Thanksgiving in Tchad 2010

Hi Everybody,

Just wanted to tell you we had a nice TG although our chief cook had
some problems in the kitchen :-/, but we left with full bellies, so I
guess it was a good TG. I bought bad flour - normally I smell it before
I buy it, but this time I forgot. It smelled like dirt but I decided to
use it anyway - bad mistake! It wouldn't bake. It was disgusting!! I
tried to make an "apple" pie with green pumpkin, but it wasn't green
enough, so it tasted like pumpkin! It was ok, but not too exciting. We
had some real potatoes, but then I made another pan of the fake instant
kind, and no one really ate them! We had gluten and gravy, cornbread
stuffing, which was ok, but it was a bit dry, then Josie made a sweet
potato pumpkin dish, and a friend sent her stuff for green bean
casserole and pumpkin pie. So, it was ok, but since the pie crusts had
the bad flour as well, and we thickened the gravy with corn starch, I
was a bit disgusted that after being in the kitchen all day it didn't
turn out better! But we had good fellowship so that was fun. Right now
we have 4 SMs, one girl was here before and she is really a character.
She brought two friends with her and one of them was a student of Aunt
Verna's in 1st and 2nd grade! (Aunt Verna, it is Phillip Sherwood.) The
last one is a girl from England, so she had her first TG in Chad! They
are a really good group and a lot of fun. The three of them are only
here until just before Christmas though, so we wish they had more time,
but glad to have them for now anyway.

There are also a couple of Congolese drs here who are from near where
Gary grew up, so they speak his African dialect, so they have had fun
chatting together. Unfortunately, we have a new district medical officer
who is really being a pain and won't give them licenses to work here in
Chad, so they are going over to Cameroon to help at the hospital there
for now, since they have no dr there right now. Our new drs for the
hospital here are scheduled to come in about 2 wks so we pray they will
not have the same troubles, but he is really being a pain and
unfortunately his brother is the head of parliament or something like
that, so everyone is scared to cross him.

Anyway, we had a nice Sabbath and now Gary leaves tomorrow for some
meetings in Paris. He will be gone for about 10 days, and Jonathan and
Melody will meet up with him in NDJ on his way back, so we are looking
forward to having them back again!

Guess that's all for now. Would love to hear about your TGs too if you
haven't written already!

Love to all,
Wendy