Tsagaan Sar Celebration

These pictures are from today's Tsagaan Sar Celebration at our driver Baatar's house. We went as a group with President & Sister Andersen and all the in town senior missionaries. The bread is a display with odd number of stacks of bread with candy and hard cheese on top. They don't eat any of the display until Tsagaan Sar is finished. In most peoples homes they eat out of little plates like these or bowls. They drink out of bowls too. We had little short glasses yesterday. Today we will be going to Dalaijargal, Oyunga and Enkhtsetseg's ger for lunch celebration. He came to the office on Tuesday with a written invitation to come for a meal. We baked brownies this morning to take. Tomorrow we go to Azbayar and Bat-Ulzii's for celebration lunch. They are Directors for the National Anti-Drug Center, one of our non-government partners on area initiative projects. They have joined the church since they started partnering with DIC in 2003.

The child in these photos is Baatar's grandson. He sang for us. Most Mongolian children are talented and have no fear of performing in front of audiences.