Why would you say that?

Yesterday we had a Mongolian friend come by.  She has been a Christian since 2005 and is really trying to follow Christ in her daily life.  She speaks some English, but it is pretty interesting how our conversations go from English to Mongolian and then back again.  Anyway, as she was leaving we were discussing some of the different sayings in Mongolian and also English that we always say, but don't really know where they originated.  Mongolians say "Going to the Salt" when they are going to sleep, I wanted to know where that came from.  Then she said, "Well, why would Americans say 'I am hungry enough to eat a horse'?  Just eat some horse!"  They eat horse here all the time, so that isn't an extreme hunger saying for them......It's all how you look at it.

My Worship service

Living in a foreign place that speaks a different language is really different.  It affects you in ways that you may never have expected.  Lack of a "real" church/worship service is something that really affected me.  Sitting in a service where all singing and speaking is in Mongolian, no English at all, I began to feel like a sponge that was slowly drying and shriveling up.  yes, personal devotions are wonderful, but not the same.  I have found a wonderful website with a great teacher that I truly enjoy learning from.  It is reviveourhearts.com and she is teaching a series now on God's Beautiful Design for Women, from Titus 2.  I have my own personal worship service, usually in  my kitchen where I spend at least 75% of my time,  she is stepping all over my toes about having our hearts and minds focused on God and how our attitude affects every aspect of our lives (ouch)

   SO check it out and get your toes stepped on TOO. 

Countryside Health Facts

Tony just came back from spending 2 weeks out in the countryside with some Mongolians from Eagle TV.  So while he was gone he learned a few interesting health facts that you might have never heard before.

   Wearing clothes to bed makes you colder, if you wear pajamas, you get goose bumps!  The guys kept asking Tony if he was alright because he was wearing pajama pants to bed.  (Yep, there are lots of funny things jumping around in my mind here, but I am just going to leave them alone)

   SO on the same vein, they also believe that wearing gloves makes your hands colder and hats, of course, make your head colder.  In defense of my own hat and glove wearing defense, I can't tell you how many Mongolian men I have seen with their ears completely or partially gone from frostbite.  I will just risk cold fingers and ears and keep wearing my gloves and hat.

   Anyway, another man told Tony he thought he knew why foreigners had more chest hair than Mongolians was because Foreigners shower more often, and the hair gets watered more!  Never mind the fact that I also shower every day......

   Speaking of bathing, Did you know that bathing too often gives you a cough.  It is preferable to bathe no more than once or twice a week.

   And NEVER drink cold drinks...  Drinking a drink containing ice is a sure fire way to have a sore throat. 

   Enough for now, don't want you to get too bogged down with all this health information, I will have to do this again to tell all the healthy benefits of camel urine and bear claws......bet you can't wait.