This has been a fun week.  It started with cooking at FHE on Monday.  They wanted to learn to make crazy cake and blond brownies.

 Everyone got  to measure and add one of the ingredients in the crazy cake.

 Then Sainbayar mixed it all together.

 Everyone was having a good time.

 Then while the cake was in the oven, they began to measure and add the ingredients for the brownies.

 Sainbayar was mixing the brownies so fast, his hands are just a blur!!

 While things were baking, they had a chess game going in one room and ping pong in another.

 Sainbayar showing the cake after it was frosted.  Luckily you frost this cake while it is warm.  If fact, it took so long to bake everything that they also ate it all while it was still warm.  They did not leave even a crumb!!  They are good cooks!

 Then on Wednesday it was my birthday.  During staff meeting I was sung to and Sister Clark brought chocolate chip cookies.  Sorry no pics of them because they were still warm from the oven and were gone fast.  After the meeting we stayed in the room and the girls that work in the building brought up some cakes and drinks.  This is my Mongolian birthday cake.

 Oktober, Batkhand, Tsatsral, Iggy, and Miigaa cut and served the cake and drinks.

 We had all the people from the staff meeting including the assistants, plus the the girls that are our translators listed above, and Batsengel from the BYUH computer lab which is down in the basement near our office.

 And this it Batsetseg who is the financial person in the mission office.  She has a degree as a nuclear physicist and would love to go to the states to study for a masters.  She is a sweetheart and we just love her and her family.

 Then on Friday we had a baptism in Nalaikh.  The water was so cold that Elder Shrope helped the Sisters and Elders boil water and add it to the water in the font.  They were having a little fun whilr waiting for the water to boil.

 This was the young lady that was baptized.  And she was very excited even though the water was cold.  She bore a beautiful testimony.

 At the end of the meeting, everyone had some cookies and punch and just enjoyed each others company.  The youth here are very supportive of one another and always very loving toward the new members.

 On Saturday we attended Nathan and Batkhand's wedding reception.  Nathan served his mission here and is from San Diego.  He will be here a year working while they try and get Batkhand's visa.  They were married in Feb. and went to the Hong Kong temple last month.  It was a simple but beautiful reception.

 Batkhand's dad did a little Mongolian tradition for them.  He came 22 hours by bus or meeker( a small van used to transport lots of people) to be here for the reception.  Batkhand's mom passed away last June.

 They did the American traditional cutting of the cake and feeding it to each other. 

This is the couples that were there with Nathan and Batkhand, the Clarks, the Hunts, the Richardsons, and us.  It was a lovely evening and a perfect way to end the week!  Congratulations Nathan and Batkhand, we wish you all the best.