First Week of Ministry

So this week has been a roller coaster week of ministry. We have gone four different villages and today we went to an orphanage. It has been a wonderful week! God has shown and taught me so much about His heart for the world and how He can even overcome huge language barriers.

This is a woman that I got to share Christ with a couple days ago at a village called Hill Top village. She spoke absolutuly no English so I had to communicate through a translator. She was very interested in what we had to share with her. She said that her people had never heard this news about this God who had created her and loved her without asking anything in return. She is 40 years old and a mother of 1 and grandmother of 2. She said she wanted to accept Christ, but it would cause so many problems with her family and it would make her husband angry. I prayed for her through the translator and then talked with her for a little while. She is a great example of how afraid the Nepali people are to accept this religion. It is truly a total lifestyle change for them in every way.

Yesterday we went to a village that Royal Servants has never been to before. It didn't start out as the most promising day because is started raining as soon as we got there. We had to sit in the shelter of one of the very common town temples for about 45minutes. When is stopped raining we went out in groups of 4 and 5 to pray over the village. Then we went out and invited everyone to see our performance. A huge crowd ended up coming out to see us perform. Then we had a lot of really good conversations afterward. People in this town had lots of questions and seemed very educated compared to places we have been to before.

This is a very sweet grandmother who stuck close with me for most of the time we were in this village. She couldn't understand anything I said but she was so honored that I wanted a picture with her. When she saw this picture of herself she laughed and smiled for almost 10 minutes. She was showing her grandchildren and friends the picture that she had with the "American girl"

I had a wonderful time at the orphanage today! Everyone there was so happy and wanted to show us everything about their home. This girl wanted to show us her bedroom and then all us girls ended up having an impromptu dance party which included a traditional Nepali dance, one of the stomp routines that Royal Servant's dance team does, and a country western jig. It was so much fun! The boys played outside with the futbol.

The girls at the orphanage all wanted to do our hair so we basically had a salon.

This is a girl who I met at the orphanage today. She is such a sweet girl and we hung out together most of the afternoon. She has been in the orphanage for about 13 years. We are going to email and write letters so I hope to keep this relationship going.