Punjab!

Wow Punjab is so much nicer than Delhi! it has less cows, less trash, less slums, less traffic, it was over all just nicer, and we got to stay in a hotel with AC, i haven't felt AC since Switzerland. We were so busy this week. We would wake up at 7 and not get back to the hotel until 12am. This week we did a lot of church services, where we do dramas, give testimony, and preach.... i have already given 3 sermons since i have been here, and i use to hate to speak in front of people! we did alot of prayer this week too... because all the churches we went too were new churches, and most of the members use to be other religions but now they are Christians.

One night i will not forget we were at this church( and when i say church it was just a 4 walled room with rugs on the ground) but there was this girl who was SO So very skinny, but then she had a huge belly. At the end of church i talked to her, and i never really found out what here problem was, some said it was a growth and another said it was cancer, ( she wasn't pregnant, it was a different kind of big belly) Anyways she was so beautiful and only17 and she was going to die. The doctors said there was no cure and besides they were poor. I just sat there holding her hand( the skinniest hand i have ever felt) with tears running down my face, i wish i could have given her something to smile about i wish i could make her life the best until she dies....but that is when i realize that i can do nothing by myself but only God can, because i had to let go of her hand and go back to the hotel, but i know God is still holding her hand.

The last day in Punjab we went to the Golden temple which was pretty cool! Then we went to the Pakistan border which was really cool!!there was so many people there! and on one side people were shouting INDIA INDIA! and then on the other.. PAKISTAN PAKISTAN! it was pretty crazy....

Up Next: One more week in Delhi, i'm actually not even sure what kind of ministry we are doing yet... Then it is off to Calcutta for 3 weeks and working in mother Teresa's home!

2 weeks in Delhi

The first week of outreach was not the best... our ministry was to work in this coffee house and make relationships with the locals... only the problem was that all the students were taking exams that week so the coffee house was very very slow. And we would pass all these slums everyday and i would think why are we sitting in this nice coffee shop doing nothing when we could be helping a lot of people. So we had a team meeting because everyone felt the same way so thankfully the ministry was changed.

The second week, we taught at slum schools. The slums are so intense i know i will never get use to go in them. The schools are so fun! There are about60 kids in the smallest room and we teach them for 1 hour. We teach them some easy songs like head and shoulders and read them bible stories. So the second week was much better. But i also Got sick this week, it is not fun being sick, i think on outreach i might get sick a lot, just because of the heat and all the different food!

It is so crazy because there are so many different Gods . Walking only 2 minutes down the street we are staying on there are 4 temples! and the once a week the set up a temple right out side our house to worship their Hindu God through out the night! very loud and hard to sleep.