Saturday

It is a beautiful morning here. It is much greener here than when I was here 2 years ago. The Village grounds are beautiful. The sunsets here are simply magnificent. Elaine and I have been going for walks in the morning before it gets hot. We are entering the Hot Rainy season. As I understand it, the seasons are cold, cold rainy, hot, hot/rainy. They apparently had 3 days of heavy rain before we arrived.

Petroleum is in shortage, this has lead to a host of problems, especially in meeting food needs.

There is fuel on the black market but it is apparently diluted and cost four times as much. To add to the problems here there is hoof and mouth disease in the cattle so they can't get good beef. The lack of fuel means they can't bring beef in from neighboring countries which means that chicken is also in shortage because everybody is buying chicken. They can't get regular milk so they have to use powdered milk. Peanut butter that they buy in large containers and is a food staple has to be bought in small jars which adds greatly to the cost. In all of this God continues to provide for needs of the Village.

Elaine is giving the young ladies a sex education talk this morning. I am having some quiet time before we head out to the church to start organizing the clinic. I expect to be very busy this afternoon.

Our head doctor is ill And he is to give a guest sermon at the church where we are setting up the clinic. He is in a lot of pain . A little improvised care was established, IV fluids and IV medication. We did not have an IV pole so we took a picture off the wall and used the picture hanger. We are all praying he will be better by tomorrow.

There have been many gliches trying to set up this clinic. Tomorrow afternoon we will have to work in order to be ready by Monday.