Finally....

After almost 5 months we have a signed wheelchair contract!

Yeah!

Elder Nay Stamping and signing the contract.

Elder Nay, Batdulam of the Ministry of Population Development and Social Protection and

S. Erdene of National Rehabilitation Center.

On Thursday, April 3, 2014 we had a turnover ceremony at the 

Songino Kharkhan Pediatric Hospital

Deseret Donated 3 Oxygen concentrators.

They help a lot of children at this hospital and especially during the cold winter months,

with the heavy air pollution they have a great need for the oxygen concentrators.

They informed us that they serve over 20,000 children a year.  

We toured the intensive care area while we were there.  

It is not like our intensive care units, but they still give the best care they can.

It was humbling to see the little babies that needed help, lying in big beds.

But they do that on purpose, so the mothers can lay with their babies.

The doctors here are very knowable, well trained and caring.

We have been very impressed with all of the Doctors and medical professionals we have met here in Mongolia.

 Hospital Director Galsantseden presenting Elder Nay with an appreciation plaque.

Our translator Muugiii is in the background and one of the oxygen concentrators is on the table.

Front row is Enkhbat who is the 1st Counselor in the UB East District and represented the church, 

Soyolmaa Service Center Manager for the Church here, she is our boss and mentor, 

Elder Nay, Sister Nay and the Director of the Hospital. Lots of other members of their staff

On Saturday, April 5th,  I was able to watch the General Women's Meeting at the Bayanzurkh Building.

We were originally told that the Jargarlant Branch was having a Branch Get together on Saturday at 10 am.

We traveled (45 min walk) up there for the social and found out that they had cancelled it until 1 pm and that everyone was going to go to the Bayenzurkh building to watch the Women's Meeting.

So Elder Nay and I get on a bus and go back to the Bayenzurkh Building (only took us 30 minutes). 

After the Women's Meeting we head on back up to the  Chingeltei building.  I takes us 45 minutes, even riding a bus.

But we do get there in time to hearvsome of what is going on for the social.  

Everyone introduces themselves and tells a little bit about themselves.

Jargarlant branch is a new branch which is a combination of two other branches.

The goal is to get them to be a ward within a year.

We had fun.  Met people, had refreshments, then those who wanted went out and played volleyball?

 To play this version of volleyball, everyone stands in a circle.  They serve the ball back and forth.

If you miss the ball or give a bad serve you have to go to the middle of the circle 

and squat or kneel down.  Others join you in the circle as they miss the ball.

The only way to get out of the circle is to catch the ball, which is really hard to do while you are squatting.  They also get kind of vicious by spiking the ball at you. 

If they hit a person in the middle they do not have to go in the middle.

Kind of scary.  But it was kind of fun.

The weather has been gorgeous here in Mongolia.  It was shirt sleeve weather today.

Scripture for the week:

Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;