FRANTIC FAREWELLS
Summary (for those short on time to read the following magnificent epistle!!)
Arrived safely 1st of November. All our luggage has since arrived in good shape. Ulaan Baatar (UB) Team helping us to find our feet (no not literally!!!). Settling into our apartment and our new country. Visas have been approved for our first year(actually until next August). Trying to learn to deal with frustration of not knowing how to complete the simplest of tasks in new culture. We started language learning classes on Monday 14th November. Working at patiently waiting on God. Weather freezing and getting freezinger!!

PRAYER
We thank God for:
- encouraging support and fellowship as we left
- safe arrival
- our apartment
- the help from our team in UB
- approval of visas
- our home support team
We pray for:
- God’s help in settling into UB
- God’s enabling in trying to learn a new language
- power to live out and speak the good news of Jesus
- to locate a church family
- patience and trust to depend on Jesus as we learn how to serve him faithfully in Mongolia

THE LONG VERSION
OK, now for all of you still left reading after the summary The last month seemed a blur of busyness. We seemed to be either getting packed, tidying up our house to leave or trying to
catch up with family and friends. It was so good to contact a number of you before we left. Unfortunately we weren’t able to catch up with everyone. We are so thankful to all those who made our farewell service. To have so many from such a variety of connections gave us a real
sense of togetherness in the work of the gospel in Mongolia. Saying good bye for a while to our family was tough but we revelled in the love we have in Christ From good byes to
greetings. More precisely 
 We were met at the UB airport by Alison (originally from Sydney), Sarah, married to
Riki, who was tied up with his wrestling classes (originally from Melbourne) and Naraa – the team’s Mongolian master of serving ministries (more on these brothers and sisters in Christ in later letters). These folk have helped us get our apartment vaguely organised, get some basic furniture and appliances, stock up on food, get the phone, internet connections etc set up. We are discovering that without language the simplest things are incredibly difficult. This drives us to depend on our heavenly father and appreciate his provision of brothers and sisters in Christ.
We see our service at the moment in three areas: 
1) To work hard at our language classes to seek to learn as much of the language and
culture as we can. 
2) To seek out a church family where we can share in fellowship and service. 
3) To meet and learn from others to see where we can be of service to the work of
Jesus in Mongolia. We will be learning language at the Friends School (We hope this lives up to its name!!!).
This will involve 3 hours of lessons each day Monday to Friday. We are visiting a few churches to try to understand a little of church life in Mongolia – mind you its not easy listening to sermons where we recognise one word per 10 minutes and the sermon lasts for one and a quarter hours! We hope to gradually make contact with more and more local people. Our prayer is that God will open opportunities for us to open the word of God to share the good news of Jesus. We ask that you would pray for us as we seek to be of service to our saviour and to discharge the  responsibility you share in with us.

Love from David and Wendy 18 November 2005