Getting Settled

Well kids...I'm here! The journey was long...took about two days and a very long layover in Bangkok where I had the luxury of sleeping in a hotel in the airport. I arrived in Kathmandu and stayed there for one night. Got to ride on the back of a motor bike and get two kurtas (shirts) so I could have something to wear. Kathmandu was amazing and very dusty.

The next day I flew to Dhangadi and have been here ever since. The first week I lived with the Finnish family and the week after I moved into the guesthouse next door. We don't live in the city or the complete countryside....it's a mixture of both. I am really liking it so far. Definitely having cold showers and making meals without a microwave but I actually enjoy that. I like learning how to do things differently and the challenge makes life more interesting. We had a big storm the second night I got here and the internet cable was damaged...so limited internet excess, thus the few updates I have given some of you. More details to come...but here are some pictures for you to see where we live!

Dhangarhi

Here is where I will be in NEPAL!

He Gives Good Gifts

I'm leaving for Nepal in just a couple weeks. What can I say...but that this is the fulfillment of a dream and passion God put inside me when I was in 7th grade. It blows me away to think that He really has good gifts for His children. There have been so so many times that I didn't believe that...didn't believe I was worth enough or good enough. Dark dark times where life seemed hopeless. It was just a year or two ago when i thought...i'll never go...i'll never get better...i'm too sick. Ya know, I have dealt with depression and obsessive compulsive disorder for some time...but my Jesus healed me and he continues to do it too...Many nights I would curl up in the fetus position, in anguish...weeping....wondering...when would he take away the pain. Why would he let me suffer so? Why? Why? Why? If He is such a "good God" then why did he let his little Alisha suffer. But ya see...now i know why he let me feel the pain...it pushed me to a place where I had to really find out what kind of god I decided I would serve. You know what I found out? He is the kind of God I want to follow and devote my life to. He isn't some angry, judgemental, dictator...NO. He is a loving so so so gentle King...I had him in a box that fit my understanding of the world and pain. HE IS SO MUCH MORE!!! You know what I hear him call me sometimes...? I hear him gently call me his "dear one." I can't begin to express the gift this is that I get to go to a country i have always dreamed of. This trip is my Jesus saying..."here you  are my dear girl...you thought I forgot about you...you thought you're life was worthless...but you were wrong...this is for you my dear child...this is for you."