Greetings from Manipur everyone!! I am so sorry for not posting anything sooner, but God has been doing so much it has been hard for me to keep up with it all and post updates. We have had very limited wifi and I have been having trouble processing all that is going on around me. Team Restore Amore has been all over the area cleaning hospitals, running VBS, helping at health camps, and teaching, preaching, and leading worship at the local seminary (where we are also living). We all thought that we were coming to India to serve and to minister the gospel of Christ, and we have, but we are also learning how to rest and be served. At home I go go go and then go some more. There was never any time for rest. To work, home, ministry, ministry, and more ministry without any rest. Its no wonder I was sick when I got here! My body was so tired. Yes I was sick with what felt like a cold and I also sprained my knee on our last flight in India ( I blame those tiny seats on India Air). Even with sickness I was not willing to rest. I was so used to “goin hard for Jesus” that I never stopped to consider that my body was tired and that my ministry that first week should have been to rest so that when I was well I could go and serve. Why do we push ourselves to the limit? In my conversations with the locals here they all asked what the differences between Indian culture and American culture are, and my answer every time was that we work too much in America and we don’t rest. This month the Lord has taught us to rest. In our first week we did construction work and then at 3 pm we were all handed a mango drink and told to sit. So we sat, gulped down our mango drink and were ready for more work. There was more cement to mix and we were ready to be a blessing. The guys smiled and laughed and told us we were done for the day. I was a little upset. I mean, there was still some daylight left and we could work more, we weren’t tired yet! After all we didn’t feel like we had been a blessing yet, or at least I hadn’t. I have been in India for 3 weeks now and I have been blessed by the people here and the culture that they hold so dear to. I have been changed. The Morgan you knew a month ago is already chipping away and I am so thankful. Leaving this place is going to be so hard.
