Merry Christmas!

Sukhbaatar Square

Walking around UB, the songs "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas", "Winter Wonderland", "White Christmas" all seem pretty appropriate. I used to think the concept of Broomball (walking with your street shoes on ice) was pretty fun and cool--little did I know that I'd be walking on ice everyday!  Sometimes it's fun but sometimes it's just dangerous. Our Mongolian friends told us that it's a "common thing" for people to break an arm or a leg. That combined with the very aggressive drivers around UB; hehe, you have to be careful.

We've been really busy preparing for the Christmas party (we have one for high schoolers and one for university students). It was quite a success in some senses--over 90 people showed for our high school Christmas party! in other ways, it was pretty difficult trying to pull off such a big party with our limited resources and all the rush.  Somehow we managed to pull it off though--so thankful for God's grace through the whole process.  Nevertheless, I was exhausted this past weekend.

Apparently, Saturday was the beginning of the "really cold" winter weather.  Sounds strange since we've already been trying to survive -20 some degrees, but now we're moving into the -30s and and even inching toward -40. Scary.  If you're reading this, please pray for my teammate, Chloe. She's been sick almost the whole winter (starting around Novemeber).

Anyway, just wanted to send out a random update. Hope you're all doing well this Christmas season!