Ghana Field Journal — Missions With the Consfords
Monday, August 20, 2012
W'apow mu e, Thank you to everyone who has been praying for me. I am starting to feel better. I just have to pace myself and get lots…
Missions With the Consfords
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W'apow mu e,
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for me. I am starting to feel better. I just have to pace myself and get lots of rest.
It was a holiday today. So, Joe didn't go anywhere. He did some things around the house.
The kids have been on a roll today. They said so many funny things that I had to write them down so that I would not forget them.
At breakfast this morning, the boys were talking about cars. Bonnie wanted to get in on the conversation. Gilbert said, "Bonnie, you do't know anything about cars." She said, "Well, I do know about dishes; you have to wash them!"
Joe was inspired to make an angel food cake this afternoon. When the kids got up from their naps, he told them that they could try some angel food cake. Bonnie said, "There aren't any angels in it, are there?"
I was in the process of making tortillas for supper. I was letting the balls of dough rest. Bonnie started playing with them. I told her that they needed to rest. She said, "Where are their eyes? How can they rest if they don't have eyes?"
During supper, Gilbert asked me if I saw how full their cups were. I said that I had seen that they were pretty full. Danny said, "Well, they were fuller than that. I had to take a drink from each one; there was nothing else I could do!" Gilbert was not thrilled to hear that Danny drank from his cup.
Gilbert got back to the subject of cars during supper. He said, "There weren't any cars when you were a baby, right Dad?" He must think we are very old!! We told him that cars had been around for a long time, even when his great-grandparents were born.
We watched Captain America tonight; well, we attempted to watch it – it is more like experiencing it when you watch it with three children who want to know about every little detail. Bonnie started sobbing when Captain America's best friend died. Danny cried when he thought Captain America was dead. As soon as the movie was over, the boys were inspired to be Captain America. They started cutting masks out of paper. They talked Bonnie into letting them use some of her ponytail rubberbands to use for their masks. They cut several of her tiny little rubberbands in half and then brought them to me to see if I could put them together somehow. We told them that they should have asked before they used them. They said that they had asked Bonnie if it was okay. Bonnie said, "I told them that they could use some." We told her that she should have asked us first. Then, she passed the blame on to the brothers: "Well, the brothers decided to use them."
Nantsew yie!
Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie