Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords
Friday, October 26, 2012
W'apow mu e, It was pouring down rain this morning and had rained hard all night. Joe went to see if the bridge was under water. It…
W'apow mu e,
It was pouring down rain this morning and had rained hard all night. Joe went to see if the bridge was under water. It was not; so, we got ready for school.
Danny had requested cowboy cake (coffee cake) for his birthday breakfast this morning. I got that made and got their lunches packed. We had the cupcakes ready for Danny to take to his class. In the hurry of getting out the door, the cupcakes got left behind. Joe told Danny he would bring them up there before snack time. Danny was fine with that.
About 7:30 this morning, our power went off. It stayed off until 4:30 this afternoon. I told Joe that I thought that the power company must have a list of our birthdays so that they can be sure to turn the power off on those days. : ) It was off on my birthday too.
Joe needed to do some things in town. He dropped the cupcakes off at the school and then went into town. Today is Tabaski, a Muslim holiday. So, a lot of things were closed. He needed to get copies made. The place near us where he usually gets copies made had no power; so, they couldn't make copies. The places in town were closed. He finally found a place. Halfway through the copies, their copier broke down. He tried to get them made yesterday, but he had taken a colored copy. When he found out the price of colored copies, he decided to do a gray scale. At least he was able to get 100 copies made of the program for the funeral tomorrow.
I wrapped Danny's presents, made a birthday cake, and decorated for his party.
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When the kids got home from school, Joe fried fish for supper. I made some fried potatoes to go with that. After supper, we had cake and ice cream. Then, Danny opened presents. We even got a game of pin the tail on the donkey in before we had to go up to the church.
Several people came to help arrange the auditorium for the funeral tomorrow. We had to move benches out of the Sunday School classrooms into the auditorium to have enough seating for tomorrow. Tonight, the guys were there for music practice, but the girls were all an hour late. We went through both songs a few times. It sounds pretty good.
Joe went to the wake just to make an appearance. He just got home.
Please pray for the funeral tomorrow that souls will be saved and that everything will go smoothly.
Nantsew yie!
Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie