I am embarassed about not writing and doing pictures. We have been super busy and had computer problems.
Here is a sample of our Preparation-day. Up at 6:45, walked until 7:38, breakfast, showers, organize go to the church 9:30am to meet electrician at 10. But first go to Katutura chapel to see if the lady next door is home so she can give us the yard clippers to cut down this very thorny bush like tree. She is leaving to take her blind son to the Mental Hospital. He lives with his dad. She gives me the clippers and we put them in the car then go to Windhoek Branch. We put gas in the car. Every 5-6 days we go 300km. How many miles? Who knows, a lot.
We call the electrician at 10:10, he will be here in 20 minutes. Call him in 30 minutes, he will be here in 15-20 minutes or NOW, not NOW, NOW as we would have hoped. We called the elders to pick up the clippers from us at Windhoek. They come and then we explain which bush/tree to cut.
The electrician did show up in less than 20 minutes. We had waited 45 minutes for him total. Take him to Katutura chapel to check out electrical. He says he will be done by 1. We leave him. We go back to the Windhoek chapel for correlation meeting. I wash all the blackboards after meeting. Not quite all, only about 4-5. Back home for a quick lunch, and to pick up the foot board for a stroke member that dad forgot to bring. We go back to Katutura and guess what, he isn't done. I wash the black boards in Katutura, sand the holes I filled in YW room yesterday and scrub off the black marks on the outside walls some kids drew on the last few weeks. Will have to talk to the primary kids in a week when we have Primary. I also put up announcements and pictures of the YSA activity on the bulletin board.
The electrician is done, but he wants to be paid NOW, NOW. Doesn't he know the church doesn't do things like that. So we go to the nearest ATM give his worker boys $1200N and make them write a receipt. We would go deliver the foot board, but we got a call from DHL with two packages for me, from distribution. Whew. Back home and we just got the packages.
Got a phone call from an investigator who said she was 20km from Windhoek. She doesn't have a place to stay, but trusts God that he will help her.
Now back to deliver the foot board. Doug has been talking with Phkama from Cape Town about purchases for Katutura that we have to get ordered and picked up. I called the painters wife and have the color of paint to get to paint the room tonight before Katutura's correlation meeting at 7. I also have to get the food for a German meal tomorrow as the Elders are coming to dinner and the one being transferred is from Germany. I am fixing chicken schnitzel, cucumber salad, green beans, apple strudel. I am tired already and it is only 2:50pm.
We didn’t paint until Thursday am and it looks wonderful. It will be my last painting in Namibia. The rollers are long thick nap because the paint is like medium concrete to pour. It splatters EVERYWHERE and on EVERYONE.
We were supposed to cross this river. This was the dry season. So we called and ended up driving up the NO ENTRY area and crossed on a foot bridge. EXCITING.
This was the view out the jeep. I chose the middle seat above the driver. She was the owner of the reserve.
A great family of Wart Hogs. They were all over.
We were instructed not to SCREAM or touch. So I was obedient.