Elders Bayarjargal, Standley, Odd, Chingajav and Jangar, our guide |
Our visit to Dambadarjaal Monastery |
The "eyes" show the Tibetan influence on this stupa - a burial tomb and alternate worship site |
Elders Standley and Odd - the large white building is an abandoned Buddhist university |
Jangar came along as a tour guide.
Jangar explaining Buddhism to Mormon Elders |
Darlene chose to stay home to protect her
health. Smart woman! We survived our manly adventure and we are no worse for
wear. I think tourist opportunities are limited from now until spring. We
climbed to a hill overlooking the monastery and the ger district looking toward
the city.
Elder Odd in front of a typical Ger District - the Chingeltei mountains are in the background |
Special broadcast. On
Sunday, we enjoyed an Asia Area broadcast to all the meetinghouses in 14 countries.
The broadcast was translated into all the local languages ahead of time and
took the place of the three hour block schedule.
Elder Holland from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has been assigned the Asia Area and was one of the featured speakers. We senior couples listened to an English version. The broadcast featured talks on member missionary work.
Elder Holland from the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has been assigned the Asia Area and was one of the featured speakers. We senior couples listened to an English version. The broadcast featured talks on member missionary work.
Those who arrive early get individualized instruction |
English class. We
are in a groove and have polished our teaching methods and lesson plans. We
have six months or less to go on our mission so all our teaching skill we will
take with us.
Going over the clues used in the treasure hunt |
These classes are delightful despite being a lot of work. We love
our students. There will be so much we will miss about Mongolia when we leave.
We planned a treasure hunt this week which our students enjoyed thoroughly.
Part of our training in Darkhan |
Quick trip to
Darkhan. On Saturday, we hired Zorgeo, our taxi driver from this spring, to
take us up to Darkhan and bring us back the same day. This saved on hotel
expenses.
Elder Fredley is in the center and Sister Fredley is on the right, - Zorgeo, to my right, joined us for lunch |
The Fredleys, who live in Darkhan, helped with the arrangements and the food and were wonderful hosts.
PuuJee on the left with our new consultant in Darkhan |
We traveled with PuuJee, our friend and new country adviser for
Family History in Mongolia. We wanted to train her on this trip and introduce her
to the Family History Director in Darkhan.
Orunchimeg, the FH Director in Darkhan |
I had a counseling assignment and
took along our own translator from UB in preserve the confidentiality of local
members in Darkhan.
The weather cooperated and our trip went without incident.
It will probably be our last trip of the fall and winter as road conditions
will make travel more hazardous.
I should have said “next to last” as this weekend we will go
to Khovd for Family History training. This trip was rescheduled from earlier
this month when we missed our flight. Landscape near Khovd |
This will be our one and only trip to
western Mongolia during our mission. We are looking forward to it and we hope
the weather cooperates.
Our health. Last winter
we both ended up with double pneumonia. This winter we are being a lot more
careful and won’t push ourselves so hard. The smoke and pollution in the air
makes us vulnerable to respitory type infections.
We aren’t looking forward to
the siege of cold weather that will be our new life for the next four months. I will have a couple of writing projects to
keep me busy but indoors. We have special masks to wear that filters out the
pollutants.
Brother and Sister Farmer - I just got news that there is a Mongolian Elder who joined them in the MTC and also, an Elder from Kobe, Japan. I think Nicholas is helping the Elder from Kobe to learn Mongolian. This is all very exciting! I am glad you mentioned the masks for pollution - I had debated whether to send some. I will do that, for sure, now. I read the UB post every day.....Stay warm and healthy! Jeanette
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