You know those times when things happen that are so ridiculous that you can’t do anything but shake your head in disbelief and laugh? Well, I had many of those moments this month. Of course a picture and description can quite do a situation like that justice but hopefully you’ll get a glimpse out of them!
I was so excited about the 50 seater bus we had booked for our 30 hour ride from India to Nepal for the 46 of our squad. Come to find out it only seats 45 and there’s not enough room for all our stuff underneath. We had to put about 10 packs inside and a few people were on the floor for the ride. Nothing you can do but make the best of it!
Cody and Steve were bored one day. They went for walk and came
back with 2 baby chicks that they named Cody and Steve!
Our shower behind the church consisted of some boards we propped up,
an old sleeping bag for a curtain and a watering can of cold water.
There were several nights we would wake up to ants crawling all over us. Thank goodness they didn’t bite so they didn’t do any harm but were more annoying than anything. One night they were worse than we had seen before. We stumbled around in the dark spraying Raid and moving our mats then laid back down in a cloud of Raid hoping we wouldn’t be poisoned but too tired to really do anything about it. The next morning we swept and ended up with a HUGE pile of dead ants. Gross!
Becca has wanted to ride a tandem bike for months and finally got her wish! We rode this bike to a house visit one day. She sat on the metal rack on the back- and we were on a bumpy gravel road. Ouch! But we were laughing so hard we could hardly go in a straight line!
Em and I went on a house visit with the Pastor one day
and got to wade through a creek to get there.
Fresh chicken anyone? Probably alive just twenty minutes ago!
Many times, we would go on house visits to share the Gospel. One day we were going to do this and our pastor had a thought: If we stood in the road, played guitar, and sang we would probably draw a huge crowd and then we could have a mass preaching. So we stood there and sang, trying not to laugh hysterically, thinking how ridiculous we looked singing in the middle of the road. And nobody came. But we got a lot of stares from people.
We bought some green tea and the package says it will cure aids and leukemia. Who knew?!
Pastor Philip would say the most random ridiculous things in complete seriousness while we tried desperately not to laugh.
-He calls any kind of physical activity “yoga” after he saw us doing yoga one day- this includes pulling weeds and carrying buckets of water.
-If you live in a/c your skin will be white and you will get blood cancer
-China is teaching all its monkeys to shoot guns
-If you eat spicy food, your skin will be brown
-If you eat spicy food and a snake bites you, the venom will travel slower through your body
-You can’t eat rice when you’re sick because you’ll get a fever
These stories are ones that I won't soon forget and will keep me laughing whenever I think of them!
