Thunderstorms and sticky mud.

Apparently it thundered and rained all through the night. Ian slept through some had disturbed night.

After a wet early morning the sun came out. Two Marys and Jan went up to town to buy phone cards and change money. Then went to see the matron at Jill Barham School.

Jan and Rob set off to visit Jonas’ parents and show off the new wheel chair. The storm had turned the soil to thick mud soon our boots were clogged and heavy. We also visited Angela Roget Ramagana’s sister she was away praying but we were able to check the exterior of the house which the group from Southover built previously. Rob organised some repairs of a pipe for Jonas to implement. She is getting on much better now with a very prolific garden and Mango and Avocado trees they are grafted onto dwarfing stocks so they are good for a small garden and fruit within 3 years usually. These are provided by the government to poor widows. We then went on to another house owned by Patrick, Jonas’s cousin. He greeted us, his wife had gone to the clinic with a sick baby. Two of the other children were not well. They came to see us later at Jonas’ father’s house. It looked as though she had a bad chest infection but were going back this afternoon for the results of a blood test. We then went on to Jonas’ father’s house the family were very pleased to meet us and show us the new wheel chair, Sheila Etherington organised it through a free church hospital.  The family have been given two heifers by the government. They  looked healthy and well fed the animals are kept indoors to stop disease and fed with collected grass. They are expecting a calf in the summer which they will then donate to a neighbour without one. The manure was collected into heaps with other garden waste to mature and would be put back on the land. After prayers we departed and walked back through the mud which was slowly drying off in the sun.