Dear followers, bloggers & new readers, it's good to have time to update you on the last couple of days... so much seems to happen in a day... life could be a bit dull when we get back!
Special thanks to recent, emails from Jenny M, Jan E, Tina B, Lyn B, Viv M, Jocelyn E, Ray C and Mark. Loved reading them. As my email address can't be accessed from this blog, I have two email addresses you can use and I seem to be able to access both - elizabethharper@clear.net.nz or vallechicanz@gmail.com
TUESDAY
Went off to Anna Home to spend time with the children who go to school in the afternoons. We had a great time playing soccer, Chinese checkers and teaching them "God is so good....He's so good to me" and 'head, shoulders, knees & toes. The productive vegie garden is in harvest mode. A Canadian lady who was here with VSO for 6 months arranged for garden seeds to be sent and they were planted in May but Boldoo and others didn't have a clue what the vegetables were, how to use them or when to pick them. They've grown tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, courgettes, melons, beans & pop corn (as they call it). Craig had to explain how to pick (esp the sweet corn) and prepare them for cooking and eating.
We often don't know where or when we are going next and have just learnt to go with the flow. So we headed off to our next assignment which was to visit a sick lady in the most humble abode we've been to so far - no running water or power. Often the bedroom is also the lounge and you enter through the kitchen which houses the coal fired cooker. Most toilets are in the far corner of the yard - long drops I think but have not investigated and not likely to! This dear lady was lying in bed with injuries from a fall at the market, she had her hands full and tripped head first onto concrete. She'd been in bed 3 days and had not eaten in that time. Her daughter and grand-daughter had been at church on Sunday and asked if we would come. We spent time talking with her and praying and she seemed very much at peace when we left.
Our next task was not so difficult - lunch at a very nice Chinese restaurant. This was our first time eating out at a restaurant here - we've eaten in homes but mostly self catered. No matter who you visit, you are served milk tea and usually gherkins and sausage, and often biscuits and candy. When you are on a visiting roll, you have to pace yourself as it gets pretty filling but you don't want to offend your hosts.
Back to the Chinese restaurant, we were with Boldoo and a woman called Toro and her brother. They both speak English, in fact Toro has been an English teacher and is now a translator. Boldoo and Toro have a dream to set up a tourism venture where they could employ the Anna Home children as they get older. They'd like to set up holiday 'gers' (round felt tents) and possibly have a number of them where people could cycle from camp to camp. They talked business plans and ideas with Craig over lunch for a couple of hours.
Our last mission for the day was to visit another church member who we'd prayed for on Sunday. She also lives in a fairly humble abode but must have power because there was a tv in the bedroom/lounge. A lovely lady who has been persecuted at her work by being demoted because of her faith. It seems that Joyce Meyer has come to Mongolia - I think she's seen her on tv. She brought out her bible and a couple of Joyce's daily reading books which she says have helped her alot. We chatted over milk tea, bread and candy and then encouraged and prayed for her.
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