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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Waiting for Elephants




Waiting for elephants is only one of the things we do differently in India than we do in Alaska....we have missed them by about an hour twice now...so we are getting excited...our friends chased them off with firecrackers like we chase off bears in Alaska...a funny similarity.

Other things we do differently:
We take bucket baths...cold, unless we boil water for a special day.
We wash our laundry by hand and hang it on the line...of course there are no dishwashers either.
We are happy when we realize the scurrying on the wall is a lizard, and not a massive spider.
We carry toilet paper with us every where we go
We take our shoes off to enter homes
We hear a man blowing a whistle every night outside the house...all night off and on.
We eat with our hands.
We are the minority.
We dodge motorcycles, rickshaws and cows on the road.

We have been spending most of our time with Jacob and Blessi and their daughter Sarah. Keep us all in your prayers that we will be full of the joy, peace, freedom and wisdom of our loving Jesus. We are so blessed to be here, learning so much and leaning on the Father's heart together ...He is so good.
Love,
Joseph and Christy

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