We left Tamale at 6:30 this morning so we could be back in Yendi in time to open the Child Center. Mr. Iddrisu and Meri took their holiday today. Zorash came to work but then she had to leave because today was the opening day of school for her son Sherif. He started high school today. He was placed in Yendi but he wants to board instead of living at home. That seems like a waste of money. Anyway shortly after she came to work she left and did not come back. Amama, the lady that works in the house had to come to the Child Center and interpret for us. Amama cannot read but she is a good interpreter. At one point Amama went up to the mission house and we had to use Nazo for an interpreter. He can read and write but he is a terrible interpreter.
Mrs. Hawa, the secretary for the Social Welfare Department called this afternoon to tell us that the Certificate is ready to be picked up. Isn’t that funny? This is the certificate that immigrations said they needed yesterday in order to process our resident visa. Mrs. Hawa is the lady that wrote the letter to Immigrations for us. She is going to keep the certificate until we make our next trip to Tamale which will be in a couple weeks when we pick up our passports.
Divine texted Steve and said he was still working with the department head trying to get placed at Kpamang instead of in “Never Never Land”. We need him to be closer to Yendi because we rely heavily on him for his help the churches and the Child Center. It is strange the way the “National Service” system works. The person being placed has little or no say in where they are sent. From Divine’s description no one would request being sent there.
Nana Bekum, the evangelist from the Chereponi area sent some paper work to us on the market car today. When we went to the station a couple times to pick it up no one was around. We will check again tomorrow. Our fear is that the driver took it back to Chereponi.
Red stopped by this afternoon to bring the sledge hammer. The fiberglass handle had broken; he made a permanent handle out of a piece of pipe. He even welded the handle to the head of the hammer; there is no way that head will slip off.
Last market day we bought some work vest for the men that come to the monthly classes. The man we bought them from did not have as many as we needed; he told us that he would bring more this week. Evidently he knew that Red knew us. He found Red and had him bring him to the mission house with the vest. We were happy to see him because to be honest we had forgotten. We bought enough for the monthly class plus for the lepers. There is a small group of lepers that live in the leper colony near the mission house. We try to visit them every so often and take them little gifts. They always appreciate the things we do for them.
Thank you for the love, prayers and support.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
