Chicken stew and cornbread are on the menu for tonight. See, we do eat “real” food once in a while!
Nazo finally started painting the cement rain gutter around the main house this morning. He did not paint very long before it got too hot for him to be on the roof with the glare from the silver metal roof shining on him. The heat index today was 126 degrees. He says he is going to come earlier in the morning. We will see. Climbing around on that roof painting a gutter is job #112, I do not want!
Yesterday when Steve went to the hospital he met Meri, one of our interpreters, in the maternity ward. She was waiting on her sister-in-law to have a baby. It is so hard to figure out who is who and who is related to each other because everyone calls each other their brother or sister or uncle when they might not even be related to them. If someone is introduced to us as “my brother”, we immediately ask, “From the same mother and same father?” Then they will explain by saying, “no, they are my village brother or we have the same father but different mothers.” Uncles and aunts are almost always referred to as “my father” or “my mother”. Part of this confusion comes from polygamy. Many times someone will introduce someone as their “husband” or “wife” and they are not really married to them; they might just be a close friend. This morning Meri told me that “her wife” had delivered a baby girl. Upon further investigation I found out that it was her brother’s wife who had the baby. We sent a gift of baby clothes to the new mother. Thanks to all of you who give us clothes for the children.
This afternoon after we went to town to buy more formula for the Child Center we went out to visit Timothy Niligrini. He is sewing aprons for me and he had run out of flour sacks. He was surprised to see us this afternoon because he said we could bring the flour sacks to Bible study tomorrow night. I told him that I did not want him to have any excuse to stop work on my aprons! Ha!
We did not hear from any of the mothers with the hair lipped babies today. I am sure that they are very busy taking care of sick babies that just had surgery. I know the babies will be miserable for a few days.
Take care and keep us in your prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
