The Delhi District on CNN

CNN came to the Delhi 2nd branch to film a story about some of the Christian churches in Delhi.

Watch it while you can!

Aunt Cherie Moos

Uncle Mark & Aunt Cherie

Kids Make Toys of Everything

Grandpa, Graham & A Drill

Grandpa, Graham & A Drill


Drilling in Texas, Part 2

Stuck in the Delhi Airport

Here's the kids zonked out at 3:30 am when we finally arrived home to our house in Delhi, instead of America as we had hoped. Long story short is that we couldn't get on our plane because the weather was too hot for them to fly a full plane. We tried all sorts of options on for size in various lines and with various airlines from 8:45 pm to 2:45 am, but in the end we got tickets for the next night and went home to rest. We went home and slept till late morning, and then Rich took the kids swimming while I cleaned up and organized everything I hadn't had enough time to do before I thought we were leaving. Then we took a big nap and I went and got a manicure and pedicure (my fourth one in lifetime, and they've all been in India!) and then we tried again. Here's the boys in Target shortly after we finally arrived in America. Grandma took us to Target and we hardly knew what to do with ourselves with all those choices and carts and places to run around.

If you ever get stuck in the Delhi International Airport in the middle of the night, take a look at the big poster of the yoga lady doing yoga poses with the mountains as a backdrop (I intend to see some mountains in India someday soon . . .) and try to think calm thoughts. And then be sure that you bring some hilarious, enthusiastic, focused kids along to try out these yoga poses. Totally not my idea, but in around the second hour of standing in line past bedtime in the airport (around the time "I'm flying on an airplane to America and I'm gonna bring . . ." got boring), I turned around to see them trying out this pose. It took me a little while to figure out what they were doing!

Poor Graham was weirded out by the whole thing. Amazingly, he stayed awake almost the whole time while we stood in line, moved from line to line, talked to a ton of people who blew us off, got a flight through London and then couldn't get on because we didn't have some form that certified that I was crazy enough to fly alone with three small children! Mommy did more than her fair share of yelling, but by the end of the night, it was pretty hilarious, even to me.

Here's Isaac gallantly pulling the luggage cart loaded with three suitcases, three car seats, and three carry-on bags. By the end of the night around 2:30 am when we finally got tickets for the next night and headed home, he said, "Why don't things ever turn out the way we plan?"

Here's some of the 70 or so people who weren't able to board the flight to America because it was too hot to get everyone up and have enough fuel to get there. There were some very sad people who couldn't make their Disney vacations and get to work as planned. Next time I will listen to my husband and be the first one in line when I fly to America again!

Last Day of School

Isaac's teacher Mrs. Jain who is moving to American this summer, so we probably won't see her again. Jae Hyeok, Alina & Ye Ju.

Here's our latest and greatest new friends the Jordans. Chase, Michelle & Bryce. They moved to Delhi from SLC in February and are only staying until November, but we sure love them! Chase and Russell are best buddies, and Bryce thinks Isaac is the greatest. This is a photo from their birthday party. The monkey man came!

Sister Pritchett left India. So sad. We will truly miss her and her family at church. They did SO much for us and our kids to help us adjust to our new lives in India. Hopefully our paths will cross again somewhere.

Isaac will miss Mrs. Lemley so much. He gave her a big hug and told her with all of his heart how much he would miss this great KG teacher.

Graham sitting in the big chairs at Busy Bees next to Ellen and Ellie.

Russell wearing his cool look next to his favorite friend Ellen and Rose.

Spider Man riding his scooter down the tree-lined quiet lane at the British High Commission. Perhaps the thing we'll miss the most about Busy Bees.

Fun Facts about the New Delhi 1st Branch

After a year of being Branch President, it finally crossed my mind to ask the District President to see a map of our Branch boundaries. Thinking I would see a map of the west side of New Delhi, I was quite suprised to see something that looked like this:


So since my family is back in the USA and I am still here in India, I have some time on my hands and I quickly looked up a few facts about our branch. Since many of our readers are familiar with Utah, that state is used for comparison.

• Area of our branch: 232,945 square miles.
• Area of the state of Utah: 84,904 square miles

• Population of our branch: 239 million people
• Population of Utah : 2 million people
• Population of the United States : 300 million people
  

• Church members in our branch: 312
• Church members in Utah : 1, 425,000

• Membership ratio in our branch: 0.0001%
• Membership ratio in Utah : 71%

• Population density of our branch: 1,033 people per square mile
• Population density of Utah: 30 people per square mile
  

So if you want to be one in a million, come on down! There's plenty of people to meet (and they are close together)...