"Normal" in Nepal
- It’s “normal” to walk two hours to ministry through rice fields
- It’s “normal” that every time we stop walking for a minute the people gather and ask who we are and why we are here. This is followed by the contact telling us they see you have a guitar and want to hear a song. Which we have decided kind of goes like this…
Contact “this group has brought a guitar, would you like to hear a song”
Group “we would love to hear a song”
Contact “these people see your guitar and would like to hear a song”
- Its “normal” to hear the students at the school next to us say “hello sister KayLynn” every time they catch a glimpse of you.
- It’s “normal” to eat rice every day for two meals.
- It’s “normal” to have a lizard climbing on the rafters above your bed.
- It’s “normal” to sleep in bug nets.
- It’s “normal” to put on a bug suit at night when heading to dinner so mosquitoes don’t eat you alive.
- It’s “normal” to learn how to ration things like toilet paper and peanut butter.
- It’s “normal” to be sitting at a meal and one person mention the oxen in the field right behind you at every meal.
- It’s “normal” to enjoy a shower that is just a hose with a nozzle in a squatty potty outhouse.
- It’s “normal” to think squatty potty’s are better than a toilet.
- It’s “normal” to have pigeon houses right next to where you eat every day.
- It’s “normal” to walk through villages to ministry thinking you are walking through a petting zoo
- It’s “normal” to wade through rivers to ministry
- It’s “normal” to drink chi tea every morning at 7:30
- It’s “normal” to eat pigeon
- It’s “normal” to ride a bus to ministry that is so full your backpack becomes a handle for one of the last ladies to get on the bus.
- It’s “normal” to live in a home that has a dirt floor and the whole thing is made out of bamboo.
- It’s “normal” for the electricity to be only on 20% of the day and 15% of that is at night while we are sleeping.
- It’s “normal” to go to bed at 8pm and wake up at 7:10 because it’s dark and there is nothing to do.
- It’s “normal” to enter a school and have the 200 students applaud your entrance and treat you like American celebrities.
- It’s “normal” to sing every time a group of people are around
- It’s “normal” to attend a church service where you sit on the floor for 3hrs girls on one side and guys on the other.
- It’s “normal” to hear animals making crazy sounds all night long
- It’s “normal” to greet people with the phrase “Jiamusi” if they are Christian and “Nomisdai” if they are not believers.
- It’s “normal” to see a child riding a cow down the road and baby goats playing in the road
- It’s “normal” to be offered tea, cookies, or sugar cane after visiting a home.
- It’s “normal” to see Nepalese people praising the Lord with their whole heart
- It’s “normal” for children to be singing children’s worship songs in their language.
- It’s “normal” to enter a village and people to say they don’t know who Jesus is or have heard very little about him.
- It’s “normal” to hand out tracks to people who are not believers and they eagerly accept them.
- It’s “normal” to pray for healing over people and see God’s kingdom show up and they are healed.
- It’s “normal” to fall in love with your contact family and see parts of your family in them.
- It’s “normal” that when you worship the Lord during team time at night the spirit shows up.
