Day nine

Today's bible reading

Matthew 7:24-27

24 "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

The girls morning started a lot earlier than ours, as we were both awoken by another of Andy's lame earthquakes. Then we worshipped in Pastor Raju's church, It was a very charismatic experience. Even though we couldn't understand about 98% of the service it was easy to stay engaged. The amount of energy Raju put into his service makes our pastors look lazy, Haha and at one stage putting Andy's monkey impression to shame.

After experiencing the energetic and absolutely AWESOME service, we went to the new Badi girls hostel which is now open because of the $13,500 raised by Livingstone Christian college students. In our opinion this was one of the main highlights of the day. The girls were just ecstatic for us to be there, as we got to look at their rooms and the amazing hostel Raju has rented for them. We were able to get lots of photo's with them and we had the ability of just meeting some of our own sponsor girls. We said our goodbyes and headed off to a shopping centre in hopes of getting the girls some jackets and clothes. We also had a bit of shopping time and I got some supra's, sorry Sean :P we then decided to visit thammel again for 30min of shopping, which was very interesting as we were in small groups and lots of us got lost in the maze of shops, with only minutes before we had to be back at the bus, only to realize that after half an hour of waiting for Andy at the bus, that we should call Raju to pick him up so we could go for dinner, then half an hour later Andy finally showed up at the restaurant starving for food. As we are writing this we are on the way to the Badi girls hostel that we visited earlier, to hand out the clothing that we had bought earlier whilst listening to the musical stylings of Felicity, Zara, Bec and Emmy, now we all know why they aren't on the radio..

Anywho, we are all sad to leave Nepal tomorrow but also glad to leave as we all want our longer showers!!! We are all worried about the bag limit since all of our shopping sprees, has even limited the room on the bus. But that shouldn't be an issue... We have made lifelong friends (Daniel and I) with a lot of the local church members including: Rusik, Rosna and the school teachers. This experience has changed our lives forever and we will cherish this time as a team always.

Billy and I would like to thank Rasik for his help, kindness and welcoming arms (hope to see you in Brisbane soon brother :P), pastor Raju for his ever present assistance and passion for god (you are changing lives here) and last but not least we would like to thank all of the teachers, Mama Jenni, Pappa Andrew, sister Felicity, Sister Zara, brother Matthew and sister bec for their amazing tolerance of us and for arranging this amazing trip. God bless everyone we have encountered this trip, and also everyone that we haven't, for it is the mystery of what we can teach them and what they can teach us that will keep the fire of motion work alive within us... God bless everyone at home until we see you on Monday.

- lots of love Daniel & Billy.