All week we have been giving out extra formula and weaning mix. The Child Center workers are going to start their 3-week leave (holiday) on Monday. Well, most of them start on Monday but the way their week days start off Donkey will not start until Tuesday. The watchmen are another story altogether; they are not Muslims so they do not need to take the fasting month of Ramadan off. They will most likely take their holiday when the rains start coming and they need to work on their farms. The evangelists always get the month of December off. I said all that to say that we made today payday and we also gave everyone a calendar with their leave dates on them and their return date. Sometimes they get confused about when they are to come back to work. We had to give the mothers extra formula and food this week too so the babies would not be hungry.
Gomda, the vehicle mechanic, came out to the mission house this morning. He had asked us to buy and bring him some diagnostic machine so he could hook it up to the vehicles that were having a problem and he would be better able to figure out what is wrong with them. We are not exactly sure what all the machine will check for but before we left Gomda did his homework and took a picture of the machine he wanted. We were afraid that we might not be able to get the one he wanted but we were surprised that we found the exact model he wanted. He was very happy with the machine and we were happy to get the money. Steve told him he was sorry if his fellow mechanics wanted a machine because he only did it for him since he repairs our vehicles. This could turn into a nightmare of begging! Gomda laughed and said he would never reveal the secret! Ha!
Divine called this afternoon; he got a new cell phone and he now has “WhatsApp” on his phone. We are so happy that he finally got a new phone. His old one would not hold a charge and something was wrong with the screen; it no longer lit up and it was difficult to see the messages and phone numbers. A while ago Steve sent him a couple documents but there is only one place in his village that he can get receptions so several times a day he goes to the spot and opens his phone to retrieve his messages and call those back who called him. There is no electricity in the village either but they do have solar street lights which someone has cut into the wiring and made a connection so they can charge phones when the sun is out.
This afternoon Steve worked on his class lesson for the monthly class tomorrow and I worked on a template for the church leaders and evangelists to share with their treasurers which should make keeping track of the churches’ income and expenditures easier. It will be interesting to see how it works out.
Have a great day!
In HIS Service,
Steve, Kandie and Skeeter
I heard an interesting proverb today; “Is it the pig that makes the stye or is it the stye that makes the pig?”
The Monkeyshines
I got in trouble a couple times today but I do not really think that it was my fault. There are gate and monkey house keys hanging on a nail outside the front door on one of the cement pillars. Well, yesterday I figured out that if I jump really high and stretch with all my might I can grab the string they are hanging on and pull them down. Dad caught me in the act and moved me so that I could not reach the keys. But today as soon as Mr. Iddrisu hung up the keys, I pulled them down. Dad complained and Mom came out with a hammer; she decided to bend the nail so that I could not knock down the keys. The nail is a cement nail that is in a cement pillar and as soon as she knocked it the nail came jumping out and she made a big hole in cement. Oops! They moved on to plan B.
A little later on I reached up and pulled down the calabash gourd that holds the sulfur powder. The sulfur is in small sacks; as soon as they hit the ground one of them burst open and stinky yellow sulfur flew all over the room. Dad was beyond exasperated! He got the vacuum cleaner and Mom begged him not to suck the sulfur up in the vacuum because she cannot stand the smell of sulfur and she knew that it would fill the room with the smell of rotten eggs every time they ran the vacuum. Instead, Mom got the broom and Dad got the wet mop! After they cleaned up the mess Dad wanted to put me back in my jail cell but warden Kandie said that it was not time for me to go back so I got a reprieve!
At least this time it was not for biting!
Love, Skeeter (the messer)
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