What a busy week! Tuesday Carls and their Family plus Trevor’s all came roaring into Dhaka. Life has not been the same since.❤️😍 Carl called Jared and said “Meet us at Pink City in Gulsan. CSI needs to move the Dhaka missionaries to a better place.” So that’s what we have been up to. We found two houses. We’ve already payed rent for one that will be the guesthouse and the other one that will hopefully be ours is “contract pending.” It’s a beautiful neighborhood. Quiet… no apartment buildings just two story houses. They all have small yards with real true green grass in them. The yards are fenced with a gated driveway. Both our houses will need quite abit of work in them to get them up to our American standards. The counters in the kitchen are quite low. I never thought I was tall person but wow! Those counters are made for midgets. This is quite common in Bengali houses and we can’t figure out why. The kitchens are not made for ovens either. Most Bengali women use a two burner stove top that sits on top of the counter. Also both our houses have hand washing sinks in the dining rooms. We are going to put a wall in part of the dining area to make the fourth bedroom. We are getting a teacher next year for Layton so now we will have plenty of space for a classroom and a teacher room.🥰 Pink City is considered a gated community. We had no idea such a neighborhood even existed in Dhaka. CSI has been wanting to move out of our current location for years but in a city like this trying to find a suitable house is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It appears as though God has shown us the needle! Trevor is talking with a contractor to see if he would be interested in the job of getting crews in to fix up both houses. In the meantime I am starting to go through our apartment to get things somewhat ready for moving. We have no projected moving date yet other than “before it gets hot again.” I was imaging that we would have a quiet boring winter but we are holding onto our hats! Life in the mission has a way of making a person flexible whether they want to be or not! We are sad to leave our friends in Siza Court but this move feels right. Pray that getting our two houses fixed up won’t cause the CSI men ulcers. no seriously… it’s not for the faint of heart. Trevors will come into Dhaka the end of the month and we will start the process of decluttering the guesthouse.
The weather is definitely cooler now! A tropical depression came swooping by Bangladesh so for two days it rained day and night. It was so nice! It cleared the smog significantly. Lately Dhaka has been in the top 3 worst air polluted cities. Sometimes the air looks like heavy fog.
Love to you all….
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