Day Two!

Namaste!

Today has been so beyond amazing. 

We started out with a training about the evangelism and discipleship methods that we're using this week and were placed in our small groups to go out into the city. 

My team was assigned the Nepalese people group. I am so in love. This people group fits my heart beat. They're busy and loud, their door is always open, and their shoes are always off! The specific street that we went too today was filled with all Nepalese, who all knew each other. Children were running back and forth and everywhere. The scent of spicy foods occasionally drifted past on the beautiful breeze.  I was welcomed into 4 different homes(the longest visit last almost 2 hours!), with different members from my team at different times. I was blessed to participate in presenting the gospel with approximately 8 people, not including the children who were in and out at various times. These beautiful people were so open to the story of Jesus, they freely shared about their culture and religions, and just as easily listened as we told about our Most High God. No one accepted Christ as their Savior tonight, and the main reason for that was fear. So many of them wanted what we were sharing, I could see it in their eyes. However, they feel that their families will not agree with their decision and reject them. The majority of the people that we spoke with today agreed that we could return tomorrow or the next day to share more true stories about this Jesus from the Holy book with them!! Please pray for them, some of the names that stand out the most to me are Mon, Ash, Kamari, and Rita. Ash and Mon are grandparents that hold a significant key to three generations being receptive to receiving Christ as their Lord! Mon invited some of us to eat tonight(our teams divided into even smaller "sub-teams"). She fed us rice, yogurt that was more like sour cream, entire sardines and an insanely spicy vegetable mix. I bravely conquered my entire plate, including the spices that were making grown men sweat, and then was served seconds! Thankfully, a little while ago my lips finally stopped burning, haha. At the next house, where I got to share the gospel one-on-one with a girl my age name Rita, we were fed again! This time it very yummy pork, with soda and banana! Please please please pray for Rita, she was the only person who did not express fear at accepting Jesus as her Savior, but for some reason could not follow through with the sinners prayer. She understood the story perfectly and retold it to me several times using our evangicards(which I left with her and she said she was going to share with her family!). She understands and expressed a desire to follow Jesus. She asked me to come back tomorrow and tell her more about Him!

For some reason cupcakes keep coming back to my mind. I was recently teased(in a playful manner) by someone I work with at the pregnancy care center. She teased me for being OCD and said she pictured me being the kind of person who would move through a tight schedule with a client and not give them time to share their personal story(I'm actually the opposite, I love people and their stories). For whatever reason, her comment stuck in my head and I pondered it later. I realize that I am OCD to a certain extent, like when it comes to methodical things such as organizing brochures or baking 700 cupcakes. But when it comes to people, you can forget it. I just love them! Sure we might need to do a lesson, but making them feel loved and cared for, truly listening to their story is so much more important than making sure that the lesson doesn't run a little late. When it comes to people you can't be OCD or methodical because they aren't cupcakes, they don't all need the same thing. Every person needs love in a different way. But today I realized, ultimately when it comes down to it- just as cupcakes need their basic main ingredients to be considered cupcakes- all humans need Jesus. Sure they still can't be treated OCD methodical exactly like cupcakes, because each culture and gender and "braches" of people need to be loved differently. But when it really, truly comes down to the roots-They all need Jesus Christ more than anything. So here amongst these beautiful people, I have discovered a way to be methodical in a consantly varying format ;) 

Also please pray for my roommate Cassie as she has a nut allergy and accidentally ate something cooked in peanut oil earlier today! She seems to be much better now after resting but please still keep her in your prayers :)

Nothing but the blood of Jesus,

SaraKate