Nepal is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful countries I’ve ever been to. The landscape and the people are incredible. It gets pretty chilly here-which is a nice change from the other eight countries we’ve sweat through. Here’s the view off of our roof:
Our ministry this month is working with a children’s home. Only 2% of the population claims to be Christian in Nepal; as Hinduism, Buddhism, and various other religions are practiced. This home is for orphans, for children who are seeking refuge, and even for children that are Christians and are facing persecution from their Hindu families. We’ve been teaching in schools as well. Honestly, I haven’t done much ministry outside of the squad due to sickness and squad circumstances that have arisen…but it’s still been amazing.
One day this week, however, Andrew and JD decided we needed to think out of the box, so we had an “ATL” day (Ask the Lord). We prayed for a little bit and they gave us random piece of paper that had tasks on them and 100 rupees (a little over $1). Cassie and I were chosen as partners, so we set out. I had a vision of a wheel and a yellow t-shirt. Cassie said she heard the Lord say the color red. So we set out. Our first little piece of paper said “Enjoy God’s creation.” So we stopped and looked out over the valley. We saw some cute little houses, so we went down into the valley.
As we were walking, we stopped at a house and knocked. A guy with a yellow t-shirt (right?) came out. He invited us in and we met his brother wearing a red t-shirt (right?). We got to talking about Christianity and Jesus and just random stuff in general. They said they believed in Jesus, along with 330 million other Hindu gods and also practice Buddhism. They also told us that they had a paralyzed grandma next door. So we go next door and meet this elderly lady in a wheel chair (there’s my wheel vision). She’s hilarious. She speaks no English but continually rambles in Nepali at us. She just keeps cracking up. She has a huge gold flower pierced into her nose that must be the size of a nickel and she has finishes a smoke in record time. Her grandsons tell us a little bit about her. She’s in her 60’s and a chain smoker, was paralyzed in some sort of accident and was just weathered. I couldn’t believe how young she was and how the years had aged her. Made me think of my grandmas and how they’re still so beautiful at their age J. Anyway, so we just start praying for her and speaking Jesus’ name over her. She wasn’t healed that day, but I think we definitely made her day and she definitely made ours. After a lot of laughter and a lot of prayer, we left with full hearts.
On the way back, we opened another slip of paper and it said to share our testimony with a white person. There aren’t many white people around here besides us, but Cass is actually native and from an indigenous community in Canada- so she shared parts of her testimony with me that I’d never heard, so that made my day even more complete. Definitely a success.
