1. everywhere we go, people want to hear the guitar and singing. the american style music is so different to them. its great, because i just use the opportunity to intercede and worship, and it changes the spiritual climate, usually unknowingly for our audiences.
2. 21 awesome kids with all the potential in the world, taken off the streets or given into care by parents with AIDS who can no longer take care of them. anand and others are doing an amazing thing through this children's home. J is moving and providing so incredibly. they were keeping the home in a rental house until the final location could be built, got kicked out a few weeks ago, are now being juggled around with different families, and tomorrow we go to the village where their permanent will be completed, hopefully within a month, to prepare its completiong and arrange their transportation there. anand and other teachers envision it being a home and a school, as the village is way out there and currently has no schooling for any of its people
3. 3 weddings in 4 days. lots of food, small talk, awkward moments, and going with the flow. we're building relationships, all while getting stared at like we're wedding crashers. they were all so different: one was a big nice expensive wedding with hundreds of people, the other a tribal wedding in a remote village. love it
4. Salman Khan, Indian film star. apparently I look like him, according to the kids on our street. look him up and you be the judge
5. pray for M (we'll call him this for now). before J sends out his 12 in Matthew, he tells them they'll be dragged before kings. while we have yet to be literally dragged, we have been blessed with the opportunity to be on a kings court in a sense. he is a local political party leader, real estate king, and generous friend who has taken us into his house. he's currently hindu, but God has been working in his life,. and i liken our situation to Daniel's (or Shad, Mesh, and Abed.'s). we have been blessed with amazing nutrition (not as much the case last time), and have met others "kings" of the area.
6. rest. or lack thereof. we're going to be exhausted wtih a bunch of traveling, and the village we're about to go to for almost a week has no clean water, so we'll be bringing it from a city 3 hrs down the road. interesting.
7. dirty. we're just used to it. we're going to be dirty, pollution, sweat, rain, walking through mud, going now to a village with not a single bathroom (we'll be using the fields). its kinda like soccer camp with no bathrooms.
8. perseverance. pray for it. we realized that we just now reached halfway point. the most difficult, but also the fruition of so much, has yet to come.
9. every day is such a different adventure. two weddings this day. going to visit a guys tae kwon do academy that day, working with the kids the next day, prayer in a prayer tower, going to a farm yesterday. we've been blessed with variety, but its easy to ask, "what's the point?". i'm glad we don't have to see what He's doing to know that its happening. we have become fools for C's sake. i'm okay with that. it makes no sense, but He is doing some awesome things.
10. More. we're going house to house in a place that's never heard for the next few days. probably never seen westerners actually. petition for us to be able to pour out
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