Report #11, Oct 20

Report 11 for Monday Oct 20

Well today looked like being a day when we could not do too much as Vadym had to take his old but good Mercedes into the shop to have the rear springs replaced, as it was bottoming out and sitting very low. It was to be in by nine and should have been out by 12 Noon. Vadym phoned at Noon and said that it would not be ready as they found that it was not so much the springs that were the trouble, but the frame and they were going to cut out the bad and weld in some new!! It is amazing what they do with cars here and seem to do a good job. Enough of the mechanics course.

He said he would use his wife’s car and so came to get us in that.

We had planned to visit an orphanage in town but found that the administrator was out of town, so will go on Tuesday. We went to visit Luba and see the renovation job that was done on her apartment but found that she was out, so had to go back later. We went back and found that they had done a great job but if someone had not seen it before they would not have thought that much had been done. With it being about half the size of a North American bachelor suite and having a lady and a boy and girl living in it, there is little chance of the place being tidy. How a person can exist in such confined circumstances is beyond us. All this being said, it is now clean and functional with more than the one outlet she had before: new plumbing and toilet and taps; a new cooker and a good front door. She is overwhelmed with the kindness of Christians to care about her. She is a lovely baptized believer.

Well we had arranged to visit Tania and her mother who Tania had just brought from the hospital in Kiev on Saturday. We said that we would pick up some chicken for supper and go there at 5.30. We went and found the mother (forgive us, we can’t remember her name !!) up and about but feeling really drugged. We cannot find a name for her problem but it is something to do with her nose and is extremely painful, hence the drugs.

Three of her sons were there, another one lives with grandma, and then there is Tania who is the only breadwinner as the husband has left them all and is a drunken truck driver. What a nice combination.!!!

We had a nice meal and then each told how they got saved. It would seem that most were saved except the youngest.

We left and came home to try once more to get on line with no success. The lady we are renting from invited us to use a high speed connection her grandson was using to see if we could get on line. We could get on line but not on the internet; most frustrating.

We hope to get help on Tuesday.

God bless and thank you for praying.

Malcolm