On Monday before FHE, we went to this new little restaurant in Nalaikh.  It is owned and run by a member of the branch and his brother.

 This is Purevsukh welcoming us to his restaurant.  It is a small place with only about 4-5 tables but it is a start.  This is the kitchen.  Purevsukh is the elder's quorum president in Nalaikh.  He and his brother came a few times to the employment resource center to use our facilities to look for possible locations for their business.  This is only a block from his home.

 Elder Shrope got caught with his mouth full.  We had a great dinner and he was open just for us.  We all went to FHE together after eating.  We pray that his business does well.

 On Wednesday the Sisters had an outing day.  First we went to the puzzle museum.  We were not allowed to take pictures, but it is two stories with thousands of wooden puzzles and chess sets.  The tables had leags that were puzzles and some of the chess sets had pieces that were puzzles.  There were also wooden toys.  The kids would love this place.  Then after lunch we went to this Budhist museum.  We were only allowed to take a couple of photos of the outside unless we paid extra.  This was the big temple on the grounds.

There are 5 temples to tour.  They are all of various sizes.  They have one small one that you come to if you want to pray to find someone to marry or if you want to have a child.  In this scene you can see the contrast of the old temples and the modern buildings that now surround them.  It was very interesting to see how and who they worshipped.
The most exciting part of the week was being able to talk to our youngest son, Chris, and his fiancee, Josie, this morning.  We also got to meet her parents.  They are in Arizona.  They are getting married in October and through the wonder of the internet and Skype, we can still be a small part of this exciting time in their lives even though we are on the other side of the world!  Thank goodness for modern technology! 

 This is the class of 14 new missionaries that we taught temple preparation classes to on Friday.  We had them in class from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm with only a half hour lunch break.  Then at around 9:30 pm they were off to the airport and headed for the missionary training center in Manila.  We love teaching these classes to new missionaries!

 On Saturday we went to the children's amusement park with Elder & Sister Ford, and Elder & Sister Gledhill.  It was a beautiful day and we just walked around and saw what the park was like.  You can see the ferris wheel behind Elder Shrope.

 This is a ride that is in the air above us.  You have to peddle in order to move.  This lady had her son on the other side of her and they waved as they passed over us.

 In this lagoon you can paddle boat around.  You can start on this side and...

 You can also go on this side.  The large castle is not completed yet.  They were working inside as so we could only see it from the outside.  This park is new and parts are still under construction.

 You get from one side of the lagoon to the other by going through this fish.

 Sister Shrope is standing on the fish.  When the castle is finished, you can walk over the fish and to the castle.  We think it might be a restaurant.

 Sister Shrope made friends with two giraffe who were fishing in the lagoon!

 This ship was not open today, but it opens up on the other side to an outdoor eating area facing the lagoon.  Another restaurant.  Some of these seem to maybe only open in the evening hours.

 There are picnic tables that make you feel like you are in a treehouse.  Very cool!!

 Here we are looking through the eyes of love--Ha! Ha!

 Elders Gledhill, Ford, and Shrope looking through the hole in the wall.  Actually we told them they needed to get 'around to it.'

Sisters Gledhill, Ford, and Shrope are always getting 'around to it.'  We had a fun afternoon just walking and looking and watching people on the rides.  It is a fun place for families to take their kids.  And we finished it off with a popcycle.  Yummmm!

Monday we had the missionaries from Nalaikh over for lunch.  The Elders usually come to Ulaanbaatar on p-day and play basketball at the building.  Today the Sisters were also in UB because Sister Narangarvuu had an interview with the Patriarch to get her patriarchal blessing.  So it was a good time to feed them!

Since none of the missionaries speak or understand English very well, we invited our translator, Miigaa, to lunch too.  The Elder in the black sweater is Elder Bilguun.  This was the end of his mission and he was released on Wednesday.  He was a great missionary and we will miss him.  He starts school in a couple of weeks.  The young man next to him is a mini missionary and serve until a new full time missionary arrives.

Elder Tugsbaatar, sitted, is being transferred out to Selenge on Wednesday.  He is the one that drew the missionary bear on the leaf that we posted awhile back.  He is always smiling and happy.  We will miss him too.  The young lady in the orange sweater is also a mini missionary serving until Wednesday with Sister Narangarvuu.  They are all wonderful missionaries!!!
Today was the missionary farewell for Enkhtaivan.  He is the young man that we posted a pic of as he opened his call.  He will be in the group that reports in this Thursday and that we will be teaching the temple prep classes to this week.  We are looking forward to that.  We love helping to prepare these young missionaries to go to the temple.

This has been just a normal work week, sort of.  We started teaching Altan in our office because they are remodeling the school and are beginning the painting and didn't want to smell that while trying to teach English.  But this works out good because there is no one to interrupt during the lesson time like at the school.  We had a representative of the Chinggis Khan hotel come and give us a listing of job openings they have.  It is great when they come to the office to let us know they are hiring instead of reading about it in the paper.  We also helped a young man perfect his resume, but there was only a very few changes we needed to make.  He will graduate from BYU-Hawaii in Dec. and his is the best resume we have seen.

 Our translator, Miigaa, brought me this gift.  It is made of paper.  I thought it might be a table centerpiece or decoration of sorts, but I was wrong.  It is...........

a hat.  Pretty cool, huh?  Of course it won't last long if it rains, but will help keep the sun off my face.  It was very thoughtful of her.  She is a sweetheart.