This blog title means, "lesson 8." To be more accurate, we should have titled this post, "aath haptaa," which means "week 8." But we enjoy so many of the melodic alliterations in the Nepali language, we couldn't resist this one. It's official though, we've been in Tansen for two months now! We were thinking it would be nice to try and summarize how the experience has been thus far, but with EVERYTHING being new and different, putting into words the last 8 weeks seems an insurmountable task. So instead, we thought we'd give you a few examples of how God faithfully carries out His sanctifying work in our lives in the more "unexpected ways." We know He brought us out here for many reasons, and even though we may not see the fruit of His works at this moment, we trust that all of those reasons are for His glory and for our good.
the novelties of being in Nepal...
- Calmly removing large spiders, beetles, or other stinging insects from the home is now a daily routine
- Cooking rice without a rice cooker is actually easier than we thought
- Teaching Sunday School is now something we know how to do together
- Walking a mile to buy groceries or have a meal at a restaurant helps to decrease the guilt of having eaten too much
- Listening to the high-pitched "munchkin-land" voices of the kids out here has become our daily dose of laughter
- Talking about the functions of your GI system with others in the mission community no longer seems embarrassing, rather, quite entertaining
- Although we come from many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, as part of one Body of Christ, it's fascinating to see how the many differences come together in seemingly perfect unity for His glory!
Feeling loved and seeing how God answers your prayers is perhaps the most encouraging experience of all. Thank you and we praise God for you all!
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| a quiet afternoon |
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| the field just outside of the hospital compound where we go to listen to the children play in the evenings |
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| this is why Kim sees so many people with neck and back pain in Physio |
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| chores before school |
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| chores after school |
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| rangi-changi! |
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| Kim's personal favorite of Tom's photos thus far |
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| several weeks ago, we posted a photo of these boys looking at themselves in Tom's camera... this is what they saw! |
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| our apologies: we know these types of photos are not very pleasing for some of you to see, but we just can't get over how crazy amazing the critters out here in Nepal actually are (fortunately we met this character out on the trail and not in our bathroom!) |
Hahaha. Good think you can cook without a rice cooker-- we've had to do that in Mexico before (and once we accidentally smoked the rice b/c we weren't watching it closely-- it gave it a nice smokey flavor hahaha) =)
ReplyDeleteHi Tom/Kim. Glad you are surviving well. The pictures are amazing. Kim I agree the photo of the two schoolgirls holding hands is a great picture.
ReplyDeleteTake care. Hiroki