24th November 2018
Yendi Notes
Ninety-five percent of the items for the seminar have been purchased! Hurrah! We left the mission house this morning shortly after 7:00; picked up Zorash and headed to the market. We wanted to try and beat the heat but that was not possible. We intended to leave a little earlier but the green truck would not start. Somehow the battery cable got jostled loose. Imagine that! Something jostling loose! We did not get back to the mission house until 12:00. Our high temperature today was 113 degrees. It takes the ladies so long to measure the grains. We cannot just buy a full bag; they have to open the bags and measure everything by the bowl. Not only the grain is measured by the bowl but everything is measured even the fresh ginger and hot pepper. We bought 900 pounds of rice, 120 pounds of beans, 35 pounds of onions, 25 pounds of field corn, 35 gallons of oil, 30 gallon cans of tomato paste and 35 pounds of salt. We filled both the truck and the old van. As soon as we finished shopping we headed to Kulkpeni to unload the stuff in the storeroom. There was no way we wanted to handle that stuff twice! We also bought a huge aluminum pot to cook rice and a fire ring made out of the metal rim of a semi truck tire. Zorash thought we needed the fire ring. She said that she uses one at her house so her round bottomed rice pot has a nice place to sit. If the ladies like the fire ring we will buy another one next year.
This afternoon we worked on the books to figure out how much money we had spent and how much we had left to buy. Then we went back to town and bought more stuff for the seminar. This time we bought none editable items like light bulbs. We also bought more electric units. We use pre-paid meters at the mission house and the Child Center. We want to make sure they will have enough to last while we are gone. We stopped at 3 small electrical shops before we got enough bulbs. We also bought the padlocks for the metal boxes we will give the churches that attend the seminar.
Zorash said that her 5 year old nephew that lives with her was so excited about the metal toy truck she got in the “big give away”. The day after she gave it to him he refused to go to school. She said he flat refused to go to school. She said he cried and said he had to stay home to play with his new truck. The truck was a handmade truck that was about the size of the Tonka trucks that a child could sit on if they wanted to. Zorash finally gave into him and let him stay home. He refuses to let the truck stay outside at night; he makes her lock it in the storeroom.
Please keep us and the seminar in your prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
