Quick update - Wednesday night

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quick update here as we have a team meeting in an hour.

another good day of teaching english. with our students today we covered days of the week, months of the year, telling time, finding locations on a map (the bank is on Elm street, the drugstore is in the corner of elm and 11th street. . . . . ).

found out today that koem va is a christian and has been for about a year. please pray that we can find him a bible in his language. i found out today that they are currently hard to get and cost $10.00 which is 1 1/2 months rent for koem. i would really like to get one for him before i leave. i have given him my english bible, which he can use until then.

we went to the russian market to buy things for the orphanage today. amazing place - one of the neatest things i've seen since coming. it would be hard to explain, but imagine a flea market with about 300 or more shops and the aisles about wide enough for 2 people. that's it. pretty cool.

we had two interesing fruits today. one was dragon fruit which is a big purple fruit that you cut in sections - tastes like kiwi fruit. the other i don't know the name, but it was good.

another funny aside - while american idol is big in the us, they have a 'freshie show' here. it's like american idol except that the contestants merely walk down the ramp acting like a model. totally weird and goofy, but it's all the rage. when we have games, our "3rd world worship band" plays background music. today they had about 6 fresshie shows. we played "play that funky music", "smoke on the water", 'china grove' and a few other strange songs. really bizarre but the khami really get into it. worship has been pretty enthusiastic too.

one sad aside - on the way back from the internet cafe this morning there was a begger laying front of the market. i always get nervous in the states with beggars as you never know if you're being taken or not. this was not the case. the guy looked like he had a broken arm and leg. don't know what happened, but it was ugly. scary stuff.

we are doing well. love the people. love the food. love the ministry. hate the sanitation & poverty. keep praying for us.

btw - one of our girls gave her testimony this morning during the morning program.

tim