This Week On...My Life, My World: The Blog of a Girl Who is Currently in India

This week has been the hardest of the last three weeks. Our ministry was working with Mother Teresa Ministries. The girls of Eagle Eagle Condor went to Shanti Dan, a home for mentally disabled women and girls, while the guys worked with destitute and dying men. Shanti Dan was hard simply because they have a lot of people, but not many workers. If they had more workers, they might be able to work with the girls that have a lot of potential to be something great, but to the workers that are there, it's just a paying job to them. We had to get up a 5 every morning, because the Mother House is on the other side of town and we had to be there by 7. Then we head to Shanti Dan after the sisters at the Mother House lead us in prayer to Jesus, then because they are Catholic, there was the prayer to Mary. There is a song we sang after the prayers:
We have our hope in Jesus
We have our hope in Jesus
That all things will be well
That all things will be well
That all things will be well
In the Lord.

Sounds like it should be upbeat and joyful, right? Well, we all sound like a bunch of depressed freaks. Then we head out to our different houses.

I became especially attached to 4 girls, Josephine, Aasha, Maria, and Nilima. I got to feed Nilima pretty much every day except the last day. The other three girls are more independent and able to feed themselves and walk. The entire girls’ floor, which was where we were working, was amazing, simply because, the girls have so much joy.

We only did half days, but we were still beat by the time we got home.
The bus drivers become completely insane during the afternoon, so coming home on a crowded bus is fun. No sarcasm.
 
So far, I have bought some awesome stuff here. I got sari fabric, but I'm not getting a sari made, mostly because I don't really want to show off my not so attractive bare midriff. So I'm bringing it home and I'm going to make a dress out of it. I also bought a skirt, and bangles, and earrings. I also bought 5 tubes of henna, which they call mahindi. Despite the small amount that I bought, it will last forever. I've also had it done on my hands four times. I got it done today and on Thursday, on both hands and on both sides of my right hand. It's super cool and very pretty. I wanted to buy and anklet, but compared to the women over here, I have fat ankles. :)

Sunday, half the team leaves for Delhi and then on Monday, the other half. We are working with a guy called Greg Watts, and maybe some random dude that Aush met on the street called Moses. I don't have a lot of details, so I can't give you any.
 
This concludes this week’s episode of, My Life, My World: The Blog of a Girl Who is Currently in India.

Finally Current

This week was amazing. Eagle Strike went back to Santipar and once again we dropped the gospel like it was hot and we were totally hot sauce. We got 4 more salvations!

A little bit about Dora and Sanatan's ministry:

They run a small school for younger children who aren't allowed to go to public school because of age or money reasons. They also evangelize. They have endured the loss of family and friends, simply because they became Christians. They are an amazing couple.

I'm including Dora and Sanatan's adress so if you want to send them money or school supplies, you can.

Light of Hop Children's MInistry
9 NO-Shanti Park
Kolkata 700152
India

If you want to send them anything in a pakage, use a not so nice looking box, to help ensure that it will not be tampered with. If you want to send school supplies, such as books for younger children to aid in the learning of English, make sure they're nicer (new or gently used and up to date). If you want to send money, send cash, not a check, so that's it's easier for them to exchange it and use it. Also send it in a security envelope.

Also pray that Blessing will be able to get into a Christian school, here in Kolkata. Dora doesn't want her to go to a Hindu school, which most of the public schools here are. The administrators at the Christian school do not want to admit Blessing because it is already three weeks into the shcool year.

Sorry for the Interrrupt

Ok, so last week, I had to leave the Internet cafe, since the hour was up.

So Eagle Strike went to a village called Santipar. We worked with a lovely couple named Dora and Sanatan. The have to four year old daughter named Blessing. They are one of two Christian families in the village. We went on house visits where we dropped the gospel and we got a salvation out of it. So exciting!!!!!!

Week of 22 January, 2012

Finally caught up to this week.
We took a taxi ride from Birtamode to the border of Nepal and india. then a taxi ride t\froim the immigration office to the train station. Then a train to Kolkata. The train ride was long, but fun. the scenery was beautiful. I started reading my Bible from Gnensis on the train. We arrived in Kolkata at 3:20 am, but didn't get to the guestnouse until 5 am because the taxi drivers got lost, like, 50 times. Our first dinner here was Subway at South City Mall. It reminds me of Hong Kong. Then Amyjane and I got gelato. Amazingness. The next day the team split in half for ministry. Dinah, Sam, Aush, Kate and I are Eagle Strike and we went to a village that is all Hindu.

Week of 15 January, 2012

Again, a very busy week, with only one day of Internet access on which I was dying after a puke fest.

So, from Kathmandu, to Birtamod, Nepal, should only be a 15 hour bus ride. Ours was a 19 hour bus ride of death. The driver was speeding up and down mountains like the devil himself was on our tail. It brings a whole new meaning to "I saw my life flash before my eyes.' But as Dinah say, "My salvation is assured." After finally arriving in Birtamod, our host Zoell took us to the guest house. His wife Issa is super sweet. Their two kids, Ava and Avi are sweet too. Ava is a pro Uno player. The weather in Birtamod greatly differed from that of Kathmandu. Where Kathmandu was cold, Birtamod was pleasantly warm. Birtamod is smaller that Kathmandu and the people are more friendly. About the third day there. everyone got sick. There was a puke fest almost every night. I thought I was going to die. It was amazing.
There was a day when we went to a village, and it was hard no considering it an epic fail, because we were rejected so many times. But the first day, Kim, Dinah, Kate, and Lydia went out and 3 guys became Christians!
We did the Everything drama four times. I don't think many people understood it, but it was still a good crowd drawer.
Zoell's church had a youth day, which was fun. We did the drama, taught about hearing God's voice, and intercession. Then we just chilled with some of the people.

Week of 9 January, 2012

Sorry for not posting an update in so long. The week I am about to write about was very busy.

We were in Kathmandu, Nepal. We did a kid's camp for local kid's and about 60 kids showed up. We did some fun action songs, which were a big hit. The entire week there was a powerful presence of the Holy Spirit. 5 kids became Christians. In the evenings, when we went back to where we were staying (an apartment over the Way Cafe), we would have a team meeting, then have an amazing dinner. Amyjane an I started going into the kitchen at the Cafe and helping to clean the dishes, because India A was also staying there, so they had a lot of dishes to clean. The cooks were hilarious about it. At first they tried to make us leave, but we wouldn't let them push us out. When everything was done, they gave us wonderfully hot milk tea, which is delicious. Then Eagle Eagle Condor got to learn the Everything drama. (YouTube it). We, being an awesome team. learned it in one day. I got to be Death/ Depression. I got my creepy on. It was fun.

It may not seem like we did much, but after 3 weeks, it's kind of hard to remember a lot of details.

The First Days

So here I am in Kathmandu, Nepal. We beat jet lag in a day. Not much has happened in the five days we've been here, but next week, Team Eagle Eagle Condor is running a 3-day kids camp. Then we head to Chitwan, where we will be doing evangelism. Then on to India.
The girls on the team went out yesterday to buy our punjabis, which is the traditional Indian outfit for women. Don't confuse it with a sari, because they're different. Bing it. :) Then we went to the stupa, which is basically a temple with a market around it, to shop.
Today, we went to the stupa again and we did prayer walking and evangelism. There's a lot of Bhuddist influence here.
It was easy to slip back into the China habits. The roads are crazy. To cross, you just start walking, and act like you know what you're doing.
The food here is amazing. It makes me wonder why we can't have food like this in the States.

I still need about $1800 for the rest of my outreach fund. So be praying. If I don't get it, I will be sent home early.

Sorry I can't elaborate on much right now, but I can't really spend too much time on the internet, as we have on laptop for ten people. I'll try to have a new update once a week.