This is the Barahoka, a wholesale bazzar where we bought the food relief items. We spent $12,300 worth of clothing, shoes, boots, underwear, etc. for flood victims. The Barahoka is HUGE. 3 miles lon and hlf mile wide on both sides of the street. thousands of shops.

Snow in Almaty the last of March. It was so beautiful, but everone hated it so much. They thought spring had come. It reminded us of Idaho.

These 2 young men are return missionaries, Max and Demi from the branch. They served in Russia. Demi broke his arm just before coming home doing a karate chop.

The Almaty branch holds a sports day on Saturdays for a couple of hours. Rain or shine or "snow".

One morning we looked out our bedroom apt. window and there was alot of people gathered in the courtyard. We didn't know what was happening. We watched as people talked to the group and then we saw a man on a stretcher, we thought, then we realized it was a muslim funeral and this man wasn't going to be put in a coffin just put in the ground. There are around 12 apt. buildings that surround the courtyard and this man lived in one of the buildings.

Almaty from the 15 floor of another missionaries apt. See the beautiful mountains.

President Woolley-mission president, Lena- convert of 6 months very sweet, one of our favorite people in the branch, and Jack(name tag) only in Almaty.