Eighty-Six Down, One to Go...
I had to go to my calendar and count to make sure I was accurate. Wow. It doesn't seem like it's been that long, and yet it does. This will be the second-to-last Mission Blog, so I'll try to make it worth reading! In another attempt to educate and amaze our young missionaries (as we ourselves have been educated and amazed), we decided to take them to Van Phuc Silk Village this week for p-day. It is an amazing place, but this being about the 5th time we've been, I'm sorry to say that I didn't take as many pictures as I normally do. This picture is of one of the many looms working away at creating the silk that the village is famous for. It was very interesting trying to describe to these missionaries what a punch-card was back in the day when Allen was in college and using them to create his computer programs. This picture is showing the punch- cards (on the left) that are telling this particular loom what pattern to make in the silk. These large spindles carr...