Monday, April 13, 2009

The women in India are amazing. Their clothes are so bright and beautiful, and so many handsome men also. We are growing to love the members of the church so much. They are as beautiful on the inside as on the outside. Such kind, and loving souls. But we feel so sad for their lives. The majority of them have to work so hard they have absolutely no time for anything. We made a goal to visit all of the families in the Branch, but the only time that we can find the whole family home is at night and it is so scary to be out at night. If you are out past 10:00 pm the lorries (big cargo trucks) start rolling in to the city and that's a real nightmare we have heard. We tried to visit our Branch President but he said he never gets home until 11:00 pm, and his home is in a dangerous hard to find area. He spends all day on Saturday at the Church and Sunday also. I don't know when we will ever visit him. It seems just about everyone has the same problem. We wanted to start a family home evening for the Young Single Adults but the girls can't stay out after dark and the boys don't get off work until after dark. So it is so hard to get them together. No wonder very few marry within the Church. They just never get a chance to know each other or socialize together. Then the caste system is still very much alive and well in the Church. Our good little friend Dolly says she wants to marry a return missionary but when I suggest any of the return missionary boys she says she is of a lower caste so she won't marry them. She's a real beauty and a sweet sweet girl who would make any of them a good wife but there are such barriers. We hear more and more everyday of the complicated process it takes to get married. We are still trying to be match makers though. My good friends Lorna and Ken Jones would have so much fun here trying to match people up. The young people even hope that you will try to find someone for them. It's such an age old tradition to have an arranged marriage that they don't really understand how to go about finding a partner on their own.

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