Deans' weekly update

We had some good services on Sunday both in the morning and evening.

The Pattersons returned to Mongolia last Thursday. I picked them up at the airport with their 18 bags. You have to carry a lot with you when you come to Mongolia to stay. They were able to move back into the apartment that they occupied when they were here before. They are buried in obtaining residency permission, getting phones set up, and all the details of moving to a new country.

We had a good group Sunday morning and Sunday night was even better. We had twenty first time visitors. Sixteen of those were a group of Ukrainians who came to visit our services. Though they did not speak English Enkhtuul did an excellent job of translating from English to Russian/Ukrainian even though her native speech is Mongolian. The group from the Ukraine also blessed us with a set of songs and a short challenge which was translated from Russian/Ukrainian into English again by the faithful Enkhtuul.

Please pray for us as we continue to prepare to leave Mongolia. There are many things that we need to do and it’s not always clear the best way to accomplish them. Our neighbors all pitched in and helped us dispose of much of the little items that we were looking to get rid of: books, clothes, small furniture pieces, some children’s bikes. Now we need to sell the bigger pieces of furniture in our home. Update: everything large in the house is sold!