Good news – we found a clean and well maintained apartment on Monday! (pictures are of the living room and kitchen) It is on the second floor – the other apartment where the present couple live is on the 3rd floor so we will not have to hire a car to move the computer , the binders and kitchen items which belong to the church. It is tough to find help when we don’t speak the language and the church is not established – no Elder’s Quorum or High Priest Quorum.
My little abandoned boy |
It is miserable to go outside and walk on ice especially when the wind is blowing fiercely but we have to get groceries and do the Lord’s work. We are now wearing some yaktrack device attached to the bottom of our shoes to avoid falling on the ice.
Viviane walking to the 'mall' where we had lunch and did grocery shopping - about 1.5 miles each way. |
Viviane in front of an ice sculpture we found on the way to the mall. |
We hope the missionaries will be able to come to this city next week to start teaching the gospel and building a branch – right now it is twig – and for us to finally wear our official name badge – once we get the religious accreditation for Astana. Missionaries are already allowed to preach the gospel in Almaty.
We are getting better – slowly – Our supply of antibiotics for bronchitis is almost gone. My hip is still bothering me from the fall – but the computer screen is bugging more!
Our meals consists of ramen soup, tomatoes with cucumber for salads, oranges, apples, yogurt, cheese, eggs, hamburger meat, pasta, black beans and fruit juices. We have been going to lunch a couple of times a week. We have had Kazakh pizza – if you order sausage you get shredded bologna, a couple of local chicken dishes, and cole slaw form KFC (lol). Food is expensive! A whole rotisserie chicken – almost like Costco – is $18. We have to buy bottle water or boil water. I fixed rice and pasta in tap water – it stunk !!!
We know the gospel will brighten the life of every Kazakh who will listen to the message of the restoration. We are so thankful to be involved in this work.
PS - I can't seem to get pictures to load to the blog. In fact I can't get to my own blog site to see how it looks. The web page always gets a 'time out'. This happens to many of the web sites I try to visit. Maybe I'll start putting pictures in a Picasa web album and just add the URL.
PPS - I figured it out by changing the ISP DNS to OpenDNS. I hope it stays fixed!!!
PS - I can't seem to get pictures to load to the blog. In fact I can't get to my own blog site to see how it looks. The web page always gets a 'time out'. This happens to many of the web sites I try to visit. Maybe I'll start putting pictures in a Picasa web album and just add the URL.
PPS - I figured it out by changing the ISP DNS to OpenDNS. I hope it stays fixed!!!
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