Week Ending November 3, 2019

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Aman, Vivek, Quilting and Mumbai

Visited by our friends, Elder Prince Dass (Malviya Nagar) and Deepanshu Yadav (Pitampura)-serving in Bangalore Mission, on their way to the MTC in the Phillippines.


Quilting continues - Elders Andrews and Ravi with Lucy Broadbent whose family is here with the US Department of State.  Lucy comes with her mother, Sheralie Broadbent.

Favorite Boys and Family
Thursday night Jeanette met Nirmila Dass and her grandson, Elias, at the Saket Metro Station and took an auto to visit Vivek and Aman Kumar at their humble home.  Vivek entertained with hymns played on the harmonium, played a popular India game called Ludo (aka Parcheesi) and Mrs. Kumar (boys' mother) made paneer with green peppers and puri, a favorite.  Such poverty yet such happiness and such a lovely family!  




Mumbai
Friday morning we flew to Mumbai and that evening met with Abraham Bale, the Branch President.  We are helping plan a 25th Anniversary celebration there as we did in Kolkata.  Saturday morning we arose early and spent the morning sightseeing before the traffic became impossible.  Our first stop was  the Dadra flower market, a riot of roses, tuberoses and marigolds.  







Next was the Dhobi Ghat, a huge outdoor laundry colony which currently holds the Guinness World record for the most simultaneous handwashing in one spot (465 people). Thousands of workers live on site in a warren of washing tanks, laundry lines, washing machines, dryers and ironing 












Sassoon Dock to see the fish market and watch battered wooden boats come in to unload their catch.  Women squatted in circles pulling the heads off prawns and sat in front of piles of various and sundry types of fish for sale.  




The Gateway of India was our next stop-unfortunately roped off so no good photo opportunity. (Gateway is on the left.)  Built by the British to commemorate the landing of the first British Monarch in India (George V and Queen Mary) in 1911, the corner stone was not laid until 1913 and it was not completed until 1924.  It also witnessed the departure of the last British troops in 1948. Across the street was the enormous Taj Hotel, site of a 2008 terrorist attack.




St. Thomas Cathedral



Crawford Market


Mumbai skyline


 Andrea Gonsalves-early member with whom we met to get some history of the Branch.


Daniel Thangaraj Swamisdasan, former preacher who recently joined the Church in Bangalore before returning to his home in Mumbai.

 Dinner with Cliff Keeler, former Mumbai Branch President, and Elders Kneeland, Neilsen. James and Jue







Comments

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    Hi Jeanette! I got your e-mail this morning and had to check out your blog. What a colorful, interesting place you are serving in! I imagine the branch histories you are helping to compile are equally as interesting. Thanks for sharing a bit of your life and time there! Lots of love from Plano, Kristi Brown

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