I thought that Missionaries needed boots and a pith helmet. Never needed them!
When I first went there, every leg of chair had a can of kerosene on it to keep the driver ants away, smell of kerosene everywhere. But then as time went on it changed, but not sure what happened. Missionary modernization happened little by little when I got there.
Getting around wasn’t too easy. Kerosene refrigerators. Heated the back that made the ice, always a problem, cleaning the wicks.
Kerosene cooks stoves, we, myself and maybe Nancy Hall and Rita had a little house up on a hill and had a kerosene stove. Every lunch time we would run home, go to the bathroom, get cleaned up. Everytime we were smoking up the ceiling. And one day Dewitt came up and put this great big box on our front porch. I am so tired of painting the wall in your house. You’re going to use a gas stove from now on. After that everybody wanted a gas stove. We got the first bottled gas stove!
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