These are the events of July 20 for team Tzadik 58!!
6:30 am – Wake up to the sun, horns, and voices….go to the squatty potty.
6:50 am – Get in the word while Christina and Derek work out on the roof.
7:45 am – Go to the well to fill up the bucket for my bucket shower. Emilee goes to the roadside stand with Abraham (our translator) to order breakfast.
7:50 am- Bucket shower.
8:15 am – Breakfast is delivered. We ordered an “egg thing” as we like to call it. Flour, rice ground up, and an egg in a large circle shape with onions. The correct term is dolse. It tastes similar to a rice pancake and an onion omelet. Mangoes and bananas are distributed throughout the team. Derek has mastered the art of cutting mangoes. I think it is a spiritual gift of us. We also had pomegranate. Delicious!
8:45 am – We begin Feedback. Feedback is something our team practices every day. We have a chance to say some positive and constructive feedback to each member of our team. The purpose of this is to promote growth, and call each other into greatness. Today we shared ways we wanted to see growth in ourselves, and then team members offered practical steps and examples of how we could grow. They also shared positive examples of seeing Christ in us in the last 24 hours.
11:00 am – Feedback is complete. Travel by bus for 35 minutes to internet cafe with Michael, Emilee, and Abraham to get some logistics taken care of.
11:35 am – Get to internet cafe
12:00 pm – Get my email sent out.
12:20 pm – Give up on getting anything else done, maybe internet will be faster tomorrow.
12:30 pm – Try yo buy mangos. They were way too ripe to last long but the man cut one up for us to try so we had to pay for it anyways.
12:40 pm – Buy almonds and cashews for the girls on the team.
12:50 pm – Buy 10 mangos for the team.
1:00 pm – Get in a rickshaw to head back.
1:15 pm – Rickshaw finally has about 13 people in it…not too much, but enough to leave.
1:50 pm – Return from town.
2:00 pm – We sit down to eat lunch. Lunch consists of fried rice, chipote, a chicken with yummy spice, and another “egg thing.” This egg dish is scrambled egg , onion, and spice all mixed together.
2:30 pm – We clean up lunch.
3:00 pm – We gather items and use the squatty one last time.
3:20 pm – Our Rick-Shaw is loaded up and we head out to our ministry site.
4:00 pm – We see a huge rock and the boys want to get out and climb. We make a quick stop and attempt to climb part of the rock. Long skirts can be rather constricting. The view is beautiful, and we decide to return on our day off.
4:20 pm – We have headed back in the rickshaw and spot monkeys, monkeys, and more monkeys! We get out to take some pictures.
4:45 pm – We arrive at a Hindu temple and get out. People begin to stream towards us and crowd around. Michael presents the Gospel message and we do a Zaccheus skit.
5:00 pm – We continue on our way to the village.
5:05 pm – We arrive at a predominately Hindu village and begin to present the gospel. We are asked to leave. (see previous blog)
5:20 pm – We arrive at a different village and share multiple skits, songs, testimony, and the Gospel message. Children and people are attentive and engaging. We are recorded by men on their cell phones.
We walk around the village and pray for healing for numerous people with back pain, leg pains, blindness, and much more. We are followed by many children who hold our hands and ask us, “How are you? I am fine. What is your name?”
6:10 pm – We get asked to pray over a three month old baby boy. This child looked 3 weeks early, due to being premature. He is a miracle to be alive. Typically, in this part of India, the parents wait 6 months to name their baby. We were asked by the mother to name her son. We named him David, in prayer that he would grow to be a man after God’s own heart.
6:30 pm – We are shown hospitality by a family and asked to sit on their beds as they serve us chai tea.
We pray for more people.
7:00 pm – We are invited into a third family’s home for mango juice and a fruit that looked like a small blueberry that contained a large seed inside.
7:17 pm – We are invited into another family’s home for some more chai tea. We go to many more houses, praying over people with fevers, praying for families to be restored, praying for children’s education. We prayed for a premature baby that was 8 days old.
8:00 pm – We are invited into the home of another family for coffee.
8:30 pm – We continue to walk through the village and pray for this one family. They asked us to pray for a list of people they had written down on a paper. After leaving their home, we quickly turned around to encourage the oldest son that God had great plans for his life. The second visit, we noticed an idol hanging in the doorway. We shared that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I am thankful to have teammates that are discerning. Going back to clarify Who we worship and pray to was much needed.
9:05 pm – Dinner served by a beautiful family in the village. Their hospitality is amazing! We took some Chapottes home in my purse for a breakfast treat.
10:00 pmish – We head for “home” in our Rick-Shaw.
10:30 pm – potty break on the side of the mountain road.
11:00 pm – We arrive back to the church we are staying out.
11:30 pm – Bed time!
