God knows how to bless His children so well. He gives us things that we don’t realize we needed until He gifts us with it. God gifted me so well this month. He gave me a family away from home. He gave me an ama, Megh, and Subash. I now call my teammates my sisters. Sisters don’t get a long all the time, they all don’t share the same personality, and they all have something different to bring to the family. The great thing is though that we know what each other needs so we can give it to them without anyone saying a word.
Ama, means mother in Nepalese, doesn’t know English but loves to laugh with us, even more at us. She gives me so much joy whenever I am around her. On Thanksgiving, she said she was thankful to have a house full of daughters. She calls us her daughters and I hate to be away from her. Megh is our contact for the month and has loved on us so well. We instantly bonded. There wasn’t a specific moment or time, it just happened. It’s crazy how close you get to someone when you know you only have a limited amount of time with them. Megh tried more than me at first but I chose to accept him as my Nepalese papa.
God knows how much I want my relationship with my family to be more than just people who lived in the same house growing up and shares the same last name. He knew I wanted conversations to happen with different family members even though I am across the world. He knew I want healing for my family. He knows I want to have a legit conversation with my father. Megh and I had a staring contest without voicing it last night. I am so comfortable with this family. Subash, my Nepalese brother, is 20 and acts just like a brother. He can drive us crazy sometimes with his music ADD but he can also bless us with him leading worship for the youth after church on Saturdays. He’ll be goofy then he can turn serious within a minute. He loves playing Paul who is kitten that he brought home last month. We love Paul even if his meows drove us crazy in the morning and he wouldn’t leave us alone to do our Jesus time or workout.
He has been hanging out at the church for the last week because there has been work on an addition to Megh’s house so that more world race teams can come. We are staying in Subash’s room right now which means Subash sleeps at his cousin’s house. The addition will pretty much be a whole another house. It will have a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom/shower, and a living room. A former world racer raised money so that Megh could buy a water heater so that future racers can take hot showers. He also is working on getting wifi even though there are internet places within 5 minute walk of his house.
We leave tomorrow and I haven’t really processed that fact. I know I have been effective with the ministries I have been involved with the last three months but the impact that happened within me has been huge. God has been showing, teaching, and letting me change through breaking me of my pride and the hurts that I have held onto. I haven’t let go of everything but I am letting God work in me and chisel away the things that aren’t of Him.
Megh calls me Ellie and it doesn’t bother me. Then again, the only name that would bother me would be Beth. But that is just because I wouldn’t respond because I am so used to hearing the letter “E” in any name that someone decides to call me. Well other than “Lizard” in fourth grade but I don’t think that really counts. For the past few years, I have been called just “E” which works for me. I loved it actually. There are always too many Elizabeth’s so anything that resembled it was fine by me. No one has chosen to call me Ellie before. I absolutely love the name. It’s elegant, graceful, and freeing. I have been learning to let go of the past and live in freedom. I feel like there is significance but I am not sure what.
I am working on a newsletter to update y’all on the ministries that I have been involved in the past three months. Sorry that I hardly talk about them on here. I will to try having one at the end of each month from now on. I feel like we haven’t really done that much this month but I know we have. We helped fold tracts, we handed out tracts, we went to two schools where we talked freely about God, we went to a Buddhist monastery, and helped stack bricks that will be used to build the addition. They have the outer walls done and I think they are putting the roof on today. I’ll share more in the newsletter.
Changes are coming up soon. We are having a mini debrief in a few days where at least two new squad leaders will be chosen, teams will change, and at least one logistics person will be chosen. We are meeting on December 3rd and will be probably leave for India on December 5th. I don’t know if we will be traveling by plane, train, or bus from Nepal to India but we probably will travel in all three of those sometime on travel day.
SUPPORT UPDATE: I have met the December 1st deadline. THANK YOU SO MUCH Memaw for what you have given. God give her back what she has given plus more. I am not fully funded though. I still need $4,300 by March 1st. Prayer is important so declare in your prayers that I will be fully funded by the New Year. That would be the best Christmas present ever. If you feel led to give, please click the Support Me tap on the left side of this page.
PRAYER REQUESTS:
-Continued unity within RADIANT
-Continued unity within A squad
-Peace about the changes coming up
-That everyone meets their support deadlines
-our health
-For Daniela, one of my squad mates. Her sister died last month. For God to give her strength through this time. She is meeting back up with on December 6th in India so pray for her travels on the way here.
-Burton, another squad mate. His grandmother is really sick and he has decided to go home to help his family.
-Christmas is going to be hard for all of us. We want to choose into our WR family and whoever else that we are living with. Pray that we will do that since we can’t be with our families back home.
