Our 3 Miracles: Day 5: Church, Dwarka, Park

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Day 5: Church, Dwarka, Park

Sunday morning, we headed to church in Dwarka. Because it was a bit of a drive, we opted to take two ubers instead of cramming into one.

A few pictures from the way to church. Notice that it is not necessary to drive in lanes even when traffic is light enough that you could easily do so.

Lots of people in this auto. It's amazing how many people can cram themselves in.

Church was nice. U gave the opening prayer in sacrament meeting. It was fast and testimony meeting. Most of the children bore their testimonies in English while most of the adults bore theirs in Hindi. The kids all went to Primary which was completely in English. It was combined for 2nd and 3rd hour. We were told that Megan did a great job answering questions during the lesson portion. U went to Sunday School and then Priesthood and Me went to Primary and then Young Women. That lesson was mostly English although they switched to Hindi a few times to help the girls understand better. It would definitely be tough learning the Gospel in a language besides your native one. I admire them for their ability to do it so well! (Grandma informed Me that since we weren't in Relief Society, it was probably completely in Hindi. I can understand why!) After church, President Vijay, the branch president, invited us to come into his office. He told us how much they love Grandma and Grandpa. Everybody definitely loves them!

With the YW.

With some of the branch members. We actually got a number of pictures as different people kept coming up and jumping in the photo.

After church, Grandma and Sarah headed home while the rest of us went to the metro station to go see some more of Dwarka (or the area that is in Dwarka branch where my parents work). Here we are at the metro.

Panoramic of metro station. It's very deserted; most the time the stations are much busier. Probably a combination of it being Sunday and it being Gandhi's birthday, which is a National Holiday.

A few views from the metro.

We got off at the Uttam Nagar East station. There's a really busy market that runs right under the metro. Here's the view from the station.

Here we are at street level. It was very busy with lots of noise and smells to assault the senses.

We got into an electric rickshaw to have a bit of a tour. There were benches on two sides so U, Matthew and Megan sat together on one side.

My dad and Me on the other.

We knew the kids were getting a little too comfortable with the lack of seatbelts when Matthew (our safety king) stood up while the rickshaw was moving. We also knew that we would need to "de-Indianize" Grandpa before he came back to the USA when he got out of the rickshaw in the middle of the road as it was going to turn right (equivalent of US left) to talk to the rickshaw driver, resulting in lanes of traffic in both directions having to go around us. This was a pretty big road--probably 3 drawn lanes so 4-5 lanes of cars each direction--so there was lots of honking (which there always is anyhow). Definitely something you wouldn't do in the US. Or most other places we've been.

While we were driving we saw a number of animals including some horses that looked like they were going to be in a parade and some cows.

Here's a group of 10 or so cows that came through a gate and walked straight into the road. Everyone just drives around them.

After crossing a busy road twice (frogger in real life, folks!), we finally met up with our uber. There was a cow right by it. They really are everywhere!