So i'm in polkera for acouple days

So Rasu one of the pastors on the Kathmandu vineyard hooked me up with great deal on a hotel (about $6 a night) in Polkera about 6 hours away from Kathmandu everybody told me its beautiful here and it is theirs mountains and lakes and hills and forests its pretty amazing. i got here Tuesday and I'll be back in Kathmandu on Friday. I'm just gunna be doing some hiking wheal I'm here i did some today and it was sweet. And so yes its nice to get away for a bit (haha) anyway i'd rather not spend my time here on a computer bye.

Still going awsome

So things here are going really well. Internet is still pretty rough but power is getting more consistant. i've got to see some of the sights of the city and fix some things around the church with some of the young men here. definitly a diffrent world over here. one of the big diffrences of the christians here and their is how many here have left other religions and in turn their familys to follow christ. I've got to go to some pretty awsome house fellowships here visiting one family here living in the slum river bed area they have their 4th child on the way and live in a house made of corrigated steel and bamboo siding about 7'*12' the people are all amzing and so happy to pray and visit with us. we also visited a 60 year old widdow living in goverment provided housing that is pretty much a hole in the wall big enough for a bed and a gad hot plate she told us how she used to be big but when her husband died she lost a lot of weight and how the others in the building want to kick her out because she is a christian buts she doesnt worry because she has Jesus. Very humbuling and awsome stuff.

What I'll be doing

So i came here without knowing exactly what I'll be doing here. Now with the help of pastor Nole I've figured it out. I'm gunna be working with the young men here fixing some things and doing life with them helping them anyway i can anyway i got to go practice with the band I'm playing guitar this morning at church.

What Up in Nepal

Its a different world over here thats for sure. so when i got here Thursday i met up with the new boys here. The new boys live at the church, they were street kids that pastor Nole pick up off the street from Kathmandu. They formed a band called the new boys and i cant believe how good they are. They all have amazing ears for music. They were having a practice very soon after i got here so they threw me an electric guitar and we jammed. The first morning i woke up very early due to jet lag and took a walk outside a couple minuets outside the church i saw a goat with its head tied to a post about 5' off to the side of the road and one guy grabbed the back legs and pulled and the other raised his blade and cut its head off. It cough me a little off guard but hey "this is Nepal".
Their having a water and gas shortage here in Nepal. The lineup for gas is about 3 blocks long and showering is gonna be about once a week. The driving here is crazy so many motorcycles no traffic lights or stop signs just and your constantly missing people and cars by inches. Most people at the church eat all their food with their right hand and wipe with their left. The bathrooms at the church have squattie potties (which are pretty much holes in the ground) and urinals though their are a couple toilets at the church
I really like most of the food here I've been eating much of my meals with pastor Shem and his family and some with the new boys its pretty much always rice with curry vegetables a sometime some meat. The leaders at the church are amazing. They completely welcome me as a family member into their homes and share with me everything they have. Their was a group from Hong Kong that came and a medical team from Hawaii. The Hawaii team is going to a small village with Shem. Their going to heal and He's gonna preach. I've been meeting with people from the church for house fellowship. And i went to a arranged wedding at the church on Sunday.
OK so their is so much i could type here but i wont reveal it all to you now. But you should know pastor Shem and Pastor Razu are trying to hook me up with an arranged marriage, Crazy Stuff!

I MADE IT!!!

OK so I'm here in Kathmandu and things are going really well although i really shouldn't have made it over here. When i got to the Chicago airport to fly to Delhi, India I got up to the counter to get my boarding pass i gave them all my passport information, the lady at the counter told me she was in denial about needing glasses and so i read her my passport information. So she asked me for my India visa info i told her i didn't have a India visa because I'm just going on a connecting flight to Kathmandu "it doesn't matter to fly to India you need a Indian visa" so right after that i got that feeling of my heart sinking about three inches deeper into my chest. I talked to her for a bit and she ended up giving my my boarding ticket and telling my that if their was a problem they would call me up again. I was super stressed out and praying as hard as i could and and then they called "A. Marco to the desk for passport information". It seemed a little queer how close that sounded to "A. Mark to the front desk for passport information" but soon after they called everybody board the plane so i got on as soon as i could and flew to Delhi.
I got off the plane In Delhi and went to the counter. I got to the counter and went through the same thing i went through in Chicago "what do you mean you don't have your India visa". (I didnt have my tickets yet for Kathmandu,i was told i could get them a little cheaper in India) Yeah so they sent me a few places and i had to talk to about 4 diffrent airport staff, they were pretty nice about it but i was getting pretty worried because i could tell it was turning into a pretty big deal. They ended up telling me that if somebody else bought the ticket for me i would be able to get on my flight. I couldn't go buy them myself because i couldn't go through the airport without a visa. I made a few calls, I couldn't get a ticket bought that night but it sounded like i could get one for tommorow morning. They told me they had a lounge i could go to with a buffet, open bar, and nice couches i could sleep on. So i went to the ITC welcome group port lounge. It was very nice their. Their was one main indian guy who was probably early 20's coming and talking to me about my situation about every 15 min. he then brought an older woman to come talk to me and enplane my situation she wasn't quite as nice. They brought me over to a quiet corner for the questioning. I was worried at this point and the next time the guy came back he was only whispering "you shouldn't have been able to come here from America" he listed some people and said if they found out i would be deported back to Chicago. He asked if i had cash on me, I said i did. He told me he could talk to some people from the airline and probably get me on the flight. I them bought my ticket on the internet in the lounge and told him to do what he had to do. He was gone for a very long 3 hours. When he came back he told me not to talked to anybody else about my situation no matter what. He gave me a piece of paper and told me to put the money in the paper fold it up and give it back i did then he gave me a piece of paper with my flight info on it and said that i somebody would come to the lounge before the flight and give me my boarding pass and get me on the plane. That was a the longest 8 hours of my life i really didn't know it that guy just took my money and ran. I was praying so hard for this to work out. At the proper time one of the airport staff came and got me on the flight.
So I'm thinking GOD really wanted me to be here. Right after i got here i was told not long ago a team of 8 doctors from Hawaii had the same situation and were deported back to Hawaii . so thanks everybody that was praying for me and I'm so thankful to be here. The internet and power is pretty sketchy so getting to blog is not that easy.

P.S. i was told by the pastor that there are 3 girls from one of the other churches here looking for an arranged marriage

I'm leavin today!!!

At 2:50 today a flight will leave Winnipeg, a flight with me aboard, a flight going to Chicago, then another flight to Delhi then to Kathmandu where i will stay for 6 weeks before going back to Delhi to meet up with others from my church and spend 2 more weeks just east of Nepal in India on the side of a mountain , yeah its awesome . And so today i said goodbye to showers and toilets as sponges and buckets can take over for that. I've been asked a few times now if I'm scared or nervous about going but really I'm so pumped up and excited and i totaly beleave that GOD has some amazing things in store for this trip.
Also yesterday i got to pick up my brothers mustang from Dragmart they had just fixed the supercharger and yeah... IT'S WORKIN GOOD.

Scotty's Hardhat Blast

So it was my last day of work today for a couple months. We decided to celebrate my leaving with a firecracker and we decided to punish Scotty for not coming in today by lighting the firecracker in some banana mush under his hard hat, quite standard Duncalfe Mech. punishment really. If their's a better note to leave work on I haven't heard of it. Anyway the excitement for the trip continues to grow as my flight gets closer and I'm so thankful all the pre trip things have gone so smooth so far. Enjoy the Video!