Welcome to Nepal!
First of all we made it! We’re safe! We’re happy! We’re healthy! Praise the Lord! ?????? day to day what my life looks like. Well we’re staying with a host family. The host’s name is a super sweet, super chill Nepali man. His home has 2 levels. His family stays upstairs, while we stay downstairs. He also pays for the schooling/college of 2 girls here in Nepal and in return they clean the house and cook our meals (we get 3 meals a day they’re delicious ??), their names are Shshirtee (Sardu), and Holy they’re sweet too. Deepak also has a son in college and a wife. In the house there’s a bathroom and 3 rooms. Will and Caden sleep in the room that we eat all of our meals in, 4 girls sleep in one room and 5 of us sleep in another. We’ve all got sleeping mats and sleeping bags and all is well. It’s winter in Nepal which doesn’t mean much until nighttime ?? during the day it’s tshirt and jacket weather. At night the houses don’t have heating so it’s freezing ?? I sleep in leggings, sweatpants, socks, a tank top, a tshirt, and a hoodie!?? but I sleep great because we have long busy days! 6-7am is our personal time with the Lord 7-7:50am we get ready for the day 7:50-8am is team prayer 8-8:30ish is breakfast and whatever ministry we have for the day start between 9 and 10. Whatever the ministry is usually involves taking a bus for an hour+ to the location. It’s great because we get to see so much of Nepal and meet so many different people on the busses ! You’d be surprised, people really like Americans, I think they think we’re funny looking?? we get lots of stares, people want to touch our hair, lots of people want to take pictures with us, it’s interesting. We usually get back home between 4-5pm dinner is at 6:30-7pm lights out at 10pm!
One thing I was most nervous about is the bucket showers. I’ve taken 2 so far and I think I’ve almost got it down lol. It’s exactly what it sounds like you get a bucket of water and you just pour it on yourself sparingly (India & Nepal are in a water crisis rn) and get some soap in the mix. It sounds rough but when you haven’t showered in a few days it feels heavenly ??????
What’s Nepal like you ask?!?! Well my best description…. a rough around the edges, dirtier, more heavily populated Chicago ?? honestly feels like home with a bit more dust. We wear masks everywhere because air pollution, but I think I’m used to it cause I don’t feel like my teammates feel ?? stray animals everywhere but they don’t mess with you. The monkeys literally run the streets. Literally got a banana peel snatched right out of our hands ??
There’s honestly so much I could write about. The long travel days, the ministry we’re doing, my team, what the Lord is teaching/showing me, etc. I went with the first thing that came to mind. If you wanna know more when I get home please ask! I’m gonna have lots of stories that I can’t possibly cover here without writing a novel every week.
But if you guys have questions feel free to comment and ask them or DM me and next time I get wifi I’ll get back with you! Maybe I’ll even make it a blog for everyone to read??
Thanks for sticking it out! Tune in next time to Raiven’s Random Recap??
Prayer Requests
- my mental health, I’m a sad boy. I told y’all before I came out here the depression was real??apparently that doesn’t just go away because you went and decided to give up 3 months of your life to serve the Lord, not even gone hold you up, lowkey might even exacerbate it ?? (spiritual warfare is real). So I’ve been feeling pretty rough, but yeah man just being honest with y’all cause the enemy loves when we keep secrets and feel shame. So like imma just put this here in the light so you lovely people can be praying for me and tell Satan to back off???
- Nepali people trapped in the worship of false gods. Long story short Hinduism is ingrained in the culture. It’s a family thing if your family is Hindu, you’re Hindu or you ain’t family. That’s tough. On top of that the gods they worship are demonic forces, we know the enemy can wreck havoc in the world, we know demons are real. It’s dark stuff they’re into and it’s our job to intercede on their behalf when they can’t because they’re still created in the image of God and He rejoices when His children come back to Him
