Miss Christina made biscuits, sausage gravy, and boiled eggs for breakfast 😍. I set the table with extra care, pulling out the fall scented candle from Laura that had been sent in my birthday box earlier this year✨ The girls did a really good job on the cards they made him🥰
A nice little crowd of about 15 children at Choygoria. We are hearing of another S.S. taking place at the same time on Fri. at a nearby location.. Kobid mentioned Chinese, Japanese, and Hill Tract people maybe are the ones conducting.?.. And our rickshaw van driver, Nee-tie, let us know there would be no S.S. at Chakrakhali.. the family is on vacation in Cox’s Bazar. At the end of S.S. Kobid led the children in 🎶“Happy Birthday to Brother Lonnie”🎶 and Lonnie handed out meeshti balls.
Back at the house, Lonnie caught rickshaw van to Neeconjo to treat his (mostly Muslim)friends there, with meeshti balls. He reports that they were ready for a party and one heads off to buy Sprite, another starts inviting the passersby in… Lonnie finally had to ask him.. are these “your friends or my friends?” as he had only bought about 60 originally.
Beef tenderloin from Dhaka to make our own filet mignon… Lonnie had to grill his own birthday steak…lettuce salad and baked potato for sides, flan for dessert (his choice). At 3:00 Lonnie caught rickshaw van to Chakrakhali for more meeshti balls.
4:00 service… Pastor James came again and also to our place with everybody after church. Bro Liton had been informed on his rickshaw van ride to church they(the van drivers) had already been treated to mishti balls for Lonnie’s birthday! Kobid laughingly translated for the rest of us later that Liton confessed that it was hurtful to have the van driver tell him that he’d had meeshti ball already from his(Liton’s) very own “Brother” before he(Liton) knew anything about it😅🙃
Sweet tea, popcorn, apples, and oranges, were served with the meeshti balls and we enjoyed an evening of conversation and discussion.
After they all left, Lonnie went down the road the other direction to treat his mostly Hindu friends. He was a bit more strategic about it tonight after his learning experience this morning.🙃
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