Nepal is showing off :)

These are my lovely teammates:) The few days of rest was much needed!
Hi Everyone!!

Just want to update you on my Nepal adventure. Last week we traveled from Katmandu to Pokhara which is 6 hours by bus. It was a beautiful drive through the mountains and along the river to Pokhara-which a famous trekkers destination. Many of the world largest peaks are in this area, and this morning i woke up to an amazing blue sky and a perfect view of the mountains--it really did take my breath away-and i have never seen anything like it. We have been staying in a house close to the YWAM base. It has been nice to have a few days off, catch up on reading and preparing for my upcoming teaching of Ruth at a nearby Bible School, as well as doing some cooking and baking. Yesterday i made banana bread, and this morning i made cookies--in a little toaster oven-and it turned out really well :) Also on the weekend I made chicken soup--literally going to a little butcher on the side of the road--they had just killed a chicken, they weighed it and stuffed it into a little plastic bag and i carried it home. I really love this life-every morning going out and buying eggs and bread, then waiting for the little Nepali lady to ring the doorbell and she leaves a pot of buffalo milk outside the door and we enjoy that every morning. It has been really refreshing to be here. Yesterday we travelled to a major tourist place called lakeside, and enjoyed some western food, and there is lots of shopping there and its all around a lake-you can rent canoes and paddle around the lake and into distance on the top of the mountain is a huge Buddha Stuppa. This place is gorgeous and we are going to spend a few days there after we get back from the villages.

Tomorrow we embark on our next adventure. We are going to get up really early and we will be going to a very indigenous village in the mountains. The trek will be between 8-10 hours and it will likely include much hiking and going through streams and it will be pretty intense. We are all excited for this adventure and look forward spending time with the peoples. We will be there for five days and will be teaching them the overview of the Bible-and remember these are all oral learners and only a few have been to some kind of school. So when we teach we will have to be really creative-using storytelling, visuals, and drama. I am really excited to go, and yes it will be rough-we have no idea where we will be living-it will be extremely rustic and we will live like the locals. We will embrace all the elements and with doing that we are going to understand the people better-and i am just excited to get to know the people, to love them, to live life with them. I really have been convicted that i need to spend more time with the people i am teaching-so i am just praying that the Lord will put aside the issue of communication because it really is hard to get to know someone and not speaking the same language. The Lord has helped me to be creative in that and i believe and know that he will allow me to do that.

I am really glad to be here and the Lord continues to bless me and my team over and over again-especially being able to stay in a really beautiful home the past few days as we prepare our teachings.

Prayer Requests:

-Safety as we travel to the village

-That we are able to communicate and love the people in the village ( we will have a translator)

-Health (i am feeling a lot better, but a few teammates have been sick)

Love you all-thanks so much for your prayers:)

--Breanne