We continued the work on our baby quilts this week. The men stepped up and did some handwork on Monday night for FHE. Here is Grant flanked by Elders Toone and Skidmore.
Tuesday we visited with our darling Udayan girls in Mehrauli. Here Rumpaul is demonstrating how its easy to tell one little lie, but when if we aren't careful, they can multiply and get us in a bind.
Rumpal
Wednesday night we finished our first baby quilt.
Thursday morning we drove about 60 km south east of Delhi to the village of Tigaon near Faridabad in Haryana to meet Rohit's new bride, Babita. He was taking her back to his parent's house to live.
Babita's hands were beautifully decorated with mehndi.
And she wore toe rings, the sign of a married woman.
They sat us on a bed and all the women folk came in to say hello. Babita's 80 year old grandmother in the center.
They prepared a lovely meal for us. Cooking is a family affair with all the women helping. A family member is making dough for puri.
Babit's sister-in-law and niece are cooking on the gas hotplate.
Friday afternoon we flew to Chennai to train the new Public Affairs Director there. On Saturday we visited the Kapaleeshwarn Temple in Mylapore, the oldest part of the city. It was built around the seventh century AD and destroyed by the Portugese in the sixteenth. It was rebuilt about three hundred years ago.
A temple band was playing.
People who want children hang little cradles from this tree. In the background are the temple cattle which provide milk, ghee and dung for the temple.
We visited the home of the temple priest, a traditional Tamil structure with a central atrium. In one corner with his personal altar.
Among other things, we visited St. Mary's Church inside Fort St. George is the oldest Anglican church east of the Suez and the oldest British building in India. Construction started in 1678 and it was consecrated in 1680.
Robert Clive (one of the creators of British power in India) and Elihu Yale (President of the East India Company and major donor to Yale University) were both married here.
Robert Clive in these quarters just down the street from St Mary's Church.
Further down the same street is this ruin of a house where the Duke of Wellington lived when in India at the end of the eighteenth century.
We saw our sweet friend from the Maliya Ward, Cynthia Massey, in Chennai where she is serving as a missionary.
We had a great PA training session after the meetings. The new PA Director the the Chennai District is Suresh standing in the back between myself and President Prince.
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