The mountains, pets, and post offices :-)

First of all I have to personally thank sandra rose again.. you are the best at encouraging me. I pray the Lord encourages you 100 fold for all you have done to encourage me since I have been here. I just got done watching the INN of sixth happiness that you sent me with my roommate and even though she is nepalee and didn’t understand it all we both cried through the whole thing. So thank so much. And tj and mama ellis and denise– i know the kids will love the stuff that you sent in the package 🙂

So I now know why my parents didn’t let me have pets. I am not very good with them apparently. For those of you that didn’t know, i inherited a dog and a cat with this house. Me and the cat have a love hate relationship. I like the dog but she stinks. 🙂 So the other day my didi (the lady that cleans my house.. there are perks here) said she needed to take my dog to the hospital because she wasn’t eating.. how sad is it that i didn’t notice. Then two days ago my cat came in and she looked like she had been electricuted. I was none to happy though because she put her and her dirty self all over my bed during the night. So the next day my didi told me she needed to go the hospital . (again who knew) She came back and apparently had almost died from food poisening from eating a poisened rat. hmm.. who knew? Then she disappeared for two days and then today reappeared with crazy looking wounds all over. hmmm…..

Ok.. and for the post office. I was so excited to get a package today and I must say here it is the most hilarous process. When you get a package you have to go to the main post office.. which frankly is the most scary looking place in nepal. They keep it very dimly lit and I just really wish I could take a picture of it and the process.. very nepalee. First you have to pass room 1-28 and find room 29. Then you try to talk in nepalee to the man at the counter, and he has you give a copy of your passport, sign yoru birthright away and thumbprints and toeprints (ok.. a slight exaggeration).. then you go to another room where there are about 15 men sitting around. You find one man and he signs your paper and you pay him a little money.. then you go back to the counter and sign something again.. adn then you go back to the room and a different man signs.. then back to the counter.. hehehe.. i am not sure why one man couldn’t do it all.. but it was just hilarious. I was laughing the whole time (inside of course) at how many different men could sign your paper. I really had no idea what was going on the whole time.. but I was just excited to get the package. It was hilarious!

So when I got home today from that, I was coming in my door and saw out of the corner of my eye the himilayan mtns. This is the first time of the season they have showed up because they have been covered by clouds. I cannot describe how you feel when you see these HUGE mtns (they make the smokies look like a small hill) come out from the clouds. It literally took my breath away. So I went on the roof and just looked and heard the Lord clearly say Psalms 121 I lift up my eyes to the hills from where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and hearth. He will not let your foot be moved, he who keeps you wil not slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper and your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep your life.

So remember today– lift your eyes to the hills.. The lord– the maker of those hills that are hopefully going to be changing colors soon… that is where your help and my help comes from if we will let it. .. or we can try on our own.. hmm