Author: Adventures

So I have reached the halfway mark for my time here in India…. Wait what?! I can't believe that I have been here for 3 weeks and that's only have something like 34 days left. It seems unbelievable. It has flown by so fast and I think that a part of my heart will always live in India because of it. One of my teammates here in India has a tattoo. It's a big old fashioned compass with the German word FERNWAY written underneath it, and when I asked her what it meant she said that it is a word that means to be homesick for a place you have never been before. And I may have...

First off, general announcement – when we post blogs from iPads and iPhones, all of the paragraphs go away. So please know that we do know how to write, but formatting just gets silly on here sometimes! Thanks for bearing with us 🙂 Anyway, on to my blog… This was actually written last Sunday, June 16. The Sabbath is so good. How joyous it is that God invented a day of rest and commanded us to have one every single week! One whole day where I get to do nothing except enjoy You and the beautiful life You give? Okay, Jesus, I suppose I could take you up on that offer. So on...

Yesterday evening (Wednesday evening), my body decided to reject all food and liquid I tried to put inside it. I didn’t sleep well at all as my stomach writhed in pain continually throughout the night. I woke up this morning without the nausea but with a headache and fever. No spending time with orphans today. I’m not the only one feeling attacked. My entire team is sensing the spiritual warfare in some way or another. And this is no surprise, as yesterday we began one-on-one ministry with the children at the orphanage – physical therapy and other forms of helping and...

  So my team is pretty great. It’s me and 7 other girls plus our 2 leaders. Audrey, Emma, Kelsey, Alexis, Roxy, Mary Grace, Macey, Sam, and Jessica. They’re definitely an interesting bunch. I hope to keep growing closer to them. I’m sure we will. After all, we’re living in pretty sweaty, crazy, tight conditions together for 2 months. We live with the other India team too. The normal day consists of a quiet time in the morning by myself with breakfast, going to SCH office to do paperwork for adoptions- we’re almost done with that project though! Yay! Then...

Greetings from India! This is our 11th day in India, but I feel like I’ve been here longer. By now we know how to get an auto ride almost anywhere we really want to go. We know key phrases, good places to eat, where the market is and have just gotten a good feel of the city and how to get around. I feel scandalous if the wind blows my skirt and exposes my ankles. Modesty here is pretty much the reverse from back home. You can show your mid-drift, but you better keep your shoulders and knees and ankles covered. I know who I can buy the cheapest coconuts from...

At 6:00AM on Saturday I was awoken to begin our wonderful adventure to the water park. As we waited outside of the gates by our house to get picked up I began to feel a little bit nervous- I was finally going to meet my little Andrew! (you can find him on the SCH site) Andrew was one of the kids who’s paper work I had done to help in getting him adopted. While doing his paper work he had instantly gotten ahold of my heart, for what reason or how this happened I couldn’t tell you, but throughout the rest of the days I kept thinking about this precious little boy. My thoughts...