Saving it all for the last day

Whenever we come to Lui, we get to the last day and have lots of loose ends to tie up. This morning the Swedes, Marie and Goran, were making a list of copies and invoices and so forth that they need. Rick asked me to remind Stephen that he's waiting for some office plans and lists of expenditures for Lunjini Chapel and such. I have the whole list of gifts we've sent or money in accounts in our diocese waiting for credible plans from Lui to discuss.And I'm waiting for grinding mill receipts and an accounting of last year's administrative expenses. If anyone from CPC is reading this, Vasco and Stephen have told us that they still have the Miles of Pennies grant money; they have been to Juba several times to buy books but so far have not found what they need in the markets there. We will have to talk about this when we get back.

So instead of dealing with any of that -- that meeting isn't till 2 pm, after all! -- I am spending the morning communicating with the very helpful tech guy, Denis, from ECS, to try to figure out why only one of the 5 computers installed by them thanks to Trinity Wall Street will get online, and why the laptops here won't get on the wireless network (my phone does, but computers won't...). Then there's the problem of convincing the Swedish laptops to speak English, not to mention trying to get the photos of the bicycle-giving ceremony out of Stephen's camera and onto a computer so Missourians can see them.

Then we pack, and then we have a final celebratory dinner with some of the diocesan staff. Bishop Bullen is still staying in the house the Italians have built at the hospital, which is why I'm saying he's at the hospital -- he's not exactly in the hospital. The Brits are off to say hello to him this morning; the rest of us have already done that.