  My hands smell like rotten eggs.  Making sulfur ointment is one of my least favorite jobs.  We made 450 containers of ointment.  We… Continue Reading →

I am certainly glad we were able to get the pickup’s air conditioning working for the trip today.  We went to the village of Salankuga located east of Yendi and on the other side of the River Oti. Half of… Continue Reading →

You did not get Yendi Notes last night because we were stuck in Tamale without the computer.  We did not plan on spending the night in Tamale so we did not take anything with us; not even our toothbrushes or… Continue Reading →

The electricity has been off all day!  Not only has it been off all day it was off for most of the night.  No one knows why it is off.  They put a new pole in the back field in… Continue Reading →