VILLAGE LIFE FACTS!!!
Yes, that is right. I live in a village about 8 hours south of the capital city, Kathmandu. We thought we were going 3 – 4 hours away, but it was 8 instead. Here are the details of our village.
-city name: Hapriu
– living with the other girls team in two different rooms
– have two out houses with squatty potties (ceramic toilets imbedded into the ground)
– have running water out of a house that is above my head in one of the stalls (TOTAL PLUS!!!)
– standard well pump outside the bathrooms for us to fill buckets to flush the toilets
– we stay at a school associated with the church we are working with
– we do ministry with the pastor whom we call "uncle" and who is our dad for the month
– We eat at the pastor and his son's house every day for four meals. 6:30 tea and biscuits, 9:30 breakfast,
2:00 snack and 5:30 dinner. ( I am loving 6:30 tea and fellowship first thing in the morning)
– Ministry thus far: walk to different villages and pray for current believers and new believers
– We walk anywhere from 1 to 3 hours a day in total to and from these villages.
– We don't have electricity 16 or 17 hours a day and don't always know when it will come and go. but we have
the beautiful sunshine when we need light. 🙂
– I look outside my window and see open fields and houses made of mud and straw and bricks. These people live off of the land
– I walk passed water buffalo, goats, chickens and dogs on a daily basis.
– We are invited into people's homes to pray for them.
– People who have so much less than us give us tea and biscuits and bread and honor us with chairs and fans when its hot.
I am absolutely loving all of this! This is why I came on the race. To really experience how people live and be apart of other cultures. I loved INdia, but so far, village life in Nepal is my favorite! Read other blogs to find out more about the spiritual aspects of this month thus far.
