…living next door to water buffalo
…preaching the Gospel door to door in rural villages
…living at a church/pastor's house
…trying to tent on the unfinished second floor (no roof) but having to bring my tent down in a hurry when it started to rain (can't repeat those Haiti floods)
…HEAT
…monsoon season
…spicy Indian food
…sharing the name of Jesus with people who were hearing of Him for the first time
…cows everywhere, and I do mean EVERYWHERE
…squatty potties and bucket showers
…being shown immense amounts of hospitality
…a monkey problem
…tooooooooooooooo many flies
…tuk tuks (golf cart meets go cart taxi things)
…way too many close calls on the road
…men in skirts
…beautiful sarees on all the women
…all the women looking like beautiful princesses all the time because of how they dress
…henna
…babies in a lot of makeup
…sharing my testimony in front of over 150 people at once, over a loudspeaker to an entire village, and to hundreds of people throughout the month
…one vomit away from having the visit the hospital after almost a week of being really sick
…learning to share the Gospel, a story from the Bible, or my testimony at the drop of a hat
…watching snippets of the Olympics from random houses in random villages
…getting to cheer on the the USA basketball team as they beat Spain
…seeing God work in ways that I had never seen before
…visiting a village that I affectionately named "Farmville" because of the immense amounts of water buffalo, cows, chickens, goats, and dogs everywhere. twice we had to move off of the road to allow herds to pass
…refinement
…a bat that flew into our room almost every night that I swear wanted to give me rabies
…kissing the smallest baby I have ever seen (probably 2.5 or 3 pounds)
…visiting and praying over people at the local hospital– worst conditions I've ever seen. people laying outside on cots and mats, needles littering the floor, and IV bags hanging from trees
…praying/blessing an Indian couple during their wedding
…a pedicure where the fish ate the dead skin off my feat
…a fun night out with the girls at Hard Rock Cafe- Hyderabad
…a live rat swimming in the toilet at debrief
…seeing Indians more and more through the eyes of Christ
