Firstly I just want to say a huge THANK YOU!!!!! I am fully funded as of a couple weeks ago and my heart is so happy that you all have helped me learn and experience so much through your giving. I know that you have given out of love and obedience and I am praying the Lord blesses just as you have.
Nepal has been a crazy wild ride ya’ll and has been one of the best months so far. (Possibly the top) I just wanted to take a moment to share with ya’ll what kind of ride it has been and give you 25 reasons why Nepal is not for pansies.
1. To conserve water you gotta take a river bath
2. Tent life is the simplest I know
3. Hiking 4hrs to get to a mountain village is pretty hardcore
4. Grandmas can carry 100lbs of cement on their heads up a hill
5. Having a campfire burning/smoldering for 8 days is essential to warmth
5. If you want that fire you have to find a dried out tree trunk first
6. Electricity is not required for a good time
7. If you want meat in your diet you personally have to kill it
9. Burning toilet paper is necessary if you want a clean squaty potty area
10. Grandmas also have their noses’ pierced and at times stomachs exposed
11. To get to school you literally have to walk up a hill both ways
12. Our Nepalese family likes to throw in extra spices randomly into our food. Watch us burn our tongues off and laugh at us then give us a ton of juice and laugh some more
13. One outfit for a few months is good enough
14. Building anything, like a new room for a school, requires that you carry all supplies up the side of a mountain
15. Noodles, rice, and potatoes are the main food source and you will have a combination of them all throughout the day
16. Bananas and Puri are a special treat
17. You better not be afraid of the squaty potty or the woods for a toilet, otherwise you won’t be going
18. There is no heat in any building, ever. Not even in the winter folks. About 40 degrees at night
19. Nepali buses are no joke. We’ve passed about 5 vehicles at once at probably 50mph, while cars on the other side are driving at us. Get a little more aware of your surroundings when you step on them
20. Your water for laundry will smell like sulfur along with the bathing water
21. Any bagged chip also has a sulfur scent
22. If you need Internet you have to walk about 2 miles then take a bus 10 min then walk some more
23. Goats are now pets
24. It’s no big deal for Grandpa to hike 3hrs to preach at Church on Saturday
25. You filter water from the same spot cows take a bath, drink up!
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