We spent the last couple days at the orphanage for about three hours a day. Most of the time we are in Rita's room with all her friends, Irina, Marina, Natasha, Tanyia, Anna, Andrei and Lena. They are delightful kids. We do English class, play twister, read, play UNO, etc. They appear to like being with us and all congregate in Rita's room when we come.
Yesterday we went to the local LDS branch for meetings. It was great with lots of English speakers in addition to the six missionairies and Bro & Sis Reed, from the CES. They are a Senior Couple from Southern Calif. Very great people. The Elders (4) are great: Elder Howard from Provo; Elder Mueller from Redmond, Washington; Elder Rader from Reno, Nevada; and Elder ??? from Texas. The sisters are natives so we did not spend any time with them.
After church we went to the orphanage and broke our fast eating with Rita in the lunch room. She, like the other kids, ate about two bites of their dinner and then dumped the balance in a large bucket wasting over 90% of what was prepared. We then headed back to Rita's room for games and goofing off. We left about dark (3:45 pm). Yes it gets dark VERY early here. So far we have seen the sun only one for a couple hours in the 15 days we've been here.
Okay. Now I am current and you are probably awake as it's about 4:30am there. How weird to get dark so early. That only adds to the depressing atmosphere.
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We're waiting for the missionary's. They were suppose to be here at 7:00 for Alex's new member lessons. It's 7:41.
wow, I thought it was cold here, but we do have sunshine. Wish I could send you some : ) I'm behind on the blog and reading blogs, but thanks for posting so often it's great to hear how things are going!
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