We did not get back to Yendi until after 4:00 this afternoon. It took the Japan Motor’s service department over 4 hours to change the oil and the filters in the van! Please! I could have done the job quicker; of course I am not sure if the van would have run perfectly or not but give me a break! At least it is done.
I told Steve that there was something strange about the Vodafone phone company putting our account on “inactive” status because I felt sure that there was a large balance on the account. When we went back to the office early this afternoon I asked the lady if she could go back and pull the account for January before it went inactive. She said that she could but she could already see that the account carried a zero balance. We told her that we wanted her to check anyway because this is not the first time a phone company had taken our money; years ago when Ghana Telecom was bought out by Vodafone we had a mandatory 100 dollar security deposit we had to have on the account at all times to keep it open. When they changed over we lost our deposit and no one could figure out where it went. When the lady pulled the account activity for Jan, Feb, and March guess what she found? Yes, the account still carried a 349 Cedi credit. She was surprised and confused as to why they would make an account inactive when it had a credit. Now we are moving to “Plan B”. We are supposed to write a letter to Vodafone and explain that we want the account re-activated and why. What? “Why? Because you have our money!” How silly is that? Here is a novel idea, “Why don’t you just give us the money back!” We have to go back to Tamale in 2 weeks so we will take a letter then. Who knows how long this process is going to take.
Before we left Tamale we stopped at the vegetable vendor and got fresh lettuce, green onions, fresh green beans, egg plant, potatoes and some scrawny cauliflower. They call the vegetable seller Brunie markets. Brunie means “white man”, most of the vegetables are sold to expatriates and restaurants; many Ghanaians don’t know how to eat these vegetables and they are too costly for most of them to buy. We enjoy being able to buy something different.
It was hot again today; the high temperature was 118 degrees. On Sunday we were sitting in a hot church building at noon with a tin roof that has no ceiling and no insulation; it was so very hot in the building. How hot was it? I noticed sweat dripping off the song leader’s elbows. He had his hands raised keeping time; the sweat was running from his arm pits and dropping off his elbows! Now that is hot!
Take care and please pray that we get rain soon.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
