= Sunday, we were still in Takoradi, both in motion shortly after 0400. Even getting lost in the dark, we still made it to the hospital before visiting hours closed at 0600 and I gave the ailing elder a blessing with the help of Elder Bingham, who was still watching over him and again had slept on the cement floor that night.
= By late afternoon, Elder Romero had replaced Elder Bingham. The ailing elder was sitting on a stool, still receiving oxygen but looking and acting much stronger; he conversed fluently in Twi with members of a nearby church ward who had come to see someone else.
= Monday, we were better organized and got to visit for the entire morning hour from 0500 to 0600. Later, when President Morgan put us in touch with someone who arranged for us to speak with the elder's nurse, we drove back to the hospital and strode up the stairs without heeding calls for us to stop.
Maybe Quinton, our youngest son, should sell hotel art. He knows the techniques.
These birds are everywhere. They look and act like crows wearing white vests.
Kids were blowing bubbles at Shoprite Mall. The bubbles reached the ceiling.
Summoned back to Cape Coast, we traveled in daylight, the better to dodge potholes, as these vehicles are doing.
Big trees
Need a ride?
Graveyard
= Monday, we were better organized and got to visit for the entire morning hour from 0500 to 0600. Later, when President Morgan put us in touch with someone who arranged for us to speak with the elder's nurse, we drove back to the hospital and strode up the stairs without heeding calls for us to stop.
= We arrived while about 20 doctors were making rounds as a group; what a blessing! Steph was firm in saying we needed information for the mission home that was paying the bill for his treatment. We had prayed to obtain information and eventually received it from a pair of doctors who sat with us in a staff room. In the meantime, Elder Romero, who had been urged out of the ward, saw someone with crutches who was headed down the stairs, held the man’s crutches for him, and they went down together.
= President Morgan had told us to come home today. We arrived before dark. The power dropped. At bedtime, we prayed for, among other things, for the power outage to be of short duration. Then lights came on just as soon as we finished our prayer, before I moved from a kneeling position!
= Tuesday, Steph kept up with medical needs; that's constant. From apartment inspections performed by Sister Sroufe in Tarkwa, I began identifying needed repairs and actions. At 5, we participated via Zoom with Tower Toastmasters in Montgomery! A good meeting.
= Wednesday, I reached out to vehicle drivers to do their monthly vehicle inspections and continued parsing inspection reports. At 5, the Barilleaus drove us to the gas station for pizza together. Home, Steph learned that someone had bypassed her and had gone to a hospital for a condition a pharmacist could have dealt with, and his distraught mother was upset that no one had reported that her son was in the hospital.
= Thursday, I dealt with a clothing request and apartment needs. Someone claiming to represent the landlord wanted to take photos. I allowed it with the caveat that I would take a photo of what they took a photo of; all were done outdoors. Steph had a tight focus on medical needs all day.
= Friday, we spent most of the day visiting almost a dozen pharmacies, looking for dental wax to ease someone's problem caused by faulty dental repair; no success. At about 4 PM, Elder Bingham called; the hospital would release the ailing elder today after we paid the bill. The hospital’s MoMo account, a method of payment via mobile phone, was not functioning; the hospital wanted cash. Zone leaders, closer to the hospital than we were, traveled there and pooled cash to pay the bill. By 9:45, the Elders were out of the hospital and in a missionary location.
= Saturday was a rare day off. I found that a plastic cover an inch wide had two breaks in it at the driver edge of our rear bumper; I glued one break and will glue the other when this one is secure. This morning, we had noted that some missionaries came here with minor physical ailments that they expected not to continue while on their mission. This afternoon, we noted that I haven’t been congested in a month; Steph hasn’t had a migraine and her skin is clearing up. Those missionaries may have the right idea. As Steph says: tender mercies. In the evening, we began a Twi language course on Udemy.
= President Morgan had told us to come home today. We arrived before dark. The power dropped. At bedtime, we prayed for, among other things, for the power outage to be of short duration. Then lights came on just as soon as we finished our prayer, before I moved from a kneeling position!
= Tuesday, Steph kept up with medical needs; that's constant. From apartment inspections performed by Sister Sroufe in Tarkwa, I began identifying needed repairs and actions. At 5, we participated via Zoom with Tower Toastmasters in Montgomery! A good meeting.
= Wednesday, I reached out to vehicle drivers to do their monthly vehicle inspections and continued parsing inspection reports. At 5, the Barilleaus drove us to the gas station for pizza together. Home, Steph learned that someone had bypassed her and had gone to a hospital for a condition a pharmacist could have dealt with, and his distraught mother was upset that no one had reported that her son was in the hospital.
= Thursday, I dealt with a clothing request and apartment needs. Someone claiming to represent the landlord wanted to take photos. I allowed it with the caveat that I would take a photo of what they took a photo of; all were done outdoors. Steph had a tight focus on medical needs all day.
= Friday, we spent most of the day visiting almost a dozen pharmacies, looking for dental wax to ease someone's problem caused by faulty dental repair; no success. At about 4 PM, Elder Bingham called; the hospital would release the ailing elder today after we paid the bill. The hospital’s MoMo account, a method of payment via mobile phone, was not functioning; the hospital wanted cash. Zone leaders, closer to the hospital than we were, traveled there and pooled cash to pay the bill. By 9:45, the Elders were out of the hospital and in a missionary location.
= Saturday was a rare day off. I found that a plastic cover an inch wide had two breaks in it at the driver edge of our rear bumper; I glued one break and will glue the other when this one is secure. This morning, we had noted that some missionaries came here with minor physical ailments that they expected not to continue while on their mission. This afternoon, we noted that I haven’t been congested in a month; Steph hasn’t had a migraine and her skin is clearing up. Those missionaries may have the right idea. As Steph says: tender mercies. In the evening, we began a Twi language course on Udemy.
Access from a major road, Sekondi Road, was blocked by hospital construction; so Adiembra Road, itself under construction, had to be used. We lost some time figuring that out.
Next time we need to deliver food to individuals in this hospital, we'll try Pizza World: closer.
Here's a reminder of why we do what we do...
(I think the person at the far right is Sister Eastmond.)
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