Top moments from Rasuwa, Nepal; ______, Nepal; and Kathmandu, Nepal.
January 2016.
1. Living in an IDP camp in Rasuwa, Nepal.
Kathmandu, Nepal.
2. Traveling to three parts of Nepal and ministry looking completely different. Teaching vbs to children in the mountains, preaching, singing, being a drama team, loving on children who don’t get that love, helping build an orphanage, building the foundation to a school.
3. We went to a bull fight. Where the only thing between the bulls and the crowd was 30 feet, and a police officer with a stick. Thankfully, we didn’t see two bulls fight to the death!
4. Going on a four hour hike through the foothills of the Himalayas to get to a small village. We got to be apart of getting a motorized vehicle into the village for the first time. We saw a tractor get into the village. To leave the village, all it took was a two hour hike..where we crossed a river twelve different times. The water went just below my hips.
5. Going to the spa once a week, where you could get a hot shower and sit in the sauna for only $5. You had to time it out just right. (Nepal is on a power schedule because of the blockade at the India/Nepal Boarder. There is a big fuel crisis going on in Nepal right now.)
6. In one week this all happening. Sitting next to a beautiful river on HUGE rocks in the mountains. Sleeping in a tin church. Getting tea and signing autographs at the neighbors house down the street. Riding down a mountain in a sketchy bus. Having a campfire on the mountains. Hitching a ride on the back of a dump truck. Not showering for six days. Going to a bull fight. Sitting with strangers. Following strangers to their music ministry…and thinking this was the sketchiest world race thing that happened yet. Finding ministry opportunities in everyday situations. Getting excited when we see a group of other white people(in the middle of a small village). Worship. Singing. Dancing. Praying. Laughing.
7. Seventeen hour car rides with 11 people plus their stuff in a 8 person vehicle. Enduring the curves of a mountain road, police escorts, going to the bathroom on the side of the road during police blockades. (Over loaded buses with animals on top. Why yes, that is a goat on the roof.)
8. Experiencing a new coed team, learning to live life with different people. Being pushed out of my comfort zone, being challenged, stretched, encouraged, and loved in all new ways.
9. Paragliding over the foothills of the Himalayas. Feeling like I was a bird, flying so high in the sky.
10. Our host Reubens never ending jokes, pranks, and childlike fun.
11. Our Hindu taxi driver asked us if we were Christians. On our way home we had the opportunity to spread the love and words of Jesus. After we got out, we took two street boys that were begging for money to dinner. Every day is an opportunity to love and share Jesus with everyone. If that’s dinner, giving them a hug or smile, or sharing the word with them.
