I hope everyone had a great day yesterday. Here in Mongolia it was Woman's/children's day & to celebrate there are concerts, games, bikes, scooters, & go carts in Sookhbaatar Square. Over a Million people were downtown enjoying the day with their families. For Mongolians Women's & Children's Day is like Mothers Day & every child's birthday put together into one day. You can see mother's/wife's walking around with flowers, chocolates & other small gifts. If you walk into stores you will see most people in the kids/toy section buying their children/grandchild small gifts. We (including Aunt Jenna) all walked downtown ate at a restaurant & took the kids to a couple of stores to let them buy something small with their saved allowance money.
Last week we had 2 days of rain & now the fields are green & all the trees are full of green leaves. The weather is warm & sunny & you can hear the birds chirping when you open the windows every morning. It's still cool in the mornings only 10 Celsius, but warms up to 25 Celsius most afternoons.
This morning I am taking time to pray. I have been working now for 10 days strait without a chance to just take a short rest. Each morning I pray for 5-10 minutes, but still I'm feeling drained. I will take 3 hours this morning just to rest & pray before I go to the community centre. This afternoon we will have our monthly food distribution to families in need living in the ger district. It's only small (a bag of rice, bag of flour, a bottle of vegetable oil & a bag of powered milk) but its enough to know they have something at home to eat.