A short video I made on Thursday after it snowed :D

Pictures

I thought the brothers in the first picture were really cute, wearing matching green and yellow clothes and holding hands.  Next two pictures are of the sidewalk getting torn up. PTL, the sidewalk was so uneven, making it really hard to walk on, especially on rainy days :D.  It's funny because as they are tearing up the sidewalk, pedestrians are just walking all over the dirt.  Last pictures are an exhibit of really cool structures that the architecture majors at SHUTIS (Science and Tech University) created.  Aren't they awesome?? I thought it was cool :D.

Pictures

A view from outside our kitchen and some of our daily life :)

Work Visas

PTL! Chloe and my work visa are well underway and should be ready for the “next step” by Thursday. The “next step” is that we both need to exit the country and get our visa in a Mongolian embassy. This takes us halfway through the process. Then after further paperwork processing, we will finally receive our work permit and residence card. Lorin and Taurus are already on the last stage. However, the visa that we receive is a single-entry (which means once you enter the country, you cannot leave and come back in). This is a problem because we often need to exit the country, whether for our summer VSET program or whatever other trip we need to make (usually to China). As of right now, we’re not sure if Taurus and Chloe (the non-Americans) will be able to change their visa to multiple-entry but it seems that Americans are able to do so. Please continue to pray for this process as it is very confusing, complicated, and time-consuming.

Mei’s visa also has issues because she also needs to exit the country to get her visa in a Mongolian embassy but our closest and least expensive country to travel to would be China. She cannot enter China because she was escorted out of the country in 2008 for sharing the good news on a university campus. We are in the process of trying to see if we can secure a visa into China for the express purpose of her getting her Mongolia visa (confusing, huh?). Anyway, every step of the way is uncertain so please pray that somehow the doors would open and Mei would be able to enter into China to get her Mongolian visa.

Thanks for all your prayers thus far! Mei, Lorin and Taurus already started their first week of teaching at School 23 and Chloe and I will be teaching at School 50 sometime this week. It’s exciting to see God opening the doors for us to meet all these high schoolers! We are still praying and hoping for a strong ministry among the high schoolers so this is just the beginning.