It is hard to believe that four weeks have already come and gone for our team! It seems that just yesterday we were leaving the church parking lot to jump start our journey here in Mongolia. We miss you all, but God is doing amazing things here, and we are having the time of our lives!
This week was full of fun adventures for us. To start, we added a new member to our missionary club. Benny from Germany (or Hans, as we nicknamed him before he came) arrived this past Thursday. With lessons from Caitlin on a few German words, we all did our best to welcome him to Darkhan. He is 20 and wanted to spend some time on the missionfield before beginning college. He is an extremely talented pianist and graduated from a School of Worship back at his church in Germany (which Pastor Dick has shared at!). It will be fun getting to know him better and to have an extra friend on our team. Yeah for Benny!
Another very exciting thing for our team is our new schedule. We met with Pastor Mark and Ginny this week, and we decided together that we want to maximize the remainder of our time here. So, that is exactly what we are going to do! We came up with new ideas for evangelism and ways for us to really pour into the Mongolian youth. Each of us was assigned a cell leader from the church to pour ourselves into during our time here. We will begin to attend their cell, get to know their cell members, and help them find ways to evangelize and see fruit in each of their cells. We are so excited to see how God is going to mesh our hearts together even more with the people.
Our Fourth of July was very fun and exciting. There is something so unique about celebrating a holiday in a foreign country, but it's even more unique when the holiday is specifically an American holiday! The day started out how many 4ths back home do: RAIN. It rained and was, of course, cold (because in Mongolia, there is no such thing as a "warm summer rain"). But toward the afternoon, God heard our earnest prayers and allowed the sun to come out and dry everything up. Around 4:00 PM, the girls went over to Pastor Mark and Ginny's and got cooking. So, for dinner that night, with three different countries being represented (Mongolia, America, and Germany), we had a barbeque complete with hot dogs and potato salad. Thanks to the Imbrone family, we even got to finish off our night with poppers and sparklers! It was such a fun night of fellowship and laughs, and a memory that I think all of us will keep with us for many 4th's to come!
As a team we are all healthy and happy. We are even being taught how to cook traditional Mongolian food thanks to Xlaavga, the cook. Oh, how she is testing our Mongolian though! She came to teach us how to make Serhvan, a very traditional and tasty pasta dish, and we spent 15 minutes trying to figure out what an onion was! :) Needless to say we are FAR from fluent!
Continue to pray for all of us. We truly feel it in everything we do. May God bless you, and may your mustache grow like brushwood (Mongolian proverb)!
Hannah (for your fab five)
Mongolia Update, Monday, July 6, 2009
Written by Hannah Staub Monday, 06 July 2009 09:01
Hello Living Stones Family!It is hard to believe that four weeks have already come and gone for our team! It seems that just yesterday we were leaving the church parking lot to jump start our journey here in Mongolia. We miss you all, but God is doing amazing things here, and we are having the time of our lives!
This week was full of fun adventures for us. To start, we added a new member to our missionary club. Benny from Germany (or Hans, as we nicknamed him before he came) arrived this past Thursday. With lessons from Caitlin on a few German words, we all did our best to welcome him to Darkhan. He is 20 and wanted to spend some time on the missionfield before beginning college. He is an extremely talented pianist and graduated from a School of Worship back at his church in Germany (which Pastor Dick has shared at!). It will be fun getting to know him better and to have an extra friend on our team. Yeah for Benny!
Another very exciting thing for our team is our new schedule. We met with Pastor Mark and Ginny this week, and we decided together that we want to maximize the remainder of our time here. So, that is exactly what we are going to do! We came up with new ideas for evangelism and ways for us to really pour into the Mongolian youth. Each of us was assigned a cell leader from the church to pour ourselves into during our time here. We will begin to attend their cell, get to know their cell members, and help them find ways to evangelize and see fruit in each of their cells. We are so excited to see how God is going to mesh our hearts together even more with the people.
Our Fourth of July was very fun and exciting. There is something so unique about celebrating a holiday in a foreign country, but it's even more unique when the holiday is specifically an American holiday! The day started out how many 4ths back home do: RAIN. It rained and was, of course, cold (because in Mongolia, there is no such thing as a "warm summer rain"). But toward the afternoon, God heard our earnest prayers and allowed the sun to come out and dry everything up. Around 4:00 PM, the girls went over to Pastor Mark and Ginny's and got cooking. So, for dinner that night, with three different countries being represented (Mongolia, America, and Germany), we had a barbeque complete with hot dogs and potato salad. Thanks to the Imbrone family, we even got to finish off our night with poppers and sparklers! It was such a fun night of fellowship and laughs, and a memory that I think all of us will keep with us for many 4th's to come!
As a team we are all healthy and happy. We are even being taught how to cook traditional Mongolian food thanks to Xlaavga, the cook. Oh, how she is testing our Mongolian though! She came to teach us how to make Serhvan, a very traditional and tasty pasta dish, and we spent 15 minutes trying to figure out what an onion was! :) Needless to say we are FAR from fluent!
Continue to pray for all of us. We truly feel it in everything we do. May God bless you, and may your mustache grow like brushwood (Mongolian proverb)!
Hannah (for your fab five)
