Tonight Eagle TV will be running a human interest story on our family. There is a huge problem of human trafficking here in Mongolia (as with most all 3rd world countries). About 4 years ago, after we had just arrived here, two girls ask to take their picture with our family, so we allowed them to. Then a few months later our language teachers and other Mongolians would tell us that they had ween our picture on television. Well, we had no idea what they were talking about, or how this could be. So it turns out that somehow a "nanny" agency got our picture and has been using it as an advertisement. They say we are a "european" family (everyone thinks we are German because of all the blonde) that has hired, and been very pleased with a Mongolian nanny.
ALL A LIE. So now the company has been contacted, confronted, and people are trying to get to the bottom of this lie and get them stopped. They are hiring girls under false pretenses and getting them out of the country to do, Lord only knows what. The people are so desperate to get out of the country, especially the young people. There is no industry here, very few good jobs, so the jobs that are available, are so heavily sought after there are many, many people seeking the same position. So, girls are being hired by this "nanny" service, that is operating under a complete lie, hoping for a chance to get ahead in life.
Today we are Praising God for our Isaac. December 3 will always remind me of fear. 3 years ago today our son was 7 weeks old and stopped breathing in my husbands arms. We spent 4 unbelievably horrific days in the Mongolian hospital with babies dying all around us, but God saw us through and got us to the best pediatric hospital in France. While in Paris it was confirmed that Isaac had RSV, a serious respiratory virus that can cause babies to stop breathing. He was on a ventilator for 13 days because while in the Mongolian hospital he contracted the psuedomonus bacteria in his lungs also. All the while God was watching over us and brought complete strangers to us to help us find things we needed and even a place to stay, in Paris, for free! God is SO good. He promises that He won't give us more than we can handle, and when we think it is too much, we only have to hold on to HIM. Isaac is such a delightful little boy who has brought so much joy and laughter into our lives, I am so thankful for him and can't wait to see what God has in store for him in his life. Here in this picture he is wearing Mr. Potatohead's teeth.
