We spent all morning and part of the afternoon trimming trees.  The fire blight has gotten into most of the trees; especially the fruit trees.  The mission property not only has mango trees but it also has cashews, shea nuts, and teak trees.  Nazo, the day man’s wife Amina brings Nazo his lunch everyday like clockwork.  Mr. Iddrisu’s wife sends one of the children with his lunch everyday too.  It is just another of the jobs required of a Ghanaian wife.  I am so proud that I was born in America!  I would make a very poor Ghanaian wife.  I don’t fetch firewood; I don’t fetch water; I don’t bow down to my husband and other men; I can’t carry anything on my head; and I don’t know how to make Banku or TZ (cornmeal mush stirred for hours over an open fire).  Ha!  Anyway I said all that to tell  you that when Amina made her daily trek to the house to bring Nazo’s lunch we asked her if she would like to have the sticks and small wood that we had been cutting off the trees.  She was more than happy to get the wood.  She uses firewood everyday to cook with and usually she has to go foraging for it in the bush.  We told her that we would even use the pickup and carry it to her house for her.  She filled the back of the truck so full that Steve had to get in it and stomp it down.  She will have enough small fire wood to last at least a month.  We told Nazo that if she wants to come back tomorrow and finish gathering the sticks we will carry another load for her.

There is a lady in Yendi that buys chemicals and mixes bleach, hand soap, dish soap, and toilet cleaner to sell.  We have been buying from her for a couple years.  The products are getting better.  The last bleach we bought had chunks of the chemicals that did not dissolve.  I bought bleach again today; she says that she has started buying the chemicals from another company.  We will see how this one does.  We like to support those in our area that are producing something but it must be a quality product.

While we were in town this evening we saw a young man selling used vests.  They are sort of like hunting or fishing vests.  We thought that would be a nice gift to give the men at the next monthly classes.  He only had 17 with him but he said that there were more in the market.  He got in the van with us to show us where his shop is.  He had 7 more at the shop.  He assures us that he will have more next market day.

We met Divine in town.  He was loading his motor king with the ladies and all their purchases from his village that had come to Yendi’s big market day.   Divine’s wife Gladys was among the ladies.  Steve got out and asked her if Divine made her pay for her ride too.  She laughingly said yes; all the while Divine was putting up a big fuss because he had not made her pay.

Please keep us and the work in your prayers.

In His Service,

Steve and Kandie

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