Thursday
Nov232006
A Different Thanksgiving
Bernie Anderson
No football. No Turkey. But it was fun and memorable, all the same. We had Thanksgiving supper with Narah and Boldoo. We all enjoyed whole roasted Chicken, dressing, mashed potatoes, canned cranberries, and a "real" Pumkin pie. I even picked up a special treat for our dog Sadie at the market this afternoon. Can you find it in this picture?
Here is Sadie enjoying here treat:
Narah and Cori gave Jonathan a hard time by singing "Frosty the Snow Man" in his ears. You can tell he really loves it.
Narah and Sadie are now quite good friends. It's fun to listen to Narah fuss at and scold Sadie in Mongolian. Sadie just loves her. Narah helped Renee' to prepare the meal and even helped clean up the kitchen. Sadie did not help so much.
Renee' made a pretty good list of the things we are truly grateful for in her Blog below. I just wanted to add a few more things - some quite similar, some a little different, all can be found in our newsletter. We are so glad to know where every gift comes from.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
(James 1:17 ESV)
Thank you all for partnering with us!
Here is Sadie enjoying here treat:
Narah and Cori gave Jonathan a hard time by singing "Frosty the Snow Man" in his ears. You can tell he really loves it.
Narah and Sadie are now quite good friends. It's fun to listen to Narah fuss at and scold Sadie in Mongolian. Sadie just loves her. Narah helped Renee' to prepare the meal and even helped clean up the kitchen. Sadie did not help so much.
Renee' made a pretty good list of the things we are truly grateful for in her Blog below. I just wanted to add a few more things - some quite similar, some a little different, all can be found in our newsletter. We are so glad to know where every gift comes from.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
(James 1:17 ESV)
-The boxes we have received (right now we only need three more and they’ll all be here!)
-Youth Group for MK’s in UB
-A nice place to live
-Technology that enables us to stay in touch with friends and family (Skype)
-Our puppy Sadie (when she stays out of the trash and doesn’t bite while we’re tying our shoes)
-New friends and colleagues
-Guitar lessons (for Jonathan)
-New beginnings
-Chocolate
-Our new Mongolian friends, Baldoo and Narah
-A new coffee house 100 meters from our home
-Weekends and other breaks from school
-A relationship with God based on the blood and cross of Christ and not on how well one is doing in language study
-The fact that we can be together as a family
-The climate (cold weather with low humidity)
-God’s gracious years of preparation
-Friends at home who are faithful prayer partners
Thank you all for partnering with us!
Reader Comments (2)
[...] It’s time, however, to bring you up to date on our everyday life. Had I written this 6 weeks or so ago, I would have titled it, “Sunshine gone away today, don’t feel much like dancing…� If you don’t recognize these words, talk to someone older than you and they can hum it for you. In website timeline, this blog should fit between our Thanksgiving blog and our Christmas blog. It was the Monday after Thanksgiving that Narah came, but she wasn’t wearing her typical smile and she didn’t take off her coat. She was coming to tell us she was moving back to Darhan that afternoon. [...]
[...] Perhaps some of our readers have enough spare time on their hands to anticipate this week’s Friday Photo. Maybe that is how you spent your time digesting your Thanksgiving turkey. Those who have been following our Mongolia journey for over a year (and had nothing better to converse about over your meal) may have remembered our photos from last year and concluded that this week’s pictures might be another interesting scenario of sheep’s heads and mashed potatoes. [...]