Today was Yendi’s big market day. We asked Zorash if she would go with us to the market so we could take pictures of everything the vendors were selling. As you know Aaron and Melissa have set up this new web site for the Ghana work, well, Aaron sent us an email and said he thought we should add a pictorial dictionary to the web site. Is that a wonderful idea or what? I told Zorash what we wanted to do and she jumped right on board. Thursday while we were in the Child Center between patients we made a list of what we thought we needed to make pictures of. We need Zorash to go with us to ask permission to take the pictures. We spent a couple hours in the market and got about 90% of the pictures on our list. We had a great time. Naturally Zorash and I did some shopping. Steve even had to make an extra trip to the truck to drop off the things we bought. Zorash’s daughter PaNaa is home for the holidays so Zorash is preparing Shito for her to take back to school with her so she will have something quick and easy to eat. Shito is one of the things that has to be in the dictionary. It is a paste made with garlic, onions, ginger, smoked dried fish and bouillon cubes; sometimes it has tomatoes sometimes not. Steve and I went back this afternoon and got a picture of the lady selling congealed blood and another lady selling Wasa-wasa (a food made from dried yams).
The electricity was off almost all day! Thankfully we have a generator and we love it! Red, the part time driver, stopped by this afternoon. He had a problem. He needed to do some grinding on the water pump on his dump truck but because there was no electricity he could not get the work done. He said that he had wasted all day waiting and thinking the electricity would come back on at any time. He finally got fed up and came to the mission house and used the power from the generator. The hand grinder he had did not have a plug, he tried to get it to work by putting the bare wires in the outlet but it obviously had a short. Steve loaned him his grinder. He went away a happy man!
Steve is outside waiting on the mason to come. We need him to cement the new safe into the wall in Mr. Iddrisu’s office. The safe is heavy but not heavy enough that a couple men could not tote it off so we decided to have it cemented in. The mason was working on a job today and could not come until he finished his work. Securing the safe will not take him very long to do.
Take care and have a lovely day.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
