Well, the Lord is so good to me.  Just the other day I was feeling lonely and then the Lord sent me P.  He’s an American guy who is with an agency here for 2 years.  He’s already been here for 6 months and has done 5 months of language so he can speak fairly well.  He works a few days a week at PT doing construction.  We hung out on Fri and then he showed up again on Sat. for service.  He doesn’t usually come, so I was really surprised and happy to see him.  He interpreted the whole service for me and when I spoke, he interpreted for them.  God is so good to me! 
 
I have been spending time with the students here.  So many of them are being persecuted because of their faith.  Family and friends and community have all turned their backs on them, but yet they are still here desiring to know Dad more. 
 
I got to go to an orphanage and play with the kids.  They have 39 girls.  It is run by 2 couples.  Foreigners can’t actually live there with them, so a national couple lives there and the other couples come each day.  I got to talk to 2 sisters whose mom committed suicide.  They both found her body and of course have been traumatized.  Then I met with a girl who was raped when she was 7.  Her mom is mentally unstable and her dad is not yet a Believer.  I forgot to mention that the 1st girl I counseled who was raped by the pastor was then beaten by her mother when she told her what happened.  There is so much evil and damage that the enemy wants to do to Believers here, but Dad is at work and is bringing restoration to these people.  You can’t imagine how humbling it is for me to be a small part of bring His healing to them – I am so overwhelmed at my own inadequacy, but I know that it is His plan for me to be here ‘for such a time as this’.  It just amazes me how much they have been through and that I get to be here to pray for them and counsel them and be a minister of His peace. 
 
Last night I had student after student lining up to talk to me about their lives.  I wish I could stay here for another month or 2.  Many of them come from mixed religious families who are all united against ours.  When I get back to the States, I will be teaching a class on the persecuted church and I could sadly spend the whole semester on Nepal. 

This morning I got to teach a class on Sp. growth and discipleship.  It was really fun for me.  Tonight I am meeting with a guy who will go to the village that we went to last week.  He will move there and be the leader.  They have never had a leader before and it is a very exciting time for them.  I have a real burden for that place.  Tomorrow I get to speak in Chapel and then my team hopefully will return.  Hope all is well with you. 

Blessings, Ann

Live simply, that others might simply live.