India was too good to me. If I were to give a word for India it would have to be hospitality. My team and I got the opportunity to go to different villages each night of ministry. We would show up anywhere between 5-6 and play with the kids for about an hour. After we would go house to house and pray (this was super powerful at times and healing was definitely happening). Then we would lead a church service. This would include 2 songs, 2 testimonies, and then a sermon. We would eat dinner afterwards which was always chapatti, mystery chicken meat and rice with curry. Many blogs said India was hard but I did not find that to be true. God showed me a lot of grace and helped me out a bunch. I had preached 2 times and they were my first two times! The first time I had to preach the power went out before the service and so we decided to eat dinner and see if the power would turn on. I was praying for a family and I said, “god maybe you want me to take another day to prepare my sermon and pray more about it.” Then all of a sudden, the power came on. He knew I was ready and he decided to use me right then. I ended up preaching and although I was nervous, I felt God hold my hand the whole time and lead me through the process. My 2nd time preaching went a little better and was more impactful I feel.
The only way to be fair to everyone who supports me is to show what I am struggling with personally and I feel like I haven’t been doing a lot of that. My mind is very cluttered. You can picture my mind to be 6 different movie screens going on simultaneously, all the time. I am a very visual person and so I imagine people and situations and just things that can happen. What I am getting with this is I have a hard time figuring out if God is talking to me, or if it is my own thoughts. If you feel led to pray for me I ask for clarity and also calmness in my quiet times. Also feel free to message me with something I can pray for, I have 8 months with God and no other worries so throw them at me!
Change of pace, there was a rat in our rooms while in India. When I mean this sucker was huge, I mean it. Picture a shoe size 13. That’s the size of this rat. It had ran around one of the girls rooms and then ended up getting the rat out, but not killing it. The rat then ran down the hall to MY room. I was with Elijah, Luke, Jackson and the rat ran around our stuff for about 15 min. After hitting the rat with shoes, and I threw a brick at it, it finally stopped moving and one of the people who live at the house (Babe) grabbed it by its tail. It was dripping from the mouth. NOW THE NEXT PART IS FUNNY AND WE ARE GONNA LAUGH ABOUT THIS A FEW MONTHS FROM NOW. Someone said to throw the rat into the girl’s room… so I grabbed the rat and did it. I threw it above the door frame and the whole room was silent for about 30 seconds. Then the screaming began. Apparently, the rat almost hit Maddie (sorry Maddie) and they opened the door to me and Jackson to get the rat out. As I was bending over to pick up the rat it jumped up and scurried away. I was terrified and Jackson beat the living CRAP out of the thing with his shoe whilst screaming. I forever have the vision of my teammate brutally beating a rat to death in my head and imp scarred….
I’m currently in Kathmandu, Nepal and imp astounded by the beauty. I got my first tattoo and plan on getting more (sorry mom). I am putting a lot of prayer and thought into what I want on my body for the rest of my life so I am being smart. Debrief in Nepal has been a time of rest and I love it. I can’t wait to start ministry and although I have been sharing the word with some on the street, I can’t wait to visit villages in these mountains.
Thank you to everyone for all the love and support. I am loving this with all my heart and can’t wait to keep sharing what’s going on in my life over these next 8 months!
p.s India has my heart and i plan on going back
