Ibrahim’s wife just left.  Ibrahim is the leper that lost his foot many years ago.  A few years ago we helped him get an artificial leg and then we helped set his wife up in a small business selling kola nut.  If you remember when Ibrahim got his new leg his wife came to the mission house with their 4 youngest children and told us she wanted to give us one of their children as a gift for helping her husband get a new leg.  She said that they had no money to give us but they could give us a child.  They were so happy that Ibrahim was able to leave the leper colony and go back home to live.  The children ranged in age from about 10 to 2 years.  They were freshly bathed and wearing their best clothes.  Talk about heart rending!  She explained the benefits of each child; the oldest one was a boy and he could work in the farm for us; the next was a girl and she would be good help for me around the house; and the littlest one was young enough that he would love us!  I had to step away and wipe my tears before we could continue the conversation.  Imagine the children; they thought that someone was not going to get to go back home!  We thanked her kindly for her generosity and explained why we could not take one of her children.  Anyway she heard that we were back in Ghana and came to bring us a gift.  At least today’s gift was tubers of yams; not a child.  She said that she had done really well selling her kola nuts and that she had saved enough money to buy a small plot of land and she wanted to put up a traditional mud ball house so they would have their own place to live.  We told her that we had used metal roofing sheets that we could give her; she was very happy because the roof is the most expensive part of building a house.  Steve also gave her a monetary gift to help feed the men that would make the mud ball walls.  

Nazo has almost finished weaving the thatch; he said he will finish tomorrow.  We hope to get the houses re-roofed before the rains start.  

Steve and I spent the afternoon in town making copies for the churches.  We have a printer but it is slow and uses lots of ink.  It is cheaper for us to make the copies in town when we have a bunch to make.  Well, today it was probably not quicker because the guy’s printer kept messing up and wasting paper.  He could not make color copies so we made them when we got back to the house.

Thank you for all you do for us and for the people in Ghana; without your generous gifts we would not be able to help people like Ibrahim and his wife.

In His Service,

Steve and Kandie

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