where is noah’s ark, cookies and more :-)

Hello to all my favorite readers– it just blesses my socks off that yall keep up with me here. So today I was wondering as it rained and rained and rained (pani anchu) where noah’s ark was? I was about ready to hop on it.. heheh.. i hear you guys in tn want some of that rain. SO I stayed home for the most part of the day because I had several nepalee friends visit throughout the day.. and i hadn’t built my ark yet, and i lost my umbrella! 😉

Language lessons went well today. I am learning to write and read nepalee script– me and my cute old language teacher have a grand old time. He always laughs at me.. and I know when I do something good because he exhuberantly (as exhuberantly as a nepalee old man can) yells TICK with means ok in nepali.

so this week has been alot more calm. Busy but calm. Today was a great day! I started off this morning studying in God’s word about the power of God. God has made available to us HIS power. So why would we worry about anything. The same power that raised christ from the dead is available to me. Glory! power is a funny thing here. The electricity is in limited supply, so we have a strike on electricity every tuesday, wednesday, and monday night– no power for the evening until after 8:00. The power cannot be counted on for an unlimited supply. So often I try to do things in my own power.. Why (kina)? That supply is limited.. it’s going to go out– but I can plug into the power source that is like TVA — unlimited power you can count on (a plug for you daddy).

ok.. enough preaching. SO I stayed inside all day, but am learning to listen closely to the voice of the lord in what he wants me to do with each day. I felt led to go to the market a little later in the evening. I didn’t really need to, but I felt the voice of the lord saying go. So as I was walking out of the driveway i slipped in a big puddle of mud ( i realy need to learn to walk huh!) right into this nepalee girl. We started talking and she asked me if I was a christian. I said yes. She got so excited and said are you a “m”.. I said yes, and she said I want to be an “m”. She is 14, speaks perfect english and lives very close to me. We got to walk together and pray as i walked to the market– and we are going to try to meet again so I can do a bible study with her. How amazing is God.

My nepalee roomie and i have been getting along great. living with her is helping my language skills so much, and i am getting to love her more and more. I admit it was a difficult adjustment at first… it was hard to have someone staring at you all the time! It is an amazing discipleship oppertunity to live life together. Tonight we talked about her life– her family is not christian which is why she moved here near the church. She had to chose christ or her family. I’m so glad she’s apart of the family of God.

ok– last thing is this blog post.. I have to be prideful for a moment! ok.. so I am impressed wtih myself. I just made homemade sugar cookies. That’s exciting in and of itself because the sugar here in nepal is very weird.. and it’s impossible to get all the ingridients of recipes, so you kindof have to make it up. but the most amazing thing is I made them during the electricity stirke in the dark. Then when the electricity came back on, I cooked them and they looked beautiful in the toaster oven. Ok.. the first batch didn’t.. but the second was.. well.. amazing. SO.. just be impressed would you– and then pray for my pride to not come before another fall!

blessings