More interesting People and Places

We were invited to dinner this week by Tuvshin and her Husband Inkbot.  She works for the Service Center in the Same building where we work.  She gets all of the foreign missionaries their sponsors so they can come into Mongolia.  Mongolia does not give religious visas, the only way a missionary can get into Mongolia is to be sponsored to teach English. The missionaries teach English from 12 to 15 hours a week. We really don't have to teach English because we are sponsored by Deseret International Charities and we don't require ourselves to teach English.  We just teach one class every Tuesday night at our church office building.  We have been averaging 30-35 students per week.

Any way Tuvshin graciously invited us to dinner along with another senior couple.  Her husband Inkbot is quite the chief.  He really enjoys cooking and they gave us a wonderful meal of so many different foods.  The Mongolian people are so gracious and hospitable. I am always in awe of their willingness to share EVERYTHING that they have.

Inkbot and Tuvshin

They have 3 beautiful energetic daughters

A feast fit for a King

We also went to the most enjoyable museum so far in Mongolia.
You can only visit so many Buddhist temples.  This museum is called 

The International Intellectual Museum of Mongolia. 

This man has literally thousands of puzzles that he has made himself.  He has hand carved wooden puzzles. metal puzzles, tables and chairs that are puzzles, chess pieces that are puzzles, doors to Gers that are puzzles.  The Man is brilliant. We were able to meet him.  He is really personable and showed us a magic show while we were there.  We had a guide who spoke English which was a real plus also.  Anyway here are a few pictures, all of puzzles from this fun museum.

This chess game is made from animal shoulder bones, the big ones are horse and cow, the smaller ones are sheep and goat.  They are all intricately carved.  They are on a chess table that is a puzzle, notice the legs.

This is the man who is the genius behind the museum

The table is a puzzle, the chess pieces are puzzles. He really enjoys his art!

It was a fun hands on museum.  Now you know that I really am a child at heart.