There was a steady stream of people in and out of the mission house this morning. Seven more congregation sent men to sign their papers this morning. Each church sent 2 or 3 men. It is for an annual returns thing that the government requires of the churches. One of the men was on his way here and the bus stopped at Adibo, one of the villages near Yendi; when he got out of the bus he lost his cell phone. When he realized his phone was missing he called it. The man who found it was very nice and told him he would hold it until he got there. Needless to say he never made it to the mission house.
When the brother from Wadiig came he told us that the acting chief from Kpamang (Divine’s village) was in the hospital. He is supposed to have an operation to repair his hernia. It is scary thinking about having an operation in a hospital that does not have running water! We thought about going and visiting him but he does not speak English so we decided to wait and send a monetary gift with the next people that were going to visit him.
Divine stopped by a few minutes ago on his way home. He said he would stop and see the chief tomorrow so Steve gave him a gift to give to the chief. Divine was very happy that we were helping the chief. Hopefully he has health insurance and his bill will not be too high.
We finished re-lettering the sign this morning. It looked so good we decided to re-letter the one that hangs at the Child Center. We took it down and Steve washed it. We will try and get it painted tomorrow.
Mr. Iddrisu took yesterday off because it was the 30th day celebration of the death of his sister. He said that this is the last celebration until next year. Next year they might decide to do a 1 year celebration. Please these funerals just go on and on draining the people of all their money. Mr. Iddrisu said that the 30th day celebration does not cost as much as the other celebrations. He said that on the 30th day he has to buy fried cornmeal dumpling type things that have either mashed up bananas or plantain in them. He said that he will also have to buy some rice to cook for the guests. All this time he has had lots of people staying in his house. Most of them should go home after the 30 day celebration. How would you like to know that if someone in your family dies all of your relatives would come and camp out at your house for 30 days? Of course the responsibility of feed all these people falls on Mr. Iddrisu’s shoulders.
We still need rain; please keep us in your prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
