Thursday is today. The 21st. My birthday! Anika woke me up with a nice slice of chocolate cake from the nearest ‘mapket’, which is Russian/Mongolian for market, which is really just a little store. :) It was very good, and a great way to start off the day. Today, we made the pizza dough for the pizza that we are making for the YWAM staff. It will only be us and the staff eating it, because today was the graduation service for the 8 YWAM students. It was beautiful. They had it in the upstairs hallways of the base building. Which was interesting, and it really worked out well. It was ingenious! It was a kind of candlelight service, and it was so beautiful. Then we had supper and now we are hanging out! We got the tickets this morning for the bus ride back to UB, the capital city, on Saturday. We got seats near the back, so it may be a bumpy ride! We were hoping for seats in the middle, but apparently the people in the ticket-buying place were convinced that the sport of buying tickets is full-contact. It was kind of humorous, kind of frustrating. :) But it will be a fun ride, with the team, Shauna, Mega (a person of staff here at YWAM that is heading to Erdenet) and two students from the YWAM graduated crew heading home.
Tomorrow is our last day, and it will be sad to leave this place. For me this time in Bayankhongor was… incredible. This was the word I have been using to describe nearly everything since the time we stepped into the Edmonton airport. From then on, absolutely everything was a whole new experience!! The first time in an airport, the first time on a plane, the first time overseas, the first time in a foreign country (US does not count), etc. It is incredible! But also, a stretching time. We have been forced to do things that maybe aren’t the most comfortable, both mentally, spiritually and physically. But, I hope I can safely say for my team, we have had a positive experience here, as a whole. While learning to appreciate the small enjoyments, we could start to see God’s hand at work absolutely everywhere. It was incredible. :)
Well, I think I have maybe written enough... sorry for the novel! And especially sorry if it has scared anyone off from reading this… oops. Sometimes I tend to be long winded, and I apologize. I just get so excited!!
If we do not write tomorrow, I hope we will have time to write some in UB!
Talk to you later, folks! And GOD BLESS YOU, EVERYONE! :)
Love, Demara
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
DEMARA - YOU ARE 20!! How does it feel, oldie? I really miss you and am sad that I don't get to see you on your big day. I will have something for you when I see you next. Happy Birthday! Mark and I were playing WII yesterday and found out that we can check the weather - so we checked how cold it was in Mongolia! :) -33!! Now, THAT is cold! We definitely groaned. Good thing you have special little huts to keep warm in and BIG boots! :) Love you lots, dear sister and I miss you lots. Stay safe.
ReplyDeleteCourt-box
Happy Birthday Demara!!!! (a little late).
ReplyDeleteI'm praying for you guys.
Good post Demara! Enjoy UB! Looking forward to seeing all of you on Wed. Sorry we had to be firm about debrief schedule, but want to take good care of all of you. Bless you!
ReplyDelete-Rob
HI EVERYONE!!!!
ReplyDeleteI hope people read this, because it is important!
There has been change in the blog set up, and we had to write our last post in the URL "camroseagain.blogspot.com".
So if you want to have a sense of conclusion, you have to navigate there! I hope you find it. I would hate to leave you all hanging! Sorry for the time that we DID leave you... but we are back now! Just in a different spot. Hope you find us!
Demara