I started as a missionary in Mongolia, I am now a college student with severe chronic pain, and I will always be fighting the good fight of faith.
At age 22 while living in Mongolia I developed a severe chronic pain condition that effects every aspect of my life. Continuing this blog reminds me that life's challenges are stepping stones meant to lift us, not roadblocks meant to defeat us.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
art
oh and to try and keep myself sane during this I have started working on more art, and I've started a blog to try and keep me motivated ;) It is http://www.portraitsandplaces.blogspot.com/ and there are some pictures about mongolia, and probably a lot more to come considering that it is one of my very favorite places :) If you have a minute check it out :)
real update!
ashley
I can't quite do this again yet, but hopefully I will be able to soon! ;)
Saturday, February 6, 2010
a little bit of hongkong
This woman is an angel! Her name is Trinidad and she was my "companion". She is a wonderful lady from the Philippines.
my flight from mongolia was delayed so when I got to the airport i missed my connecting flight, they gave me a 12 hour visa for china and I stayed at a hotel close to the airport in Beijing. It was the first time I had been alone in 9 months, and it was in mainland China ;) (and mongolian sounds a lot easier after you hear chinese. I am really glad I had to learn mongolian.)
The Hong Kong Temple! We got to go twice.
more snapshots
Man who made the Mongols famous before they they became a beacon for the church in asia ;)
This is a view from a church member's apartment, we lived buildings like the big tan one. The russians built them when they were in mongolia.
This is inside grandma and grandpa's ger, many people don't have power so we would teach by candle light, I loved it :)
This is our church!! it was so dark and smoky and the church was by far the biggest building in the area, and it was always lit.
update
The update is, that we don't have much to update you on. Still no more definite results, still might be an autoimmune disease that hasn't manifest enough to diagnose yet, the rheumatologist thought it might be some kind of long lasting viral infection, but we don't know. We are waiting for the results of some more specific blood tests, and I am going to meet with a neurologist just to make sure we rule every other thing out.
i'm kinda going crazy ;) and am learning about faith and patience, even more than I did in the mission field. But my family is wonderful and it is fun to be with them, and my dad is still doing really good in Haiti! The Hospital is completely up and running and the operating rooms are busy. They are planning on being there for several months. That is all for now! I wish I could update you on how the investigators and new members are doing, but I don't know either haha, and of course they are in the Lord's hands ;) everyone take care!
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