Nepal was beautiful. The prettiest place we have been yet.
We traveled a lot this past month. After spending a couple days in Kathmandu we took a 15-hour bus ride to a village called Urlabari. We stayed there most of the month, our ministry was primarily there. We did manual labor and helped our contact build a orphanage. It was exhausting but so awesome to be part of the foundation of this new ministry. At first I wasn’t to fond of the manual labor part. But one day we prayed for the building, and I just kept thinking about how I may never come back to this place, I might never hear about this place again. But I got to pray and worship around and on this orphanage. I got the opportunity to help build a house for children who may never have had a stable home in their life. I got to pray over this building and all the future children who walk into it.
Please keep this orphanage in your prayers! They are still trying to raise the funds for the building to be fully paid for. Please keep our contact Reuben and his wife Rita in your prayers, he is following to plans God has for his life.
We also had some good adventures.
We traveled to a village where we would take jeeps 30 miles up mountains and it would take us around 6-7 hrs. But of coarse that wasn’t true. It took us 14 hrs to travel those 30 miles. It was so much fun though. We went through rivers, got stuck in mud many times, and broke an axel. At this village we showed the Jesus film twice.
Another week we hiked 3 ½ hrs through 14 river crossings and up hills to get to another village where our contact was building a school. There we did a huge assembly line in order to get the rocks up a huge hill and over to where the school was.
Coming onto the Race physical labor was one of the things I wasn’t looking forward to. I would rather love on some children, I would rather teach children English. I would rather do something that I love. But the Lord was teaching me a lot this month. He taught me a lot about myself. A lot of which I put myself down when I don’t think I can do something.
But as he reminded me many times while looking down at my feet where my tattoo is that says Philippians 4:13 that he WILL give me the strength to get up those hills, he will give me the strength when I’m dead tired. He will give me the strength when I need him.
‘The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.’ Psalm 23
The rest of the race I vow to not want something else. Not want another ministry, not want another host. But I will be content with what the Lord has planned for me each month.
