Cheryl was injured and a great sunrise

 The sunrise is actually behind us to the East and this is a photo of the early Sun on the clouds in the West
 As Cheryl was opening the upper kitchen cupboard it came loose from the wall and fell down onto the sink and microwave. All of the contents then spilled Out onto the floor and unfortunately onto her foot. One glass jar hit right on her toe and another hit on the middle of the top of her foot.

Fortunately a day later now her foot is very colorful but she is able to walk on it. We are hoping for a complete recovery soon.


The biggest problem was the bottle of vegetable oil that spilt onto the floor. Even though we've mop the floor couple times there's still residue on the floor. We had an office day today so I was dressed in my casual non missionary clothes.

Comments

  1. UnknownMarch 4, 2018 at 7:28 AM

    Wow she’s lucky just the food got her, if that cupboard smashed her food it would be broken.

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  2. The PiersApril 5, 2018 at 8:47 PM

    We were sorry to read about the accident but glad that it was not more serious. We were wondering what kind of projects you were working on?

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    1. The Trapani's in LiberiaApril 7, 2018 at 11:40 PM

      Most of the projects are for farming. The projects teach principles of nutrition and farming techniques. Then we supply them with basic farm tools and seeds. A lot of follow up visits are made for ongoing training and problem solving. We also have several water projects where water is brought into a village from a distant source. It eliminates a lot of time carrying the water and helps to purify the water source. On a current project we will be supplying plastic to make artificial limbs.

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