Hursts in India

Wednesday morning we delivered school notebooks to the Jain School in Old Delhi down by the wholesale bazaar.  It was a beautiful day so we decided to stop by the Red Fort and check out the five new museums down there. The museums are housed in the old British barracks built after the 1857 Rebellion in the background to the left and focus on India's struggle for independence.  One of the five in a beautiful art museum. In the late afternoon we met Patrizia Cerroni, an Italian modern dancer and her friend Sukrita Paul Kumar, a poet from Delhi, at the India International Center.  As we left for home, we were dazzled by this beautiful evening sky.  It was the clearest, we have seen since arriving here. Thursday we celebrated Holi, the Indian spring festival, with the missionaries in the vacant lot beside the church compound.  Pictured above are senior Sisters Hansen, Peck and myself with the sisters. Grant was a little reluctant at...

Monday and Tuesday wrap-up of our Nepal adventure and then back to Delhi to complete the preparations for a celebration of Indian traditional song and dance, with a side trip to Old Delhi and the wonders that are always to be discovered there.   Copper workers - off the street in Kathmandu  Golden Buddha - third to the right is covered with scaffolding, being refurbished.  Prayer Wheel at the Golden Buddha - Jeanette and Sr. VanDenBerghe  Monkey at the prayer wheels!  Jeanette at her morning prayers!  Jeanette & Grant at prayer wheels Baby Buddha Moving to the Swayambhunath Stupa aka the "Monkey Temple"   Buddhist Monk Monkeys    More Monkeys  and more!   And this is why it is called "The Monkey Temple"   Grant & Jeanette at top of steps at Monkey Temple  Jeanette & Grant with standing Buddha at top of Monkey Temple  Proof ...

On Monday evening we attended a ward Family Home Evening to celebrate Kundan Yadav who is leaving this week for the India Bangalore Mission.  He is in the center of the photo holding a Book of Mormon.  We had fun playing Book of Mormon Pictionary and eating a pot luck supper. Tuesday morning we flew to Kathmandu and were met by the Wilkinsons and VanDenBerghes, humanitarian missionaries living and serving in Nepal.  We spent the night with the VanDenBerghes.                                    On Wednesday we arose early and flew with the Wilkinsons north to the village of Phaplu.  It was about a half hour flight. Phaplu is the headquarters of the Solukhumbu District of Nepal which includes Mt. Everest or Sagarnmatha ("Peak of Heaven").  The airport is 7,918 feet above sea level. The village is a starting point of the trek to Everest base camp.  ...