April 3, 2017

Week 58

Important points in email:

*Asking us (dad) if we know what "labne"is (lebne in Arabic). It's a middle eastern cream cheese, 

  asking us to look for it here in the states and try it!

*He's happy to hear that people are liking the prayer rugs and the gifts he has sent.

*There is an English class here, but it's smaller than the one in Istanbul

*For service, they were working on translating advertisements for a children's hospital but that has

  stopped, and they are continuing to distribute boxes of necessities to refugees. The senior couple

  here who does the humanitarian service is trying to find more service opportunities fot them.

*Will be able to watch conference on the 16th of this month, then we can compare notes and thoughts

* He's doing fine as far as $ is concerned

* Asking questions, wanting to know how members of the family are

Directly from the email:

This week was pretty good. We have a less active member that we are working with on coming to church.  He has been looking at anti literature on the internet. We can tell it's eating at him, but he won't admit it.  He's a great guy, though..  Oh! I meant to tell you every Saturday morning we play socer with a bunch of guys from all over the world that work at embassies or are generals stationed here.  Our branch president works for the US embassy, so that's how we were invited. It has brought a teaching opportunity, he is a German diplomat!.  It is really fun playing with all these guys and establishing friendships with them..