Library books just in time to welcome winter and water projects

Bethany just sent us photos of the kids who can not even wait until their librarian has the books catologed!  What fun!

This week we have visited two sites for potential water sites as well as a projected that was just completed which we can now close.

The second village we visited on Tuesday was Jeloboc/Piata, about 3000 people.  In the upper left corner of the mayor's office you see Hripsime, our translator and friend, on the left, a teacher at the school and the mayor Parascovia Negrutia on the right.  They took us near to the river and a hill and under the hill is an underground lake which supplies water for several villiages and the city of Orehi (Orehi has about 1,000,000 people).  The two large pipes on the left come out of the mountain and one takes water to all those people while the second comes out through the large pipe in the center of the pictures and feeds into the Nistru river.  The water storeage tank is for the villages of Jeloboc and Piata, over 800 homes.  It is in very poor condition.

We had a lot of snow the Tuesday night before we drove here and every brach of the trees were coated.  We felt encased in snow as we drove to Brezoaia.  Lidia, her son Andre and the foreman in charge of the water for the villiage walked with us to the tower so we could make certain all was finished.  The truck is what they used to deliver water before they had the tower.

  We have also helped the Baltis Elders move to a new building in which they will have their first meeting this Sunday. It is the same price for 4 times the space and a very nice location.  We have basically spent three days in the  car in quite cold weather.

Very nice selection of fish

This morning we went with the Kitchen's shopping at Metro which is similiar in some ways to Sam's or Costco..different in other ways!

We also picked up the Sister missionaries so we could pick up boots for Sister Hickman and for Sister McGovern.  The couple who make these shoes and boots are experts in their field and a kind and caring couple.

Although their shop is not heated they manage to make some beautiful shoes and boots here.  Sisters Schuld (in the red coat) and Hickman both got boots made and I got my second pair!  Sister Kitchen will pick up her's tomorrow so she will have them for Romania on Monday.  Our church has helped to buy some machines in this shop and we hope we can finish getting them heat very soon.  It is a joy to meet such intelligent, loving people such as Constantine and Irina.