Each day's activities in a Mongolian village remind Jeremy and Roxy Thiessen of the words of Paul, "Who is adequate for a task such as this?"
"In recent days ... we have rubbed shoulders beside fellow townspeople, listened and experienced some of the challenges of life with them," the couple wrote. Those include family breakups, bank debts and husband-and-wife difficulties.
Roxy found herself on a steep learning curve when she traveled with a friend to the capital city of Ulaanbaatar recently. Among her experiences on the four-day supply run were "bouncing along slowly in a 3 ton truck, stopping to drop off 38 sheep, selling animal skins and guts along the road, helping purchase supplies and [watching] the truck while the supplies were being loaded."
Jeremy is staying busy using the tractor that was finally delivered to the village this past spring.
"He plowed up 8 hectares the other day, dug a 3-meter root cellar hole, moved a small house, leveled out some ground and will be helping a gardener working up 40 hectares," the Thiessens wrote. "The gardener is waiting for a 'good day' to plow, because the [local religious leader] said yesterday was a 'very bad day.'"
"Knowing that God is watching we keep pressing on," the couple wrote.
Pray for the Thiessens as they build relationships with the Mongolian people and live for Christ among them.
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