Osman, the man from the agricultural office, came to spray the trees today. He came earlier than normal because we have found some of the bugs on the other trees on the property and the spraying job was going to take longer than normal. If we don’t spray all the trees the infestation will come back again. When I looked outside it looked like it was going to rain. There is no reason to spray if it is going to rain. When I ask if it is going to rain the standard answer is “only God knows”. Well, it was very cloudy, we are in the middle of the rainy season, and the wind was blowing. Mid way through the spraying Nazo knocked on our door and said they were going to have to stop spraying because it had started to rain! Imagine that! It rained heavily for a while and it drizzled the rest of the morning and early afternoon. Osman is going to come tomorrow and try again.
We spent almost the whole day sorting the clothes and getting them put in bags for the churches. Since it was raining Nazo could not paint so we had him sort the shoes that were given to the churches. We finally finished at 5:15 this evening. We used long needles and nylon string to sew the bags shut. We wanted to get them ready to tie on the backs of the church leaders bicycles, motorcycles and thrown on the top of the market trucks. No one handles cargo with care.
We went into town this afternoon to give Gomda, the mechanic, the money to order new shocks for the green truck. He is going to look at the ball joints and see if they need to be replaced. These roads kill the suspension system in the vehicles.
While we were in town we stopped to see how Red, the part time driver, gravel hauler and welder was coming on the podiums. One of the congregations did not get a podium last year; Steve is having Red make 2 just in case someone else needs one. Red was supposed to come to the mission house at 4:30 to pick up the money we owe him but he has not shown up yet.
But we are working on “Ghanaian time”! He will probably show up when we sit down to eat supper.
This afternoon we heard a lot of drumming and we thought perhaps someone was going to visit the regent at the palace. We asked Nazo about it but did not get a satisfactory answer. Many times when we talk to Nazo we have a language barrier problem even though we are all speaking English. He said that the women were “bottom” dancing! We asked him what occasion they were dancing for but he said he did not know. He could tell we were confused so he got up and started dancing shaking his bottom trying to show us what the women were doing. He laughed and laughed. The longer he talked the more confused we got. We will have to ask someone else what all the drumming was about.
Bro. Richard sent an email to let us know he got the books we sent. He was very grateful! He also sent a photo of the students.
Thank you for all you do for us and for the work.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
