SEP 20, 19 .. A TALE OF THREE MEETINGS .. CHAPTER ONE

Last Friday, the 13th of September, a friend here in Ulaanbaatar who chairs an 8AM morning meeting asked me to 'chair' the meeting for the next three Fridays as he would be in China / Korea / Japan for a few weeks. He also arranged for a translator for me and a key to the meeting room in a local Community Center.

I said I would chair the meeting.

Yesterday I received a phone call from a lady (Hannah) I did not know. She asked me if I would indeed be 'chairing' the meeting. She said she would be bringing her sister Bunny.

I said yes I would be at the meeting. 

She replied that the two of them would be there. 

Now we are at today, Friday the 20th of September.

I was there at 7:35AM nice and early. For 'openers' I could not get into the building to get to the meeting room because the building itself was locked. 

At 7:55AM up raced my translator who told me that he had taken a new job, could not translate for me, and off he dashed.

At 8AM I tried the door to the building again. It was now open. In I walked, opened the meeting room door, turned on the lights, set out a few chairs and sat down. 

At 8:15AM a Mongolian lady came in and sat down. I called a bilingual Mongolian friend who told her we did not have a translator. At 8:20AM I put away our chairs, turned off the lights, shut and locked the door, and the two of us left.

I got home to my apartment about 8:30AM and my phone rang.

It was Hannah (the lady who'd called me yesterday) asking about the meeting and where I was.

I told her I was home and had no translator.

She said we didn't need a translator because both her sister and she speak English and in a pleading voice asked if I could possibly return and conduct a meeting for the two of them.

I said I would but it'd be about 20 minutes before I could return.

Hannah said that would be fine.

Back to the building I went. Hannah was outside waiting, came right up to me saying that her sister was on-the-way.

Into the building and downstairs to the meeting room we went, turned on the lights, set out chairs and I called Patti who had a great visit with Hannah. Her sister Bunny then appeared and Patti was also able to briefly chat with her.

At around 9AM we got going.  

For a full one hour the two of them got my 'A' game as if I was talking to an audience of 200 not just 2 shy and reserved Mongolian ladies.

We ended with the Serenity Prayer in English. The two of them said they'd be back next week.

Will they?

Does The Shadow Know?

I'll let you know in one week!

Smiles !