Goin to America...

Wow, how time fly's! It seems like just yesterday I arrived in India. I had the amazing opportunity to spend six months of my life in India, praise God! I can't begin to explain how much God has done in my life in the past six months! All I know is that I'm going home a different person and I am so thankful for that!

When people ask me what's India like, I don't have one precise answer to give. India is fast paced yet calm, India is polluted yet fresh, India is poor yet rich. That may make no sense at all, but that's what India is like.

I want to definitely come back here, I just don't know when. It's all in God's timing. I am beyond grateful for this opportunity in my life to have six months to live in another country and serve God with all that I am. As I already said, there is no way I can fully explain how God has changed me from the inside out. It has been a very LONG process to get where I am now in my walk with him and I know that I still have so much growing to do. Isn't it amazing that as Christ Followers, we never stop growing!? God is ALWAYS doing something in and through us, just as long as we are willing to be completely transparent to him.

I'm sorry that my last blog is so short, I just feel like no matter how much I write about my experience, I can not do it justice over the computer. But I would LOVE to talk to you about it when I come home. In fact, we leave for the airport tonight. I'll be in America Sunday afternoon.

Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support! See you soon!!!

Craft Day

Craft day has been going great! In my last blog, I totally forgot to mention how craft day has been going! My bad.

We had the kids make masks from paper plates and they loved it! Our original plan was to tie string around it, but the "string" turned out to tape. The boys thought the tape was just as good because they were taping all over themselves. A boy decided to put tape over his eyes and another boy made a beard out of tape and taped it to his chin.

Janna, Juliana, and myself made example masks. i drew a cat, Juliana drew a sun, and Janna made a chola. Yes, a chola. She said it was in my memory ( I was never a chola though. Well, maybe a little bit.ha)

The kids loved our examples and some started to copy the ones we made. I LOVE being around those kids. They make my day. Every time I'm at the school I grow closer and closer to them.

Happy Holi

Holi is a festival of color in which you basically throw/ rub powered color on people you know and don't know. It's wayyyyyy more fun than it sounds! We went to a friend's apartment complex to celebrate it with them (they're American) and we ended the day with Punjabi dancing :)

The day after, we went to the school and we were welcomed with Holi number two. Two girls covered me and Juliana with colored powder. My face was literally red. Haha

Today, we are going to our second wedding since we've been here and I get to wear my Saree again! I am so excited!

Only two more weeks until I'm going back to the states, and each day is going by faster and faster! Each day I'm treasuring it as it comes... I just don't want to leave. This has been my home for the last six months of my life and now I'm leaving and not sure when I can come back.

One prayer point that I would like you to pray for is one of the slums by the school. The owner of the land is forcing all the families to leave, which could force the children to stop coming to school because of how far they are moving. We are praying that they are able to stay in school and that their family is able to find a place nearby to stay. I just found all of this out yesterday and I was deeply affected by it. This school is the only source of education that these kids are receiving and I don't want to see them picking trash as a living. They not only sell trash as a living, but they also live in piles of trash.

I love these kids and I believe that God has a plan for each one. Please pray that their hunger for the Lord increases and that they would still be able to attend school on a daily basis instead of working with their parents going through trash.

Thank you so much for all of your continued prayers and support! See you all soon!