Saturday, May 16, 2015

Our Muslim Best Friend

Jamal Iqtish, the head of United Muslim Relief in Jordan is a good man.  He loves LDS Charities and we love him.   He just got back from a trip to the United States where he visited Sharon Eubanks and spent a day in Salt Lake City.



We have partnered with him on many projects here in Jordan because he's honest, he has good connections and he loves and serves the poor with all his heart.  We also think he has a serious case of ADD which isn't a bad thing--he is always going a mile a minute.  He's the one who takes us to deliver food boxes to the refugees living outside of organized camps.

As soon as he returned from the United States he phoned to say he wanted to meet with us AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!  We told him we couldn't do it until next week, but he insisted that we meet sooner, so we went to Amman today.

It was a good meeting.

Jamal was very excited to tell us about his trip to Salt Lake and the meeting  with Sharon where they shared ideas for projects like underground cisterns for saving water,  agriculture projects, schools for refugees, food boxes, clothing, hygiene kits and help for hospital clinics.  There were enough ideas for projects to keep us busy for the rest of our mission.  We can't wait to get started.
 

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