Friday, June 13, 2008

Nepal


I am doing a TON better with my sleeping pattern. No longer am I falling asleep at 4 or 5am but now around 1am....so much better! Well the reason why my sleeping patterns were all off was because I was in Nepal for 3 1/2 weeks. It was the most amazing trip of a lifetime! I went with my school, Point Loma Nazarene University, which has one of (if not the best) short terms missions trip programs in the US. There were several teams of 10-15 people who went to different countries such as Ukraine, Dominica, Rwanda, India, Dominican Republic, Nepal, Bangladesh, Romania, Congo, Peru, Thailand, and Liberia. I had a team of 15 people, 13 students and 2 leaders. We all got along amazingly well the entire trip and God totally blessed our team. The 3 weeks consisted of building strong relationships with the Nepali people by teaching English classes, doing VBS with the children,team-building with the youth, leading Bible studies with families, preaching sermons in the churches, and encouraging the Nepali Nazarene pastors. .

We also got to go to Hindu and Buddhist temples with the pastors being our tour guides which made things really fun and interesting. Even though they usually try to stay away from the temples, it showed us how much they wanted us to experience Nepal and see all the beautiful temples and history.




I cant even explain to anyone how amazing the Lord is. He is the most important thing in my life and I felt so privileged to go across the world to share with people who my God is to me and to also encourage other believers. I learned A LOT of things on this trip but it was cool how I got to see how big the Lord truly is and how His love, grace, mercy, and power extends to the farthest parts of the world. God has NO bounds. How great is our God.
I praise the Lord for all of the EXTRAORDINARY Nepali youth leaders and pastors we met in our time there. I love them and miss them so much!!













I CANT WAIT TO GO BACK!

3 comments:

Can Bass 1 said...

The Lord does, indeed, provide us with so many wonders!

Monique said...

What an incredible experience! What a blessing.

andrew said...

We MUST catch up so I can hear more about Nepal.

Glad you had the opportunity, my friend.

Miss you much!

Much peace.