In Deep.

I am no spoiled brat and I'm use to things not being 5 star, but I could not help realising in what condition the country was. It was bad and seemed poor, but I was exited because this was Nepal ! We rested for a few days at a hostel where our leaders ,Louw and Mynette, spoke to some pastors because we had no set ministry point. Then things got spicy! One morning at the church we stayed at, we were unexpectedly asked to preach so I volunteered because who would want to preach unexpected? Anyway my translater struggled now and then, which left me feeling awkward, but at least I was suffering rather than someone else in the team. 

Oh! I spoke about us having authority over demons and that God told me to keep my eyes closed and ignore them as a taunt to the demons whom were attacking me in my sleep when I was young. I didn't know it while preaching, but the pastor said afterwards that the people were seeing demons and were being attacked spiritually. Many where afraid, but I guess not any more!

Then we took a very interesting "off road bus"...yes they call it that! And our destination was somewhere between mountains, now I shall spare you the neck breaking, bumpy details and just say, "No one could sleep without losing some blood!" 

The best part of Nepal was that how closer you would get to your destination, the fuller the bus would get! And there was always "enough space"... or so they believed while passengers were pressed up and smelling each others armpits. I was relieved when we reached our destination on the mountain so far away from the city that you could taste it in the air and see it in the stones. I am not lying, the stones had a really shiny side to them, anyway we helped the village people and did some physical labor.

 Then we moved back down from the mountains to the city and preached in many different churches. MANY DIFFRENT CHURCHES. Every person in the team at least preached twise or once and gave testimonies once, after this we lived in the church building with 40 other men from the church for a conference for the next 3 days... 

These 40 men have a culture of not really being quiet till late, and from 05:00am in the morning, they would start to wake up and speak while the white skins and Brazilian were dying of the lack of peace and quiet. The best for me was they randomly put on the lights and Austin hated that. I laughed everytime! I would agree that there were many challenges for us all in those days, especially when Louw had a stomach infection and Austin, Calvin and I had diarrhoea. It got worse as we came to the end of our time in Nepal...

Looking back at Nepal I would say... hahahaha I don't know... God rocks even when it sucks, something like that. 

I won't lie, I wanted to fly home a few times, but I tried to kill those thoughts. So it was a emotional Iraqi firework night, but one thing I can say, "God changed my insecurities over preaching." Because it went awesome for a change!