OFF TO SIKKIM

So looks like the trip so Sikkim India is a go afterall. Thats a big answer to prayer. Yeah is a 40 day strike as part of sikkim wats to seperate into its oun state. The roads are blocked off but turns out that the church got a pass to go through the road blocks. To tommorow i fly with Noel to meet the group from my church and we weill make our way Mucrung, Sikkim, India from their.
AFTER THAT I WILL BE RETURNING TO NEPAL UNTIL OCT.12 WOOOOOOO!

My first sermon

So today was the day. Shem had asked me to give the message In a rural town outside the city. I had spent a lot of time preparing the last few days for my first sermon. Shem told me to keep it simple, most of the people i was preaching to had never been to school. And they were mostly new christians. I settled on the topic of love. And so their was a transportaion strike in the city to day so we had to walk. It was about a two and a half hour walk. The view was nice on the way. We decided to take a short cut but part way into it their was a trnch dug on and the mud thrown onto the trail. It was very slipery and shem fell into the trench. All up one of his legs and his shoes were covered in mud. Anyway a little heat and a lot of mud later we arived at the church in Chumpy, well it wasnt regularly a church it was a house that we were having church at. So about 30 people came about half being under 15. We sung some nepali songs ala acapella . I gave my message and shem translated. It was nice to have a translator, as Shem spoke i could figure out my next thought. I'm very happy to anounce that it went well. Shem said he thought it was good. And he's not the kind of guy who would just say that to be nice, unlike most of you people. No offence. Yeah so afterwords we went over to one of the peoples houses for tea, well i guess its 10 of the peoples houses because it was the husband and wife the their 8 kids. Anyway I feel very blessed that things went well, I'm not much of a public speaker so I do really give the all of the credit to God. He is very good to his people you know.

THIS IS IT

So here they have saturday church survases not sunday. Last saturday I was suposed to go to a rural church and speak. Kinda scary being that i've never preached before. But they had a goodbye for the Lewises last week so it was moved to this coming saturday. Pastor Shem will be translating for me. I'm not gunna lie i'm kinda nervous.
So the team from my church in winnipeg was gunna be going out to sikkim on the 25 of this month but theirs a lot of demonstrations going on their now as part of sikkim trys to seperate into its own state. so as it stand it sounds like i ant get over their and it sounds like they wont be able to either. so it souns like we got some work to to do praying. But all the other things here are going good so i'm very tankfull for that except we still have a huge water shortage and fuel shortage so costs are going up around here. Taking the bus around here went up from about 15 cents to about 20 cents. it doesnt sound like a lot but it does affect the people here.

Tony the Baptist...well kinda

So our chuch had a baptism this saturday. We do have a water shortage so we didnt have any water in the baptism tank to me and 13 others piled into a landcruser and went to a diffrent church that had some water and a baptism tank. The man getting baptised was pretty old so then said he needed some help with the baptism. I had shorts and sandals so i went in the tank with the man and pastor Shem and we dunked him, though their wasnt a lot of water in the tank so went he went down part of his back was out for the water so Shem said dunk him again. Finaly in the third dunk complete submergin. definitly an experince.
some have asked how my health has been over here. fot the most part really good. I had some diareha acouple times and i was sick and barfing one day but for the most part good

New Things

OK so Nepal is now a republic and the king has about 10 days to leave his palace. That took place when i was in polkera. Nepal is in the middle of a big political shift, we the church have been praying a lot for the country. The mouists are in power due to corruption at the polls. They are communist, not to happy about that, neither is india whitch is causing the fuel shortage. though thats kinda old news. The days are so HOT. Polkera was awsome spent a lot of time alone hiking and enjoying the view. BIG NEWS me and some of the boys started a new ministry,

well kinda. Old ministry for the church new ministry for us I'm going with 5 of the former street boys (oldest being 23 same age as me the others are in high school) now living at the church out into the street so minister to street boys. all the boys from the chuch speek good english though none of the boys from the street do just nepali. but we went out and found a group of about 4 who didnt want to talk to us then we found another group of about 6 who one of the bays new from when he lived on the street so we talked to them and visited for about and hour or so i couldnt really speak to them that well but one of the street boys started teachig me some nepali st that was cool. anyway it was an absolutly amazing night last night were going back tonight so i'm super excited.
Oh so i got to spend some time with David Ruse. Most of you have probably sung some of his songs at chuch, he flew in from LA for a few days. His leg started so swell a LOT so he was in the hospital for a few days, I got to spend a good chunk of time visiting him in the hospital whitch was pretty cool. The doctors said he almost certinly had a blood clot that caused the swelling but the gave him some meds and the swelling went down then the did ultra sound to find the blood clot and the couldnt find one. The doctors were very suprised they couldnt find a blood clot but and so he's out of the hospital and onto india.