Coal was delivered to one of our adopted grandmothers . The first time we delivered to her she was so very upset that she had to be helped by a foreigner. She felt embarrassed that she was Kyrgyz and that she did not have any Kyrgyz family helping her. Trying to distract her , I got out my phone and started showing her pictures of my family .. She was suddenly overjoyed when she saw my grand children and that my son in laws are Kyrgyz . She then started almost giggling and said " You are not a foreigner , You are Kyrgyz family coming back to help". Now here is a funny thing, the one she thought was most Kyrgyz was Benjamin hahah 
Since then she has adopted us at the farm. she calls regularly to make sure everyone is ok and she makes bread and treats for the boys if she knows that we are coming through. For her, we are her family!
With the days getting shorter , the little mountain school house was happy when our guys went up and installed some good lighting in the class rooms. 
"Look at this monster we found in the garden " that was the message that came with this next picture .. I am fairly sure that they are referring to the zucchini, but it is entirely possible that they were talking about Vlad.
We were able to send coal money today , so we will be back at the coal deliveries again soon . We still have a huge wait list of families and orphanages needing coal so please keep the donations coming.
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