The sun popped out today! I got a load of clothes washed and dried. I almost did 2 loads but I was afraid that if it started raining I would not have enough clothes lines inside the house to get them dried.
Timothy came back to paint today. Yesterday we told him that if he wanted to he could bring the Bible recorder we gave him and listen to it while he painted. He thought that was a wonderful idea. He spent 8 hours listening to it today. The recorder only has the New Testament. Mid morning when I checked on him he said that he was getting some good ideas for lessons! I need to give him a notebook and pen tomorrow so he can write down the ideas as he gets them.
The goats have been crossing the field fencing between us and our neighbors in front of us. The goats don’t belong to those neighbors either. These goats are like pigmy goats. They are small enough to get their heads through the fencing and then their bodies follow. They want to come into the yard to eat Nazo’s cassava and our bushes. We chase them out whenever we notice they are in the yard. Well this morning we pulled the old van out of the garage and found goat poop on the floor! That can only mean one thing; the goats are sleeping in the garage. Enough is enough! We had taken down field fencing when we put up the cement block wall at the back of the property. The guys took the field fencing and put a double layer of fencing between us and the neighbors. They staggered the fencing so the squares are hopefully small enough that the goats can’t get through. Nazo said that this afternoon the goats were walking the fence crying trying to find a way to get into the cassava. Steve is outside right now putting up a piece of burglar mesh on the gate that leads to the Child Center.
This afternoon we went to town to buy supplies and we ran into Abenada, the widow of John Kanbonja (one of the past evangelists). Abenada has HIV and she had been to the hospital. She had been given her anti-retro viral drugs but the hospital was out of Ibuprofen and liquid anti-acid. She did not have the money to buy the medicine so we took her to the pharmacy and bought the medicine for her. She was happy for the help.
We also ran into Musa, a young man who became crippled after having a high fever. Our best guess is that he had meningitis. He lost the use of both of his legs. We helped him get braces and crutches years ago but he gave them up and is confined to a wheel chair. We first met Musa in 2009. Now he is probably 14 or 15 years old. We asked him if he had a handicapped tricycle. He grinned and said, “No, but I need it!” We will check with Red and see if he has time to make another one for us. They are quite expensive to make. The one we had made for Asana cost almost 500 dollars. If anyone would like to help us with the cost of this one we would be happy for the assistance.
Take care and please keep us and the work in your prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
