Switching Gears

Hey friends, I'm sorry I haven't been posting as much as I should! We've been really busy lately, but here's an update from the last month:

Right after Christmas, our friends Cassie and Elise came to visit us for a couple weeks. They have been serving as SMs in Bangladesh this year (http://theadventuresofcassieandelise.blogspot.com/). The four of us got to hang out at school for a couple days before taking some time to travel to the beautiful tourist destination of Pokhara. After that, we went to Chitwan National Park to do an elephant safari before the girls left. Here's a couple pictures from our time with them.

Phewa Tal

Fish Tail

Chitwan Elephant Safari

For those who don't know, the plan for this year was to teach at Esa Memorial School the first half of the year and do village outreach for the second half of the year. Our last "official" week at school was right before we went to Pokhara and Chitwan. It was a pretty sad week for us, realizing that we wouldn't be teaching these kids anymore. But the good news is we will still be able to see our kids when we are at home between village trips. Even though I already miss our kids a ton, I'm excited to see where God takes us the second half of our year.

We've already done one village trip where we painted a church in the village of Thumpakar. It is very different being away from our apartment because we have nowhere that we can go to be alone. This can be somewhat exhausting, but it also allows us to be that much closer with the people that we are helping.

I also finished a little video about the first half of our year. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out! https://vimeo.com/84515154

God Bless!