See you all soon!

We have been extremely busy these last weeks.  We had two wheel chair repair specialists come for 4 days and provide training for the National Wheel Chair Users Association.  They are both wheel chair users themselves.  They did a superb job! We have been trying to finish up a lot of other projects and get things in good order for the new couple.  We taught our last English class Friday.  We had 50 students in attendance.  We will miss them.  We have been going to ceremonies and graduations.  They treat us like we were Royalty and we know it is not us but the Church and Deseret International Charities.  We have some meetings this week with some government agencies and then off in the wild blue yonder and the USA.  We fly into SLC on Friday, May 26th at 3:40 United Arlines. 

Time Flys

We had our English Conference this week.  We had 300 teachers, administrators, and government officials in attendance.  We had 4 professors from all the BYU schools as guest lecturers.  The conference took most of our week, then we took a quick trip to the Gobi Desert to investigate a water request, and then our wheelchair trainers arrived for the training this next week.  

Last Friday the wheelchairs arrived from China--we got 10 YSA Mongolians and 10 Missionaries to help unload them at 5:00 AM. It took about an hour and a half, then we took them to a late breakfast:)

We rode the train all night from the Gobi to UB.  We had a sleeping compartment and we were able to sleep most of the night.  The train made 30 stops during the night on its way to UB.  In the Gobi we were in the worst wind dust strorm we have ever experienced.  

Grandpa was interviewed 2 different times by the news media in conjunction with the English Conference.  Several people told us they saw him on TV.  They told him he looked a lot younger on TV than he does in real life:)  We will attach some pictures.  We have three more weeks and a lot to do.  It will be nice to get home and see everyone and take care of our place.