Timothy Niligrini, the evangelist stopped by for a visit today. He was on a mission. He wanted to pick up his pay a few days early because the village he grew up in got a heavy rain on Friday and it is now time for him to plow his fields and raise yam mounds. He does not have a tractor. Hardly any of the farmers have tractors so they hire someone with a tractor to plow their fields. The men that own tractors use the tractors as their business. They go from village to village plowing for the farmers. Most of the farmers will only plow a few acres. They only plow what they can take care off. All the planting, weeding and harvesting are done by hand so they only farm manageable plots.
The roofers were hard at work again today. They spent the day adding more ceiling framing. Abochi told us that they were going to start putting on ceiling tile tomorrow. He wanted to start in our bedroom and the rooms on our side of the house but we told him that we would be visiting the church at Nakpachee tomorrow and we did not want him to work in the main part of the house if we were not here to supervise the work. The mission house is divided. There is the main house and also an apartment. The house looks like one house but there are 2 entrances. We spent the day moving all the furniture out of the apartment and onto the veranda so the men would have a relatively clean area to work in. Steve also took down all the mirrors and the ceiling fan. Most of the ceiling fans in the apartment had already been taken down after the rain ruined them.
Today was Yendi’s big market day. We had to wait until the roofers went home before we could go to the market; we were very late getting to the market and many of the vendors had already closed for the day. I was disappointed because I missed seeing this old guy who travels all over Ghana looking for treasures. He only comes to Yendi 3 or 4 times a year. Of course when he comes I always buy stuff from him even if I don’t really need it. He usually has beads which are one of my weaknesses. The guys that sell near him said that he will be back at the market tomorrow. I might have to run up to the market and see what he has.
The Harmattan has blown back in. It came in yesterday. The Harmattan is the dust that blows in from the Sahara desert. The advantage of the dust rolling in is that it keeps things a little cooler because it helps filter out the sun. The high temperature today was only 104 degrees which is much nicer than 117 degrees.
Thank you for the love, prayers and support.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
