After 20 hours of travel, we arrived in myanmar Saturday morning and settled in to our new home. My team and another team, Ecclesia, are staying in what used to be the boys home at our ministry, a little house with 2 bedrooms, a living area, and an outdoor kitchen. There’s bunk beds in our home, unfortunately they lack actual mattresses, so we’re all sleeping on our sleeping pads, half of us on the ground. We have a pot and a pan to cook our meals over one little gas stove, which is usually eggs for breakfast (& sometimes avocado toast if we’re lucky), ramen for lunch, & fried rice for dinner. Shoutout to Camille for being our personal chef, couldn’t do it without you. Behind our house, we have 2 squatty potties, they take some getting used to but really they make life a lot easier, and a bucket shower, that we fill up with water from the pila, where we also wash our dishes.
Monday through Friday, we teach english from 9-3, starting with a half hour chapel, and we end the night with devos at 6. Saturday’s, we teach english to the orphans, and Sunday, we have a church service in the morning and the evening. We preach every day, twice a day.
Life in the village is so simple and so easy. Our days look the same every single day. We do the same things, eat the same food, and talk to the same people. There’s so much beauty in the lives they live, simply existing to serve the Lord and build Kingdom. The beauty this place radiates, it’s so indescribable. What a privilege.
