Let them eat cake

Woke up to a fine hot morning. The girls had a meeting with  Bishop’s wife Bertha and Honorine Obadiah’s wife. They were talking about Mother’s Union and Mary O’s project to empower young girls by mentoring and training their teachers and leaders. They had a long and successful meeting.

Rob and Ian had an appointment with the Bishop at 10 and were also waiting for the leader of the Pentecostal church in DR Congo Pastor Acheba to come and see us as we had a computer for him.

Acheba eventually arrived at 3 pm and Bishop 45 minutes later, we are now getting quite used to African time. Both meetings went very well, with Acheba getting a laptop computer and a free medical consultation.

Lunch was interesting as we ordered soup which came with cake as they had run out of bread, yummy combination.

Rob eventually had a very fruitful conversation, the bishop was obviously exhausted with all the travelling and all the demands on his time plus a family bereavement which would mean another long trip over the weekend.

Very congenial supper with Tony and Jonathon by then the rain had started in earnest again and so to bed. We were awaken to the sound of running water one of the hot taps had finally given up the ghost so another little problem to contend with.