The last 2 days have been jam packed. We have added 3 new players to the team, Mark Shulte, Jonah Long and Eric Carpenter, all who have played professionally. They have added a little excitement to the group as well as quality stories of past tours. We have visited 2 local churches, done 2 clinics, played some futsal with pastors, played in a game and ate some amazing food!
We dove into outreach after visiting a few churches on Sunday. About a 100 people showed up at a school field in te midst of new high rise construction. What a sight. THe workers on the rafters above even paused to take a glimpse at the white internationals in their silly outfits. What a great 1st event. Music in the backdrop, all the members of the tour involved with small groups. It was a great day in the sun. While they were their I asked to share our hope for football in Mongolia at the largest church in Mongolia. Well, the 4th service to about 20 people. And with only 20 minutes notice. I hope it went well because I don't remember a word I said! :)
Yesterday at clinic 2 we took over the training session of a top youth club in the area. I was given the charge of getting the session organized and turns out...I'm a fish out of water here. So new to the culture I wasn't ready for what was to be. The coach didn't show, the translator was on the phone most of the time and the kids...well let's say their idea of a training session was playing keep away and playing games. My hope was soon dashed and in the end they got what they wanted. A game between us and them. It was hard to get up for a game against 15 year olds but that soon changed after they scored a ripper on us! We then had to try and just barely pulled out the win!
Later that day we had a warm-up match against a local church men's team. The church represented was helping with hosting the week and they had been waiting for this for months. We took a ride out of town to a little school in the middle of a "projects". The field looked awesome. Brand new Field Turf inside a new fence and small complex. It was a small field 80x45 but looked like fun...well that was until we walked onto it. NO RUBBER DIRT. Yeah Field Turf with no rubber. It was like an ice rink! We slid around like ice hockey players wearing slippers. However it was good to learn the surface because today we play the defending Mongolian Champions. I hope the next blog has a good result to report.
We dove into outreach after visiting a few churches on Sunday. About a 100 people showed up at a school field in te midst of new high rise construction. What a sight. THe workers on the rafters above even paused to take a glimpse at the white internationals in their silly outfits. What a great 1st event. Music in the backdrop, all the members of the tour involved with small groups. It was a great day in the sun. While they were their I asked to share our hope for football in Mongolia at the largest church in Mongolia. Well, the 4th service to about 20 people. And with only 20 minutes notice. I hope it went well because I don't remember a word I said! :) 
Yesterday at clinic 2 we took over the training session of a top youth club in the area. I was given the charge of getting the session organized and turns out...I'm a fish out of water here. So new to the culture I wasn't ready for what was to be. The coach didn't show, the translator was on the phone most of the time and the kids...well let's say their idea of a training session was playing keep away and playing games. My hope was soon dashed and in the end they got what they wanted. A game between us and them. It was hard to get up for a game against 15 year olds but that soon changed after they scored a ripper on us! We then had to try and just barely pulled out the win!
Later that day we had a warm-up match against a local church men's team. The church represented was helping with hosting the week and they had been waiting for this for months. We took a ride out of town to a little school in the middle of a "projects". The field looked awesome. Brand new Field Turf inside a new fence and small complex. It was a small field 80x45 but looked like fun...well that was until we walked onto it. NO RUBBER DIRT. Yeah Field Turf with no rubber. It was like an ice rink! We slid around like ice hockey players wearing slippers. However it was good to learn the surface because today we play the defending Mongolian Champions. I hope the next blog has a good result to report. 
thank you for the update, you are all being prayed for mightily!!! prayers and blessings bobbi
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