Tomorrow's the big day!

This will be the last post you get from me from Malaysia. Tomorrow morning at 5:45 we are loading up the van and leaving for the airport to head to Kathmandu, Nepal. I can't tell you what we are doing there, not because it is restricted, because we don't know for sure. It is possible that we take a break to head about 3 hours north of Kathmandu to bungee jump off of a bridge in the gorge of the Bhote Kosi river in Nepal. It is a 500 ft. free fall making it one of the largest free fall bungee jumps in the world. If you are so curious, you can look up the place online and see the pictures of the beautiful place.

We have had an excellent lecture phase here in Malaysia and I have learned a lot. I have gained quite a bit of insight in the arena of missions and things of that matter, which are pretty important especially if this is what I am going to try to do as a career. We have gotten increasingly busy over the course of the past few weeks and I wasn't able to come through on blog posting as much as I should have and I apologize for that.

The last week was taught by a New Zealander named Kel Steiner. It was a course called Kairos, which ended up very informational. It is a course that is heavily devoted to unreached people groups thoughout the 10/40 and the 10/70 windows. Kel Steiner had some great stories that would make anyone envious. He actually told us a story about finding a tribe in the Phillipines in the 1970's after overhearing a radio transmission coming from the American Air Force about a tribe that lives on the side of a mountain in teepee-like houses, something unheard of in the Phillipines at the time. Kel took the opportunity to get permission from the American military presence to trek through their area to find this tribe and they granted him permission and actually gave him a 4x4 Jeep and all the medical supplies he could carry to find this tribe. After some translators that spoke mountain dialects were found, they went out and actually found this tribe. To make a long story short, in one day, a tribe of animistic Phillipine natives came to Christ. The translators that Kel and his partner found, who happened to be two 18 year old girls that were already pastors at their home church, stayed and lived with the tribe and became their pastors. Kel called this tribe the "Wo Tribe" because that seemed to be the only thing they could say in agreement or disagreement accompanied by a nod or a shake, then he said they ran one of the two witch doctors out of the village, the other of whom accepted Christ along with the rest of the tribe.

I am praying that God works in Nepal just like he did in the case of this Phillipine tribe in the mountains. It could be tomorrow that I can get to an internet cafe to post about how incredible the first day in Kathmandu is, or it could have to wait until I get back to Malaysia to write a blog post. I will be in communication with my parents, who will probably post information bits here and there on the blog for me, so you won't be completely in the dark. Pray for our trip! Pray that God works through us in incredible ways for the people of Nepal! Thanks for reading and hopefully I can update you soon.