I sat down to write the Notes several hours ago and the laptop wouldn’t boot up. I struggled with it for 15 minutes fiddling around with it until my panic mode kicked in. Then we called our son Jordan, and he tried various ways over the phone to see if we could remedy the problem. This went on for an hour or more. Our back up laptop is a model that uses Windows 7 which is now outdated. We tried to figure out a way to use it, but to no avail. I told Kandie I guess we would have to be looking for a new laptop tomorrow in Tamale if the Nurse’s Council network is up and working. We tried to contact our nephew Kaleb, who is an IT engineer who lives in Houston, to help us out but he wasn’t home at that time. Then, Kandie started reading about the laptop on the internet. It said to use a paperclip to reset the laptop so we did; low and behold it worked!! The maneuver is called a “hard reset”. Needless to say, both of us had our anxiety levels greatly reduced. Then Kaleb called us and he checked out the machine remotely to make sure the hardware and software was working properly. Whew, we dodged a bullet with the Lord’s help and family!
Today we traveled to the Nanumba North District located south of Yendi to the village of Kakpande. This village is about 35 miles away from Yendi. When we arrived, they had just started bible class. Before leaving the compound this morning I had asked Timothy to teach about the funeral practices that Christians should not participate in. He was glad to do so. It was coincidental, the bible class teacher had mentioned a couple of things Christians shouldn’t do at a funeral. We couldn’t have planned the lesson better if we had tried. It is believed by some villagers the corpse will mysteriously cause the men carrying the casket to go to the person’s house who caused their death. Soothsayers also help to perpetuate spreading this fear amongst the people by recounting these stories.
After services, Timothy and I answered questions about the lesson he presented. During the course of the discussion of handling a corpse we encouraged the members to use good sanitation practices to decrease the spread of communicable diseases. At one point, several of the people asked if we would come to the village sometime and give sanitation classes. We told them we would be glad to if they set the date and time.
Later, when we visited the chief, he was glad to hear we would come teach sanitation practices.
We were treated to a meal of Fufu and light soap for lunch. There were also chicken backs cooked in the soup. Both were very tasty. Kandie told the cook she would like to come sometime and watch her make the soup. The lady’s face lit up like a Christmas tree; what a compliment!
I didn’t think to check the temperature this afternoon but I know it was HOT! I’m just glad we have air conditioning.
Hope you had a good day. May God bless!
In His service,
Stephen and Kandie Taylor
& Skeeter
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