Shane Martin
June 12, 2009
Blog: Old Newsletters (Pics of Npl are trying to get put up each day)
Well this week consisted of a few new things. First new thing was cooking. Kush has not cooked many times ever in his life, until now. But the good L/rd helped him greatly and the food was editable. Went to an English service with one of our new friends. It was really great being able to sing and listen to an English service again! Most likely we will be going there every week because it is on Sunday in stead of our normal Saturday services. We still go to both service though. We also have a schedule that is planned and we know the expectations for us for the rest of our days here.
During the days we have things to do, like... Jess is teaching a music class to some of the youth from the ch/rch we attend an Austin is teaching a computer class after her class to mainly the same youth or some people that want to learn how to use the Microsoft office programs such as, Excel, PowerPoint, and Publisher. Both are really enjoying there jobs although it becomes frustrating when they don't pay attention or understand something after 5 times. But the students are really great. Natasha goes to the children's home during the day time and helps them clean around the house and do other chores that they would like to be accomplished. Kush goes around to different homes of people from the ch/rch and visits them and fellowships with them (to the best of their English) or goes with others to see what they do during the days. As for myself (Shane) I have the responsiblity of painting. I am to paint the outside of the wall upstairs on the 4th floor. I love it because I got 4 (1 liter) paint cans. All the same brand and "color". Well in each of the colors I had 4 different shades. How does that work?? Either way I did my best in trying not to make a noticeable color change. If you look hard you can see the difference, but you have to look very hard. I also have to paint a few doors and railings in the house. The house will smell a little funky the next weeks. We all have a packed day, but a free afternoon to do whatever you feel like doing.
Now with our free times the sisters like to read or visit some people that come to the house or will go somewhere else. Us brothers go to the gym. Trying to get back into shape a little so that people will once again recognize who we are. The first week of lifting really hurts, but now our bodies are feeling better. Since there is a water shortage here we take showers at the gym, so that we don't use up our water. So uncle gets something good out of it as well as us guys! All are winners.
In the evenings we usually go to the children's home and play with the kids. The kids are so cute and they are so much fun to be with. They now a good amount of English and the older the kid the better the English. The kids love giving us hugs especially the younger ones. I am not much of a kid person, but I do enjoy being with these kids and loving them like G/d loves them.
Wednesday and Thursday nights we were unable to go to the children's home because dinner got to late. We spent time with Uncle and Family. From now on we are having dinner together a couple times a week so that we can learn how to cook Nepali food better and so we can fellowship. We made pizza one night. We were teaching them how to make it, because they enjoy pizza too now. We have a little oven that can make 2 pizzas at a time but they are not the biggest pizzas. So we made 8 but only could eat 6. Oh well now we had leftovers so we didn't have to make lunch the next day, yay!! The next night we made momo's. Both veg and buffalo, momo's fried and steamed. To help us make them we invited some friends so they could help and get a dinner and fellowship time with us. Both meals were super amazing!!
So know you can see a little bit of what we do here in the final weeks and some of the fun times we are doing here as the time goes down.
"The g/d of this age has blinded the minds of the unbeliever,
so that they cannot see the light of the g/sp/l that displays the glory of Chr/st,
who is the image of G/d"
2 Corinthians 4:4
Blessings to all!!
Shane
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