Well this will be a short post due to many factors. 1.) I have/had limited internet access, 2.) I have to pack 45lbs of stuff into a 70 ltr bag 3.) I'm soooo tired... There's probably a fourth but I won't go there.
Team Mongolia has been in country now for 4 days and we have been staying in a small apartment with a AMAZING Christian family in Ulaanbatar. We have been so blessed to have made this connection with this family. Baaska is the father and is a passionate guy who loves the Lord and loves to meet and talk with people (which became evident whenever traffic was at a standstill it wasn't long until he was chatting with driver that was madly blaring their horn at cars that weren't going anywhere in particular). The first day here Baaska took us to his ministry which is a children's ministry for orphans or poverty stricken children. We literally stepped off the plane onto a tarmac that looked like it was built during World War II, dropped our bags off, and went into the poorest part of Ulaanbatar (UB) and spent the rest of the day hanging out with children that had nothing... literally. This was the only place they could come for refuge, food, and clean water, and that is when Baaska's love for children became evident. Within the first half day of being in Mongolia, I realized it was nothing like what I had expected. It is a lot more third world than I expected. You will see multi-million dollar skyscrapers being built and you'll see all these small Gers lying around the base of it, the roads are a mess, and I won't even mention the driving (especially so I won't concern my mom if she reads this). Overall, within the first day, my mind was blown at what I saw, and the couple hundred pictures I took don't even seem to capture it all.
So tomorrow our backpacking adventure begins. We fly to Ulaangom at 4am and will be there for the next 4 weeks backpacking through the mountains of Ooves (English pronunciation). We have a translator that is a retired pastor who's whole ambition is to reach the people of his home country with the Gospel. Within the first hour of meeting him he was giving us ideas and structure to how we should go about talking to the Mongolian people. Along with that, we met the guy who had led previous teams to the same area we will be going too and he gave us a lot of helpful information on weather, safety and other things. I have so much I want to type, but not nearly enough time to give you a decent picture.
When we get to Ulaangom tomorrow we will be purchasing a couple horses which I will be in charge of since I'm the only one with any horse background, so I'm excited to put my equine upbringing to the test in rugged Mongolia! As of now I ask you to pray for me in the area of wisdom in finding a good healthy and level headed horse and that I will be able to work with these horses well. Secondly, that our team would continue to work well together and glorify God through each individual personality. Lastly, I ask that you would pray that our team would stay 'regular' in the sense of bowel movements... I know that may be too much info, but its an honest request. As of now we're all a little blocked up, and as of tomorrow, we're told that we'll all have diarrhea of some sort in the next week or two. I hope you are doing well and I pray that the Lord will bless you as He has completely blessed me (something I didn't see in a larger perspective until I got to Mongolia). God Bless! It will be another 4 weeks or so until I am able to give you all an update on our adventure, and I hope by then I can upload some pictures!
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