tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54287765950857879152024-02-19T05:05:32.689-08:00Mendenhall MattersI can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-89442582831379729232017-11-17T16:58:00.001-08:002017-11-17T16:58:37.361-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Don't Let Life's Distractions Eclipse Heaven's Light</h2>
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Look through a gospel lens and be vigilant not to allow insignificant and inconsequential matters in life to obscure your view.</h3>
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As I read this quote by Elder Gary E. Stevenson, I thought how often I let the inconveniences of living in another country bug me. I need to STOP! Fiji is beautiful, the people are beautiful, it's just the taxi and bus drivers are a little CRAZY! </div>
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We've moved from our first flat because it was not a clean place and a lot of creepy bugs. We'd made arrangements to stay until the humanitarian couple left on the 17th of November and then we would move into their flat. Everything was fine until the landlord asked us to move because she went ahead and rented it so we had to find a place for about 2.5 weeks. We've been living in the temple presidency housing. It's been amazing to walk out the front door every morning and see this. . . .<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The last couple of weeks has been a beautiful blessing, to rub shoulders with the Twilight Missionaries who work at the temple and to get to see this beautiful sight. We will be moving to the other flat next Tuesday, not too far away. Yeah!!! But I will be vigilant not to let the insignificant things obscure my view of this beautiful country.</span></td></tr>
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The Twilight Missionaries (Senior missionaries) took a trip on the Navua River a couple of weeks ago. It rained and rained and rained, but we were prepared, it was warm and we had a great time.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When we got to the village, they welcomed us with the lali drums and coconut milk</td></tr>
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They fed us a traditional Fiji lunch, which was pretty good and then some of the village children sang to us. It was a fun day.<br />
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The last couple of weeks of school have been a little crazy. Last Saturday our humanitarian missionaries asked us to attend Diabetes Day. The kids at the Secondary school were marching and singing. This humanitarian couple were asked to come to Fiji and work with Diabetes. He is a podiatrist and diabetes, prosthetics and wound care and amputations are his area of expertise. In Fiji they do not know how to take care of wounds, and there are a lot of wounds to the feet here, because they don't wear shoes and the humidity is so high. When a foot is infected, because it hasn't been treated properly, even by the doctors, they just amputate the leg. Dr./Elder Clark has been working in the hospitals and teaching them how to care for wounds so that they aren't doing so many amputations. One of our senior missionaries was telling us about someone they knew who had sprained his ankle and eventually it was amputated. Anyway so we went to the Diabetes Day Parade.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We met the President of Fiji<br />(It's always hot and very humid - makes for many bad hair days)<br /></span></td></tr>
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We were just assigned to a new branch, a new district, to see if we can help them learn and organize their branches and auxiliaries. Most are new converts and don't feel they can be good teachers. They come from churches that have paid ministries where pastors and such have been to school. This may be a new challenge for us. This church is in the village of Korovou, a little over an hour from Suva. It's a beautiful drive. The last 1.5 miles we drive on a dirt road and come to the beautiful white chapel on the hill. They had their first district conference last Sunday, our first time there.<br />
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This last week I was asked to speak at the Primary School graduation, just grades Kindy - 3rd. There was a few more people than I was expecting. But this is the garlands that Kent and I were given. Before we leave I'm sure I'll know the different names of these different garlands.<br />
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The College (high school) had their prom and dinner. It was quite an event. Here are a few<br />
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We have more adventures coming up. Next week the teachers have a retreat at the Warick Resort that we understand is pretty nice.We also have some visitors from New Zealand coming who will be doing some training with the teachers. Also starting on Monday and going through December 22nd, the Fiji Technical College is coming to the church campus and holding some classes that we've been asked by the office in New Zealand to attend and give feedback and just monitor what's happening. We were hoping for long break but it looks like now we'll only have about 3 weeks.<br />
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Unlike Nepal, Christmas is a big deal here in Fiji, the shops and malls are all decorated for Christmas, the kids at school have been singing Christmas songs, it just doesn't feel like the holidays. The missionaries will be celebrating Thanksgiving but that's when we go on the retreat with the teachers, and there is definitely no snow and no cold. So I'll be looking through those lenses to find the Christmas spirit a little different than I'm used to, knowing Christmas has really nothing to do with snow. I will be vigilant in letting the insignificant obscure my view of what really matters and what's truly important. <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;">We have been in Fiji for 5 weeks now and haven't seen much sun yet. Lots of blustery days and lots of rain, It's coming to the end of winter here and we're told that things will be changing. The temperature has stayed in the 70's for the most part which is real nice being winter, and in the summer it warms up a little, in the 80's. However it is very humid.</span></div>
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Our days are pretty much spent at the college preparing the course work for the teachers. We haven't done any sight seeing yet but school is out for the year in November so we will get a chance to check out the island of Fiji, and by then there should be blue skies and beautiful ocean.<br />
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I mentioned in my last past how nice the college campus is. It is really set up like a college campus with different buildings. This school houses grades 7 - 13 and there are around 400 students, 90% are LDS.<br />
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We attend the Samabula 1st ward. Our chapel is attached to the primary school and it's a fairly good size ward. It is an English speaking ward. The 2nd ward is Fijian speaking. Last week we had an awesome sacrament meeting. I learned a new word 'Nikauwa', not sure if I've spelled it right, but it means small but significant. It's actually a Tongan word. I'm learning that Nikauwa is exactly what Fiji is, small but significant. Alma 37:6, Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise. <br />
The missionaries are seeing pretty significant success in Fiji. There are 19,737 members, 9 family history centers, 49 congregations and 1 temple.<br />
Fiji is a very Christian country, most things are shut down on Sundays, and you see lots of people walking to church with their bibles. LDS Missionaries first came to Fiji in 1843.<br />
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We are teaching our class 2 nights a week, when I say we, I mean Kent is teaching 2 nights a week. I sit at the computer and push the button for the power point, and that's only because the remote's not working. I was told I needed to bring treats to class because the teachers will be hungry after a long day at school. So I make treats, take the roll, keep track of grades, and communicate with our directors in New Zealand. Kent is teaching SPED200, which he is very knowledgeable about since Special Education is where his career began. And he loves Special Ed. and he's good at it, really good.<br />
We have 8 teachers taking this course. The hard part of getting this going has been finding enough days to teach before the school years ends in November, so we've had to jump right in and get things moving.<br />
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Two weeks ago, we were asked to be the guest speakers at the Primary School for their conclusion of Library Week. Yeah! Something different. It was very fun. They had a character parade where all the children all dressed up as their favorite character, lots of superman, spiderman and princesses. Sort of like the Halloween parade in the elementaries.</div>
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This is how we spend our Saturdays.<br />
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Kent working, working, working, while I clean our flat and iron white shirts for the week and figure out what treats to make for class next week.</div>
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This is our flat and our car. Our landlords live below us. I've even been driving this week, a big out of the comfort zone for me.</div>
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Last Sunday we had our monthly family home evening with all the "twilight" missionaries at the mission home. We had a few brothers from Salt Lake come and speak to us about their review of what's happening in Fiji. On Tuesday we had the Area President , Elder Halleck and his wife come fix the senior missionaries dinner and speak to us, he was here for a mission tour. </div>
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This mission is so different than the last two. I love having other missionaries to associate with. It's exciting to see the young elders and sisters out working hard and sharing the gospel and loving the people here. Today we met a brother who carves Fiji nativities. He's Indian, from Fiji, and served a mission in Nepal in the 90's when missionaries were allowed to serve in Nepal. One of his companions at the time is a good friend of ours who worked at the American Embassy when we were in Nepal. They would invite the 2 missionary couples to dinner for Christmas and Thanksgiving, which was such a blessing to us. It is amazing how very small the world is when it comes to the gospel, to acknowledge and really understand that we all our brothers and sisters.<br />
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This last week we have had our directors here from New Zealand and have been meeting, meeting and more meeting with them and teachers and administration from both the Primary School and FLDSCC , the FLDS throws you off a little but it stands for Fiji Latter-Day Saint Church College. It's been a good learning experience and spending and getting to know Bryce and Sherrie Holbrook even better, but it has been a very busy week.<br />
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These are pictures of the last few weeks:<br />
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We have had the blessing and opportunity of attending the temple a few times. Wednesday nights are usually when the "twilight" missionaries attend. This last week it was such a blessing to be in the temple with a group of brothers and sisters who had come from Papua New Guinea to receive their temple ordinances. They were so humble and I was humbled to be with them for a few hours.<br />
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A couple of weeks ago the school had a TVET fair or a vocational fair presenting the things that they were learning about and had worked on during the school year :<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kent is with a tall Fijian young man, the crutches were built in the shop class for our Humanitarian Missionaries who work with people who have diabetes. 60 pairs of crutches were built and distributed to some of the villages</td></tr>
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Graduation is being held in 2 weeks and I'm excited because we hopefully get to go to the Prom. Their trying something new this year, graduation before their final exams, which seems a little backward to me but then I remember, "my solution to your problem will always be wrong."<br />
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I am pretty sure that every one, young and old who has served a mission has had their faith tried one way or another....... and yet I am pretty sure that what comes through that trial is PATIENCE. We have been in Nepal for fourteen months, we have had to get 4 visas and in the next 4 months we will need to get 2 more visas. If and when the government of Nepal is working, it is always at a snails pace, it's pretty much "when we get around to it." They have been trying for over a decade to have an election and to be able to write a constitution. Elections are once again scheduled for November 19th, it looks like it may happen. The PATIENCE of the Nepali people is pretty amazing, not so much for Sister Janet Mendenhall. I find myself walking out the front gate and having little patience with the laws or lack thereof of Nepal, the crazy drivers, the torn up roads, the "when we get around to it" attitude. I have 4 or 5 more months left, there is still hope for me to learn patience, I need to remind myself that my way is not always the best way, I need to remember that the Lord did not send me here to change Nepal but to help and love the people and I think that part is easy. I love their patient attitude with me when I get discouraged and frustrated. They are a loving and kind people. I need to remember that when my faith is being tried, it's not about me, it's about Nepal and it's about loving and serving and learning patience. I'm still a work in progress and the Lord is kind and patient with me and molding me to be the daughter of God that He wants me to be. I just need to remember that sometimes.<br />
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Greg and Carol are leaving to go home next week. I am really going to miss them, they have become very special friends and we will never forget our adventure in Nepal without thinking of the many fun times we've had with them. Before they leave we all wanted to make sure we went to see the Tibetan Rug Factory and one of the hundreds of brick factories in Nepal.<br />
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We also wanted to visit the Burn Hospital. This was a very nice, clean, German sponsored hospital. It is so interesting to see the discrepancies of so many things in Nepal. We sometimes visit places that are clean and modern, not sure why the standards can not be the same or even close all over Nepal, maybe those hospitals or facilities that are sponsored or cared for by other countries makes the difference. This is Kent talking with the doctor at the SKM Burn Hospital. </div>
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We have a very cute friend that works at the Radisson Hotel that likes all of us and she invited the four of us to the October Fest at the Hotel. We stayed away from the Beer Bar but had lots of great German food.</div>
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I had talked in a previous blog about Rakesh having been invited to BYU to attend a Law and Religious Symposium, he also had the opportunity to meet with Elder Gong, Elder Hallstrom and Elder Holland, each separately to discuss the political climate of Nepal and hopefully the writing of the constitution that not only allows all religions in Nepal but will allow the Church to bring proselytizing missionaries here. What an experience that must have been. He just got home today so we haven't had a chance to talk with him about his trip. Can't wait to hear about their experience, they also attended a sessions of conference and met with some of our humanitarian bosses at the Church offices.</div>
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Today when she arrived in the airport she gave me a big hug and said "this is from your cute grandson."</div>
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One of the interesting things about Nepal is that they have more holidays or festivals than any other country in the world but unfortunately most of these festivals take money to celebrate, keeping these people tethered to their traditions and keeping them impoverished. Some are more extravagant than others but there is a festival for every stage of ones life. These pictures are of a festival that is celebrated when a baby starts to eat solid foods, in English it's simply called "The Rice Eating Ceremony". The baby gets new clothes, families and friends are invited for a large meal. This is the little son of our HBB monitor, Karishma.</div>
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The first day of Dashain - planting lemongrass, it will grow anywhere even on the dashboard of the taxi. They plant this and let it grow for 10 days, on the tenth day they cut it and use it in their worship. When they receive tika (a blessing by giving a red mark on the forhead) they also put the blades of lemongrass in their hair.</div>
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They came on Friday, we went to Church on Saturday and then headed to Chitwan to ride the elephants on Sunday. Before we got to our hotel we stopped by to see a couple of our wheelchair peer trainers. We took two of our cute Nepali sisters with us, neither of them had ever ridden the elephants in Chitwan. They were very fun to have along.</div>
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Our new missionary couple arrived on Monday night, they've been so tired I have not taken a picture yet. We love the Rempps and will miss them but it looks like we're in for another adventure the next few months with Elder and Sister Wasuita from Mountain Green. He's a dentist, I wonder if he could fix my broken tooth?</div>
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We have not yet heard from the couple that will be replacing us, thought we would have heard by now. But I'll patiently wait for our release date and know that the Lord knows best. </div>
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Where does it say that patience is a virture? </div>
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...glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience</div>
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And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness. (Hopefully I'm heading in this direction).</div>
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The scriptures are full of direction and truths regarding the importance of being patient. The one thing I have an opportunity to learn in Nepal is patience, it is a work in progress and I know that all these experience I'm having are teaching me patience. I'm grateful and feel blessed for the opportunity. This is a once in a lifetime experience, I have learned many things about God's children on the other side of the world, in many ways I want to be more like them especially when it comes to patience.................. </div>
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Our internet has been off, on, off, on for the last 5 weeks, and so it's been difficult to write and load pictures for my blog. Today they were here a couple of hours so hopefully it will stay on so I can get this sent. This blog will be a little random because it's been so long since I've been able to write.<br />
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We're getting close to hopefully having an election that may provide a way for a constitution to be written, but with that said, the next few months we will also see many bandhs (strikes). People shutting down the country because they want things their way and if not they will make life even more difficult here in Nepal. Last week we had 2 days of bandhs, we can walk around, it's just that there is not much open and there is no transportation, but it is usually a quiet, relaxful day.<br />
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The Lord Loves, The Lord Lives, a simple and powerful testimony of Yaknath Adhikari , our 22 year old "rm" who has gone back to school to finish his education. He is in a 9th grade class with all 14 and 15 year olds. The teacher whacks him when he gives a wrong answer, it's very embarrassing to him, he says, " I am an adult, I should not be treated this way" but he returns everyday and tries to do his best. School is very difficult for him, but he knows how important it is to get an education. On top of going to school he is taking care of his younger brother and sister, who his parents have left in his care as they have returned back to his village. He has no job, what a difficult task for this young man but such is the life of a Nepali.<br />
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Not only is it bandha season it is also Nepali festival season, at least one and sometimes two a week, probably until the middle of November, so nothing gets done around here. We are waiting for our new project agreement to be signed. We were hoping to have it signed by the sixth of September, when our Visa's expired, but no such luck so we had to spend two days in the immigration office getting a tourist visa until the project agreement is signed and then we'll apply for our last non-tourist visa which will last until we come home. The immigration office could not understand why we'd be applying for a tourist visa, it took us two days for us to explain, your country is very inefficient and we can't do anything until the 50 or so people who have to sign the agreement get around to signing it. <br />
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Teej is the women's festival, there is always a little variation as to how and who is celebrating but this is the beginning of all the fall festivals and it's a big deal. Carol and I (no husbands) were invited to Sunila's mother's home to celebrate with her sisters, mothers, aunts and cousins. This is their big meal before they begin their fast the next day. They fast for the long life of their husbands or if they are not married they fast for a good husband. When we got there Sunila had bought red saris, necklaces and bangles for us. She took us upstairs where she helped get us dressed. I do not know how these women can put on a sari by themselves. A sari is about 6 yards of fabric that they wrap, pleat, tuck and drape, oh and pin just in case your sari falls off when you're dancing. I've actually heard of this happening to one of the previous missionaries.<br />
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We then went down and ate snacks before the dancing began. I think I've shared this before but when a woman is menstruating she is not allowed to go into a room where food is served, in some Hindu families the women still are not allowed into the house during that time of the month. Four of the women had to sit out in the hallway to visit with us, you are not even allowed to touch them.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">I found this article in the newspaper today. What year are we living in? Oh yeah, 2070. I just find it so interesting that they cannot move forward and they do not understand why. A week or so ago I read another article about the WHO Millennial Goals that all countries are to meet. Nepal figures they will meet or almost meet most of those goals accept the one regarding equal treatment of women. They said they are unlikely to meet that one, the only goal that has no financial obligation attached to it. Traditions are not always a good thing!</span><br />
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We then had lunch, rice, dahl, prawn pickle, potato pickle, chicken, buff and a few other things that I can't remember. Then we had curd and some cookies for dessert. It was a fun day and it is fun that she includes us in so many of her family celebrations.<br />
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The women begin their fast the next day, they do not eat or drink anything for 24 hours. We have heard that some believe it's okay to eat dairy products and fruit on this day. <br />
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The second day of Teej, all of the volunteers at one of the orphanages wanted to come with Sister Rempp and I to celebrate the 2nd day of Teej. Two of these young women are members of the church, one from Germany and one from Switzerland. They are all young single women, we were a little surprised that they wanted to hang out with us old women. Our RS presidency wanted to fix us a Nepali lunch before we all went to the park to dance. It was so nice of them. Needless to say we weren't fasting, I'm not sure how they celebrate so when they have been fasting.<br />
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We live next to the big park where Teej is celebrated in all it's glory. And I mean glory, look at all the beautiful women in their red saris. We all wore our kurtas for fear if we danced too much we'd lose our saris.</div>
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We first checked out the view from our apartment window before we headed to the park.<br />
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This is our next door neighbor, she's leaving her home to go to the park.<br />
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These women are leaving the park after going to the temple to worship and pray for their husbands.<br />
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There was a radio station or tv station that was putting on this big TEEJ celebration. While we were out dancing (or making fools of ourselves) they came down and asked Carol and I to come up on the stage and dance. Sooooo embarrassing, we grabbed two of the younger girls and made them come up with us. We were probably on the stage for 30 minutes, they asked if we would sing a Nepali song, which we did but we made the audience sing with us. (I know my kids are dying as they read this) We all got a CD for being such good sports and were on the local news station. and then when we got off the stage we were bombarded, everyone wanted to dance with us and have their pictures taken with us.<br />
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Here we are coming down off of the stage, Kent took this picture from the roof of our building with his super duper lens. Can you find me? I'm one of the four white faces....... <br />
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Another festival a few days later, can't remember what it was called, but early in the morning we got a call from Nabin, our Apartment Manager asking if we wanted to come down to his office to worship the tools, I had to ask him several times, TOOLS? I told him we would come down to watch but not to worship the tools. We went downstairs to the office and there were 2 tables set up, one with a little statue of one of the gods surrounded by all kinds of foods, fruit, cookies, and cakes. a place where people could put money, the other table had the tools which had been blessed with tika, and flowers.<br />
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The girls who clean the building then offered us sweets and fruit. This is how this festival was explained to us, a day off for the tools andsince the tools aren't used this day, those who use the tools also get the day off, it only would make sense, right? As we walked around the building we could see that the elevator had been blessed, that's a good thing since it's a little jerky around the 2nd floor. The generator also had a blessing and the gates into the apartment building. As we walked out to the road we could see that many of the cars were decorated and had also been blessed with tikas. I should have taken better pictures.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Indra King of heaven and controller of the rains, has once again blessed the Valley. As the end of the monsoon nears, farmers look forward to a rich harvest, everyone is grateful to the deva for his help. For eight days, Kathmandu’s Durbar Square is the focus of a great celebration fit to “flatter the King of Heaven”. Indra’s dhwaj, or flag, is erected on the first day. It is said that many centuries ago, Indra’s mother needed specially-scented flowers but could not find them in heaven’s gardens. Indra discovered parijat flowers in the Kathmandu Valley and tried to steal them for his mother. He was caught and imprisoned by the Valley people. When Indra’s mother came searching for him the people were appalled by what they had done. They released Indra and dedicated one of the most colorful festivals of Nepal to him to appease his anger. Masks and statues representing Vishnu, Bhairab, and Shiva are shown to the public, and the living (child) Goddess Kumari witnesses the special occasion from her chariot. Indra is thanked for the rains and assured once again that he is respected in the Kathmandu Valley.</span></div>
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We had President Bishnu and his family to dinner, they are a wonderful example of the gospel here in Kathmandu, I wish more of our members would follow their example</div>
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Rakesh and Sunila took us all to dinner to celebrate Sunila's visa. They are coming to Provo next week and this is the first time she has ever left Nepal, she is so excited but they will be doing a little traveling for a month and she is very nervous about leaving her children. It was fun to be included in another one of their family celebrations. Sunila is wearing a t-shirt and jeans, Rakesh said she was practicing for when they come to the U.S. I think they will be going to conference. I told her she should wear one of her beautiful saris.</div>
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We've been having the YSA meet twice a month for FHE. Sometimes we watch a movie, have a lesson or play games. This night we were playing "Minute to Win It". We're going to have to be creative and figure out a different way of holding FHE since it is getting darker earlier and we don't like sending the girls home on the buses after dark, it is just not safe for them.</div>
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We also received approval on two of our projects, one is with the JAWS which is a program for the blind, teaching them how to use computers. Once they learn this program the one thing they like doing the best is being able to FACEBOOK. The program actually talks and reads to them so it is very interactive and really helps them in their college studies and hopefully to find better jobs. Yesterday we went to the first six month certificate ceremony.</div>
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The other project that was approved was the next years HBB training that we hope to do before we come home and in conjuction with our replacements arrival. It's getting pretty tricky but we'll see how it all works out. We should be hearing from the new couple within a month. </div>
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We had four baptisms, YEAH! Kent's kind of had to push President Bishnu into making this happen. President Bishnu wants them to all be perfect before they are baptized, and that is not going to happen. Hopfully the perfecting will come as they become fully active and involved in the blessings of the gospel. </div>
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We had 3 brothers ordained as Elders and a new Deacon, and Kent is really working with one of our young men to get him to go on a mission. </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"> The Lord lives and the Lord loves all of us in ways I would have never, ever imagined. He blesses us and provides us with those things we need, though it may not always be those things we want.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;">I've come to recognize the Lord's hand in ways that I could have never imagined and am so grateful for the blessings and opportunities He has given me while in Nepal. I know He died for each of us that we may live again with Him. I'm getting to know Him better as Kent and I study the scriptures together and read about His life and His teachings. I want to be a follower of Christ and bring others unto Him so that they may find hope and peace in their lives, whatever their circumstances may be.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;">The Lord Lives, The Lord Loves, </span><br />
<span style="text-align: left;">Thank you Elder Adhikari for reminding us by the example you set for your brothers and sisters in Nepal</span><br />
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As I was exercising on the elliptical machine and reading in Alma a couple of days ago this scripture not only spoke to my mind but to my heart. Moroni had written an epistle to Pahoran criticizing him for his lack of military support and he threatened to fight against the government unless help was supplied to his armies. He tells Pahoran, "and now, except ye do repent of that which ye have done, <b>and begin to be up and doing........... </b><br />
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<b></b>I need to be up and doing.....we only have about 6.5 months left in Nepal and I think of the things we have done and sometimes wonder if I've done what I was sent here to do? <br />
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We're in between some of the major projects that we've been involved in and now need to "begin to be up and doing....." something new and something different. <br />
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I've shared pictures of the great haircuts Kent gets but now he's going for the "whole works" </div>
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Shave and a hair cut - three bucks, oh and a massage too!</div>
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This isn't what I had in mind about up and doing....</div>
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Kent and I have talked and prayed a lot about how we can help our branch here in Kathmandu. We hear "but that's the Nepali way" quite a bit and we're convinced that the Nepali way may not be the best way to help the Church grow in Nepal. Not many people in our branch will accept callings, (or so we've been told) or many won't be given a calling because they don't attend church on a regular basis. As we've discussed ways that we can help, we keep remembering President Monson's talk in conference last October - <b>See Others as They May Become.</b> "We need to be told that we amount to something, that we are capable and worthwhile. We need to be given a chance to serve. For those members who have slipped from activity or who hold back and remain noncommittal, we can prayerfully seek for some way to reach them. Asking them to serve in some capacity may just be the incentive they need to return to full activity. But those leaders who could help in this regard are sometimes reluctant to do so. We need to bear in mind that people can change. They can put behind them bad habits. They can repent from transgressions. And they can serve the Lord diligently." So for now this is how we want to begin to be up and doing, helping our branch to better understand the "church culture" rather than the "Nepali culture". <br />
In Nepal parents don't quite understand the principle of baptizing your children when they are eight years old. We're going to work on that........</div>
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Utpati and Santa Gurung have a 9 1/2 year old son who has not bee baptized, but, he's going to be on August 31st, and Kent is helping Santa be ready to baptize him. Santa is a police man and many times has to work on Saturdays (our Sabbath) and so hasn't felt like he could baptize his son. No one thought to help him understand that sometimes our jobs require us to work and not attend Church and that we just do the best we can. Santa was excited that he really would be able to baptize Sajun at the end of the month.</div>
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Just last week Sister Rempp and I were both given callings, (finally). President Bishnu told us he was reluctant to give us callings because there have been some missionaries in the past that said "missionary work was their calling," we are excited to be given an opportunity to serve in our branch and to help them understand how the church is supposed to work, in the Lord's way. Carol was called to work with the YW and I was called to work in the primary. </div>
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This is Sajana, our Primary President with her brother, Krishna. Kent is working on Krishna to get him involved with us as we work with our YSA. He's just never really been invited, but that is going to change.</div>
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Kent and I have also talked with President Bishnu about our desire to really work with the YSA and light a fire in their hearts and minds. We're holding Family Home Evening with them 2x a month, most of them are returned missionaries, with little direction in their lives. We want the Gospel to give them the direction they need, to find hope, and happiness. We'd like to see them marry and raise families in the Gospel, we'd actually like to see them even want to get married. Our YSA probably should be just called Single Adults since many of them are over 30.<br />
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The guy in the wheelchair first came to our wheelchair peer training and he has been coming once in awhile.<br />
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One thing we'd like to work on especially when we have nonmembers/investigators is that they feel welcome. People come, the members are nice and say "hi" but that's about as far as it goes. We sometimes have a teacher for our investigator class, we can't teach so it really has to be their responsibility to teach. We had a branch council meeting and talked about inviting our investigators to be baptized, they feel that the investigators should ask to be baptized, so they come and keep coming and nothing ever happens because the investigator is waiting for someone to tell them that the next step is baptism. DUH!!!!<br />
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A couple of weeks ago we were able to spend the day with Ruth and Sarada. It was Ruth's birthday (the same day as our granddaughter, Bryton's birthday). We go VT and HT to this family that we have adopted as our own. Their husband and father has gone to Kuwait to work because he can't find a job here. Twenty-five percent of Nepal leave the country to find work every year. We had invited Ruth and Sarada to come to lunch with us and then back home for swimming and birthday cake and presents. (Most Nepalis don't celebrate birthdays, a lot of Nepalis don't even know when their birthday is). We were going to take them to KFC for lunch but on the way Ruth whispered to me that she liked pizza, so we told her she could chose Pizza Hut or KFC, in her quiet little voice she said, "I request pizza", so Pizza Hut it was.<br />
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We were at their home a while ago, when we set up an appointment, Rukmina usually calls because Sarada speaks very little English but Sarada told us when we come to "bring our empty stomachs."</div>
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On Saturday after Church we were invited to Rakesh's daughters "coming of age" celebration. She is only six but because his sister was here from Ohio they decided to celebrate a few years early, funny huh?</div>
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This celebration is the first time a girl gets to wear a sari.</div>
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This celebration is a very big deal in Nepal, there were over 100 people at this party.<br />
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We're keeping busy, there just are not a lot of photo opportunities lately. Rakesh has kept asking us to invite his sister from Ohio over, she wanted to see our new apartment, so last Monday we had the whole Hamal family over for dinner. There were 15 of us, Carol and I thought we would fix something very American or at least very unNepali for dinner. We made lots of different kinds of salads and meatballs and bread (they always love the bread) and a couple of different kinds of cookies. We weren't sure what they would think of mostly salads for dinner but they loved them. Rajesh (the moviestar) was going to come but he was busy, but he did call Kent and apologize that he wasn't able to make it.</div>
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Today we had the YM/YW over after church, we're discussing with all the youth maybe doing "I'm from Nepal and I'm a Mormon." video; We get emails usually a couple of times a month of someone coming, usually to go trekking and they want to know if the Church exists here so we want to put the Nepalis out there, to the world and let the world know that yes, there is an LDS Church in Nepal.</div>
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Sajun is getting baptized at the end of the month. This week Kent wrote the baptismal prayer in Nepali, English words but Nepali script. He's pretty amazing, I got too discouraged because everyone tells you how to say or write it differently, I just gave up, but Kent has stuck to it.</div>
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Today in primary I was trying to figure out the childrens' birthdays, one young man was 12 and I asked "what are you doing in primary?" He didn't know so I walked him down to where the young men were , hope they can figure it out. There are times when it is very frustrating that no one seems to understand how things are to run, they must figure it out. We can .... begin to be up and doing and try to help them they just have to have the desire, like I said in my last blog, until THEY are ready, this country will not open up to missionary work. </div>
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This week we have a RS enrichment activity, Sister Rempp and I are going to teach them how to make homemade noodles, spaghetti sauce and garlic breadsticks. They are excited and we know of a few nonmembers who are planning on coming, we also have or YSA FHE on Friday.</div>
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We have our new HBB doctor probably coming in October who wants to meet with government officials and maybe hold a small training. We continue to participate in wheelchair distributions and closing ceremonies for our JAWS and Sewing Centers. Things have slowed down a little for now, but the rush will come again. Josh and Kristen are coming in October, so excited. We love sharing the country of Nepal to visitors but it is especially fun when our children get to come.</div>
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Missionary work is both challenging and rewarding. I'm so grateful to have this opportunity, I know we are doing good things in Nepal, I pray that it will make a difference in the lives of Nepalis, that there will come a day when missionaries have the opportunity to serve here and spread the gospel, in the meantime we will "....begin to be up and doing..." in those things the Lords expects and requires of us. We will help our branch and teach them the Lord's way and the easy part ..... loving the people.</div>
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-83240679406485901502013-07-14T06:01:00.000-07:002013-07-14T06:33:33.099-07:00Nepalis - Poor in Pocket, Rich in Heart<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This comment was made to Jeff and Keith, our wheelchair trainers, who came a couple of weeks ago when they were leaving the airport in Qatar. I loved it! A truer statement about the Neaplese people could not be spoken. Another funny comment they were told at the airport in Paris was that they were "forbidden" to travel as wheelchair users together without someone who could assist them in an emergency. They explained that they had traveled this far together and Jeff, who can walk a little, explained that he would assist Keith in an emergency. They still told them it was "forbidden". Jeff said I will show you how I will be able to assist Keith, at that point the airline gave in and told them to go ahead. Whew! Luckily there were no emergencies on the flight over or on the way back.<br />
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This peer wheelchair training was a first for the church and we were lucky enough to be able to facilitate it here in Nepal. Eric Wunderlich in the church offices is over wheelchairs and he has a lot of confidence in Rakesh and felt that it could be done successfully here and it was a GREAT success<br />
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We first had to let Jeff and Keith know what the streets of Nepal were like.<br />
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Then we got six of our branch members to help with translating all 17 modules that would be taught, about 240 pages worth of translating. Four of them had never done any translating before but Rukmina, Sajana, Maya and Smina all did a great job, especially for never having done it before. They all said that it was very hard and Rukmina told us that her head hurt everyday from working so hard on it. But they all said they learned so much in regards to those who live in wheelchairs. And for all of them the extra money was a great blessing.<br />
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Jeff and Keith arrived on a Friday, we met them along with the Sackleys at the airport and took the Radisson van to the hotel where we thought we'd let them rest a few hours, since they had been traveling almost 36 hours. We met and talked with the Sackleys for a couple of hours while Jeff and Keith took a short nap. Sister Sackley and I made a quick trip to Folk Nepal for a few souvenirs.<br />
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We then came to our house and Rukmina had made a wonderful Nepali dinner. The next day was Church and we had arranged for Jeff and Keith to do a fireside for the branch. They shared their stories.<br />
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Jeff is a seminary teacher at Murray High School, he's awesome! When he returned from his mission in Spain, he was working to earn money for school. He would be playing football at Ricks College and was interested in girls. He and a friend were going to strip and paint an old barn. They had two tiers of scaffolding and a 30' ladder on top of that to be able to reach the top of the barn. The scaffolding collapsed and Jeff and his friend both fell to the ground. Jeff landed a perfect gymnastic "10", unfortunately his spine took the brunt of the fall. Jeff can sort of walk, or better put, he can stand. He is married to Emily and they have 4 children and live in West Jordan.<br />
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These guys are amazing, they have such wonderful attitudes and shared so much with the Nepalese trainees that came to our training. This training was a Master Training Course. We had 20 wheelchair users from throughout Nepal who came to the training and will then go and train others about the things they learned.<br />
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One thing we've seen in Nepal because of the living conditions things are pretty difficult here and many wheelchair users and very dependent on others. This training taught them how to be more independent. Some of the things they learned about were mobility issues, how to get around on their own, even in Nepal. How to transfer from a wheelchair to the floor, to a chair, to a toilet, etc. on their own. They talked about health issues, intimacy issues, they learned how to go up a ramp on their own, they learned when and when not to ask for help, they learned that they could live a full life in a wheelchair. They even played basketball with the Nepal wheelchair basketball team. These next pictures are of the 4 days of training.<br />
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How to maintain and care for their wheelchairs<br />
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Jeff won a gold medal in the Olympics in Athens. He played basketball. The two guys in front of him in the green shirts are the army guys.</div>
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Wherever we went the children would gather around and watch these two happy, amazing men.<br />
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I love this picture, just the three of them, the cow, Keith and Jeff watching the bodies burn across the river<br />
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Keith, our good friend and van driver Boudda, and Jeff at Nagarkot, we were hoping to see the mountains, too many clouds today<br />
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As soon as Jeff and Keith left we had to move to our new apartment. We now live on the 7th floor of the Prestige apartments. Rakesh walked in a few days ago and said, "when I come in here I don't feel like I'm in Nepal." I guess that is a good thing but maybe not so good. But it feels a little more like home. We have hot water everyday, I don't have to boil the water to wash the dishes and we won't have to be buying cases and cases of drinking water. We do however, feel a little removed from the reality of Nepal but after 11 months I think it's okay, we just have to walk through the gate and we're back. We have a little more electricity here, when it is load shedding they turn on the generator from 6:00 - 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.so we don't have to climb the 140 stairs to our apartment. During the winter months when there is a lot more load shedding we're going to have to really plan our days according to the electricity, but we do have ac and heat and I have a nice kitchen that I like to cook in.</div>
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Didn't bring a swimming suit so I don't think we'll be doing much swimming but there is a gym that we use with a hot tub, they just haven't ever filled it with water. So Nepali.<br />
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We will now start on our next HBB project which will hopefully be next February, the plan is to have our replacement couple come while we are still here, kind of like what we did. Dr. Clark and his wife have been called on a mission to Hong Kong so we will also have a new doctor on board. So hopefully the little bit we've learned and the progress we've made with the government, will be of some benefit to Dr. Visick and the new couple. We'll see how well we can pull this off.<br />
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We still have closing ceremonies for wheelchair distributions, computer training, JAWS for the blind and sewing centers, so there are still many things to do. <br />
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We spoke in Church yesterday, we talked about the importance of our Branch being ready for the day the missionaries are allowed into Nepal. In 1974, President Kimball said, "I see no good reason why the Lord would open doors that WE are not prepared to enter," he went on to say "that the door to nations will open when WE are ready for them." The Nepali people may indeed be poor in pocket but they are rich in heart. They love us and we love them, unconditionally. We pray that they will be bold and share the gospel with their families and their friends that this little branch will grow. We watched the Worldwide leadership video last night, I'm so grateful to be a part of this marvelous work to have this opportunity to share the gospel by our actions and in the help we offer to this country. One of the wheelchair users who came to our training came to church the Saturday after the training, he told Jeff, "I want to see what you guys are about." He said he would come back. Maya, who helped us with our training, talked to him and asked him what he thought about our church, he liked the focus of family. We are so blessed, I hope someday he'll understand we're all family. <br />
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-77453462510301732222013-06-20T17:44:00.000-07:002013-06-20T17:44:08.525-07:00John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.I love the story of the woman at the well, not only because everywhere we go we see women at the wells, washing, bathing and socializing but because every time I see them drawing their water for the day I think of the story of the Samarian woman who desired the living water that Jesus offered her and for the living water that He offers each of us.<br />
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When one lives in Nepal, water is a big deal, sometimes too much, and sometimes too little. Monsoon is supposed to begin June 10 but it began 4 days later. Yes, they really do know which day the monsoon starts, but in reality sometimes it's late and sometimes it's early. A couple of days ago I was reading in the paper about the poor management of water in Nepal. I think I've mentioned that they have the 2nd most rainfall in the world and yet we have to have water trucked in about every 3 weeks because they can not manage this precious resource. Water gives life, it's our most precious resource and yet Nepal can not figure it out.<br />
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A few weeks ago we met with all the youth in the branch and assembled 800 humanitarian kits. Boy, they worked hard and we were all done in a couple of hours.</div>
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Elder Rempp made it fun by sticking candy bars among all the towels and combs and soap.<br />
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This would be the fourth flat tire we've had, another one just last week - with the roads the way they are it is no wonder we have not had many more flat tires.<br />
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Here's another funny taxi picture - we see this frequently</div>
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We've all (both missionary couples) have decided it is time to move from these big home that the missionaries have been living in for a long time and move to smaller, newer, modern apartments. Our landlords have been unwilling to keep up the homes without always raising the rent. This has been a very hard decision for all of us as we are not having to make new arrangements just for ourselves but our families that have been working for us and living with us have to make major changes in their lives. As we talked to Rukmina and Hari about this big decision we worried about what they would do. Work is not easy to find in Nepal, and housing can be very expensive. They were worried about what they would do but were very supportive of our decision and very understanding as to the reasons we would be moving. Two days after we talked to them Hari and Rukmina had found a nice little apartment for their family. In fact it is really better than what they have had here. Hitson will have his own bedroom, they have a nice little living room, which they haven't had. Rukmina will even have a kitchen with running water and an indoor bathroom. Rukmina was able to do some translating for our upcoming wheelchair training that we paid her for so she is buying some of the furniture in this house. She is so excited and two days later Hari got a full time job. I hope to have her help me a couple of days a week if she does not find a full time job in the next month. As we talked with our mission president who encouraged us to make this decision, he told us that employing branch members full time is not always a great idea. Sometimes there are hard feeling between branch members and we need to be very careful. </div>
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Our new apartment has 2 bedrooms and office, I'll have a pantry and even cupboards I can put my dishes in.</div>
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We'll have air conditioning, heat and hot water and a little more electricity plus there's a swimming pool, too bad I didn't bring a swimming suit. Now I just have to go through 15 years of stuff. I'll post pictures after we move in in a couple of weeks.<br />
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After making the big decision to move Tiff and Lauren came to spend a week. It was so fun, I think it may have been a big culture shock for Lauren and probably even Tiff but they have lots of stories to tell.<br />
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We were all a little worried about her getting through customs but it was like everyone had told us, they just shoo the white faces through customs with no questions, in fact they don't even bother to ask or look at what they bring through. We had told her if she got stopped and questioned she was to leave two of them with the custom agents and we'd let Dr. Ashish figure out how to get his.</div>
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After the bath with the elephants we all went back to our rooms to shower and get ready for a wheelchair distribution. As they were getting ready for the distribution I was sitting next to one of the doctors from the hospital, sodas were being served to everyone, in bottles from a tray. The doctor went to grab one and knocked it over and I went to help him and pretty soon all the bottles of pop on the tray were tipped over. He was not happy, I felt bad for the young man who was serving us all. But it was funny. I was a little sticky on the 5 hour ride home.</div>
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The next day we got up and went to breakfast at Mike's and then dropped off two of the computers to Ravi at Paropakar Hospital where Lauren handed out the baby caps she and her friends and cousins had made.<br />
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She and her friend had raised a few hundred dollars selling cupcakes, cookie dough, etc. and she then bought the materials for newborn caps. She brought the few hundred she had made and then many friends and neighbors had donated knitted and crochet caps for the winter time babies.<br />
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This tiny baby was 22 days old<br />
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This was quite an experience for Lauren - not like the hospitals in the U.S.<br />
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We then headed to Bhaktapur to visit one of the oldest cities in Nepal<br />
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Tiff down in one of the many wells that have run dry<br />
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One of the cleaner alleys in Bhaktapur<br />
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Now for a funny story, I think I've mentioned before that Rakesh's brother Rajesh is Nepal's most famous and popular movie star (you can verify that on wikipedia) sort of the Brad Pitt of Nepal. When he's around he lives in the home where the Hamal family grew up which happens to be Rakesh and Sunila's home. He was around this night and came up and joined us for dinner. A very nice man. As we were getting ready to leave I asked if we might take a picture, and he told us he'd be happy to let us take his picture. Well, Lauren has been carrying around a little 2" gnome, it was a YW summer project. The YW were to take their little gnomes wherever they went for the summer and take pictures and then post them on a ward blog. It was a reminder that wherever they are they will stand in holy places, (the YW/YM theme for the year). Rakesh has been watching her take this little gnome out of her purse and take pictures of all the fun things she is doing in Nepal, elephant ride, Bhaktapur, Hindu temples, etc. As we sat down to have our picture taken he told her take Babu (that's what she named him, it means little brother in Nepali) and let Rajesh hold him for the picture. She was so embarrassed, in fact on the taxi ride over she had told her mother not to mention Babu while we were there. It was pretty funny but I bet none of the other girls have their gnomes pictures taken with a movie star especially in Nepal.</div>
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We stopped by READ Nepal Leprosy Clinic to say "hi"</div>
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When Tiff was here we had necklaces made with their names in Nepali and also for all our daughters and older granddaughters. They turned out pretty cool.<br />
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The time went way too fast. Lauren has girls camp next week and the whole summer filled with fun activities. It has been fun having them here and sharing in some of the things we do in Nepal, but I hate saying goodbye.<br />
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On Tuesday, a few of the RS sisters went over to Laxmi's new place (Laxmi has been Elder and Sister Rempp's didi) to help clean it up before she moves in. It was a mess but it looked a whole lot better by the time we were finished scrubbing. She's got a job cooking 2 meals a day for a Nepali family. They want a Nepali lunch and a Western Dinner. It takes her about 8 hours of prep time to fix those two meals. She is making about .50 an hour. <br />
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I watched Rukmina this afternoon washing her clothes in a bucket of water out back, and thought about how unfair life is sometimes, these people need water, they deserve to have running water in their homes, water to bathe and drink but it's not available to them for whatever crazy reason , but somehow they seem to manage. They also deserve to have the living water that Christ offers each of us. Right now it is just a trickle here in Nepal. But one day there will be a flood and there will be Nepalis whose thirst for truth and righteousness, for hope and peace will be quenched by the gospel of Jesus Christ. I know this to be true, it will happen and it will happen all over the world, one day. I'm grateful to be small part of sharing the living water of Christ, in just small ways here in Nepal. <br />
The other day a young man was here with his father looking at buying some of the chickens that Hari has been raising. I was sitting out on the step when he came over and talked to me. He asked me if I was a Christian, I told him I was. He responded with "Christian people are all so nice." He asked if I was a Protestant, I told him no, that I was LDS, a Mormon. He said, "but you don't have a Church here," I told him that yes, we do have a church here. As he walked out he asked Rukmina about where the Church was located, she told him. Maybe we'll see him there on Saturday...................</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I worked with a principal for ten years and his favorite thing to say was "it is what it is...." I also worked with an assistant principal who hated when he said that, she would always say " and what exactly does that mean?" Sometimes I wondered myself what it meant, it seemed more like an excuse for not giving an answer. I've lived in Nepal now for 9 months, yes, we have really been gone for 9 months and I now understand the meaning of 'it is what it is.' It means there really isn't a logical explanation, or it can't be explained, or don't worry about, you can't change it. That's how I'm feeling about a lot of things in Nepal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday we were out on our torn up street, they are putting the sewer pipes in and have the entrance to our street all dug up. I looked in the hole they've dug. I wish I had a picture of this but try to imagine in your mind, there are 48" diameter cement pipes in the hole, there are no caskets or anyway to connect the pipes together, so, to keep the leaking at a minimum between the cement pipes they lay bricks around the pipes and then pack them with dirt and then quickly bury the pipe which is only a few inches under ground. Obviously no quality control, no code to be met, I shake my head and think, it is what it is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Riding in the tuk tuk to celebrate Hari's birthday</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Friday we took Hari to dinner for his Birthday. I was sure he'd pick KFC but he wanted a Nepali dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Saturday, it was church, still listening to conference and then had the youth over for a fireside and dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have firesides twice a month at our house. They really enjoy sitting around and discussing gospel principles, they also really enjoy dinner and I really hope that the couple that replaces us will continue meeting with these youth. They have strong testimonies and will be the leaders in Nepal in the near future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The training in Biratnagar went very well, and over 50 people were trainined in HBB. They now have to go back to their hospitals and train their staff. We have to make sure that they do the training. We have a monitor who calls each hospital for about six months and follows up and then reports back to us if they are training or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were in Biratnagar for two days and then came back to Kathmandu to train at OM Hospital. Again, over 50 more doctors and nurses were trained. But we did have one day before training started in Kathmandu so the "girls" had to go shopping for kurtas, a must for women in Nepal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We had GC, who is a member of our branch speak at the opening ceremony at the OM hospital. We were so proud of him as he spoke of Latter-Day Saint Charities and told everyone he was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Nepal. We kind of held our breath, but he said "you can't say that but I can". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Thursday evening we held another dinner reception with health and government officials. As we planned for this reception it was somewhat like the reception we had in January when the HBB team was here from the states, however, this time we told Rakesh we would not serve and pay for alcohol for the guests. He told us, but that is the culture here, we said but that is not our culture. One way or another we will make our presence here in Nepal known, they will remember us for who and what we stand for. The reception went very well and I did not hear any complaints about there being no alcohol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Friday, Elder Norman Chia arrived from Hong Kong, he is our Aisa Area Welfare Manager. This is a new church job for him and so he is visiting the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rakesh just heard from BYU this last week, he has been invited to participate in the law and religion symposium in October. This is his second time to be invited. We've talked him into taking his wife with him this time, she has never left Nepal, but she is very excited. Elder and Sister Treasure who are in Hong Kong on their mission will be going home in July and they will be hosting Rakesh and Sunila when they are finished with the conference at the Y for a week. They plan on taking them to general conference and then to Island Park for a few days. When Elder Gong was here in September, he told us that one day when the church is recognized in Nepal it will be because of Rakesh's efforts, we also hope that one day he will become a member of the Church. He's told us he would really like his children to go to BYU. Maybe it will happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next day was Saturday and Church, we all attended and then had to quickly come home and get ready to leave to drive to Chitwan and then to Pokharah. A long drive, but we did have a nice air conditioned van to travel in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was starting to get late in the afternoon and we still had another 2 hours to go before we arrived in Chitwan. When we got in line to take the Gondola down it was about a four hour wait. OHHHHHH. Rakesh told me to wait in line and he was going to see if he could get us down faster or up into the front of the long line. He went and explained that he had important dignitaries from the U.S. that needed to get down because they were traveling - a little embarrassing. Anyway we were moved to the front of the line and on to the gondola. We were then on our way to Chitwan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We then visited the 2 sewing centers. Now Brother Chia was impressed. The woman in the wheelchair runs this sewing center that LDS Charities helps support. She has 21 women that she is training, teaching them to sew. They will be able to sew for their families and maybe get jobs to help support their family. She made me a lovely hand painted table cloth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is Usha, she also has a sewing center in Chitwan, both of these women are disabled but are doing very well and are now helping to support their families with very minimal help from LDS Charities. Usha is actually attending a little group of members in Chitwan, not yet a branch but hopefully in the near future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the others were through with their elephant we loaded up and headed to Pokharah. Another 6 hour ride. This was just a side trip, a little shopping, an early morning hike and then we decided we would catch a plane back to Kathmandu and skip the long ride home. And Brother Chia had only a few hours and he needed to meet with Rempps before he flew back to Hong Kong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whew! They've gone and we're absolutely exhausted. We love showing off Nepal but we didn't stop for 10 days. And now we're getting ready for Tiff and Lauren's visit in a couple of weeks and we have another big project at the end of June. We've got 2 wheelchair trainers coming from Salt Lake and have been working on translation, printing, acquiring a venue that doesn't interfere with wedding season, making sure our trainers have adequate accommodations for wheelchair users, which really is unheard of in Nepal. Again, we tell them, it is what it is and hopefully everything will turn out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have only nine more months left in Nepal, I've come to accept many things here that seem very different and strange from the life I left but I know it is what it is and we're happy being involved the Lord's work here in Nepal. We love the people, we hope that one day their lives may become easier, that they may come to know that they have a Heavenly Father who knows and loves and is mindful of them but for now it really is what it is. </span></div>
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-80907147267966300882013-04-18T08:21:00.000-07:002013-04-18T08:21:18.028-07:00Doctrine and Covenants 88:118 ...teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.<br />
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We've spent the last two weeks working on entering a new wheelchair project into CHaS, that's the Church's computer system we use when we submit new projects, and visiting with the STS, short term specialist for clean water, and traveling around Kathmandu looking at various water projects. We're preparing to submit our Project Agreement with the government so we've been meeting to discuss next year's projects for the government and budgets for the Church. It's a very interesting process that Humanitarian missionaries have to navigate, make the government happy, spend the Church's monies wisely and help those in need.<br />
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Karen and Jim Greting from California, they are the water specialists for the Church in the Asia area. We all went to Shangrala for dinner and literally felt like we were in Shangrala this night. </div>
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On Saturday, April 6, after Church, the whole branch along with about 100 neighbors were invited to Sister Ellen's orphanage for a darling program. Sister Ellen is a Church member who runs an orphanage here in Nepal for about 60 children, from very small to around 20 years of age. She is from Germany and one of several Church members from around the world that fund an orphanage in Nepal. Sister Odavic from Switzerland has an orphanage and Sister Cecil from Paris also has an orphanage here. You can look at the I'm a Mormon Youtube and see Sister Cecil's profile. She is a fashion designer, has designed for Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Diana, and many other famous names.<br />
I have met so many wonderful people here in Nepal that just come here to help those that are less fortunate, the poor, the down trodden. I am so amazed at not only their generosity but a desire to become more Christ-like and serve our brothers and sisters. It is truly amazing to me. I feel so blessed to know these women.<br />
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This picture is a little blurry because he was rockin' out. He also has quite a tale to tell. He had only been in the orphanage for a few days. His mother had died and his father didn't want him and his brothers and sister anymore and so he left them all but one little four year old at the orphanage. Sister Ellen said they did not know where the four year old was but feared she may have been sold. They are trying to find her. But this little guy had not a care in the world and was so happy. I'm glad that he now has a place where he will get to go to school and be loved. <br />
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You had to be here to see how cute this program was. After they all performed their songs and dances, the put on a production of "The Lion King" now that was pretty cute and it was all in English.<br />
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On Sunday it was another banda day, throughout all of Nepal. Something to do with protesting the way the governments is going about or not going about the election process. But banda days are kind of interesting. No cars in the streets, no honking horns. No one can go to school, most can't get to work. I asked what they do about the doctors getting to work. I was told, "they call the hospital and an ambulance comes to pick them up." Now that's weird! We went out and thought we could walk somewhere to have lunch. Nope, everything was closed. But it was kind of fun being out and seeing what Nepal looks like without hundreds of motorbikes, tuktuks and taxis.</div>
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The rest of the work Kent and I mostly were working in our office. On Saturday we got to watch the Saturday sessions of conference and next Saturday we'll watch the Sunday sessions. I love watching conference it especially made me feel a connection to home, knowing that all of you had experienced and heard the same messages that I was listening to. I especially liked Elder Cook's message about Peace. " <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The heavenly aspiration of good people everywhere has and always will be for peace in the world. We must never give up on achieving this goal. But, President Joseph F. Smith taught, “There never can come to the world that spirit of peace and love … until mankind will receive God’s truth and God’s message … , and acknowledge his power and authority which is divine.”</span><sup class="noteMarker" noteref="13" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1;"><a href="http://www.lds.org/general-conference/print/2013/04/personal-peace-the-reward-of-righteousness?lang=eng#13-10785_000_25cook" style="background-color: transparent !important; color: black !important; font-size: 9px; text-decoration: none !important;">13</a></sup></div>
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I think this kind of peace is the only thing that helps men, women and children survive in third world countries. They have so very little everyday, but if they can just hold on to the kind of peace and hope that our Savior offers them, if they can understand and have that "abiding deep happiness and spiritual contentment" then that is all that matters.</div>
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During this week as we've looked at some possible water projects we looked at schools that needed clean water, sanitation facilities . We talked with some government officials about not only the lack of facilities but the complete lack of education in Nepal. There are almost 30,000,000 people in Nepal, about 3,000,000 in Kathmandu. The other 27,000,000 live in villages around the rest of the country. Villages where many children have never attended school, where most of the parents have never been to school. I think on Nepal's part, it's shameful. They say they are trying to improve but it is such a slow process. I've been cutting out newspaper articles regarding education, so many of the articles are so archaic. I have a picture of a headmaster washing his students "cold-bitten feet". He says most of his pupils "do not get proper care at home."</div>
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The week after my last blog was a week of office work, emails, a little shopping and some much needed rest to get ready for the following week when we had friends coming from Salt Lake and the next month. <br />
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One night we went to our Branch President's home for dinner with his family. What an amazing family, who live the gospel and have strong testimonies and are such an example to our Branch. Sister Mangala fixed a wonderful meal, a little American a little Nepali. She makes the best apple pie. She asked me if I would help her learn to cook a few American dishes, someone from Choice Humanitarian from Salt Lake is coming to stay with them in a couple of months and she would like to cook American. Ideas anyone?<br />
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Our new Branch Presidency, Brother Dearden, President Bishnu and Brother GC, can you guess which one isn't Nepali? This will be a great Branch Presidency, all so committed to the gospel.<br />
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Last week was a very busy week, full of fun and adventure when we had our friends come for a visit for nine days, and yes, we still did our missionary work. </div>
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Hugs and kisses to our wonderful family who sent much needed items, wire nuts, shirts, socks, all the baby caps (those got into the country without a hitch, whew!), and goodies and cards from our grandchildren.</div>
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Mark and Marsha Adams and Chris Dyson, friends from working at the prison and from school came and we had a great time showing them our Nepal. The first day they arrived it was the Holi Festival, the real Holi festival. Chris said you can't come to Nepal during Holi and not experience it, so out we went~!</div>
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We had made arrangements to take Chris and Marsha first thing to get measured for kurtas. Let me tell you how accommodating the people of Nepal are. Two days before they got here, I had Rukmina call the kurta shop owner to see if she would be open, she said she'd be open all day, the tailor told us he would not be open until 5:00 in the evening when things settled down a little. The morning they arrived Sugam (who is a friend of ours and whose wife owns the kurta shop) called and asked what time we would be coming. I told him it would be later in the afternoon because the tailor would not be there. He said okay and that they would meet us there. She had decided not to open but came and opened her shop just for us and and also arranged with the tailor who also decided not to open to come to her shop and get the measurements for the kurtas. When you buy the kurtas, you pick out the kurta kit which has the scarf, the trousers and the kurta all together and then the tailor measures, finds out how long you want the sleeves and the type of neck and collar you want. He charged 300 rps to make them which is about $3.35 and had them both ready within the week. </div>
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Rakesh had arranged for us all (E/S Rempp included) to travel to Pokhara for a wheelchair distribution. We left around 10:00 in the morning. On the way we wanted to stop and take the gondola up to the Manakamana temple and see the sight at the top of the mountain. But first Marsha wanted to walk on the bridge across the Trihuli River.</div>
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We stopped at the Riverside Resort for lunch and headed onto Pokhara, where we checked into our hotel, walked up and down the streets for a little bit and went to bed early again because we were getting up at 5:00 to take the hike up to see the sunrise over the Anupurna Range.</div>
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We lost Mark - don't know how we could lose Mark but we did. He was having a hard time, this is a hard hike, so he told us to all go on and he would wait for us. After we had hiked to the top and then got to the bottom, no Mark, we thought maybe he had walked down a little further to where the van had dropped us off, Kent and Marsha went down and then hiked back up to where Chris and I were waiting but still no Mark. Our guide took off back up the mountain asking everyone if they had seen a big man? About an hour later here comes Mark with the guide and our van driver who had also gone up to look for him. Mark had made it up to the top and somehow we had missed him coming down. Don't know how we did that but he made lots of new friends at the top of the mountain and along his way. </div>
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The next morning we got up early and had breakfast, we wanted to get an early start because we had Easter treats that we wanted to get ready for church on Saturday and wanted to get to bed early because almost everyone in the van had a part in church the next day, Mark was speaking, Kent and Greg were teaching the 5th Sunday adult lesson and Chris had been asked to come and talk to the YW. So off we went, about an hour into the drive, our friend Sugam, who had come to Pokhara with us received a phone call, there was a problem in Dumali about 5 miles ahead of us. Someone had been arrested the night before and on the way to the police station he had died, so the city was protesting. Roads were closed, no cars were moving either way. We stopped at a roadside restaurant, got cold drink and talked about what we should do? After Rakesh had made several phone calls and one to the police department in Dumali he was told that traffic would not be moving until later in the evening. So we headed back to Pokhara for some more shopping. We called President Bishnu and told him our dilemma, he talked to Rakesh to verify that we had no other options than to stay another night. We all felt bad for having to miss Church. Mark, Marsha and Chris really wanted to see and meet the branch and share the gifts they had brought. When we got back and checked back into our hotel, which we were lucky to get because everyone was having to come back to Pokhara, we went to get a bite to eat. We found a little restaurant that looked safe enough to eat at, safe is relative in Nepal. We sat down, got our menus and then we saw under the mocktails that you could order a Shirley Remple, I must have been a little tired, I started laughing so hard and couldn't stop. I wanted one of those but I didn't know if I could ask for a Shirley Remple with a straight face. And then I noticed they had marlic bread also on the menu. It was another one of those funny Nepal stories. We ate, shopped, had dinner and went to bed and set out again the next morning. On the way out Rakesh saw some women planting rice and asked if we'd like to stop and plant some rice. YES!</div>
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Yesterday we said goodbye to our dear friends and dropped them off at the airport. It was a fun, hectic week, and we have lots of things going on this month and it will be crazy. Between us and the Rempps we have visitors galore, we've spent the day trying to coordinate our calendars but right now we're waiting for Rakesh to come and I'm sure uncoordinate those calendars. I hope we get it figured out in the next day or two. </div>
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-63910111292521788192013-03-14T06:10:00.002-07:002013-03-14T06:10:52.972-07:00Helaman 1:18 And it came to pass that because of so much contention and so much difficulty in the government . . . . . At Christmas time during our branch party a gentleman approached me, two of his sons and one of his daughters are members of our branch. He's a journalist and was talking to me about a letter he had written to President Obama and gave me a copy and wanted me to read it. He also went on to talk about how lucky I was to live in the United States and have someone like our President in power. He felt sure that our President would be the man to unite the world, one world government he said. I didn't say much but took his article home and read it, very interesting, but I also believe he has been misled. A week or so after I had read the article I talked to his daughter and told her that I wanted her father to know that it would never be Barak Obama that would unite the world, but that one day there would be someone who would come and would unite us as brothers and sisters and that man would be Jesus Christ. Somedays I look around in Nepal and wonder how it will ever happen but I know in my heart that one day it will be. <br />
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I've shared some crazy Nepali things in the past but I'm going to tell you a few things that have happened here in the last couple of weeks. I think I've told you that Nepal has a Maoist government. There has not been a constitution for almost ten years and they have been trying to come together and write a new one. But there continues to be all kinds of obstacles, I sometimes think that Nepalis are their own worst enemies. They can't agree on anything, everyday in the paper, a deadline is set for some kind of consensus, the deadline passes and a new date is set. It's been like that since way before we got here. And then when things don't go someone's way they have a bandh. In the last two weeks we have had several bandh days. On the 4th, teachers in private schools had a bandh (strike) so there was no school. The next day there was a bandh so no vehicles except motorcycle, scooters, and bicycles could be on the road. They were either protesting the raise in gas prices, or public transportation. We never know for sure what the bandh is for. Today we had a doctor appointment and just as we got in the taxi we got a message on our phone from the US embassy that there was another bandh that was going to happen in the next hour. And then Rakesh who is always looking out for us called to notify us of the upcoming bandh. We hurried to the doctors, she was also in a hurry, she didn't want to be stuck in the office and not be able to get home. She told us she heard the bandh was because of the government problems and that it was going to last five days. We made it home, but I walked outside there were cars still moving around, no taxis though. Who knows? When the bandhs happen it really hurts those who are trying to run their businesses and make what little money they can. <br />
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The one fun thing to see during a bandh is that since there is no school the children are all out playing in the middle of the road. You never see that on non bandh days. And people can actually walk , so there are a few good things that happen during bandhs.<br />
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Also on bandh days or when days the internet is not working or both I have been crocheting, hats,baby blankets, purses. I'm leaning lots of new stitches.<br />
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Carol and I have been making all the little girls in the branch these cradle purses. We are waiting for friends who are coming to visit to bring us dolls to put inside.</div>
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Not only is it the season for bandhs whenever someone has a complaint but then there are the never ending festivals. We've had two in the last two weeks and again government, business, and schools close down.</div>
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I now know why schools here go on all year. I bet they don't really go to school anywhere close to 180 days. One last thing about the bandhs, I was just talking to Hitson. It is the end of the school year for Nepalis, they have major testing everyday for 10 - 12 days with only testing. Today Hitson's tests we're finished at 12:30. The bandh started at 12:00, he couldn't get home from school until after the bandh ended at 5:00 p.m. Poor Hitson, poor Nepal.</div>
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The festival on the tenth of this month was called Shivaratri day. Someone told us we should experience this festival and go to the Pashpati Temple. After we read about it we decided this was not a good place for missionaries, let alone anyone to go and experience this festival. There are over a million people that go to Pashpati temple on this day and over 100,000 of them are holy men.</div>
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"Shivaratri is a much anticipated festival by all Hindus. Shiva's birthday falls on the new moon day of the month of Falgun (which fall between our February, March calendar, we've also heard it called the wedding day). Festivities take place at all Shiva temples but most particularly at the great Pashpati Temple, Pilgrims and yogis or holy men, from all over Southeast Asia come to Kathmandu weeks before the festival. On this holy day people fast throughout the day. At dawn worshippers take a holy bath or dip in the river and to to the temple to worship, (they and many others remain nude all during the day sitting around doing strange things). Pashupatinath temple is located at the eastern part of the Kathmandu valley on the banks of the holy river Bagmati, (a really gross and filthy river). Pashupatinath, which literally means, "the Lord of animals", is one of the many forms of the Lord Shiva. "He is the guardian deity protector of our Hindu Kingdom of Nepal, thus Shiva Ratri is one of the major festivals of Nepal.' </div>
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One of the interesting aspects of Shiva Ratri is that on this day devotees and non-devotees alike freely indulge in smoking intoxicating substances such as marijuana and bhang (a mildly intoxicating preparation from the leaves and flowers of the female cannabis plant, smoked or consumed) for it is the only day in the annual calendar when marijuana is legal (really?) Many people take these intoxicants in the belief that it pleases Lord Shiva for he too is said to be fond of it (Kent said that when they take it they probably actually believe that it pleases Lord Shiva and that they can probably even see him). </div>
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So we didn't venture over to Pashpati on this festival but I had some picture of past visits.</div>
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Pashpati Temple Square, only Hindus can actually go into the square, visitors watch from across the Bagmati River</div>
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These next pictures are some of the holy men - they sit around on both sides of the river with their tin cups begging for alms.</div>
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On the 11th of March it was Gyalpo Lhosar Festival. This is a holiday for the Sherpa community so again everything is closed down, but look what happened.</div>
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Whoops! I'll write the first paragraph of this story. "The Ministry of Home Affairs first bungled it all, and now government officials are engaged in a blame game of sorts. The Ministry declared Tuesday a public holiday to mark Gyalpo Lhosar, only to realize later that the Sherpa community had already celebrated the festival a month ago. The next paragraph is pretty good too!</div>
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Government and several private offices remained closed on Tuesday to mark the extra holdiday. Even President Ram Baran Yadav, Vice President PramanandaJha, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattaarai and top leaders of the major political parties extended their 'warm wishes' to the Sherpa community. Given the magnitude of the blooper, authorities are now on the lookout for the person responsible for it. </div>
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Our next HBB project was just approved in Hong Kong, so we've been spending quite a bit of time getting ready for the doctors and nurses from Salt Lake to come back at the end of April. We had to fly to Biratnagar to check out where one of the trainings will be, about a 1 hour plane ride or a 17 hour bus ride, we opted for the plane ride.</div>
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We received an email this last week and later a skype from the Humanitarian Office in Salt Lake regarding some new wheelchair peer training that they would like to do in Nepal this summer. They want to send two men who have lived their lives in wheelchairs to train master trainers who then would do peer training for those who now have to live their lives in wheelchairs, about how they can regain their lives after an accident that may have left them paralyzed, give them hope and let them know that they can still live a full and productive life. So that's another thing we're starting to work on along with writing up our wheelchair project which not only includes getting the wheelchairs but also assessment training and now the peer training. It looks like it will be a busy summer.</div>
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We had our Relief Society birthday celebration a few days ago. It's so fun to get with the sisters in the branch and it's a very nice part of our mission, something to do besides the Humanitarian part of our call here in Nepal.</div>
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Because of so much contention and so much difficulty in the government, Nepal will have a very hard time becoming anything more than a third world country. There are many wonderful people here who have high hopes and desires for this country, many have returned to Nepal after living abroad, they know what Nepal can become, they know it won't be easy, but they long for a change, and they want to be that change. They are amazing, I said "I can do hard things", but it is Nepali's who do hard things everyday of their lives. One day our Savior, Jesus Christ will be the change in Nepal, it will be He who truly unites and helps us remember the brothers and sisters that we all are.</div>
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Another great scripture in 2 Chronicles, reminding us that as <b>we</b> seek to live our lives,<i> continually seeking</i> Christ, he will be our constant companion and guide. He will bless us and help us in our day to day lives and in those things we need His help. As we have a prayer before we leave the house each day and we get in a cab or leave the valley in a van or jeep we are reminded that we will be protected and watched over. Sister Rempp and I frequently comment, "these drivers don't know how blessed they are to be driving us around," on the crazy and treacherous roads of Nepal. <br />
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On the 17th of February we had a wheelchair distribution in Chitwan, about 6 hours away on busy canyon roads. We got to our pretty nice hotel, with warm water, electricity and hard beds and pillows. Found a Neplai place for dinner and then went to bed early so we'd be ready for the next day. Since we had the morning free Rakeesh called three hospitals for us to go and visit. The reason we visit hospitals is to see if and how they resuscitate newborns and see the conditions of the hospitals. We always try to visit the NICU's and explain to the doctors what the plan is with HBB for Nepal. They are always very receptive to us, coming into their hospitals and showing us around. We've even been taken to the delivery rooms and seen a few babies born. It's important to note here that they don't allow fathers into the delivery room but because we have white faces and can talk a little doctor talk - in we go! <br />
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This baby is a preemie and is laying on a warming table. The blanket wrapped around has been used over and over again and you can tell by looking at it. </div>
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This is one of the most modern hospitals we've seen in Nepal. This hospital is owned by someone from India, they also receive funds and very modern equipment from India. Not many people use it because in this hospital they have to pay whereas government hospitals are free. Government hospitals also pay women to come to their hospitals to deliver. Not much, just a little stipend mostly to pay for their transportation. The private hospitals still cost <u>very</u> little compared to our hospitals in the U.S.</div>
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This guy was in the orthopedic unit of the hospital and was really showing off for all of us. He was singing and dancing around, even with his broken leg. He had the whole room laughing. We all signed his cast.</div>
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Kent's gotten pretty good at doctor talk. Here he is talking with a pediatrician at one of the hospitals we visited. I just stand back and take the pictures.</div>
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Then, on to the reason we were in Chitwan, Wheelchair Distribution and Sewing Training Certificate Ceremony. Whenever a project is completed there is a "closing ceremony." This is good for those who get certificate because it lends credibility to their training as they seek employment and it's good for the Church because this is where we're recognized for the aid the Church is providing. We always have a sign up with LDS Charities on it so people understand where the help is coming from. The reason the Church wants to be recognized as we help here is to bring the Church out of obscurity in Nepal so that one day missionaries will be allowed in the country to preach the Gospel. I think once this country allows missionaries and people are converted to the gospel there will be a much needed change, not only spiritually, but also economically and physically. You'd have to be here to really understand why I think that would happen. Tradition is so ingrained in the people that it prevents them from moving forward. We frequently talk about how they are their own worst enemies. Tradition keeps them from recognizing who they are, that they have worth and could do almost anything they desired. </div>
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Twenty five wheelchairs were distributed in Chitwan on this day</div>
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Nepal receives around 800-900 wheelchairs from the Church each year, so we have lots and lots of wheelchair distributions to attend.</div>
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Women receiving certificates for their sewing training. </div>
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These women can now help provide for their families, whether it be just in this newly acquired skill of sewing for their family or of going out and getting a job to bring in an income. The Church financially supports four sewing centers with two six month trainings each.</div>
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It was too late in the afternoon to leave for home so we decided to go to the Chitwan National Park and ride the elephants the next day. This hotel was wonderful, the beds were a little softer, we didn't even have to sleep in twin beds which most of the lower end hotels have. We had hot water and electricity, the food wasn't great but the gardens at this place were beautiful. </div>
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Saturday was church and then we had the YSA over for dinner and a fireside. I forgot to take pictures. I'll never get over how these Nepali's eat. I thought I had a ton of food but every bit was eaten up and I'm sure if I'd had more they would have eaten more.</div>
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Sunday we left for New Delhi, India for a Senior Couples Conference with President and Sister Sackley. The Rempps and us were sure we had died and gone to heaven when we got to India. I was expecting it to be very much like Nepal, but it's not. Way more modern, and have all the conveniences of home (almost), electricity 24 hours a day, hot showers in the morning, soft beds and pillows, ( I even bought soft pillows while we were there and brought them home), freeways, and not anywhere near as much garbage as Nepal.</div>
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Kent and I with President and Sister Sackley (she is a hoot, what a personality)</div>
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Elder and Sister Pulla have been members of the Church for almost 20 years in India. They are amazing, I asked them before we left, how do we help the Asian brothers and sisters to accept the culture of the Church like they have. They told us to never give up, it will happen someday. That would be our hope. We have to keep reminding them that the way we do things isn't the American way, or the Nepali way but the Lord's way. Sometimes it's very hard to help them understand that.</div>
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The next day we got to go to the Taj Mahal. You just can't come to India and not see the Taj. We got up early, all loaded on the van and took the 4 hour drive to Agra where the Taj Mahal is. Poor Rempps, they were so sick and couldn't go. They were sick the whole time we were there and spent most of their time in the bedroom and bathroom. I felt so bad for them.</div>
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I wish I had words to describe this beautiful building. It was built in the 1600's. by King Somebody, I can't remember his name. He built this for one of his wives who he'd had fourteen children with. She was the favorite wife and when she died, this was built in her honor, where she is buried. Her casket and the Kings rest in the middle of this building, that is all that this building is for. It is however, breathtaking. </div>
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These are Nilnao Prone we saw from the van - they looked like a cross between a deer and a llama to me</div>
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The next morning we got up early, packed and sat around and visited and asked missionary questions and received a lot of good and worthwhile information. It was a fun time talking about what we all did and how we were working to help the Gospel move forward. But I do think my favorite part was visiting the Taj Mahal.</div>
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So we're now back to our real lives, continuing in the work of the Lord. Tomorrow we fly to Biratnagar, the second largest city in Nepal to make arrangement for more HBB training in April when Dr. Clark and a team of nurses come back for training. Arrangements need to be made, printing needs to happen and we need to find the best group of trainers. Much work to be done, but we wouldn't have it any other way. We love serving in this country, doing humanitarian work for Nepal but mostly for the Lord. </div>
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We're learning to love crazy Nepal, especially the people. Time is flying, this week we reached our first 6 months, only 12 more to go. Before we know it we'll be home and wondering what we're going to do with ourselves. </div>
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-82512545322835285472013-02-15T05:20:00.001-08:002013-02-15T05:20:26.310-08:002 Chronicles 25:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.During my personal scripture study I came across this scripture and after I underlined it I thought about MY imperfect heart some days, even though I'm trying to do that which is right most days I know I sometimes complain and whine, so I'm going to work on having a more perfect heart to appreciate all my blessings every day and do the Lord's work and find joy in what I'm doing.<br />
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One of the places we go as missionaries for breakfast, we officially call this our missionary meeting breakfast, is Mike's. It's homey, they have pretty good breakfast and we like the manager and waiters. Here's a picture of one of our friends at Mikes, with his newly dyed hair.<br />
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When the Nepali's dye their hair, this is the color it turns out. More men than women dye their hair. The last time we were at Mike's we he was letting his hair go "natural" Sister Rempp and I both commented how much we liked the natural look and how handsome he looked. I guess he either didn't believe us or he didn't really care what we thought.<br />
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On Monday the 28th, Dr. Ashish called and asked us to meet him at the Paropakar Hospital. It was the last day in January that they were HBB training and he asked us to be there. When we got there he asked Kent if he would be the closing speaker. Of course he would and he did a great job! <br />
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Kent explaining how important this training is and the difference it can make in their hospitals in saving the lives of newborns. According to the latest statistics in this hospital between 3-5 newborns die everyday in this hospital. We've just received a couple of reports from the American Pediatric Society, the protocol they use in HBB can save up to almost 50% of those babies and that's not including those babies that don't get the oxygen they need in the first minute of life and thus have mental and physical disabilities. <br />
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The next two days were spent working on the Project Development Worksheet with Dr. Clark and Salt Lake to get it ready to submit to Hong Kong for the next HBB training in April. This is a very complicated task - to try to make everybody happy with what we see as important . <br />
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On Thursday we went to the Monkey Temple with E/S Rempp. But first Sister Rempp and I stopped at a little shop to check out their kurtas, of course we had to buy one.<br />
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Swambyau or the Monkey Temple is a place of worship for Buddhists. In a previous blog I posted pictures but here are some more.<br />
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The prayer roll is a way of Buddhists worship. They walk by it and spin clockwise. I asked what happened if you spun it counterclockwise. It would bring negative energy into your life. So always make sure you turn a prayer roll clockwise. Who needs any more negative energy in their lives?<br />
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These are smaller prayer rolls where they walk and spin, there are probably 2 blocks around the temple of prayer rolls.<br />
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These are pictures up on top - I'm not sure of the significance of all these little stuppas on the left.<br />
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And of course there must be monkeys at the the Monkey Temple<br />
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Saturday after our church meetings we had a wheelchair distribution at the READ Nepal Leprosy clinic. </div>
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On Tuesday morning we went to the Indian Embassy to get our Visas for our trip to India at the end of the month for our couples conference in New Delhi. </div>
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Saturday was a baptism, this is what I've been waiting for. Ajay is a great young man. He's been coming since we've been here but has wanted to get his parents approval to be baptized. His mother finally told him to go ahead but she wasn't very happy with his decision. She should be - he's made a lot of changes for the good in his life. He's a better son.</div>
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On Sunday I got some of my visiting teaching done, this takes about 3 hours per visit considering the travel time and then we had ANOTHER wheelchair distribution at the Nepal Orthopedic Hospital.</div>
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The next pictures are at the hospital, some of these patients live here full time, there families have left them here because they can't take care of them, they are too much of a burden - so sad.</div>
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This beautiful young woman fell from a tree when she was 13.</div>
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She was so excited to have a wheelchair</div>
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Kent and Rakesh, he's about 3 feet tall, but such a happy young man</div>
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This guy was trying to get us to buy him a lap top or an IPad, </div>
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Rakesh, me and this young man who was born with only half of a body</div>
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Kent gets to speak again - it's a good thing he so good at it</div>
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Kent racing</div>
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The orthopedic doctor wanted us to go and see his hospital - it was very nice and very clean. There were even private rooms that the people could use and pay for but not very many use it. The hospital caters to mostly those who can not pay, and the doctor said that those who could pay wouldn't come because they didn't want to be in the same hospital with those who were so poor. It doesn't make any sense, it's that caste thing again that so many say doesn't exist here. But in the next few days I saw it more than ever.</div>
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Rakesh, the other Rakesh, then took us to dinner at a new place for us, Chinese food, ummmmmm it was good, will go there again.</div>
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We finally got a call back from the government regarding our participation in the Emergency for those who were freezing and dying because of the cold from about six weeks ago. They want us to go to the Terai and take blankets, just a note, it is starting to get pretty warm in the Terai now, but I guess it's better late than never. Please remember I'm trying to have that perfect heart in doing that which is right in the Lord. It's just sometimes so frustrating working with the Nepali government, so inefficient along with the corruption. The Church funded 1,500 blankets that we will distribute over the next few days, and we had to pay a high tax for them. The next pictures are of our trip </div>
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On our way we stopped to take a picture of the beautiful mountains, we climbed up on a concrete ledge to take these pictures. When we got to the top to take pictures a wild pig came up to Elder Rempp and bit him on the leg.</div>
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Elder Rempp and the mean pig</div>
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We would have had to turn around if the pig had broken the skin</div>
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The Orchid Hotel where we stayed the first night in Hetauda</div>
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Not too bad except for the twin beds and they were like sleeping on a door and the pillows were like a brick and sometimes looks can be deceiving .........</div>
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No working shower - a Nepali toilet and no hot water, but I did not complain - honest.</div>
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This was dinner the first night - barbecued mutton, better known as goat. Do you love the use fans when barbecuing to keep the flames going? It actually doesn't taste too bad.</div>
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We got up early the next morning to get to Malangwa for our distribution, we stopped along the road to get a bite for breakfast</div>
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They fry these things and then dip then in a sugar syrup. They are yummy if you buy them right out of the oil. We see them all the time along the streets for sale - covered with flies and sitting for I don't know how long - yuck!</div>
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The next pictures are at the blanket distribution</div>
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This is the school class, I am standing next to the teacher. These children come from a very poor village but they are lucky to be able to go to school.</div>
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The children were having recess. They had found bricks and were laying them around like legos. Kent got right in there and made a real maize out of them. They were having fun!</div>
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Before the blanket distribution started we were taken to a part of the village where the "untouchables" lived, if you can even call it living. I'm thinking, how can anyone be classified as "untouchable?" Here we are in a country that says the caste system no longer exists, but what I saw this day, the caste system is very much alive and well in Nepal. These are the people who the first 500 blankets went to. </div>
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As we walked around we soon were in the middle of all these villagers, they had gathered round wondering what on earth these white faces were doing amongst them. We were snapping pictures like crazy. They all wanted to be in the picture. These children were not in school. I'm sure they have no means of putting their children in school. As we walked around and looked at the mud homes, they slept on the ground and only on mats that were made of straw with no blankets at all </div>
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Aren't these two girls beautiful. They are probably about 14 years old. In this village the women all wear saris, no kurtas and I did not see a one with shoes on.</div>
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The women started to gather in a designated courtyard to receive their blankets. They each had to have identification stating what district they were from in order to receive a blanket. Only one blanket per person, I saw very few children getting blankets. As they would leave with their blanket word was spreading that we were handing out blankets, it became a little overwhelming with all the people that were coming in and we were having to tell them they could not receive a blanket</div>
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I was talking to Rakesh about how hard this was, to have to turn away people who obviously needed a blanket. He reminded me that we could not help everyone, it would never end and that I should think about the 500 who did receive a blanket.</div>
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There were 1,000 more blankets that we'd purchased coming and were going to be distributed to 2 other districts in need of the warmth of a blanket the next two days.</div>
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One of the gentleman here insisted on buying us lunch. We went to a little dirty cafe and he bought us rice and mutton (goat). Elder Rempp wanted to pay for it but Rakesh told him "no," This was his thank you to us for helping his community.</div>
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It never ceases to amaze me how very hard many of them work and then again how many more sit around in the sun doing very little waiting for someone to give them a handout. Some days it's hard not to have a bad attitude but I'm working on that perfect heart. And it's going to take a lot of work.</div>
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Yesterday we went to the Indian embassy to try to get our visas. They had told us to pick them up today. We got to the counter and they took our passports and told us to come back on Monday. By this time Kent has about had it, we explained that we were told we could pick up our visa stamp today, they wouldn't listen. He went to another counter and told the man that we would be out of town and needed our stamps today. He told us to come back at 5:00. We got to the embassy at 4:00 in plenty of time but they wouldn't let us in, they said "come back at 5:00." And then we realized that we had left our receipts at home. Kent and I grabbed a taxi and left Rempps waiting, because of traffic this took about an hour in "the Kathmandu jam" to go about 5 miles home and back. We got back at 4:58, time to spare. The sixth time was charm, we finally have our visas. " I hope I never have to see this building again," I 'm saying this with a smile. </div>
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Today we were supposed to fly to Biratnagar to check on a venue for a HBB training in April but because we didn't know if we'd get our passports back in time the flights were all booked this morning so we'll go in a few weeks. So we spent the day skyping back and forth with Hong Kong, there are new missionaries there and we're trying to help them understand the logistics and craziness of Nepal so that they will approve our upcoming projects. They've decided to come and see for themselves what it's really like when Dr. Clark and the nurses are here in April. The last missionary couples hardly had anyone come and see them. In the six months we've been here we've had so many, we figure it must be that we are such fun missionary couples to be around that everyone wants to come and share the fun or that we have no clue of what we're doing and messing things up, and that we need all the help we can get. I'm pretty sure it's because we're so much fun!<br />
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Here's one another great thing about being a missionary in Nepal. Returned Missionaries<br />
Yesterday between all the India embassy fiasco one of our branch missionaries was returning home from his mission in New Delhi. We went to the airport to meet him. This young man was what they consider a "street boy" in Nepal. He has not lived with his parents since he was 14 and has only a 3rd grade education. I can only imagine how frightening it must be to leave the mission field and come back to who knows what. He's going to be staying with the Branch President's family for a week or two. I pray the Lord will bless him, that he may be able to find work and hopefully find a way back into school and a place to stay. He seems like a wonderful young man. <br />
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Sometimes I have days when I do the right thing because I have to but I want to change my heart and do the right things because it's the right thing to do and will bring me joy and my heart will become more perfect in the sight of the Lord. I have a long way to go but I'm working on it and I know if I do what needs to be done with love and gratitude in my heart then I will be the one who is blessed.</div>
Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-48851086080591121052013-01-26T08:34:00.000-08:002013-01-28T05:53:16.024-08:00Mosiah 2:17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom, that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.Wisdom and Service, I've never thought of these two things of going hand in hand as I have the past couple of weeks. When we gain wisdom, the kind of wisdom the Lord would have us learn, our service becomes more genuine, and more selfless. We serve for the right reasons and that is to truly help, regardless of what the natural man thinks. <br />
The last couple of weeks have been filled with busy days, eye opening experiences and moving forward the work that we were sent here to do.<br />
We spent one whole day looking for timers for the HBB training the following week. Nobody knew what a digital timer was, finally we found some at a medical supply place but they cost us 800 rps a piece, which is way too much to pay for a timer but we had not other choice. The timers are used in training to make sure the nurses and doctors resuscitate a baby that is not breathing within one minute,better known as the GOLDEN minute. See how smart I'm getting already!<br />
The next day we had to go to the Maternity Hospital to get signatures on some appreciation letters that will be handed out at the closing ceremony, after the training is completed. We also get a call from the Social Welfare Council for an important meeting regarding disaster relief. Fourteen INGO's (International Non-Government Organizations) that work in Nepal were called, we met with Rabindra Kumar Member Secretary to the Social Welfare Committee. Nepal has been unusually cold this year and many people are dying from the cold, they live in the Terai or the lowlands where it is usually warm and so they are not prepared for the cold. Before we went to the meeting, Elder Rempp, he is the country director, called the area presidency in Hong Kong to see what kind of a commitment LDSC will make. He was told that whatever they needed the Church would supply. We got to the meeting, there are about 30 people there, and we were asked if we could help with one blanket per household. The four of us are looking at each other, thinking you've got to be kidding, one blanket per family. Greg told the member secretary and those in attendance that our organization was willing and ready to help with anything they might need. He asked how many blankets they would need, no one had an answer, he asked when will they be ready to deliver the blankets, no one has an answer. By the time the meeting ended we had no answers and they told us they would get back to us. By the end of he day, Greg had found where we can buy all the wool blankets that would be needed. That was two weeks ago today, we're still waiting for more information. <br />
We all talked to Rakesh about our frustration, we told him that we could make one call to Salt Lake and within 2 days a container load of blankets would be delivered straight to the Terai. He then went on to explain the bureaucratic red tape that it takes to get anything done in Nepal. Not only do they need and want blankets, they will tax us 33% if and when it happens. See what I'm learning about Nepal, but I'm also learning to put those frustrations aside and continue to serve. <br />
On Saturday it was our YM/YW fireside, Kent prepared the lesson I prepared the food. I decided to totally have an American light dinner, grilled cheese sandwiches, Pringles, Fanta, and Moon Pies for dessert. It was a hit, but then I don't think there is anything these Nepali kids won't eat.<br />
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The next two days were spent looking for some kind of thank-you souvenir for those that are helping with the HBB training. We've received a couple of souvenirs, nothing that are really nice, in fact one is a wooden trophy that says Souvenir on it. I want to find something either memorable or at least usable.<br />
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We found some nice heavy winter scarves for the men and for the women we bought Pashmina scarves and then Kent designed a nice certificate for each of them. The certificates are very important here, when they go to apply for a job they show their certificates which lends credibility of their knowledge and skills.<br />
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The next couple of days we were making final arrangements for the doctors from the Church and the Public Affairs couple from India who will be following us around for the next five days. <br />
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On the 17th we've been personally invited, meaning we received our own invitation with our names printed on it, to another neighbors wedding. The wedding started at 2:00 and we had to be to the airport to pick up Dr. Clark and Dr. Bell at 3:15. So we hurried over to the wedding and said hello, and of course had to have our pictures taken and explained why we couldn't stay.<br />
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We picked up the doctors and went to the Maternity Hospital to make sure that everything was ready for the beginning of the two day training. We then took them to Nina's for a bite to eat and a discussion on the plans for the week. Friday morning we headed over to the hospital bright and early. This is a long day of HBB training.<br />
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Notice our banner we had made, it says "donated by" in Nepali and then Latter-Day Saint Charities. </div>
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On Saturday, we picked up the doctors for Church. They've asked Dr. Clark if he would speak, we did tell him the night before. He gave a great talk on service and how all of us can serve the Lord in a variety of ways. We just need to take the opportunities that are before us and act. Great talk! After church Elder Rempp went to the airport to pick up the Black's, the public affairs couple, Dr. Clark went to the Rempp's to help assemble humanitarian kits and then to hook up with an old friend from the branch. We took Dr. Bell on a sightseeing adventure for a couple of hours. He had been here a year before but was very, very ill and did not have the opportunity to see Nepal. <br />
We first took him up the street to the Budanilkanta temple (Sleeping God). It was a busy day with lots of people worshiping.<br />
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Dr. Clark's sweet wife Ann sent with him with over 100 leper bandages and fabric for READ Nepal leprosy clinic and Rakesh's sewing centers. So.. on the road again, we headed over to READ Nepal. Our power just went out and I've lost my pictures on my camera, I had a great picture of all the leprosy bandages, oh well, such is life in Nepal. I'll have to borrow Kent's pictures.</div>
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They are burning a body down below on the steps and you can tell that there is lots of smoke from other bodies being cremated.</div>
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Sister Black with one of the Holy Men around Pashupatinath Temple, (<span style="font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.328125px; text-align: left;">पशुपतिनाथ मन्दिर)</span> - you have to pay these guys if you want a picture with them.</div>
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Then we're off to Thamal to do a little shopping. Dr. Clark wants to pick up a few things for his grandchildren.</div>
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The doctors don't leave until about midnight so we decide upon a Nepali experience at the Nepali Chulo.</div>
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Dr. Rita, and her husband, Rakesh and Sunila, Blacks, Dr. Bell and Dr. Clark, notice the tika on Dr. Clarks forehead.</div>
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We get the doctors back to the hospital so they can get the shuttle to the airport and the rest of us head home to bed for a much needed nights rest.</div>
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The Blacks are still with us for part of the day, so we picked them up and took them into Thamal for breakfast at Kilroy's, steak and eggs for the men, omelettes for the women and then we meet Rakesh so he can show them some of the projects that he does with us, computer training for the disabled and blind, wheelchairs, sewing and knitting project also for the disabled.</div>
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Presenting some of the fabric from Sister Ann to Rakesh's sewing center<br />
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Sagum on the left is very visually impaired due to a motorcycle accident a few years ago. He is teaching this fully sighted young woman how to Skype, using the JAWS program which is an audio program that helps the blind use computers.</div>
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This young man has just been measured and evaluated and is receiving his first wheelchair. He had an accident not long ago and has a spinal injury and is paralyzed.</div>
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We took the Black's to the airport. Now everyone has gone back home and we get to write reports about the week and write up our new projects that we hope takes place in the next couple of months. </div>
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Yesterday we got a phone call asking Kent and I to go to the Social Welfare Council for another meeting, this time from the Ministry of Women and Children. We got there and pretty soon there were about 100 people that had been invited to the meeting from other INGO's. What it turned out to be, in our opinion, was the Maoists party doing damage control. They told us not to believe what has been written in the papers lately, that they are trying to make sure elections and a new constitution happens soon and that they are trying to work with INGO's in a more efficient way so that we don't have to jump through so many hoops. We'll see if that happens. The Minister asked for questions but before anyone could ask any, he got up and left with his body guards and security, it must have been quitting time. It was interesting. I never could have imagined what it would have been like here, it's one of those things you have to experience it to believe it. </div>
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As we serve we sometimes have opportunities to explain LDS Charities, we tell them we are here by choice and that we don't get paid, that we pay our own way, and we are doing this because we want to help the people of Nepal. I'd love to explain that we do this because the Lord has blessed us so much and we want to show our gratitude to Him, we do this because we love our brothers and sisters in all parts of the world. We do this because the Lord continues to bless our lives and we want to follow His example. </div>
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I had two great pictures, one of women at the well and the other of men at the well, every time we go by a well where mostly women are gathered, washing, getting water for the day or just socializing one with another I can't help but think about the story of the woman at the well and of the living water that Christ gives to each of us. John 4 Now Jacob's well was there, Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.... 4:13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. That's why we really do what we do, we look forward the those blessings the Lord has waiting for each of us as we drink of the living water, as we follow his example as we find joy in every day living the Gospel. I am grateful for this experience, I am truly gaining wisdom as I learn what it means to serve my brothers and sisters in Nepal.</div>
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-2883698750608493062013-01-10T08:38:00.001-08:002013-01-11T07:17:10.855-08:00Mark 9: 49-50 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt is good; but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.As I've been pondering my blog this time, I've thought a lot about sacrifice and what I thought sacrifice meant. I thought giving 18 months and coming to Nepal, leaving my family was a real sacrifice. Then I got here in the monsoons and the heat and load shedding and then winter came and no heat and a lot more load shedding and I was sure I knew what sacrifice was, but I've stopped and looked around me and realize that I don't really know much about sacrifice. I see the Nepali people everyday on the street so many have so very little, they live everyday in either extreme heat or cold without power, sometimes without water. Most survive day to day and I read the paper, many don't survive. I see the sacrifices they are making and most don't even know that they are sacrificing. I'm beginning to understand the real meaning of sacrifice. <br />
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These have just been my thoughts the last couple of days and my blog may not reflect these things but I'm making some resolutions for the new year and one is to better understand about sacrifice especially those times when I pat myself on the back for what I thought was a sacrifice. I think I'm starting to get it. I want to be more humble and much more grateful for those things the Lord has given me.<br />
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On December 30th we had another wheelchair distribution at the Army Hospital. We met with generals, their wives, military personnel and wheelchair recipients. We then a lunch in the officers club and had a great discussion concerning our upcoming HBB project. <br />
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We had a group of young men ask us about the sports wheelchairs. They have a basketball team but have to use the standard wheelchair. I told them I would check into it but I didn't think it was possible. I talked with the wheelchair specialists from the Church and they told us they've had lots of requests for sports chairs but because of the expense it wouldn't be possible. They suggested the young men check with another NGO.<br />
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Wheelchairs not only change the life of the individual but think about the difference it must make in that family.<br />
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We left a couple of wheelchairs to patients in this ICU. Some of these people have had wheelchairs, but they've been borrowed wheelchairs from the hospital, now they have their own.<br />
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Afterwards we had lunch with the generals and their wives in the officers club. They had many questions about the things we do here in Nepal and told us that we could count on them for their support. I'm glad they're on our side.<br />
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This is one of the generals and his family. He was wounded about 10 years ago during the Maoists insurgency</div>
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On Monday we went to the Police Hospital to talk with Dr. Tapa, who asked if he could be our hospital monitor for HBB. We were thrilled, such a nice man, and then we had to go shopping for a birthday present for Rajasee, her birthday was on the 1st.</div>
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Just your typical 6 year old birthday girl</div>
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Another one of those cakes that they soak in water, I guess that's what you'd call a "moist cake" </div>
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It was such a nice day, the party was held outside</div>
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This is Sister Topham, Sunila had brought out a can of canned snow and sprayed it just has Sister Topham walked by, she got a mouth full. </div>
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We had a huge meal, I loved the marinated peanuts on these shrimp tasting puffed chip like things. I'm sure I'll never find those at home but I am going to get the recipe for the peanuts, and I don't even like peanuts.</div>
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As soon as we left the birthday party some of the branch members were having a New Years Day Party that we were invited to. A previous member of the branch had sent some money to one of the members and told them to have a party and dinner for a select few of the members, and she gave them a list of who was to be invited along with the missionary couples (I felt bad that not everyone was invited). We'd just finished a big meal at the birthday party and were now having to eat another big meal, I don't think I'm going to be losing weight any time soon.</div>
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Here are pictures of the party.</div>
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Happy New Year on the stage at the restaurant written in ribbon</div>
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Me, Meena, Sarita and Carol</div>
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The little boy on the left is Baudel, I tease him and call him Fanta because Nepali's love their orange Fanta and I told him I can remember his name when I think of a Fanta bottle</div>
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These kids were having a ball showing off their dance moves for everyone</div>
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This is Baudel again. He was amazing. I have this all on video</div>
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This is the Gurung family in their Gurung Caste attire, Utpati, Santa with her father and sister</div>
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The next day was working at home in our warm office. We have a propane heater in here and it is the only warm room in the house. I look forward to staying at home days in the winter but I'm sure it won't be quite so nice when it gets hot. They tell us it should start warming up in the middle of February and then get hot in April through October.</div>
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On Thursday, we have two dinner meetings. One was supposed to be on Friday but the important guests couldn't make it so we had one dinner at 4:30 and the other at 7:00. We went to two different Chinese restaurants. One was a favorite restaurant of one of the guests the other was a favorite of another. </div>
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I can't take this eating like this for much longer. We had about an hour in between the two dinners so Rakesh took us to a real mall, called the World Trade Center.</div>
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I was shocked to see this sort of modern mall. It was only half occupied and only a handful of shoppers. It was very cold inside but luckily they had electricity when we walked through.</div>
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Friday morning we had our missionary breakfast meeting. Real tenderloin is served at the Radisson on Fridays and Sundays and Greg wanted real beef. We ate, had a short meeting and Kent and I were off running to the Porapakar Maternity Hospital where we are delivering a lot of printed training materials for their preliminary training before the doctors from Utah get here on the 17th. </div>
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Saturday, our walk home from church was filled with more new sights. I thought about the sun and how important that is to the people in Nepal as I snapped pictures along the way.</div>
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I took this picture in the RS room at church, it was freezing inside, nice outside, I even had to wear gloves to keep my hands warm.</div>
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I wish I could remember this wonderful man's name. He is the husband of one of the members. As we walk to and from church each Saturday he comes out and gives Kent and I both great big hugs. This is his little tailor shop. He is deaf and does not speak but his smile tells his story. He is one of the best parts of our walk to Church.</div>
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This is his father who is also a tailor. He has moved his sewing machine out in the sun so he could work.</div>
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Sunday was the first pretraining day of HBB at the Porapakar Hospital. Ravi asked us to come, we're not sure why because this doesn't really have much to do with us until the doctors are here next week. He said they would want to see us. So we went.</div>
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A few days ago we received an email from India informing us that the Church's Media Couple would be coming to see the training going on in Nepal. We went to inform the Director of the Hospital, to make her aware and also to make sure it was okay with her. We went to her office but she wasn't there so they had Kent call her on their special locked up telephone.</div>
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Monday we spent the day working at home, making last minute arrangements for the doctors coming next week and then we had our monthly FHE skyping with India. We had the Rempps over before our FHE for dinner and then had the skype call, in the dark, of course!</div>
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Tuesday, We took a field trip to the goat market. Greg was hoping to see them slaughter a goat, but it didn't happen on this day, but we enjoyed looking at the goats.</div>
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We then walked through this "tarp mall". I'm not sure how long it was but it went on and on forever. As Kent and I got almost to the end we got a call from Rakesh saying he needed us all to go to the immigration office and take care of some business with our visas. Kent and I had to run all the way back to the Rakesh's waiting car. So much for doing any shopping this day. </div>
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They are amazing in that they come here, work here and live here for 6 months of every year. They had come trekking in 2000 and then decided they wanted to serve a mission here. They came for 2 years, went home and the couple that replaced them were here 6 months when one of them became very sick and had to go home. The mission office called and asked if they would come back, and they did and they've kept coming back. He works in several hospitals, training the staff how to use and maintain their equipment. The hospitals are given all this free equipment and then they don't know how to use it correctly or to maintain it. He says it's quite a job and most still can't figure it out. He has some very interesting stories to tell, that's why I hope I never have to go to the hospital here. One of our doctors is going to train the neonatal unit on how to use a CPAP machine that has been sitting in the neonatal corner because they don't know how to use it. I wonder how many babies could have been saved had they known how to use the machine. </div>
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I love this old little city, not so many motorcycles, taxis, or dust</div>
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Kent with Suman walking the streets of Bhaktapor</div>
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Kent holding Sumans new son, he walked around the streets carrying him and everyone would come up and wanted to know why this white face had this little Nepali baby. Kent kept telling them he was the hajourbuba (grandfather). Most would laugh the others wanted to know where his mother was. It was fun. I think I told you that some believe that if they put that black eyeliner on the baby it keeps away the evil spirits, others say it helps makes the babies eyes bigger and the bigger the eyes are, the more beautiful Nepali they are, at least that's what they think.</div>
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Sites of Bhaktapor</div>
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Today we spent getting lots of emails sent off, getting ready for HBB training next week, finding a venue for our important dinner meeting with important doctors, ministry people, finally locating digital timers for the training, writing invitations for the dinner meeting and finalizing a lot of last minute things. We've worked hard and it feels good to finally feel we're accomplishing some things we were sent here to do. </div>
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"Salt it good" and I want to be the salt that seasons the sacrifice. I want what I do here in Nepal to have meaning and be of value to help those who really sacrifice, to make a difference in someone's life. I want to feel good about what we're doing in Nepal and to let people see that there is something different about me because I have the spirit of Christ in my life and because of His sacrifice, there is hope, there is joy and a purpose to our lives. I want to have salt in myself and have peace with others. </div>
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-20888634772664693852012-12-29T09:57:00.001-08:002012-12-29T09:57:38.149-08:00I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men .. . . . Ecclesiastes 3:10<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's been a couple of weeks since my last blog, and the time is going by pretty fast. We've been in Nepal for 4 months and the last two weeks have been busy, busy, busy. Christmas came and went with little fanfare except that all the Nepalis wherever we went knew that Christmas was important to us and they all wished us a "Happy Christmas." I appreciated those moments when I could reflect on the birth of the Savior and what that event means to me in my everyday life. I'm so grateful to be in Nepal, and have at times witnessed what the conditions of that humble birth must have looked like. The lowly manger, the smells of the animals, the cold night air, these are things which we experience frequently as we have opportunities to travel and meet our brothers and sisters whose everyday life this is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before I share our experiences of the last two weeks, a couple of funny Nepali things, first, the time. Meetings don't ever start when they are supposed to, I couldn't figure out why, but now I know. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Friday was Rukmina's birthday and we took her to a nice Chinese restaurant. The food was ati meto (very yummy), but I don't think there was enough of it for the Magar family. I can't believe how the Nepali people eat. Tomorrow we are having our visiting teaching sisters for lunch. I have made lots of chow mein, fruit salad, breadsticks and carrot cake. Rukmina does not think that is enough so she is making razma (beans), rice (of course), potato pickle, and chick peas. I guess that should probably be enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Saturday after church we got all the YM/YW and YSA and went to Elder and Sister Rempps house for a Christmas fireside on service, we gave them all a cd of beautiful EFY music and then we had dinner, hot and sour soup, momos, rolls, and cookies. Not one drop was left. We then put together 300 hygiene kits for our trip to Chanute, to a small village school. These youth in this branch are so fun to be around. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In Nepal as we are serving a humanitarian mission, we are held accountable to the government for the amount of money we pledge to spend in their country. If we promised to spend $100,000, they want to make sure that we did indeed spend that much, so every 6 months they hold what's called a PAC meeting where we explain our projects, where we are with them, and then answer any questions. There are about 18 different people that have been invited to this meeting, dinner is served, which the Church pays for, and they all receive a small stipend. It's kind of weird but it's protocol and it's just one of the many hoops that we have to jump through. The country director for LDSC, which is Elder Rempp worked mostly with Rakesh Hamal to get this organized. He put together a power point explaining all that we do and made sure everyone left happy. He put together a great presentation and we left feeling that we are doing a good job and that Nepal is happy with the things we are doing in their country. Whew! I'd hate to get kicked out of here :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> But it was fun to watch the children, they had not had any water here at this school... I can only imagine. These children were all so very dirty, their lives are so hard, I'd just like to bring them all home with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Sunday, we decided for Christmas that we wanted to do something different than what the other missionaries had done in the past, they had usually baked cookies and gone caroling to some of the branch members homes. We decided that we would go to Mother Teresa's care center. On Saturday we invited anybody that wanted to join us to please come. The Rempps and us decided we would stop and each buy a 50 lb. bag of rice and 40 lbs. of dahl to take with us. The oranges in Nepal are in season and Kent wanted to buy some to bring home. We got to the center with our goods and found one of the nuns who was very happy to see us. In the care center there were about 25 men and women, mostly old but a few had mental and physical disabilities. They noticed Kent with his bag of oranges and started pointing. He started passing them out but quickly ran out so he left and bought 10 more pounds, which he distributed, every last one. They loved them. We went around and visited with each of them and then we sang Christmas carols. I took great pictures but can't seem to find where they were saved. Sorry, I'll try to post them another time. A great day!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Christopher will have a new assignment at the U.S. embassy in Iraq after they spend a year in Washington D.C. for language training. This next assignment he will leave his family home in St. George while he's gone, not a very conducive or safe place for families.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Christmas day we share our family traditions with Rukmina, Hari and Hitson, breakfast casserole(the Nepali version), sweet rolls, sharing the Christmas story from the scriptures and exchanging some small gifts. A very quiet Christmas morning, it's pretty much business as usual in Kathmandu, in fact later that afternoon the printer comes over to finalize some printing that we need for our HBB project next month. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A quick story about this picture, Rakesh started NRSD, National Rehabilitation Society for the Disabled several years ago. He saw this young man on the street, he couldn't walk and offered to help him get a wheelchair. He also asked him what he did for a living, was he going to school and what he wanted to do with his life? Sagun wasn't sure, Rakesh asked him if he'd be interested in going to school and learning about computers. Rakesh told him that if he would go to school he could come to NRSD to work and teach others who were disabled to help learn the computers so that they could become empowered and be productive in society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This day, after six years of teaching computers to other disabled people, Sagun is leaving with a new, very good paying job. I sat with him as they paid tribute to him, he told me, he was sad about leaving and that it was hard to sit and listen to people say nice things about him. He also said he was worried about whoever might replace him because they might just think of NRSD as a job, and he has felt much more while working there. Kent asked him if he understood the phrase "bitter sweet" and then explained what it meant, he said "we would say, sweet and sour." A very good man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">LDS Charities has provided the funding for the training for NRSD in computers, blind training for sewing and knitting and JAWS training also for the blind. It feels good to be helping people who value what they've been given and are willing and desirous to give back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday, the RS had a service activity. We taught them a few different newborn hat patterns. We were there 5 hours, no one wanted to leave, they were having such a good time making hats. Finally when I got home I had so much to do before the power went out, because we were having a family for dinner and I needed to get most of it done the night before. The power went out an hour earlier than scheduled so I had to finish up in the dark. So much fun! But it was a good day. I love the members of the branch, they are such good people and have such a love for the gospel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These past couple of months I have seen the travail of man here in Nepal. Life here for so many is very difficult, some of it is by choice but they deal with it the best they know how with what few resources are available to them. I wish I had the answers to the many problems here. I know I am only one person but I will do what I can today and the Lord has blessed me with this opportunity to serve here and to love the people. And loving the people in Nepal is easy. I will try to make a difference even if it is only for today. </span></div>
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-25399910475369464052012-12-13T08:00:00.000-08:002012-12-13T08:00:16.124-08:00"Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused! Charles DickensI'm reading the Christmas Carol again this year and thinking of the story with a new and different perspective as I live here in Nepal this Christmas. I've thought about the things Scrooge learned from the three spirits that visit him and teach him about mankind, about how loving and serving brings us happiness that we can only experience by reaching out to others. I'm learning to look at the world with new eyes and certainly appreciate more those things which I've been blessed with. Another great book to read or even better, to listen to is Jacob Marley, a wonderful story at Christmas time.<br />
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Christmas is not celebrated very much in Nepal, Christianity is fairly new here and people don't know the extent it is celebrated in other countries. We've seen a few Christmas trees and even a moving Santa Claus that only lasted a couple of days because of all the dust. Santa's beard got pretty dirty. <br />
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These lovely Christmas trees were taken out of the box and sat in front of the door. I don't know if you can tell but the leaves are still all squished up, they either don't know or don't care to straighten the branches. These trees replaced the dusty Santa a few days ago. Notice the marigold garlands on the right still hanging from Tihar last month. Almost all of the shops on our street are open, there is just a garage door that they pull down at the close of the day thus all the dust.<br />
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We've spent a lot of time at the computer this week, getting ready for a HBB training in a few weeks and writing two more visits for next spring and fall. Putting these projects together on paper takes months of phone calls back and forth with Salt Lake and Hong Kong, making sure we have government approval, visits to hospitals and government ministries. Sometimes it gets tedious and discouraging because we have so many different people giving us different information. It's a good thing that we have other activities to break up some of our days.<br />
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We were invited to a wedding on Friday. A neighbor down the street told Rukmina to make sure that "Sir" and "Maam" came. On this day the party is at the the bride's parents home. The wedding starts out with the band marching down the alley in the morning.<br />
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Here comes the groom to the brides home. These flowers are all stuck on the car with scotch tape. I wonder what that does to the paint job.<br />
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The bride is in the middle, all the women wear their red sari's or a color close to it. Isn't she beautiful? This is an arranged marriage. Our mission president told us that a few months ago, President Packard was in India and spoke to the YSA about arranged marriages. He told the young people, members of the church, that agency is a very important principle of the gospel, they should meet someone, fall in love, and marry. I hope I said that right. We've heard a Nepali saying about weddings - the bride cries the first day when she leaves her family, the man cries everyday there after.<br />
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These two girls were watching me make a fool of myself and I grabbed them and we then went marching the opposite direction of the dancing men.<br />
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Saturday at church, Kent taught a leadership class on the new youth curriculum for next year. Carol will teach Saturday and I will teach the week after. This is going to be very difficult because there are no manuals, this will be a whole new different way to teach the gospel, teaching as the Savior would, engaging the youth in the discussion. I'll have to let you know how it turns out. In the past 4 months we've been here we have sat in the investigator class. For four months they have taught "The Plan of Salvation" . Two weeks ago Kent encouraged the teacher, who was a young woman getting ready to leave on her mission to move on to the next lesson. He helped her plan during the week and she was prepared and ready. The lesson was going great and all of the sudden we hear "the plan of salvation." There are no Nepali words for "plan of salvation" so that was very clear to us. She kind of looked at us with a sheepish grin and moved on with the lesson on Faith. They do understand the plan of Salvation very well, I'm just not sure about the other principles of the gospel.<br />
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Sunday we had the Khadka family for dinner. Rukmina insisted on making most of the dinner, she told me, "they like Nepali food," I know they like Nepali food by how much they eat but they eat it everyday and I thought I could make something different, change is nice once in awhile, but she insisted. She did let me make rolls and a carrot cake. They did enjoy the dinner, there was not one thing left. I made almost 3 dozen rolls for 8 people, they were all gone and Kent and I only ate two. We had bought little Ruth a small Christmas gift, I asked if they celebrated Christmas at all and they said "no". She was pretty excited!<br />
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I told her she could pick an ornament off the tree to take home. Remember she had chicken pox a few weeks ago, she had mumps when she came this day. Poor little thing.<br />
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Ganesh has a smile on his face all the time. He will start a new job on Monday and he will be able to stay in Nepal. He has been in Saudia Arabia for 2 year working as a painter to support his family.<br />
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Monday morning we have a missionary breakfast meeting with Rempps at Kilroys. Breakfast meetings are the best. Kent had steak and eggs, yuuuuummmmmmmm. <br />
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When we left these guys were sitting in the alley, playing Bob Marley songs, Kent wanted to join in. Yes, there are alleys everywhere!<br />
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After jamming with these guys for a bit I decided that I really need to do something with my hair. Carol, talked me into going up to the Radisson Hotel to get my haircut. She's been going to the barber shop instead of the beauty salon because all Nepali women have long hair and she's afraid they won't know how to cut short hair. She's been pretty happy with how they've done her hair, so I figure what the heck, my hair will grow back if I don't like it. A couple of days ago I saw a sign that read Beauty Saloon, I'll have to get a picture the next time I see that one.<br />
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The best part of the haircut is the 15 minutes head, back, and arm massage. I'll go back there!<br />
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On Tuesday and Wednesday we spent those days at home in the office working on the computer, skyping . We found a new Vietnamese restaurant that is in walking distance. The food is good and cheap. When we went in the waiter wanted to make sure we knew that they had another restaurant not too far away that was much better. I'm not sure telling that to customers is a very good idea. We thought the food was great but we'll have to try out the other one for the "better food." On Wednesday, we were tired of staying home and went to Thamel and ate at Kilroy's again. We sat down and one of the waiters came up to us and said in his Nepali English, "where's those other guys?" We thought that was pretty funny!<br />
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Kent's had it for the day. They had a fireplace at Kilroy's, they lit it for us because it was a chilly, I tried to get a picture of all the smoke, we could hardly breathe but the momo's and fish and chips were good.<br />
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This morning I got up and started to get ready for the day. We are going to the airport to send Anu Llama off on her mission to Bangalore, India. It's a little cold this morning,<br />
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This is the temperature of our bedroom<br />
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I take a quick sponge bath, this is my new method for showers. We have a small water heater on the wall that we can plug in (when we have electricity) did I tell you that the power is off 11 hours a day now? But it heats up so hot you can't get in without first degree burns, you also can't turn on the cold water at the same time so we've decided that this is how we'll bathe for the next little while. <br />
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Anu Llama at the airport<br />
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She's terrified, she hasn't been a member of the church for very long, she's never been on a plane, and never even left Kathmandu.<br />
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Anu's mother on the left. She does not speak English and I went to talk with her, to tell her, her daughter will be a wonderful missionary, that she'll be safe and that God would take care of her. She then started to cry. I told her I had sent 5 children on missions, I knew how she felt. <br />
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Kent said that when he hugged her she was just trembling. <br />
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Anu Llama, sweet sister, wonderful missionary, most important, a Daughter of God</div>
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After we sent Anu off today we decided to go with the Rempps and try a new place to eat, the Hyatt hotel.</div>
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Yes, they actually have a Hyatt hotel and as we pulled up to the Hotel in our rickety taxi, we felt like we were far, far away from Kathmandu Nepal.</div>
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They even have a beautiful Christmas tree, a little lopsided but the best we've seen so far.</div>
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Don't these look good - this was dessert. They actually looked better than they tasted, but lunch was very good.</div>
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Kent's Mincemeat Pie</div>
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Greg's Strawberry Tart</div>
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My Black Forest Cake</div>
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And this beautiful truffel - didn't taste like anything. We tried to figure out how they made it to taste like nothing.</div>
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After we ate dessert, Carol and I stopped at the restroom - HOT WATER, neither of us wanted to leave we made Kent and Greg go in so they could remember what HOT WATER felt like.</div>
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After this yummy lunch I was thinking about my life compared to the Nepali people, how blessed I am, and many times I wonder why I have so much and so many of them have so little. This morning we were looking up statistics regarding Nepal for one of our projects. The average yearly income for a working Nepali is $1,092. I've taken some pictures of the people on Bansbari, that's the road we live on. </div>
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"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" the Ghost of Jacob Marley speaking, "at this time of the rolling year," the spectre said, "I suffer most. Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode! Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!" .... "That is no light part of my penance," pursued the Ghost. "I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer."</div>
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As we all celebrate Christmas, wherever we are, may we remember the "business of mankind." May we not get so caught up in worldly "things" that we forget those around us, who may only need a smile or a kind word. We are all children of God whoever and wherever we are. He loves each of us. He sent His Son, born of humble circumstances and then died for each of us that we all might live again as brothers and sisters. I have seen first hand what humble circumstances are and I am grateful to have a better understanding and love for my brothers and sisters here in Nepal. This experience is teaching me the "business of mankind" and I will be blessed forever because of it. </div>
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-46867609654510959202012-12-06T08:51:00.003-08:002012-12-06T18:30:57.865-08:00D&C 50:24 That which is of God is Light, and he that receiveth Light and continueth in God, receiveth more Light and that Light groweth brighter and brighter until the perfect day."As a citizen of sunny earth it's hard not to take light for granted." In this weeks blog, I honor you, light, "for a lightless world would be a gloomy place indeed." I probably took Light for granted until the first week I was in Nepal and learned about load shedding, Nepal's way of conserving energy. There has only been load shedding here since 2005, but you'd think these people had always gone without Light and now it is just an everyday occurrence, or to some of us a nuisance that we live with. When you walk into shops or office building they are usually working without any light. Here's what I've learned, if you have lights on when the power goes off, you don't remember which ones you've left on and it's hard to tell by the switches, they are all different. There have been a few nights in the middle of the night while we're sleeping the power goes back on and all the lights in the house are on, so needless to say we have learned to work without much light on, ever.<br />
Here is our new load shedding schedule (times when the power is off):<br />
Sunday 5:00 - 10:00 a.m. 3:00 - 7:00 p.m.<br />
Monday 5:00 - 9:00 a.m. 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.<br />
Tuesday 12:00 - 4:30 p.m. 7:30 - 11:00 p.m.<br />
Wednesday 11:00 - 3:00 p.m. 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.<br />
Thursday 9:00 - 1:00 p.m. 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.<br />
Friday 7:30 - 12:00 p.m. 5:00 9:30 p.m.<br />
Saturday 6:00 - 11:00 a.m. 4:30 - 7:30 p.m.<br />
Oh and by the way, in the wintertime it starts getting dark about 4:30.<br />
The trick is to figure out the best times to get water for washing dishes, because I need electricity to pump the water through the filter before I boil it,and to use my blow dryer and curling iron. Everything else we can usually work around. Rukmina has to figure out what times she can wash the clothes and vacuum the carpets. We have a battery that keeps our computer working and one lamp otherwise it would be very difficult for us to get our church work done.<br />
Last Friday we went to Om Hospital and met with Dr. Rita and the director of the Om Hospital Foundation to talk about a venue for our March HBB training. I came home and had to make rolls for our Thanksgiving dinner at the Patch's house the next day after church. Guess what? No electricity, so I had to make them with only the light from a flashlight. I think I did okay for having to cook with very little light and luckily my oven is gas.<br />
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The trip is about 8 hours long on bumpy roads, but we have a good driver and a nice van that has both air and heat. We use both. Pokhara is a nice break from Kathmandu, less dust, wider roads, no barking dogs and no honking horns. Best of all it's a little warmer. When we got to our hotel, load shedding, of course, but the shower is the hottest shower I've had since I've been here and our room is not freezing. We walked around a little and stop for a cup of hot chocolate before going to bed to get ready for the next day. The power in the morning is off at 6:00 a.m. so I got up early to get my hair blow dried and curled. We went to breakfast and had a couple of hours before the parade started, so we walked over to the beautiful lake.<br />
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This little Tibetan woman has come to sell her wares and Carol and I are always on the lookout for a good deal. We both bought some jewelry from her for our granddaughters. She gave us a deal but was very careful that it wasn't too good of a deal. As soon as we left another woman wanted to sell the same jewelry for about half of what we paid. If you haven't noticed in most of our pictures, I am actually tall in comparison to most Nepalis. </div>
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Now on to the ceremony. I'm going to try to explain this as best as I can. There are about 800 people at this ceremony, there are government officials that will speak, groups of disabled children that will perform and pretty much total chaos. Nobody is listening to the speakers, people in the front who are the dignitaries are sometimes on their phones, getting up and down and moving around, people coming up and talking to them. It was the most interesting thing I've seen, not much respect, certainly not a lot of interest except when the children performed. You had to have been there. I just do that Nepali bobble head thing.</div>
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These next pictures are some of the wheelchair recipients what a blessing wheelchairs will be to not only them but also their families who care for them.</div>
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When this young man received his wheelchair, he was way excited. He has crawled to get around, not sure how long, he was heavy rubber chap like things on his knees and wore flipflops on his hands. What a blessing this will be to him.</div>
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We had some time after the distribution so Rakesh took us to a Mountaineering museum, it was very interesting, I learned about the different mountain people, their dress and customs have not changed much over the last few centuries. <br />
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Later that evening we did a little shopping, I found nice warm knitted socks for Hari, Hitson and Rukmina for Christmas. <br />
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We then went to dinner where Rakesh surprised Kent with a birthday cake. What a nice guy!</div>
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On Tuesday morning we got up at 4:30, we're going on a hike to watch the sun rise over the beautiful Himalayan mountains. This hike is about 1300 steps, uneven steps mind you, they are certainly not up to code. It was a long hike but when we reached the top, it was well worth it.</div>
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They live in the tops of these hills, they call them hills, I call them mountains, very tall mountains.</div>
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Look at the beautiful view behind us.</div>
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By the end of this day my legs were like rubber, I could hardly walk back down the 475 steps to the van. But it was an amazing day. I'd do it again!!! A long drive home followed.</div>
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On Wednesday we spend the day catching up on some office work, grocery shopping and running a few errands. Kent needs a new zipper for his backpack, we head to the local thread, ribbon and zipper shop down the street. Notice there is one dim light bulb in this store. I don't know how you'd match a color of thread if you had to. </div>
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This is another customer who jumped in to help Kent find the right zipper. He had a new one sewn in his backpack for 150 rupees, about $1.75. He also took two pairs of shoes to be repaired. The little repairman sat on the floor of his dark little shop and sewed Kent's hiking boots and fixed the soles of his Sunday shoes for 400 rupees. </div>
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Today we worked on house stuff, Carol and I are working on a little Christmas project for the branch Christmas party, and we also found a new little Vietnamese restaurant within walking distance that was yummy. It's been a good week :} </div>
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". . . and he that receiveth light and continueth in God, receiveth more light and that light growth brighter and brighter. . ." </div>
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I know this to be true, I've witnessed it in my own life, I've been blessed in many ways and the light brings peace to my soul and joy to my heart.</div>
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The day after Thanksgiving we had the opportunity of visiting the Khadka family. I visit teach Sarahda, she does not speak any English, we take Rukmina to translate. Her husband, Ganesh has just returned from Saudia Arabia after two years. He went there to work and is now hoping to find a job somewhere in Nepal. Their little Ruth calls Kent, grandpa and comes and sits with us at church when they are there. She'll also bring a piece of candy for us occasionally. She is so cute. They live about a 45 minute taxi drive away from us. When we get to their house they are all snuggled in their bed trying to keep warm in their one room home. Ruth has the chicken pox again, Sarahda said this is the third time she has had them, about the same time each year. Kent and Ganesh give her a blessing. We love this little family, they have so little and yet when we go they always feed us and are so grateful when we come. A few weeks ago Sarahda brought me a new warm sweater to church, on this day she gives Kent a hat she made. I left her some money and asked if she would make some for me to take home. She didn't want me to leave the money but I insisted. <br />
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This cute little girl followed me around all afternoon and sat on my lap. Lagan told us to give her some of her food. She is the daughter of one of the patients there.</div>
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This is a carving in the hospital that was made and donated by a baker from Rotterdam. " It depicts the suffering of Christ as many with leprosy have suffered, it shows Christ victorious as those with leprosy have become victorious and bear fruit in society."</div>
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Monday, Kent and I spent the day in the office organizing, computer work, and making sure our calendars are up to date. It's been a busy month and December is looking pretty much the same. </div>
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On Tuesday we have an appointment with Dr. Ashish and 2 doctors from Sweden who are working on an HBB study. Because LDSCharities is paying for the training and equipment we have been invited to attend. We'll be glad when this study is over and we can proceed in a more appropriate way for the church to be recognized and we can organize this project a little better. This is the Parapokar Maternity Hospital that delivers about 25,000 babies a year. Figure out how many babies that is a day - that's almost 70 a day!!!!</div>
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A few weeks ago we met a doctor at this hospital, he had a stack of files on his desk and told us that the week before over 100 babies had died. That is why HBB is so important, that is why the study is being done. That is why we are meeting with so many important doctors and ministries that we need to show that this will help newborns in Nepal. We are working to get this into the curriculum so that all incoming nurses and doctors will be trained. On Wednesday we went and met with Dr. Nina at Save the Children. A worldwide INGO that is interested in what we are doing and gives us some very good contact names that we should meet. She was very helpful.</div>
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Today is Thursday, it is very cold - in the house about 55 degrees, the weather outside is nice but we decide that we need warmer clothes and so we went shopping. I want some heavy warm black socks that I can wear with a dress, since I have to wear a dress most of the time. We both are looking for warm sweaters and some warm heavy socks to wear when we are home in the office, Kent's feet are freezing. We wander the streets of Ashan Bazaar and find the back streets of Thamel, where we find everything we need and more.</div>
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There are many little alley ways that open up into these squares where one will usually find various temples, today we found a square with mostly Buddhists temples or stuppas.</div>
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Not sure what these guys do - maybe some kind of a wedding blessing</div>
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Next comes the groom on his way to pick up the bride - from what I understand this is an all day all night affair - lots of music and partying. I think we're going to be invited to one in the next couple of months. Again we saw four of these today.</div>
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When we were walking around this square this young man started talking to us, he was a student at an art school and asked if we'd like to come and see his school and of course his art. His name is Chandra and he showed us this piece of art he had been working on for 6 months. This is very common Tibetan art that you can find in Nepal. The work and the colors are beautiful and very intricate.</div>
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Of course the art teacher wanted us to buy a piece. We told them that maybe before we left to come home we would come back, but he told us that these pieces of art of very calming and would help us relax while we are here in Nepal. </div>
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Here's my new sweater, my warm knitted socks and a shawl to wear to church</div>
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I also put up our little tree, Christmas will be different this year......and next. They don't celebrate Christmas in Nepal. It's a regular old work day for everyone. </div>
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One day things will change in Nepal, people will come to know about Christ, about His compassion and love for his children. I would have loved to have shared the message of the gospel and the hope that Christ gives to each of us this week with Lagan. I would have loved to have told her that one day she would see her husband and that she would be made whole.. But in the mean time, I will try to make a difference, I will be His hands here in Nepal for now.</div>
Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-75831754224592360942012-11-22T07:45:00.001-08:002012-11-22T07:45:21.893-08:00I Did Not Climb Everest, But I Touched It With My HeartThe title of this post came from a quote I saw on a t-shirt on our flight over Everest. It was an amazing experience, the pictures in the post do not even come close to seeing it with my own eyes. <br />
On Monday, November 19, our plan is to fly over Everest. We got up at 4:00 AM so we can be out the door by 4:45. We were a little concerned about finding a taxi at the time of the morning but since we live right across the street from the hospital SAMASYAA CHHAINA no problem! We're on our way to the Trihuvan Airport. We've arranged for our flight with someone who knows someone. We didn't even have to pay for this flight until a few days after we'd gone. We get to the front of the line and someone comes and gets us, takes us to the front of another line and really takes care of us, we assume it's because we know someone who knows someone else, anyway after we've gotten the first class treatment, he wants $$$$. So much for thinking we're special, just another white face who they think has $$$$$. We've been looking forward to this trip for quite awhile, the air has not been very clear and even on this morning we're not positive we're going to see Everest. <br />
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This cute little guy was waiting in line in front of us</div>
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Once we got through the clouds look what we saw...........</div>
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This was the first time since we arrived that we were able to see the Himalayan mountains</div>
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Our little plane</div>
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We all got to walk up to the cockpit and look out the front window of the plane</div>
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The peak of this mountain is Choba-Bhamre (Holy Mountain) 19,581 feet</div>
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Here it is.....Mount Everest on the right also call Sagarmatha 29,028 feet</div>
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I just finished reading <i>Into Thin Air</i>, pretty amazing book, pretty crazy people who risk everything just to say they made it to the top of Everest, thus my title: I did not climb Everest, but I touched it with my heart.</div>
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The next day is the festival Tihar, Kent really explains this festival in his blog, I'm just going to share the fun stuff. The first day we worship the crow, I threw a garland around Hari instead. He felt so honored and thanked me, he loves marigolds.</div>
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Tihar is sort of like Christmas with lots of lights and Halloween all rolled up into one festival. We decorated our doorway to get ready for the children who would come singing for candy and coins, (the big boys wanted the paper money)</div>
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On the night the lights were turned on downtown we decided to take Hari, Rukmina and Hitson to dinner, we all picked our favorite restaurant and drew one out of a hat, Rukmina won, we're going to <i>Fire and Ice </i>for pizza.</div>
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This is dinner, pizza and fresh fried potato chips (Kent's favorite)</div>
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After we walked around New Road to admire the lights, not quite like Temple Square but it was fun.</div>
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All the shops paint the doorways so that the goddess Laxmi will enter and bless their homes with health and wealth, some go way out....</div>
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Others are not quite as fancy, this man has a little red trail into his store so Laxmi knows to "come in"</div>
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Now this one, I asked the shopkeeper about the swastika, he said, "you know the Germans, it's a swastika," I told him "that is not a good sign" I came home and looked it up, it is the sign of the 4 "L's" for good luck. They don't even get it. We see a lot of these swastika signs around and people do not understand the meaning, be it good or bad.</div>
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On Wednesday the 14th, we spent the day at home on the computer and skyping the church in Salt Lake to get some more information about an agricultural project we're thinking about doing with our branch. We had a lot of questions. Right now we're getting ready to write up our projects for next year. It takes a lot of time, back and forth talking with S.L. specialist, finding out costs of things, and making sure we have the correct government approvals. What would take an hour or two at home making phone calls takes 3 or 4 days because we have to go and have face to face with many people to get questions answered. </div>
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Thursday is the last day of Tika, it call Bhaai Tika or brother's tika. Families gather and sisters give their brother tika, and brothers in return give their sisters a gift. Rakesh has invited us to his wife's mother's home to participate in this day. You know how I keep saying I feel like I'm back in the day of Abraham, well, this was another one of those days......</div>
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This is Sunila's mother (Sunila is Rakesh's wife), these are her brothers, one is 80 something, the other is 70 something. She prepares by putting in a leaf bowl a candle on 4 corners, she then takes a small pitcher of water a sprinkles it around them 7 times, she then takes a little container of oil and a leaf and then brushes the oil around 7 times. She comes back, they remove their Topi's (hat) and she sprinkles oil and water on their heads, shoulders, and knees. Is this sounding a little familiar to anyone? She then gives them a tika on their foreheads with 7 different colors. </div>
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She then places a garland around their necks, they then are given a tray with curd, spinach, and a small fish that they must eat. This is for good luck. Brothers then put tika on the sisters forehead and give her a gift, usually money.</div>
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These are the sisters now giving tika to the brothers, if a sister does not have a brother she may give tika to a cousin. There are 3 sisters here but only two brothers, the other one is a cousin. They call them cousin brothers and cousin sisters all the time.</div>
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These are Rakesh's children, Rashisha is giving tika to her little brother Jerrik, she's being so careful.</div>
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Sunila is feeding Jerrik the curd which he kept gagging on, but he needs to finish the whole thing.</div>
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Kent giving Sunila tika, we knew a little about this before we went so luckily we had bought Sunila a little gift. Bangles, a woman in Nepal can never have too many bangles!</div>
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Eating the curd, fish and spinach for good luck.</div>
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Now the interesting part of this ritual is, once again, no one can really explain why they do certain things or what they mean. They know some of it is for good health and wealth but that's about all they know. We came home and looked it up, very interesting. Kent wrote more about this festival in his blog. We then were served lunch, dahl bhaat, chicken, pickle (when they tell you pickle, it is not what we know to be a pickle, it is a very, very hot and spicy mixture of I don't know what, but if anybody wants me to eat pickle, I politely decline). We also had mutton (goat meat) and a few other tasty items. After we ate they gave us something called "pon." It is a leaf filled with sweet spices, it's supposed to be a breath freshener after a meal. Carol took hers apart and ate the inside, wrong, you have to eat the whole thing at once. So she had to eat another one. I couldn't fit the whole thing into my mouth so I just slowly ate it. It actually wasn't too bad.</div>
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The bowl is a hand made pottery bowl of curd (yogurt), it is very yummy. I made yogurt pancakes, yogurt banana bread and then I tried washing out the bowl for about 1/2 hour until Rukmina came in and said "no sister, you just throw the bowl away." What a very interesting day we had. Friday was spent grocery shopping again a 3 hour job, working on the computer and getting ready for the Sabbath, the next day.</div>
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On Saturday we had 54 visitors from an INGO from the states. We met up with Chante who had brought us some things from home, thanks to all who made sure we got those things we needed. They filled up our little chapel, no extra chairs at all. The Nepali's love it when visitors come.</div>
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On Sunday we had an appointment with the director of the hospital we are working with, with HBB. We had somethings to get cleared up before the doctors come in January. We have quite a bit to do in the next 8 weeks. We then rushed to the YM/YW/YSA conference where Kent and I were asked to speak on "The Light of Christ" through service. </div>
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On Monday, we are having a Relief Society conference. All the women come dressed in their saris. What a fun tradition!</div>
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Rukmina dressed me for the Woman's Conference in her beautiful black and gold sari, bangles and all. Somewhere I have pictures of her dressing me in it. It is about 5 meters of fabric that they pleat and wrap around you, that's about 5.5 yds of fabric and make sure you have plenty of safety pins. </div>
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On Tuesday, the 20th we went to meet with Keshab and Uma, a new investigator family. They have 2 children and last week their daughter Sweata was baptized in India. Her cousin-sister, from India is a returned missionary and Sweata went to visit and get baptized. Hopefully they will all be baptized in the next couple of weeks. Carol, Laxmi, Rukmina and I all go together we want to have a kurta-surwal made. Keshab owns a sari and kurta shop. I bought fabric for 2 kurtas, Carol bought fabric for 2 kurtas, 1 sari and some warm pajamas, Laxmi bought fabric for 3 kurtas and Rukmina bought fabric for 1 kurta. Carol commented to Keshab as we left, "see how the Lord is blessing you already," He smiled and told us he was grateful for our business.</div>
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Keshab and Uma, aren't they a cute couple? They have a sewing center around the corner where we all went and got measured for our kurtas. I paid about $5 for the sewing part of my kurta and about $20 for the fabric. That is 2 kurta's (tops) and the surwals are the pants. Can't wait to see them! Later that night we went to the new U.S. Ambassador to Nepal's home. Oh my what a home, I felt like I was anywhere but Nepal. It was a very interesting meeting. People got to ask questions. He was a very nice man. On our way out, we got outside the gate and I thought I would take a picture, not a good idea! I had two security guards come up to me and made sure that I deleted the picture. It was kind of weird, they watched me take the picture, I don't know why they waited until I was done. </div>
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Yesterday we went to Bhaktapor to visit an inactive member. Suman is a returned missionary but not active and he and his wife just had a baby a few weeks ago. Hopefully, he will come back to church and bring his cute wife and new son. This is who I made the baby blanket for. </div>
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Bhaktapor is very old city where Suman lives. I'm not going to show you all the sights because Kent is going to do a blog about this old city, but again I felt as if I were visiting an ancient biblical city as I walked around and went into his home. It was four stories, old wooden windows, clay floors and very small and very cold rooms. This new little mother had her baby all bundled up and laying on a blanket on the floor with the sun shining through a window to keep him warm. I do not know how they live the way they do, they are amazing and I pray for them everyday. They gave us warm sweet buffalo milk to drink, it was very good. This city is also where that good curd comes from in the pottery dishes.</div>
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Today is Thanksgiving, it doesn't really feel like Thanksgiving, Carol and I went over to the church to throw away lots of old stuff that isn't used anymore, old manuals and teaching aids. We have to go back to do some more tomorrow and clean up our mess before church on Saturday. After, Kent and I went to the printers to order some HBB workbooks for January and did a little grocery shopping. I have to fix dinner for the YSA fireside at our home on Saturday. We then went to Mike's with Elder and Sister Remmp for our Thanksgiving dinner. They were preparing a traditional dinner for those who wanted turkey and pumpkin pie. We spent about 2.5 hours eating and enjoying each others company and talking about kids. </div>
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The only thing missing is family, but how grateful I am for my family and for the love and support they show us while we are away. I'm so grateful for modern technology and that I can call and see them almost face to face, to see my grandchildren and know they won't forget me because we can visit almost anytime we want. Next week I will put up our little Christmas tree, it will certainly be different this year, I'm sure I'll be homesick but I am grateful for this opportunity to be in Nepal. I'm thankful for our Heavenly Father's children who manage to live everyday without all the things I have been blessed with and they do it without bitterness and without complaint. They are amazing and I will continue in this work because I know "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" each and everyday. I am learning that I can do hard things, and I can be happy and thankful while doing them. I'm grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ for the blessings and opportunities that are mine because I know He lives and I know He loves me. </div>
Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-45050603142586774892012-11-12T03:14:00.002-08:002012-11-12T03:14:47.678-08:00D & C 19:9 I speak unto you that are chosen in this thing, even as one, that you may enter into my rest.I believe this scripture speaks to me, for I truly believe that I have been chosen in this thing, to be here in Nepal at this time for some reason, the enter into my rest part, I'm still trying to figure out because it has been a busy week meeting with new friends and having new adventures.<br />
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Last Monday,we had to have the plumber come and fix the toilets, again. Of course as usual, they have no tools, no parts, so it takes most the day to get the toilets repaired. <br />
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Kent and I went downtown or uptown whichever, I still have no idea which direction I'm heading. Kent was trying to decide if he should invest in an LCD projector for the Branch. We took Hitson with us because he had to replace a part in his new phone. Rukmina told us just to drop him off and he would get home on his own. We thought it would be a good opportunity to spend the day with him so we all shopped together. Remember when President Monson admonished us to look up, not a good idea here in Nepal? Whenever I look up, I end up sprawled on the sidewalk, which happened today. I was admiring the jewelry stores when I missed stepping off the curb and down I went. I had about 5 Nepali's come to my rescue, making sure I was okay. I was fine. Hitson told me if I had been Nepali, that would not have happened which after today I believe. We thought we'd take Hitson to lunch while we were downtown and on our walk to KFC we passed a guy lying with his head in the gutter, dead. No one paid any attention to him, I didn't really believe he was dead but Kent assured me that he was, and everyone just walked past him like he wasn't even there. So sad!!! I think this is a pretty common occurrence here. Needless to say it was quite an adventuresome afternoon, and Kent decided not to buy the LCD projector.<br />
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The next day Rukmina and I had to go to town again, she needed fabric and I needed yarn for baby blankets that I'm making for new babies in the branch. Not too much of an adventure today, we both bought a winter hat for when it gets cold in a couple of weeks.<br />
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I'm making baby blankets for the new babies in the branch. We've just had a new baby boy and I believe there is another one on the way. I'm also getting the women in the RS to make new born caps for a hospital that we're doing a HBB training for in January. The Maternity Hospital has 22,000-26,000 births a year, I know our little donation will be just a drop in a huge bucket. Just so you know, Utah Valley hospital has 4,000 births a year. That's about 75 births a day.</div>
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Kent and I met with Rakesh on Wednesday, he introduced us to the Minister of Logistics. We will need his signature and approval for our next year's Helping Babies Breath Project. He was a very nice man and very positive about our project. It helps to be on the good side of the government, when it comes to approval for projects, it all about who you know. And we know the man who knows everyone. We then went to one of the sister's in the branch's home. We want her or her husband to paint a picture for our living room. A picture of Christ with Nepali children. He's not a member and because of that I want to make sure he paints Christ like he knows who He is, like I know who He is. I took some pictures of Christ to show him how I want it done. They live with his parents, just like most Nepalis do. But what a nice family. I've told you how they always feed you when you just come for a short visit. We were there about 4 hours. Rajan showed us studio and every painting he'd ever done, I think. They brought out photo albums, resumes and of course food.<br />
She had a whole cake divided into 4 pieces, hard boiled eggs, bread and butter, cookies, soda pop, nuts. It was crazy and then they just sit and watch you eat. We told them to eat with us but they wouldn't<br />
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Brother, Sister and Mala (she's a returned missionary, so cute)</div>
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Thursday we had a breakfast meeting at the Radison Hotel. The place we usually meet had road repair going on so we thought we'd meet somewhere else. Very good, they even had tenderloin that morning, it was a little pricey but a nice treat. We planned our calendars and made some branch plans. A good, productive meeting. We enjoy being with the Rempps.</div>
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This is the best part of the haircut - the head message. He makes all kinds of interesting noises with his hands as he pounds on Kent's head.</div>
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We then came home and I had to start getting ready for Church the next day. I have to help with singing time in the primary so I had to get a few things ready and we were having our first YM/YW fireside and I was fixing homemade chow mein. Never had done that before, but it was yummy!</div>
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We did it! A youth fireside, ages 12 -18 and their leaders. This was a first for this branch.</div>
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They were all excited that this would be a monthly occurrence.</div>
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Sunday we spent the day at READ Nepal Leprosy clinic. We went to check on the chickens and help Raj with a surprise birthday party for Elsie. She is an amazing member of the church from Canada. She just turned 78. She also pays for Raj's medications every month which are very expensive. On her 75th birthday she hiked to Everest Base Camp, 28 days of hiking, and camping. She is an inspiration to me.</div>
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Raj had asked Carol and I to bring the balloons and cake. We ordered a cake from the local grocery store. They needed to know how many kg.'s we wanted - who buys a cake in kg's? We just want a big cake, they needed to know the kg's. Carol guessed 5 kgs. a little over 11 pounds. It was the worst cake I'd ever tasted, wet on the bottom, YUCK! The Nepalis liked it. We'll make our own from now on.</div>
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While we were there, people were coming in to be treated, for leprosy. This little woman was sitting off on the side, looking very sad. She was talking with Raj's wife and Kent over heard her talking, he's starting to understand a little Nepali. She was telling Nermiah that her husband had died the week before. Kent told me to come and sit with her. When I did she just fell into me and sobbed. She was so sad. I wanted so much to tell her that she would see her husband again. She just hung on to me and cried. </div>
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Sorry these pictures are so graphic, but can you even imagine the pain. She walked to the clinic. Carol and I went in with her to have her foot looked at. She had a fever and was shaking. We held her foot and her hand as the doctor told her she would have to stay there for the night and then go to the hospital the next day, where she would have to have her leg amputated to her knee. She would have to take a taxi to get to the hospital but she had no money. Nermiah said she would go with her but she also had no money for a taxi. Carol and I gave Nermiah money to take a taxi with her the next day. We promised this woman that we would come to the hospital next week and see her. When we were leaving she cried to us "Annu, Annu" which means "come". We assured her that we would come and see her. We we so worried about her son, he showed up and little later and we tried to make sure that he had a place to stay while his mother would be in the hospital. She will have to stay for 2 months. </div>
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We will go and visit next week and take her food, she doesn't need to pay for the hospital, just her transportation to get there and then the hospital doesn't provide food for their patients. It is the responsibility of the family to bring food for them. We've asked Rukmina who is the RS president to come with us when we go. I pray that she has family that will help her. She felt so hopeless. I felt helpless. I wanted so much to share with her the hope the gospel and the Savior brings to us, I can't. Someday...................</div>
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I can't end my blog on a sad note so this is what we come home to frequently....these cute neighborhood boys. They like giving Kent a special high five that he taught them. They love to practice their English, we love to practice our Nepali. They love having their pictures taken and always thank us when we do. They are God's children and someday they will know it. </div>
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This is my mantra for the remaining 16 months, change what I can and what we can afford to change and learn to live with those things that I cannot change or cannot afford to change. We've come to learn that the Nepali way is very different than our way, when things are broken, the attitude is "that's too bad or I just don't how to fix it." This does not set too well with Kent and so he's been fixing things or seeing that things get fixed. We change what we can and live with what we can't. We live in this BIG white, old, musty, house, we have power sometimes, sometimes not, we have warm showers sometimes, right now we have water everyday but we understand that there may be days we don't have enough water. These are things we have no control over. And so we look around and see what things we can afford to do and what things we'll just have to live with. You've seen the yard project, the part we've worked on looks so nice, and when it's monsoon people won't walk into our gate and fall on the bricks because they are so slick, they can now walk on the grass. <br />
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Rukmina now calls this her "Garden of Dreams" because it reminds her of going to the temple in Manila.<br />
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Kent is trying to show Hari how to stencil. Hari doesn't like the stencil look, he wants to paint it all in. This was a funny project. Kent cut a flower stencil, Hari didn't like it, he said the flower petals weren't even. Kent said "I know, flower petals aren't all even", Hari cut the 8 petal flower, all equal. We had to have a family council to see which one everyone liked the best. Everyone but Hari liked Kent's flower but we didn't want to hurt his feelings so we compromised and used them both. <br />
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Then Hari, Rukmina and Kent decided to write in Nepali, "Garden of Dreams", they each wrote a word. Kent's, Hari's and Rukmina's. Hari is trying to get us to plant the rest of the yard in grass, but it's too expensive. We'll just live with what we can't change for now. We have to be careful that we don't do too much otherwise the landlord will raise the rent. We are in the middle of one more project, something we can change and make us feel better about where we live. We're having the kitchen and the office painted. We spend a lot of time working on projects on the computer and the office was pretty yucky. And if I have to spend time in the kitchen I want it clean and bright.<br />
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The landlord sends his painters over, they have no painting equipment, no brushes, no ladders, no plastic. Kent and Hari go to the paint store and buy what they need and bring it back to the house. Buying things are so interesting here, most things you have to buy, you have to tell them how much kilos you want. I have no idea how much a kilo is, Kent tries to figure out how many kilos of plastic to cover, cabinets, etc. He did pretty good. They're mixing all this paint out on the front porch, and making a mess. When they came I asked them if they were raamro painters (good). They assured me they were. I told them "no mess, no paint on windows, light fixtures, floor, etc." They assured me they would be careful.<br />
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Rukmina gets on them for making a mess and then she gets in and cleans, cleans, cleans. The kitchen is done, I'll send pictures when we get the new curtains up. They are working on the office right now and it will be a much better place to work.</div>
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I have had an infection on and off since we've been here, I've tried 2 antibiotics that I brought from home and they didn't work. I've been putting off going to the doctors, I've seen the hospitals here and just could not bring myself to go, but I need to get this taken care of. Rukmina takes me to the Tourists Clinic, it is very nice, clean and pretty modern, really modern compared to Nepal's standards. I'm sitting waiting for the doctor and thinking "how can this be?" My heart aches for the Nepali people and the standards which they live by. Things could be so different for them. Anyway I am feeling better and a very nice doctor from Israel treated me. I told him about our daughter attending a semester in Jerusalem, through BYU. He talked about the beautiful Jerusalem center and how the windows open up to the old city with a wonderful view. He said it is the most beautiful building in Israel. The doctor's office visit was a much better experience than I had thought, I could go again if I have to. The next day I chipped a tooth. :( I'm holding out hopefully until I get home to get it fixed.</div>
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The Nepali Dental clinic, luckily if I have to go there is a Tourists Dental Clinic</div>
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On Sunday, not our church day, we wrote up Monitoring Forms and sent them off to Dr. Ashish who is heading up the HBB study here in Nepal. He has a difficult time getting back to us and so some days things go very slow. We also skyped Dr. Clark regarding his trip coming in January. He is going to do more HBB training at the biggest government hospital in Kathmandu. When we went to this hospital in August, they had a brand new CPAP machine sitting in a corner, that had been given to their hospital. Dr. Clark asked why they weren't using it? They told him that they didn't know how to use the machine. So Dr. Clark and another Dr. are also going to train them on the use of the CPAP machine. </div>
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Monday, Kent and I planned firesides for the branch. President Bishnu has asked for our help with getting the youth more active, more motivated and to help build their testimonies. We sat and looked at all the resources the Church has on their website, it's amazing. We made an outline for President Bishnu to look through. In our branch the youth may have an activity and everyone attends it. The YM/YW, the YSA and the Single Adults. We called the Mission President and explained our situation and he said, "No, absolutely not", they should meet individually. He cautioned us that we would probably be told "but that is how we always do it." Yes, and that is exactly what happened. We explained that importance of each of these groups meeting separately, that they will feel like they can bring their friends to activities, topics can be discussed age appropriate and so on. We have our first YM/YW fireside at our home this Satuday. I'll let you know how it goes.</div>
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Elder and Sister Gong and President and Sister Sackley arrived on Tuesday for a quick visit. Our assignment for the day was to show them the Cyber Center for the blind and disabled and the sewing center.</div>
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Rakeesh had everything planned, he picked them up from the airport, they went to READ Nepal, Leprosy Clinic where Rempps were waiting to show them the projects we've worked on, a roof for their sewing center and the chicken project. They then went and met with the Ex Prime Minister, then came over to the cyber center. </div>
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The next morning we met for breakfast at their hotel with the Branch President and then they were off.</div>
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I went the day before and bought Sisters Sackley and Gong a pair of Nepali earrings and Elder Gong and President Sackley, Gurkha Warrior ties. They had no time to shop so we thought they needed something from Nepal and it is fun to shop for things here, most of the time.</div>
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We spent the rest of the day grocery shopping and running a few errands. One day I sent Rukmina to get me 4 apples, she asked how many kilos, I only want 4 apples I told her. You can't buy 4 apples you tell them how many kilos you want and that's what you get. They have a very old scale, they then put a weight, .5 kilo, 1 kilo, 2 kilos and then put enough fruit on it to balance the scale. I got 7 apples. Sometimes things in the grocery store are very cheap, other things are very expensive. I get 2 chicken breasts for 300 rps. about $3.42, we found a 6.5 turkey, it was over $100 dollars. It's very inexpensive to eat out, so we eat out a lot. </div>
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Fire and Ice is one of our favorite places, usually lost of tourists at this place</div>
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On Thursday, we met with President Bishnu, he came over for breakfast and we had a discussion about firesides. He was excited and explained to us that never before have missionaries come and helped the "branch", they helped individuals way too much, but never the whole branch. Asked for help with procedural things and the "church way" rather than "Nepali way." He was grateful, we pray for this little branch everyday and to be guided to know the things that we should do to help. Later Rakeesh came over and we discussed the ways in which he is going to help us do HBB the correct way, with government approval and I showed him an idea for a logo that Josh designed for a new NGO that he is going to start, just so he can help us. It's called RISE. It was just an idea. .</div>
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On Friday, I made bread, and some lemon cookies. It was nice to work in a freshly painted kitchen and it was clean everywhere. Later that evening we took Rakeesh and his family to dinner for helping us with our VISAS. Our visas had to be changed from tourists visas to working visas. Last time the Rempps did their visas the person they met with wanted money and he wanted a job for his niece. Rakeesh came to their resuce. He wasn't going to let that happen again to the missionaries so he did all the running around, waiting, and all the paperwork for us. We'll have to do this 2 or 3 more times while we're here the Church pays for our Visas but unfortunately it's pretty expensive. It was a process and very time consuming for him. It was just a small way to say thank you. We really couldn't do the things we do without him. Elder Gong told him that they would like to invite him to a conference at BYU in October. He is so excited! Hope it all works out. He's been there before. I think I already mentioned that he wants his kids to attend the Y.</div>
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Saturday was fast and testimony meeting. I do like meeting with our branch. We had a brand new RS sister on Saturday, she has just come from YW and they had her teach the lesson. What a good job she did, sorry I don't have a picture. We had a sister visiting from Pokhara, she is a member from Hungary and is married to a Nepali, she joined the church in Hungary and met her husband in China when they were attending a medical conference. They are both doctors. We came home and took a nap, fixed chicken spaghetti,( I don't dare to buy the water buffalo meat) and relaxed the rest of the day.</div>
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Dr. Clara and Rukmina translating some hymns into Nepali. We are going to get the YM/YW to learn them so they can sing them for a sacrament meeting. </div>
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I love taking pictures of funny signs, I sometimes think they hear a word they like the sound of and then use it in their signs and language. It's really funny sometimes. </div>
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This is where we take our rugs to be cleaned, again clean is relative here, it's a good thing it doesn't cost me much because they are NOT very clean. This guy needs a NEW SIGN because his dry cleaners is anything but NEW.</div>
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This is a laalu paate rukh ( Christmas tree) these flowers are poinsettias, but they grow on trees rather than a bush like we know. They are just starting to bloom.</div>
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This little neighbor comes out every morning with a cup of rice that she feeds the pigeons. There are usually about 7 pigeons, they sit patiently and wait for her every morning and then fight over who gets to eat. </div>
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Last night Rakeesh took us to meet one of his doctor sisters, and skype Dr. Clark who is attending a HBB conference in Chicago. Great meeting, she'll be a lot of help in getting this project going next year. Rakeesh has a famous actor brother and sister who is a dentist in Ohio, a sister who is a doctor in New Jersey and his doctor sister here in Nepal. Pretty impressive family. We went to her home it was beautiful, Kent said he felt like he was in a fancy penthouse, I asked him when was the last time he was in a penthouse, but it was beautiful and did not feel like Nepal at all. She'd even come home from work and fixed us dinner, a yummy sweet and sour dumpling soup, pretty hot but very good, along with a Mutton (goat) rice that was good too. A great productive evening. </div>
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We are considering doing a branch project, we have a little piece of land that our landlord owns connected to our property. This is called a small initiative that involves the branch. We would plant a community garden for the members of be able to harvest needed crops, onions, potatoes, cauliflower, tomatoes, etc. They'd be responsible for clearing and getting it ready and then planting and caring for the garden. It's just in a discussion stage right now but Hari has planted a garden within our gate to see how things grow. Right now we are growing potatoes, garlic, coriander and some other plant that I don't know the name of. We'll see how it grows. They grow gardens a little different than we do here, we'll see how this one turn out.</div>
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Dashain is here!!!!! What is Dashain you ask? There is not an easy or quick explanation but this newspaper article is the first indication that the biggest Nepali festival of the year has arrived. One of those traditions that makes one wonder if Nepal is really in the 21st century. I found this modern day explanation in the Kathmandu Post last week:<br />
"Like always, Dashain arrives with much fanfare. Goats being led about on leashes, goats on top of buses, and goats herded onto the back of pickup trucks--all become common sight. In Kathmandu, New Road buckles under the collective strength of a thousand hurrying feet, darting this way and that, searching for that elusive bargain. The press of people and vehicles creates labyrinthine traffic jams where pedestrians are trapped in between taxis and motorbikes vying for space. Shops don't always lay out their best wares but offer extravagant discounts on grossly inflated prices. There are cars to be bought, microwaves, washing machines, sarees, kurtas, daura suruwals and coats to be stitched. This majority Hindu country goes into a tizzy, ebullient at the coming festivities. For Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and atheists, it is the holidays. A week or two off from work, a month off from school. There are plans to be made, friends to meet, coffees and beers to be imbibed and Hindu or not, gambling to be entertained." <span style="color: #783f04;"> <span style="background-color: orange;">Are you wishing you were here yet?</span></span><br />
"Soon, Kathmandu will empty out. The road clean and clear for once. The Valley will feel ghostly, quiet and forlorn, missing that great mass of humanity that bring it to life. Those who leave ride rickety buses to far off villages, laden with gifts for their families; workers from the Middle East, toiling under an unrelenting sun and the stoic gaze of robed Arabs, board airplanes, jostling others with duffel bags full of keepsakes and takeaways; the few and wealthy take holidays abroad, hop-skipping to Europe and East Asia.<br />
For most, Dashain means a time of connection, however fleeting. It brings together warring clans, disgruntled progeny and lascivious uncles who always seem to comment on how 'big' you've gotten. The goat meat, freshly slaughtered, is a peace offering and over heaping platefuls, relatives relive old memories, comment on the banal and make small talk, relishing the connection that is absent most days of the year. <br />
At parties, old incidents are recalled and new shenanigans performed. There are always those who get too drunk, lose too much money gambling or suffer intensely from eating too much. Dashain is a time of extravagance, it is a time of indulgence. It is a time to live beyond your means, even if just for a while and forget how bad things are. It is a season of relations, of family of meat, of animal slaughter, of culture and tradition and most of all of memory." <br />
Can you understand now why I picked the scripture in D&C to go along with this post? There are just some traditions that should probably end. We're told that many people go into debt to celebrate this holiday. I'd just like to share the last two weeks through pictures what Dashain is like in Nepal. <br />
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People leaving the valley to go and spend time with their families in the village. <br />
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Sacrifice, certainly not in the way we think of sacrifice. Everywhere we go we see chickens, goats, ducks, water buffalo on their way to the temple to be sacrificed. They are frequently killed in the temples and the head of the animal is given to the priest and they take the rest home to be eaten during festival. However, some are slaughtered on back porches, we've heard the baaaaing of the poor goats and then an eery silence. <br />
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We understand that black goats are the best offering, I certainly wouldn't think that they taste any better.</div>
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We were told that on one day during Dashain, they would kill 144 water buffalo in one of the temples and I read that the blood would be ankle deep. Luckily they would only let Hindus inside the temples.<br />
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This is a picture of our next door neighbors knife after he had just killed the goat on his little patio. I couldn't bring myself to take a picture of the poor little goat.<br />
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Here are some of the ducks that were being sold in the markets.</div>
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On the first night of Dashain we were invited to Rakeesh's home to celebrate with his extended family. They don't celebrate all the days of Dashain but they do like the eating part. We ate, mutton ( I assumed we were eating sheep, but I was told it was goat), wild boar and chicken. It actually wasn't too bad, but I think I'll stick to our Thanksgiving dinner.<br />
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The first day of Dashain, Hindus plant wheat grass and let it grow for 9 days. We even rode in one taxi that had it growing on his dash board. I would've taken a picture but I didn't get what it was. On the day they receive Tika they cut the grass and wear it in their hair as a blessing. Notice the wheat grass in her hair. Men usually wear a little behind their ear.<br />
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Brother Pana from our branch wanted to take the Rempps and us to Dubar Square to experience Dashain. Remember when you see these next pictures that over 1.5 million people have left Kathmandu Valley to visit family in their villages and believe it or not you can really tell a difference. I know by looking at these pictures it still looks pretty crowded but on a normal day you can hardly walk, there are so many people.<br />
This first picture is one of the big temples. This temple used to be where the King would go to worship everyday and now they open it up one day a year and let all who want enter in to worship. Brother Pana said he had never seen these lines so long, people were probably waiting up to 4 hours to get in. Elder Rempp wondered what Disneyland ride was waiting at the end of the line. <br />
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The entrance into the King's temple</div>
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Brother Pana and Kent and I in Dubar Square</div>
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Holy Men in Dubar Square - during Dashain they walk around with their little tin buckets begging for money. </div>
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The next pictures are of the living princess or Kumari, a young girl is chosen from one of castes when she is around four. She is taken from her family and lives in the palace. Here are some interesting facts regarding Kumari. Eligible girls are Buddhists from the Newar caste, the clan to which the Buddha belonged. She must be in excellent health, never have shed blood or been afflicted by any disease, be without blemish and must not have yet lost any teeth. Girls who pass these basic eligibility requirements are examined for the battis lakashanas or "thirty-two perfections" of a goddess. Some of these are poetically listed:<br />
a neck like a conch shell<br />
a body like a banyan tree<br />
eyelashes like a cow<br />
thighs like a deer<br />
chest like a lion<br />
voice soft and clear as a duck's<br />
In addition to this, her hair and eyes should be very black, she should have dainty hands and feet, small and well-recessed sexual organs and a set of twenty teeth.<br />
The girl is also observed for signs of serenity a fearlessness (after all she is to be the vessel of the fierce goddess Durga) and her horoscope is examined to ensure that it is complimentary to the Kings.<br />
As a final test, the living goddess must spend a night alone in a room among the head of ritually slaughtered goats and buffalos without showing fear, again keep in mind she is usually around four years old.<br />
Once the Kumari is chosen and walks across the Durbar Square it is the last time her feet will touch the ground until such time as the goddess departs from her body. From now on, when she ventures outside of her palace, she will be carried or transported in her golden palanquin. Her feet like all of her, are now sacred. The shortest amount a time a girl has been Kumari is one year, the longest is nine. An interesting side note, popular superstitions says that a man who marries a Kumari is doomed to die within six months by coughing up blood. Anyway, people come to see her, she appears at a window, rarely smiles and stays for about 5 minutes at a time. On the day we were there during Dashain, people had to go inside to view her and foreigners were not allowed in.<br />
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This is the current Kumari, she has been Kumari since 2008 when she was four years old.</div>
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Worshiping is called Poja - they bring an offering to the gods - usually in a bowl that is made from leaves, it usually has red rice flour, or tika, coins, marigolds, usually some fruit. They also leave these outside their doors. It's quite a messy sight to see.</div>
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Also during Dashain you'll see marigold garlands all around, they are worn by animals, motor vehicles, and are also used in poja.</div>
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These pictures are of Rakeesh's car, though he doesn't celebrate Dashain besides eating the meat, his wife insists that on the day poja is for you motor vehicle that his car gets blessed so that he will be safe.</div>
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Rakeesh's engine, with tika and ducks blood</div>
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Rakeesh's wheel splattered with ducks blood</div>
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Other blessed vehicles</div>
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They really put it on during Dashain, Buddhist also wear tika but their's is white.</div>
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Dashain is over tomorrow, everyone will be coming back to the valley and just in time for the Tihar festival in two weeks. Will the party never end?</div>
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Next week Elder Gong from the Quorum of Seventy is coming for a day. We will be meeting with him for a little bit and showing him some of the humanitarian projects that we are involved in. Kent and I will be showing him the Sewing center in Kathmandu and the knitting project for the blind along with the cyber center where the blind come and learn the computer. He'll mostly be spending time with Rakeesh who is our "champion" with most of our projects because of his access to government officials. Elder Gong will be meeting with many government officials, with the hope that the government will recognize the LDS Church and allow missionaries into Nepal someday soon. Yes we really are doing missionary work. </div>
Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-58104700988934318022012-10-20T01:09:00.001-07:002012-10-20T01:10:34.486-07:00And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.<div>
This last week we took a field trip, so to speak. We've been encouraged as missionaries to get out and take in the country where we serve, to learn about and appreciate where we serve, in doing so we make our presence known as we visit and have fun with those we serve. </div>
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Raj Kumar Shah from the Leprosy Clinic had planned a fishing trip with his family, Carol and Greg Rempp and Kent and I. Now fishing is a little different here in Nepal, no fishing poles, no raging waters and the best part NO WORMS!</div>
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We hire 2 taxis to carry the 8 of us, Carol, Greg, Raj and Abushek in one and Nermiah, Mary, and Kent and I in the other and off we go. Raj tells us it's about a 45 minute drive, well, about 2 hours later over those treacherous roads we arrive at the Ningale Fish Form, I think the correct word might have been Fish Farm, but this place is a fishing hole with planted fish and cement lined fishing ponds. Notice the sign Japanese Rembo Trout, I think Rembo is supposed to mean Rainbow. We passed another fishing place on the way up and Rainbow was RaiMbow. More Nepali English</div>
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These are the fishing ponds, cement lined pools filled with RENBO Trout<br />
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Elder Rempp has been looking forward to this trip for some weeks now and he was dressed and prepared to fish!<br />
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He actually has his swimming trunks on underneath and eventually he got in these fishing ponds and used the nets to help catch our lunch.<br />
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Abushek was so excited to go fishing. He's been talking to his dad about it for weeks. He ended up catching the most fish, but his sister Mary wanted to make sure she had her chance at fishing.<br />
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Raj wanted to make sure he also got a chance to fish. It was a little harder for him but you can see by the look on his face that he was also having a good time and he also caught fish for lunch. Raj has a prosthetic leg, so he had a little hard time getting down and reaching into that pond.<br />
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These are a few of the ponds, our taxi cab driver, Raj, Carol Rempp and Nermiah. These ponds are looking over a beautiful valley. It was nice getting out of dusty Kathmandu and just enjoying the clean air and the beauty of the mountains.</div>
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Abushek stripped down to his underwear and in he went. It was fun watching him having such a good time fishing. <br />
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Kent had a good time, mostly taking pictures, he did give the fishing a try, but it lacked the fishing experience and the work and patience that he is used to when fishing. <br />
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Now that we've caught enough fish to feed us all we're going to have lunch, but we're going to eat more than fish. Raj instructs one of the taxi drivers to go over to the chicken coops and pick out a chicken. He catches 3 chickens and brings them to Raj to inspect and decide which one we should eat.<br />
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This has got chick peas, onions, peanuts, jalapeno peppers, tomatoes and something else that is sooo hot that after I take a small bite the taxi cab drivers laugh at me when I grab for my water.</div>
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This is dahl which Nepali people eat 2 x a day with at least 4 cups of rice on their plate. I'm actually getting to like it - some dahl is better than others, this wasn't too bad.</div>
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This is our poor chicken, skin, beaks, feet, bones and all. I tried it, it was so tough you could hardly chew it. The Nepalis liked it however</div>
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This is the fish that was caught. They first brought out a plate with the fish fried. Head and tail still on, it actually was pretty tasty it was just hard to eat it with the fish looking up at you. They took the rest of the fish and cooked it in a gravy, again all the bones, and head and tail are left on. It is cooked in a pressure cooker so everyone said you can eat all the parts without any trouble. I liked the gravy on the rice, but I wanted to be able to see what part of the fish I was actually eating so I passed on this dish.</div>
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While we were eating lunch we watched this man and his children or grandchildren working on what we think is another pond for more fish.</div>
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These three young boys hauled all this rock on their heads and backs in baskets. Because it is holdiay they are not in school and we're helping to make some money. We figured that the youngest is probably about 9 and the oldest probably around 14.</div>
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This is the oldest, when he was dumping his heavy load he fell into one of the ponds, Kent got a video but it's too large to fit on the blog. He showed them after and they all laughed. They love to see their pictures after you take them. I wish I could give them all a copy.</div>
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Lunch is over and we head back, but Raj wants us to stop at a Kakani Memorial Park. This is a memorial for those who were killed in the Thai airline crash on July 31, 1992. There were 113 killed.</div>
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These are memorial stones with all the names of those who were killed.</div>
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I loved this garbage can and had to take a picture because this would be one of <u>my first solutions </u>for Nepal. To help them take a little more pride in this city. Garbage is all over as you've seen in past blogs. But again I have to remember that my solution is not always the right solution to their problems. But I was happy to see this garbage can in this park.</div>
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I snapped a few pictures of signs posted in the park.</div>
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As I was writing this blog today I was listening to Elder Holland's and Elder Hales' talks about serving and becoming fishers of men and showing by our service how much we love the Lord. Jesus asked Peter, "do you love me more than thou lovest all this." Three times Peters was asked "lovest thou me?" Three times Peter told Jesus, "thou knowest I love thee Lord." My hope is that the work we do here both with the few members and those who are not believers in Christ may reflect my love for my Savior. That He may know that I truly love Him and desire to "labor and serve loyally". Elder Holland admonished us to "Come, Stay True, Love and Lend a Hand." Elder Hales talked about forsaking our nets and following Christ to become converted and stay converted, to feed His sheep, to encourage and build up His kingdom. I could never have imagined what a mission in Nepal would have been like but I am grateful for this opportunity to serve, to have left "my nets" and now to hopefully become "fishers of men." </div>
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Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09100161140397574930noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428776595085787915.post-59726225649252196992012-10-12T04:00:00.000-07:002012-10-12T08:24:12.397-07:00D&C 38:27 ...I say unto you, be one: and if ye are not one ye are not mine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
How do we become "one"? One in purpose, one in desire and one in the gospel of Jesus Christ. The "world" I now live in is so different form the "world" I left 2 months ago. I could have never imagined the differences, but am so grateful for the experiences I am having in Nepal.<br />
As missionaries here in Nepal, our purpose is to do all that we can to put the church in a good light so that one day, the Church of Jesus Christ can be recognized as a legal entity here, where missionaries can come and share the gospel with our brothers and sisters. One way we do this is by finding ways to serve here, to try and make life better. Better is relative, my better is not necessarily their better so we have to find out their needs rather than what I think their needs are. It's an interesting, long and slow process.<br />
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Elder and Sister Rempp are working on 8 water projects. Clean water (hanni panni) is a very big deal, very few have water let alone clean water. Here in the big city, many homes have indoor water, but there are still so many that are walking with their buckets to the closest watering "hole" and carrying their water home. We see many bathing, and washing clothes in the nearby tap. The church builds water facilities in villages where women and children walk miles to haul water home. They also continue to work on sewing centers, giving women the opportunity to learn a skill to help support her family.<br />
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Woman washing at the local "watering hole"<br />
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Here we are with the neo-natalies used for the HBB training. The doctor and nurses who came had to carry these on the plane, because we are still having fits with the government trying to get the other 200 hundred here so that training may continue.<br />
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This is the closing ceremony, a really big deal, still not sure I get this part.<br />
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We also do wheelchairs, we have a wonderful partner who does most of the work, we just have to make sure the wheelchairs are ordered and get here and then we get to go to the ceremonies, see them distributed and get credit for the Church. We haven't been to one yet but when we go the next time I will post pictures.<br />
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Another project that we just completed was with READ Nepal Leprosy Clinic. Raj Kumar Shah wanted to raise chickens so they could sell the eggs to help feed the patients who come in for treatment and to raise some extra money. The church paid for the chickens and coops, we hope it all works out. Hong Kong told us that when someone in Vietnam wanted to do a chicken project they ate the chickens before they started to lay the eggs. I made Raj promise that he would get eggs and not eat the chicken,s he promised LDSC the first eggs. If any of you have leprosy bandages laying around that you may have done in years past, if you'll get them over to Caleb and Cami, they will see that they get here. The sisters in our branch are also working on bandages.<br />
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Here's the chickens and here's a picture of cute little Konchi with a duck. When Raj bought the chickens he got 4 ducks. He said duck eggs sell for more than chicken eggs. When we went today there was only one duck left. The cats and the monkey had gotten the other ducks. We saw a monkey coming down to get the last duck but our friend Hossan chased him away. I wish I'd had my camera. Not sure if this little duck will make it. It's been fun watching the few residents at READ Nepal with those furry little animals . Quite therapeutic for them.<br />
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My desire is that life could become more equal here. During this last week Kent and I were having lunch at Pizza Hut, yes, it was the real Pizza Hut and almost tasted like Pizza Hut, there were a few different pizza choices but we found one we liked and were grateful for a little taste of home. Anyway, as we ate lunch we were noticing the people and commented "how can there be such a discrepancy here in the "haves and the have nots?" It's not so obvious necessarily in the way they dress but in the places we see them and the kinds of work they do. Shops that have windows are" haves," and those that just set up shop wherever are the "have nots" and they make up most of Nepal. There seems to be little middle ground.<br />
Another desire I have for the people of Nepal is that they could let go of some of the old, old traditions. The caste system, arranged marriages, the expectation of children moving in with their parents and taking care of them, not just a short time but forever. Of looking to the future and realizing that there can be a future, so many are not only helpless but hopeless. They do not look beyond today. They don't take much pride in the little they have, this little country is not only poor in money but poor in spirit.<br />
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Let me tell you about those that are 'one' in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our branch has a little over 100 members we usually have about 75 at church on Saturday, with several investigators. They are pretty good missionaries, we can't talk to people about the church at all except at the meeting house so they are the ones that share the gospel and their testimonies. We go to the investigator class, can't understand a word but can definitely feel the spirit. I rarely see anyone use a manual, they teach from their hearts. Nepalese people have a funny little bobble they do with their head, I could never tell if it was a yes or a no, but now I know it means, "yes, I agree or I understand." I see a lot of bobble heads in class. At the end of the month our mission president from New Delhi, President Sackley and Elder Gerrit Gong from the Quorum of Seventy are going to be here. We will show them a couple of the projects we are working on and they will be meeting with government officials to try to further the work of the church here. We're also going to have the sisters make newborn hats for the hospitals. We're going to sew some with a cute fabric, others will crochet and knit. One hospital that we've been working with has over 22,000 births a year. Utah Valley hospital has 4,000. Can you even imagine and many of the nurses have a 6 month course to become a nurse out of high school. When a woman goes to the hospital to give birth, it is up to the family to bring food in for her. That's true with any patient in the hospitals.<br />
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As missionaries we've been asked to do "shadow leadership," to encourage, answer questions but to be careful not to jump in and take over. On Sunday, President Bishnu, our Branch President talked to Kent and I. He said, "I want to light a fire under the youth, help me." That's a hard thing, with the members so far away, the caste thing is still difficult in the church, in ways they can associate with one another, load-shedding will only get worse in the winter, so you have to plan activities when there is electricity and that schedule changes all the time. So we have a task in front of us to help these brothers and sisters to become one in Christ. Pray for us, we truly need the inspiration from our Heavenly Father to overcome the obstacles of Nepal. We love these members already, they are strong and they do their best and I know their best will be good enough in the Lord's eyes.<br />
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These are just a few of the members of our branch. I want to be "one" with the Lord and these brothers and sisters from Nepal.<br />
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