Friday June 29th
What a day. We got up Thursday 4:30 AM London time. Started with the flight hassles I described in London, flew to Mumbai. The night time portion was spent sitting in terminal rooms in Mumbai and arranging the changed flight to Katmandu. We got here after 11AM their time Friday. Raju was tied up at the Embassy applying for his student visa to come to Immanuel so was not at the airport. Probably 50 men are competing the moment you come out of the terminal to give you a ride, help you call whoever, carry your bags or whatever, and be your best buddy. The moment you are going somewhere they literally take the bags out of your hands to take them all to the taxi or whatever as if it is all part of the same service but then they all want a tip.
The phone # Matthew had for Raju was not working for some reason so we didn’t know where he was, where to go or how to contact anyone at all. Definitely kept things interesting. Praise the Lord He is able to cause Phillip and the Eunoch to cross paths even in the desert when they didn’t have cell phones. When he was done at the embassy, our calls to Raju’s cell went through and on we went.
I was shocked at the chaos everywhere: driving daredevil, no set lanes, no lights, few rules if any, on a busy very narrow road a man simply jerked right in front of traffic making a Y turn and interrupting all traffic, people walking on the roads with traffic zooming all around, brick piles on road and sidewalk and roads turning like a zigzag with entrances totally blind as drivers zoom in and out of them honking.
JB’s house was such a contrasting picture of the Lord’s loving order. The orphans quiet and smiling, eagerly singing and dancing their songs of praise. Sitting on the roof in the evening breeze hearing of how the Lord has bleessed them, their venture of faith with the orphans and now starting to build their own church building.
It was also a day for buf. I ordered spaghetti but the meatballs were water buffalo. Then at supper Mrs. Bhitrakoti prepared buf sausage. And dessert was curd from water buffalo milk. It was all good.
It was finally to bed 40 hours after rising. You would think I would then be able to sleep somewhat decently, but no. This morning we share God’s word at their church service. They worship on Saturday because that is the day people can get off work. Praise the Lord for the order He provides.
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