Amazing day of going to church. Our friend Betty picked us all up at 8am to drop Becky and Matt off at their trekking gathering place. Then to take us to church. We had a flat tire on the road and everything is closed because of the holiday so we ended up leaving the car on the side of a major road and taking a taxi to church. Becky and Matt took at taxi to their location. At the Kathmandu International Christian Community Church there were people for every continent! So many CHristians from all over the world! South Africa, Pakistan, India, USA, Russia. It was so amazing to worship all together. Well an older gentleman introduced himself as being a theology professor who was in Nepal for a big conference tomorrow. He said that he had been in India for many years.
OK....side story. One of Eric Gustafson's employees married a girl from India who's father is a theology professor in Nepal. His name is Pastor Dutt. I spoke with Pastor Dutt when he was in North Branch for his daughter's wedding. He said that he would be happy to spend a day showing me where he teaches, etc when I am in Nepal. ]Now...after church today I approach the older gentleman and ask him if he knows a Pastor Dutt. His eyes widen and he says, "Yes, he was one of my pupils when I taught in India!". So I get the older gentleman's phone number and when I'm back at our apartment I call Pastor Dutt to tell him I have arrived in Kathmandu. Then I get to share the news that his old professor is in Nepal and I have been the link between them going all the way back to Eric Gustafsons sharing the information with me in the first place.
God certainly works in mysterious ways!!
FYI we were able to spend all day Saturday in the apartment getting organized and relaxing. Nothing very exciting happened except that our landlord took us up on the roof to see her organic herb garden, etc. It was beautiful and we could just barely see the tip of Everest through the fog. Actually it was probably thru the pollution because it is terribly polluted here. It reminds me of the haze you see over LosAngeles. I am pointing toward the US Embassy flag which you cant see in the picture. But our apartment has solar hot water and solar electricity.
Love you all, Talk to you later!
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