We are officially in country! (We have actually been here for about a week now but I am just now getting to where I can use internet on my computer!)
Here's the low down on how this past week has been...in one word: AWESOME!
We spent Sunday-Friday morning in a city in northern India. That is where we had orientation. We had meetings from about 9-4 that helped us become acclimated to the culture, people, traditions, logistics, religions, etc. of the country. The meetings were kind of long, but VERY informative and super helpful. In the afternoons/evenings we were put together in groups (my group was me + 3 other girls) and given a task. One day it may say "Go to blah blah blah rd and share your testimony with 3 people, and share a B!ble story with 3 people" The location would usually be a market of sorts and we would just catch an auto (autorickshaw- picture a 4-wheeler but with 3 wheels.. and a turtle shell shaped cover.) and go there. When we got there, our first task would be to find women that we could talk to. In this culture it is very inappropriate for a woman to start a conversation with a man that she does not know well, so we were on the look out for women that we could talk to! Another issue is that we were out during the heat of the day, and let me tell you it was HOT, so a lot of the women were inside their homes and not in the markets. All of this being said, we were kind of on our own to go walking around/ ride an auto to other markets until we found some people to talk to. Thankfully, we have a great Father who guides and directs our paths so we eventually found exactly who He wanted us to talk to! I had the chance to share with a girl about my age and encourage her in her current situation and it was just a totally spirit filled conversation! PTL it was an incredible week!
There are quite a few more details that I will leave out for the sake of your eyes probably not wanting read a dissertation on my past week. haha But that was the basic gist. [For the remainder of my time here I will be living/working with a girl named Ashley so when I say "we" I mean Ashley and me.]
Friday morning we left orientation to head south to our City that we will be in for the next 6 weeks. We arrived in our City on Friday afternoon right around lunch time and we moved into our flat. We are living on a hospital campus ground that has guest houses/apartment complexes for rent and they are really cheap so that's where we are staying! Our office that we will be working in is also on this campus, just a 3 minute walk away! Speaking of work... we will be working in an office from 9-5 M-F. During the evenings and weekends we will be mostly on our own schedules to do as we see fit. Hopefully our after-hours time will be spent working with another team of students here that are doing some EV in the City and also building relationships with the girls we meet! So that will change day to day. We have a chapel in the hospital that we will be going to in the morning for ch*rch and there is also a house ch*rch (HC) that meets on Monday nights that we will go to. I am excited for tomorrow to experience an authentic Indian service!
That is a scattered and brief description of my life this past week! I am feeling at home here in our City already and I am SO excited to see what the Father will do this summer. I am also pr@ ying that this summer He gives me some guidance as to whether this city will be a more permanent part of my life or not!
OK... here is what you can be pr@ ying for us about:
Health and safety- the food is good but can do a number on your digestive tract, also mosquitoes are bad!
Spiritual readiness- there is a LOT of spiritual warfare waging all around us here so we want to be ready to move as the spirit prompts us and take advantage of the time we have here.
Boldness to share our faith
Unity among our team- there is nothing the enemy would like more than to distract us and take away from our power as a group.
Positivity in all that we do, and a servant's heart
Thank you for reading the whole thing, I know it was long!!
Love Love Love
Molly Kate
Here's the low down on how this past week has been...in one word: AWESOME!
We spent Sunday-Friday morning in a city in northern India. That is where we had orientation. We had meetings from about 9-4 that helped us become acclimated to the culture, people, traditions, logistics, religions, etc. of the country. The meetings were kind of long, but VERY informative and super helpful. In the afternoons/evenings we were put together in groups (my group was me + 3 other girls) and given a task. One day it may say "Go to blah blah blah rd and share your testimony with 3 people, and share a B!ble story with 3 people" The location would usually be a market of sorts and we would just catch an auto (autorickshaw- picture a 4-wheeler but with 3 wheels.. and a turtle shell shaped cover.) and go there. When we got there, our first task would be to find women that we could talk to. In this culture it is very inappropriate for a woman to start a conversation with a man that she does not know well, so we were on the look out for women that we could talk to! Another issue is that we were out during the heat of the day, and let me tell you it was HOT, so a lot of the women were inside their homes and not in the markets. All of this being said, we were kind of on our own to go walking around/ ride an auto to other markets until we found some people to talk to. Thankfully, we have a great Father who guides and directs our paths so we eventually found exactly who He wanted us to talk to! I had the chance to share with a girl about my age and encourage her in her current situation and it was just a totally spirit filled conversation! PTL it was an incredible week!
There are quite a few more details that I will leave out for the sake of your eyes probably not wanting read a dissertation on my past week. haha But that was the basic gist. [For the remainder of my time here I will be living/working with a girl named Ashley so when I say "we" I mean Ashley and me.]
Friday morning we left orientation to head south to our City that we will be in for the next 6 weeks. We arrived in our City on Friday afternoon right around lunch time and we moved into our flat. We are living on a hospital campus ground that has guest houses/apartment complexes for rent and they are really cheap so that's where we are staying! Our office that we will be working in is also on this campus, just a 3 minute walk away! Speaking of work... we will be working in an office from 9-5 M-F. During the evenings and weekends we will be mostly on our own schedules to do as we see fit. Hopefully our after-hours time will be spent working with another team of students here that are doing some EV in the City and also building relationships with the girls we meet! So that will change day to day. We have a chapel in the hospital that we will be going to in the morning for ch*rch and there is also a house ch*rch (HC) that meets on Monday nights that we will go to. I am excited for tomorrow to experience an authentic Indian service!
That is a scattered and brief description of my life this past week! I am feeling at home here in our City already and I am SO excited to see what the Father will do this summer. I am also pr@ ying that this summer He gives me some guidance as to whether this city will be a more permanent part of my life or not!
OK... here is what you can be pr@ ying for us about:
Health and safety- the food is good but can do a number on your digestive tract, also mosquitoes are bad!
Spiritual readiness- there is a LOT of spiritual warfare waging all around us here so we want to be ready to move as the spirit prompts us and take advantage of the time we have here.
Boldness to share our faith
Unity among our team- there is nothing the enemy would like more than to distract us and take away from our power as a group.
Positivity in all that we do, and a servant's heart
Thank you for reading the whole thing, I know it was long!!
Love Love Love
Molly Kate
