Nepal. We have finally made it to this beautiful land. Actully, beautiful might be an understatement, but never the less you get my drift. Mountains abound everywhere with such a breathtaking landscape. The people…I have not even been here that long but find them to be incredible!
As a squad we knew without a doubt that Satan did not want us in India, but we have seen first hand how much more he does not want us in Nepal. Get strapped in because we are about to go one crazy journey.
During the middle of our time in India, we found out that our 3 day train ride from Hydrabed, India to Kathmandu, Nepal was no longer in the playing cards for us. Our logistics and squad leaders were working feriously behind the scence to make things happen for us. No trains were available, direct flights were too far out of our budget, and the buses were too pricey. We knew without a doubt that we had been called to Nepal.
So we engaged in the next best thing…PRAYER.
Sure enough God is faithful and found us the means to get to Nepal. Praise Him!!
Beacuse we live on a budget, right, we spent the night in the airport. What an adventure that was! We had this entire area sectioned off for us with sleeping mats laid out. Since my flight didn’t get in until 10 pm we were a little hungry. Surprise, surprise, all the food was outside of the airport and once you left there was no coming back in. Well, trying to work our magic, Kels, Gina and I went up to sweet talk the guards. First guard was not budging so we decided to go to a different door and turn up our A-game. After a little sweet talking and 5 guards surrounding us, they let us go get food. Talk about the FAVOR of the Lord plus our mad skills!
Morning came and the rest of our squad had arrived. We loaded up the bus for what was to be a 12-15 hour drive from Dehli to Kathmandu, but then one big surprise came via Ryan. Of course it couldn’t be 15 hours, it had to be 33 hours on a bus. April fools on us! On top of that the border always shuts down at 8 p.m. so we’d have to wait until morning. Travel days…YES!!
When morning hit, we still had not reached the border. Who knows what was going on. I think our driver just decided to drive along it. Ha! Finally, we arrived at the border and switched out buses. All was going well until we got closer to our destination. The bus driver would not take us to our destination and all this chaos happened. So close, but yet so far. Fourty-five and a half hours later, the favor of the Lord showered down and we arrived at our hostel for the night.
