Friday March 13, 2009

This morning, Joe went to Anyama to get fuel and phone minutes. He checked the post office. He picked up the trailer from the church and brought Romeo back to help him load the trailer.
We took our first load of stuff out to the Posts’ house today. Since we will be moving somewhere near them after furlough, we are going to store all of our stuff out there while we are gone.

The Posts invited us for lunch. So, the whole family went along. We got stuck in traffic and didn’t move much at all for an hour. At one exit near the downtown area, we saw about ten police trucks. They went zooming off the exit on the other side and started firing in the air. Several policemen jumped out of the trucks and started running. It looked like they were chasing someone. We were in the far lane of non-moving traffic with the trailer attached; so, we weren’t going anywhere. We called a couple people to see if they had heard anything about trouble today. No one had heard anything. Just after that, the traffic started moving. So, we headed on to Bassam. It must have just been something happening downtown because we didn’t see anything else.

We got to the Posts’ house without any other problems. The guys unloaded the trailer. Dan had met an independent Baptist missionary when he was out running errands; so, he had invited him to lunch too. His name is James George. He was up in the western part of Ivory Coast for 13 years. When the war started in 2002, he and his family fled their village 24 hours before it was overtaken by rebel forces and 350 people were killed. He has an orphanage up there with 237 orphans. The orphans are the children of people in his church killed by the rebels. He is presently building an orphanage for 24 orphans just outside of Bassam. He goes to the States to raise funds and then comes back with the funds raised. It was interesting to listen to his stories.

The boys had a great time playing with the Post boys. Gilbert and Danny are always sad when it is time to leave.

We headed back to Anyama. We stopped at the mechanic’s to check on the progress on the new vehicle. Then, we went to the Anyama church to check on the progress on the deaf school classrooms. We got home about 19:00 and ate supper.

We will send a couple pictures of the vehicle that we are buying. They are working on brakes and some other things right now. Then, we will get some body work done and have it painted. Joe is excited!

A demain,

Joe, Laura, Gilbert, Danny, and Bonnie