Moving Forward

So it is Friday today. Another week has almost finished. Time is just flying by as we reach our last days here in India. We have been growing closer to Sylvia and to Sunil and Shalini so it is getting more and more sad to think of leaving them! We just want to pack them in our suit cases and bring them with!



My last post we were supposed to go on a trip to some villages and visit the Boy's Children's home. Unfortunately we couldn't go because it was election day has well as the beginning of a major festival here (dewali festival) and so we couldn't find a single bus to take us Monday OR Tuesday! So this week we focused on making sure we accomplished everything we had planned such as people to meet/spend more time with, shopping still to be done and food to try! It has been a good week. Relaxing and encouraging. Sunil's birthday was on Wedensday so I made him a chocolate pudding pie and we had a little celebration at his house. Then on Thursday I showed Sylvia how to make pumpkin pie...YUM! Ovens are not common here but some people have small gas ovens you plug into the wall or small microwave type ovens...we borrowed one and made pie!



Today we met with a man named Lauren and hung out for a ministry meeting of prayer, bible study and sharing and it was very refreshing. We each talked about a way we can see God working in each of our lives and then we read John 15:1-11 about bearing fruit/vine and the branches...two people said that they had just been praying and talking about different things that the passage directly spoke about so it was some confirmation for them which is always neat to see how God speaks to us through his word. For me, I feel like God keeps urging me to spend more time in the word and prayer...working on that discipline in my life. Anyone who knows me knows that I am passionate about excersise and no matter what I always seem to make time for it despite being busy or tired or having a baby to take care of (all my reasons for not spending more time in the word) but shouldn't I be more passionate about reading Gods words to ME then anything else? As a mom, Gideon is my fruit (or at least one erea of fruit in my life) so if my desire is to bear good fruit, to see Gideon become a man of God and a man of good character I need to abide in christ, abide in the vine. It challenged me and I know one way to abide more in Christ is to spend more time in his word and communicating with him...basic thing I know but I have used Gideon as my excuss for not having time to have regular bible study but in reality Gideon is one of the biggest reasons I need to have regular study. I am seeking Gods will but how can I hear his voice without spending at least a little time in his word!

Tomorow we are visiting some good freinds of Sylvia's, Jose (Indian) and Sarah (american). They are very busy involved with Ywam and Sarah homeschools thier 3 boys. 2 are adopted when Jose brother died in a car crash right before Jose and sarah were married and Isaah is thier 3 year old boy. 2 months ago they lost a baby girl who was born with different problems and only lived for 24hrs. I am excited to spend some time with them, we have met them in passing a couple times but tomorow we will have time to get to know one another. Last night we had dinner with another couple very fun to talk to. Newly weds and busy with ministry.

We rescheduled our trip to the boys home for Sunday-Tuesday and when we get back it will be time to go!

I have more to write but it is late here and I am very sleepy but I do have to insert here after re-reading some of my posts that I have not been doing a very good job with my english...mom I CAN write better then this but I am often in a hurry when I write and do not edit anything, lol.

For those who haven't seen on Facebook, Huda got the job!!! I am so thankful! It will only last for 6 months so now we are praying about what will come at the end of those 6 months, what to prepare for...maybe a longer trip to India? I don't know, but we are excited. There are tons of pics on facebook so check them out if you haven't already!!

Lots of Love!

The McKay's