We had a busy week.  Doesn't Elder Shrope look busy while he is watching these young adults play a little basketball?  This was Monday just before family home evening out at the Nalaikh building.  He wanted to join in but they were just too good and besides church clothes are not the right type of attire for playing ball.

 Then on Tuesday we received this invitation to go to listen to a concert of choirs.  Our stake choir had been invited to perform.  This invitation was so beautiful it looked like a wedding invitation.  We walked there and back with Sisters Ford and Clark.  It was only a couple of miles round trip.

 This is the banner at the back of the stage that says this was the 7th annual choir concert.

 There were several Mongolian choirs but this one had a quartet of singers in traditional clothing plus some traditional instruments.

 This was an all children's choir.  They were very good.

 This was an all women's Korean choir.  Their music was beautiful.

 There were two military choirs.  This one had traditional instruments while the other had the normal brass band with it.

 This is our stake choir.  They sang hymns in both English and Mongolian.  They were wonderful and we could really feel the Spirit as they sang.  It brought tears to Sister Ford and my eyes.

 Then on Wed. and Thurs. we taught six temple preparation lessons to this group of missionaries that were leaving at 1:00 am on Friday for the Missionary training center in Manila, Phillipines.  Our translator, who translated for four of the lessons is the small one sitting beside me.  Her name is Batsetseg.  This is a wonderful group of missionaries and we look forward to teaching them the 7th lesson when they return from the training center.
While we were teaching them, Elder Shrope was fighting a runny nose.  On Friday it got the best of him and he spent most of the afternoon in bed.  But he was up and going again on Sat. and is his old self today.

On the way home from church at the entry to Ulaanbaatar we saw this truck carrying 4 horses.  I put this picture in for my grandkids and all the other kids that like to see the animals we see here.  When they are transporting horses that they want to sell, they carry them in the back of trucks like this one. This was the first time we had seen 4 horses in one, usually it is one or two.