Report #8, Oct 17

Report 8 Friday Oct 17 3008

We both slept well and woke at about 7pm to a soaking wet day of pouring rain that did not really stop all day. There was hot water for a bath plus the heat is on in the house.

We ate our cereal out of out coffee cups as we did not have bowls. It worked quite well. We had some sardines Flo had given us so ate them on bread. We had coffee and were satisfied until we get some more things today.

Vadym arrived at 10:30 to take us to get some produce to take to shut-ins as well as some in great difficulty. By the time we had shopped at the wholesale it was after noon and so we went to a nice little café and had a bowl of soup and a toasted sandwich, very good and cheap.

We went to visit 4 homes of different people from an old mother with a blind boy of 28 to an abandoned mother with a crippled little sweetheart of 7 or 8 and a one year old boy; and lastly an old widower of 84 living alone except from a little help from a grand-daughter. He recalled for us his time in concentration camps and work camps. He suffered under the Germans, then the Hungarians and lastly by the Russians. While he was in one of the work camps a priest gave him a bible which he carried with him through the whole war and he still has. He believed God preserved him because he read and believed the bible he carried. He may well be a saved man or at least a believer in God’s ability to protect and preserve.

We were able to have good conversations with most and invited those able to come to the meetings. We trust will they will try to come.

We went shopping and came home to a supper of soup, and a sandwich and Pringles.

We plan to visit an old folks home and an orphanage tomorrow.

Good night and God bless.

Malcolm.