Week Ending February 9, 2020
Visitors - Jeannette from Germany & Ellen/Stephen Williams
Wonderful Udayan Girls
Making Valentines: (on sofa), Ganga, Bhoomi, Sonu & Gulnahar
Teaching Bollywood dancing to the foreigners: Gulnahar, Bhoomi, Sonu, Jeannette (Germany) and JJH
Adidas-Udayan Field Day: Sonu and Bhoomi
Jeanette, Rodha and Kushi
Cooking class - Ellen Williams, Monica Beesa, Sister Carol Toone & Jeanette
Paalak paneer, chicken masala tikka, palau and roti
Jeanette, Grant, Ravi Gupta, Shoba, Ishika, Sister & Elder Toone-our apartment
Janakpuri Home Group - meeting in Jaypee Suddarth
Pres Ramakrishna family, Elder, Stephen/Ellen Williams, G&J, Bro/Sis Katuka . . . Akash ?, Lovely ?, . . . Elder Bedont
Sister Missionaries: Sisters Watt & Menachee Kundu(?), also Malati Sarkar (now serving in Fiji)- Working on a quilt
?, Sheralie Broadbent, Sister Danna Hansen & Sister Pandey
Elder Andrews, Lucy Broadbent & Elder Ravi
Sister Massey presenting quilt to a new mother - Rishikesh
End of quilt/baby cap project
This week we sent off our last batch of baby things for the Government Hospital in Rishikesh. With the help of Elders and Sisters from the India New Delhi Mission and members of the New Delhi Stake that we made 100 baby quilts (completed in January) and 127 baby hats with all the extra yarn. It was a great service activity, especially for the missionaries, who enjoyed coming to our apartment and working during the week in partial fulfillment of their suggested service hours.
We decided to do it when we learned of the need from sister Nirmila Massey who is head nurse in the labor and delivery department of the Government Hospital in Rishikesh and wife of the home group leader there. She told us that some families who came to the hospital were so poor that they had to bring their babies home in cement sacks!
Word of our quilt project inspired others in the US to donate many other items for the newborns. These were donated through Sheralie Broadbent, the wife of a fellow who works at the American Embassy. Using her diplomatic address, we received the following items: 303 receiving blankets, 265 articles of clothing and 37 machine made hats.
Donors included four groups of Young Women. One group in Henderson, NV hand made receiving blankets as did another group in Springville, UT. The latter came together to do it in honor of one of their leaders who recently lost a baby. Young Women in Austin, TX collected items as did YW in Bountiful, UT. The latter was done as a YW project.
There were a couple of other friends of Sheralie's who also sent items. One friend from Arizona included some beautiful heart notes made by her five year old. Sheralie's Aunt Karen Russell in Kennewick, WA made it a family project with the purpose of uniting family members. Her family's donations accounted for at least half of what we received.
Sheralie, who lost a baby boy at the end of 2017 said the project has given her closure. "At the beginning it was hard to have all these baby things around, but I think this project has given me closure." Her daughter Lucy, 12, is home schooled. She liked to come over and help with the quilts and make hats too.
We decided to do it when we learned of the need from sister Nirmila Massey who is head nurse in the labor and delivery department of the Government Hospital in Rishikesh and wife of the home group leader there. She told us that some families who came to the hospital were so poor that they had to bring their babies home in cement sacks!
Word of our quilt project inspired others in the US to donate many other items for the newborns. These were donated through Sheralie Broadbent, the wife of a fellow who works at the American Embassy. Using her diplomatic address, we received the following items: 303 receiving blankets, 265 articles of clothing and 37 machine made hats.
Donors included four groups of Young Women. One group in Henderson, NV hand made receiving blankets as did another group in Springville, UT. The latter came together to do it in honor of one of their leaders who recently lost a baby. Young Women in Austin, TX collected items as did YW in Bountiful, UT. The latter was done as a YW project.
There were a couple of other friends of Sheralie's who also sent items. One friend from Arizona included some beautiful heart notes made by her five year old. Sheralie's Aunt Karen Russell in Kennewick, WA made it a family project with the purpose of uniting family members. Her family's donations accounted for at least half of what we received.
Sheralie, who lost a baby boy at the end of 2017 said the project has given her closure. "At the beginning it was hard to have all these baby things around, but I think this project has given me closure." Her daughter Lucy, 12, is home schooled. She liked to come over and help with the quilts and make hats too.
Elder Ravi with baby hat he knit
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