Some Highlights!!

Sorry for the delayed next update! The last few weeks have been busy and flown by! There's so much to say but I'll just stick to a few highlights! 

First our second trek up to the village Puma. Praise God we went again! Haha although I was slightly nervous to go back, especially for a whole week, because of how sick I got last time... It ended up being a great trip and totally redeemed the first one! We spent the week building relationships and helping wherever we could - mudding houses, chopping and carrying tons of wood and teaching english to the woman's club that hosts us! We also went to a nearby village to share the gospel and pray for them. We ended up having an epic dance party and people got healed and some kids got saved! It was a really fun time in the mountains! While we were there the Lord started challenging my view and expectation of  ministry and evangelism and what it "should" look like. He's been teaching me how to share the gospel in word and deed! There's been a bunch of freedom and release of random false pressure I tend to put on myself because of this. Learning how to love and walk like Jesus is incredible! And often looks different than we think! 
We returned from the trek and had our pastoral visit from one of our school leaders, Steve Schallert! It was so fun to have him here with us and experience nepal and be encouraged by him! We also had our second 24 hour burn with all our Comm Trans teams all around the world! This time we hosted it in the YWAM cafe here in Kathmandu, and were able to have our friends from Iris ministries and other ywamers come and worship with us! It was an amazing 24 hours of ministering to the Lords heart! All of our team took slots to worship in their own way, like drawing, painting, reading or singing scripture, sing hymns.. Things like that! It was really cool to see how creative the lord is in how unique he made us all! For me the burn also gave me time and space to dream with the lord and he's given me increased vision about the future! :) I love spending long hours with the lord! 
The last couple weeks we've been continuing our ministries here in the city. Still helping out at higher grounds bakery and building relationships, hanging out with the Iris children's home kids, praying for people around the city and building up and encouraging other believers! 
Last Thursday a few of us went with one of translators, Ganga, to a rehabilitation center for the disabled and people with leprosy. We met with a group of believers there, worshiped and prayed with them and each of us gave a word of encouragement, it was so amazing to see their love and dedication to the Lord. We also played with some of disabled kids... They we're so full of life!
On Saturday we went to a youth service that another one of our translators, Nelson's, band was playing at. We had a fun afternoon with the small group of youth that came and the band worshipping together! Singing in both Nepali and English! At the meeting I also got to speak and share briefly what the lord has been doing in my heart and a word of encouragement that the lord had given me to share! It was really cool to be able to speak and share!
We only have 14 more days here in Nepal! It's crazy how fast and yet how long it feels like we've been here! We're finishing off the week here in Kathmandu and on Saturday we leave with the Iris team for one last trip with them to Pokhara, the other main tourist city in Nepal. From what we hear it's beautiful with lots of ministry opportunities. We're exactly sure what it will look like yet, but probably lots of evangelism and we will be showing the Jesus film in a few parks and sharing our testimonies. We then will start our debrief week off there and will finish it up here in Kathmandu! Continue to pray for the rest of our time here, for us to walk out in the fullness of everything he has for us in the next 2 weeks! Love you and miss you all and I'll be seeing you soon!!