Well here i am in Nepal. I arrived last week on Tuesday after a long 15 hour flight and a 12 hour layover in New Delhi, India. The culture here is rich, as well as the smells. Some of them not as pleasant as others but alot of the smell is incense and food. The not so pleasant smells are garbage and cow, and dog poop!!! The past week i have been here we have gone to the monkey temple, Hindu temple where they cremate bodys and dump the ashes in the river and sometimes bathe in it (dumping the ashes in the river symbolizes that by doing so as the ashes flow down the river their soul will go to heaven....wow sure), i saw the kumari she looks very unhappy (she is a little girl who they see as a god, when she hits puberty they get rid of her and get a new kumari...sad) we did our first day of ministry in a small village out side of kathmandu in the hills. That was awesome i got to talk with a shop owner for a while. He gave me tea (which was amazing) and we just talked and i shared with him my faith in God. I learned that he wants to be a poultry farmer and to start a farm you need 1000 chickens!!! I have 20 chickens and i thought that was alot. The streets are very packed and disorganized. You have people driving on all sides of the road and passing each other by inches. Its crazy! The motorcycle is the best way of transport here. You don't have alot of room to move around the streets are no more that 12 feet wide and you have people walking down them,cars, trucks, and motorcycles driving down them all at the same time going all different ways. Its fun. Well its time for lunch so i will talk to you all in a while hope everything is well.
Ian
