600 christmas cookies, ok 635 plus a bunch of broken ones to be exact

Hey to my favorite readers in the whole world. well i had a really great post all written out for you and then my computer froze.. so I am at take two here. But I am not going to complain. In fact, I am going to take this moment and praise the Lord for modern technology. Because of modern technology I can keep up with people on the other side of the world that i love so much. So praise the Lord!
So yes.. you got it.. 635 christmas cookies.. that’s what I did yesterday. And before you get impressed.. in pride i want to say be more impressed.. i made most of them in the dark, with no electricity…. (Wait as i give myself a pat on the back and then repent for it!) yup. yesterday i was in the cooking making business. knee deep in 5 kg of sugar (which you had to pick the bugs and dirt out of ).. mixing 2 tbsponns of milk, 2 tsp of baking powder, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1/2 tsp of salt, 1 3/4 cup flower.. oh yeah and don’t forget the egg. .i. did a couple of times.. but when you are making that many cookies you use the batter anyway! We made about 50 others besides the 635, but those were eaten by us … because you can’t give out a ginerbread man with an amputated arm or leg, a christmas tree cut in half, an angel with a broken wing (wasn’t that a song once) or a broken heart! so if they broke.. we ate! yesterday for six hours i baked cookies.. and listened to cheesy christmas music. we made them for the christmas play to give out tommorow. I am so excited about the play and ask your prayers.. this is the first big evangelical event they have done like this.. and the people at the church took it seriously when i said invite non christians.. in fact so seriously several people asked me tonight (church members) if they could come even if they were christians.. hehehe.. so now we have the cookies packed in cute little bags, the children practiced on how to baa like a sheep, mary, jospehn and 2 year old jesus, a stable, and some really hilarous wise men… we are ready- just pray that God’s light and truth SHINE!
This week has been fun of christmas fun. Monday i had a christmas party for my discipleship girls. I love those ladies. It’s quite an interesting experience as most of them don’t speak english trying to teach.. but we have a blast and they are really opening up and bonding as a group. And everyweek a different hindu person has come. Praise God!
Then Tuesday we went christmas caroling with thte church.. it was an all day event. We went by bus, and it was supposed to be 30 minutes away– translate nepalee time.. 2 hours! WE went to a house and sang and it was so much fun.. i could actually read the script enough to sing along, which was exciting. There were many Hindu’s who came to hear. Then instead of cookies and cider, the family fed us beated rice and chicken intestine.. hmm.. ke garne (what to do). Then we went a couple more places.

Then tuesday of course was cooking all day!
Then tonight caroling again. We went to the orphanage and sang and danced with the kids. It was so much fun. I just love them. Then we went to the rooftop or our pastors house and sang for all teh neightbors under the stars around a fire. It was awesome! As we sang we wish you a merry christmas (the only english song they sing.. and it is hilarous their pronounsications) I realized that I was looking under the same stars in your sky (10 hours earlier of course) so as we sang, I sang it to you all (now doesn’t that sound like a cheesy hallmark christmas card) afterwards we had soup and danced.. i asked them if I was a good dancer and someone said, well it’s “different”.. hmmmm… different eh!

so it has been an awesome. I still have not bought one christmas present, yet, I am seeing the real reason for the seaon. To share the glorious light of the gospel of Christ.
ok.. i’m trying to post pics but it is not working.. so another time. .love you