Update from India

Hello All~

We are doing well in India!!!!

This week has been quite fun. We arrived Monday night and had Tuesday off to sleep and get settled in. We are staying in a 5 story building that is much like an apartment building. We have a two room area with two bathrooms on the ground floor. One of the two toilets work but it is in the bathroom that consistently has about a half an inch of water on the floor. We have two showers which can be translated into two garbage cans of water and a bucket!! We can it bucketing versus showering! It is quite cold too. I did get the man in the kitchen to boil me a pot of water today to wash my hair in warm water. What a pleasure!!
We have to go up to the top story of the building for meals and meetings. The main office is down about 10 blocks away around two corners. It is a nice area with upper to middle class people mainly.
Jesse got to play cricket in the street with some boys the other day. He was quite thrilled and is really wanting a cricket bat to play with.
We enjoyed Survival Experience on Wed. That consisted of taking a rickshaw (bicycle cart) to the Kamla Nagar Market and purchasing a traditional Indian ministry outfit. Did I mention that we had no translator!!! We did all survive and came back with appropriate dress. The clothes are extremely colorful and quite comfortable. Hannah I think really enjoys it and was able to get two orange punjabis:)
The guys in the group saw two elephants going down the street. The girls and I have only seen a camel. Not counting the multitude of cows and dogs and a few cats and a ton of birds and parrots.
We visited the 2nd largest Hindu temple in the world and did see a monkey there. We also visited the Lotus temple. It is so sad to see the extravagance and amount of time wasted on false gods. So very disheartening. The temple was quite overwhelming.
Sammi was especially saddened. We did prayer walks as we went and know that there are spiritual changes going on.
There is so much that I could tell you about and it has only been one week. Next Tuesday we start slum school ministry along with University outreach and coffee house and English as a second language.
The food is spicy!! The water is cold. The mattresses are rock hard:) But it is very good!!
We had potato butter and jelly sandwiches for breakfast! Lots of rice and douhl.

Blessings all~

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