Weeks Ending 4 November & 11 November 2018

Pushkar Bisht, an intense and gifted thinker and poet, dropped by and immediately took to Jeanette, adopting her as his "mother"; even wrote a poem for her! 

 Stake Conference 4 Nov 2018: Sisters Skidmore (Mesa, AZ), Peck (Spokane, WA, Jeanette with Brother & Sister Massey from Dehradun.

DIWALI

Wednesday, 8 November, was Diwali, the biggest holiday of the year for Hindus and most Indians.  Besides worshiping at temples and in their homes, they light lamps and set off firecrackers.  We had the Skidmores, another Senior Couple, over for dinner along with John Abana, a Nigerian brother in our ward.  His stories of life in Delhi were fascinating.  He joined the church in 2014 and bore the sweetest testimony of how the Gospel has given him peace and direction in his life.  He says the Holy Ghost keeps him safe telling him where and where not to go, and what and what not to do.

 Marigold and rose pedal arrangement with candles in front of a Hindu god

 Traditional threshold art

 Traditional Diwali lamps line the driveway

 Jeanette in front of gate to our building

 More traditional lamps around the driveway

 Sister Peck with Mrs. Laul, our landlady, who came to Delhi in 1947 from Pakistan at the time of Partition

 Votive candle in front of Hindu god

 Diwali camel lamp in garden

 Diwali dinner at our apartment:  Jeanette, Elder/Sister Skidmore & John Abana

 Grant at Lodi era (14th/15th Century) unknown tomb in park next to our building

 Hindu shrine (ubiquitous) traditionally set against peepal tree

 Jeanette in Old Delhi, market and Muslim area

 Nonchalant cow casually grazing on the median of busy highway!

Jeanette with "her" Primary children, she does get possessive.  This is the entire Primary of the Malviya Nagar Ward.  Nirmala Daas, Primary President, on the right.