The lepers loved their gifts! They are always pleased when someone remembers them with a gift. We added toilet paper, toothbrushes, and cologne to their bag of food and soap. There are only 3 lepers left at the leper colony; they are all getting up in age. Most of them have missing toes, fingers and deformities of their faces. They have been treated and are not contagious but they are shunned by society.
Paul’s friend Enoch jumped right in this morning and helped us in the Child Center. He recorded all the charts which was a big help. Before we could get started we had to clean up chicken poop! Some of our neighbors have chickens and the chickens do not stay home. Part of the reason they like to come into the mission compound is because we dump all the food scraps from the kitchen in the compost heap behind the Child Center. Every day they eat from the compost pile. When the Child Center is open the chickens come parading through looking for something to eat. Evidently one got locked in the Center over the long weekend. There was poop everywhere. I never knew a chicken could poop so much! Before we could start seeing mothers this morning we had to clean and disinfect all the tables and mop the floor. Too bad the chicken had not stayed locked up long enough to die! If we had opened the Center and found a dead chicken we would all have been celebrating!
Iddrisu, the double amputee, came back this afternoon with his extra artificial leg but Steve was not able to combine the two to make a useable one. He will have to go back to the southern part of Ghana to get a new one made.
Timothy stopped by after supper and brought the aprons he had made. They looked very nice. I had brought a pattern from the states and a few days ago while he was here we used the pattern to cut out a couple aprons. We showed him how to “fussy cut” the fabric so that it would line up perfectly and become invisible. He thought that it was a very neat trick. I want him to make a few more aprons and I tried to send the material home with him but he said that he wanted to use the pattern again to cut the new ones. He said that he also wanted to get some fabric and make patterns for himself to keep at his house. He said he might try making some to sell. Sounds like a good idea!
Paul and Enoch spent part of the afternoon packing and getting ready to leave in the morning. They plan to get away about 7:00. They said it takes about 7 hours to get to Wa. They should be there before it gets dark.
Take care and pray that Paul, Enoch and Red have a safe trip to Wa.
In His Service,
Steve, Kandie Paul and Enoch
