Today’s Yendi Notes are written by Rusty Johnson and edited by Perry Martin
Today was a very busy day. After breakfast we headed to the market for securing supplies for the seminar. I’m not exactly sure what all we bought but I do know it was almost more than the green truck can hold. I know we bought close to 1,000 lbs of rice, 5 very large containers of peanut oil. (I’m guessing each container was at least 5 gallons), a huge bag of onions, several cases of tomatoes, and lots of other stuff. It’s an amazing thing to witness when Kandie shifts into full shopping mode in the market. She was buying stuff and Steve, Jack and Perry were carrying it to the truck. I stood guard over the truck during the process.
When we finally got back to the mission house for lunch, there was a mother and another young girl and both of them had what appeared to be new born babies. It turns out they were twins. The mother wasn’t eating or drinking anything because she said her teeth hurt too bad. They wanted Steve to give them formula for the babies but Steve can’t because they didn’t have any prescription. Both Steve and Kandie gave the mother a very stern lecture (through an interpreter) and told the mother in no uncertain terms she had to eat and drink. It really rips your heart out when you see what these people endure and then think about all the many ways we are blessed in the U.S.
After lunch Perry, Jack and I headed out to Kulkpeni to deliver the supplies. The truck was so overloaded we moved some of the supplies to the motor king and Jack drove it while we went in the truck. After unloading the supplies we then stopped back in town to pick up metal podiums that are being made for each of the churches. We were able to put 3 on the motor king and 2 on the truck. We ended up making another trip to get 5 more.
Tomorrow morning we are headed to Kaplani where Nana Bekum is the evangelist. We are expecting 6 congregations to meet us there. Kandie said wheels are rolling at 6:00am. We are taking 6 of the metal podiums with us. We have them tied to the top of the old van. It was quite the operation getting them up on the van and then secured. We measured and the height of the van and the cargo on top is slightly over 11 feet. We will blend in very nicely with the other vehicles on the road.
In Christian Love
Steve, Kandie, Jack, Rusty and Perry.
