This is Buyanbaatar and his family.
They were Elder Holland's visual aid.
Buya is our financial secretary.
They are leaving in July for BYU-Hawaii.
We will miss them

On our way home we came upon a flock of vultures. They were huge!

For Max

This was taken right outside Eredent. You can see the ties to oriental architecture.

We had dinner at this Chinese Restoran in Erdenet. It was good food and only $3.00 each.

When we got back to Bulgan there was a flash flood. Some cars had been washed across the street. The water was really deep and people were wading through it. We decided not to stop.

This is an aminal crossing sign. I laughed because they really could post this sign anywhere along any road.

Here the bridge was out and we had to go down into the creek. Fun!!!

When we were coming home from Murun it started to rain. The roads became mud slides. This was an expereince.

More Mongolia scenes,

Elder Ford thought this field would be a great place for a golf course...the grass was
perfect.

These heron were doing their mating dance in the field. It was really fun to watch them strut their stuff.

We drove right up the mountain to have a picnic in the woods. It was beautiful.
We certainly enjoyed this tour of Mongolia with the Clarks (Clarkjargals).

Fords and Clarks in front of the Chinggis statue in Murun.

This is the Wrestling Palace in Murun. Wrestling is one of the three "manly" arts that are part of the Mongloian culture. We have wrestlers in our family and I thought they would like this.

This is Murun, Mongolia. There is a branch of the church here and two missionaries
are assigned to that branch. There seemed to be more older folks here than in UB where it seems everyone is in their 20's. There are a lot of wood frame homes, rather than gers that surround UB. There isn't one stop sign or stop light in this town. There was a policeman directing traffic at one intersection, but it wasn't that busy. After being in the citiy (UB) it seemed like a much nicer pace of life.

Can you believe that in the middle of June the river was still frozen? We had to really look to make sure we were seeing what we saw! In the winter they have all sorts of races with sleds on the ice.

They were putting in a new path at the ger camp. They mixed all the cement by
hand and moved the forms down each day.