Part of my teams ministry in Nepal was to
go to 3 of the villages that Reuben helps. Let me just tell you that this was
no walk in the part.
The first village was about 12 hours from
the capital and we had to take a bus at 5 in the morning to get there. When we
finally got there we were all sick of being on the bus. This was because they
go 60mph around mountain turns and from time to time we had to stop because
another bus had crashed. Also once the bus gets over the mountains they like to
pick up as many people as they can. So, what I’m trying to say is that the bus
gets very crowded. Ok, now let me get back to the village. It was the first
time that the village had white people there so that should tell you what it
was like there. While there for the 2 days we got to baptize some of the
christians from the village church and Chelsea from my team got baptize as
well. It was such a blessing to be a part of this.
Next we traveled about 2 hours east to
get to our second village. At this village I met Diwash. He was 16 and reminded
me of my brother, William. I spent alot of time with Diwash. We would go down
to the river and swim just about everyday. Doing this was interesting because
the guys from the village Swam in either their underwear or just naked. At
first it was awkward because I had on a swim suit and I felt over dressed for
the occasion. When we weren’t swimming my team was helping to build a bathroom
for the church that the village was going to build. They wanted to build the
bathrooms first because the village doesn’t have one. The bathroom they do have
is a hole in the ground covered in wood that you stand on (enough said). It was
sad to leave because I got really close with Diwash and I had a lot of fun.
From there we had to hike for 5 hours to
our contact’s village. We were very tired after this but I wouldn’t have
changed it for anything. At the village we stayed with Reuben’s parents. Our
ministry here was to help the village get started building a school because the
kids had to hike 2 hours, through a river, to get to school. I don’t know the
actual number but let me just tell you that a lot of kids have died from trying
to cross the river and the current was to strong for them. We had to cross this
same river and the current was strong for us.
After we left from there we went to
another village where we did a service and got to see where our contact was
going to build an orphanage (more on this in the next blog). We left the next
day and got to spend some time in Kathmandu relaxing before we left for South
Africa.
This
was an amazing month and I cant wait to go back…
