Muruun

This week we have a water specialist with us from Lehi, Utah. His name is Reed Mellor. We have been visiting and evaluating past water stations DIC built in Mongolia. We are also visiting the water stations we have constructed and visiting possible sites for future consideration. The church is very concerned when we do humanitarian work that there is sustainability, which means the project will last for many years because it was completed properly and because the organization or group of people we helped have the desire and ability to maintain the project in the future. Elder Mellor is very pleased with the projects we have done. Most of them, it looks like, will have a 30 year life expectancy. We are in Choibalsan right now, the far Eastern edge of Mongolia. 

(Alan left this morning for Khankh, up by the Northern edge of Mongolia. Batbold is driving and it takes all day to get to Muruun and then 8 hours to drive around the lake because it's a bumpy, dirt road. They don't dare drive over the ice lake because it's not very thick ice this year.  Yes, people, even big trucks drive over the ice lake--scary! They'll check out the 3 new portable water stations and make their way back to UB.  They're hoping to be back by Saturday night.) 

Everywhere we go the people treat us wonderfully. They want to improve their lives and are very grateful for the little bit of help we can give them. We are doing good.  We love the gospel and our parents that taught us the gospel and started us down this path of exquisite joy.