Hi everyone!
London was amazing. God gave us a lot of divine appointments. One in particular: We met a girl named Gabriella. She was so sweet... just a wanderer but really smart. She was traveling for school. She got a scholarship form Princeton University to study people who do Communal Living. How interesting I thought... YWAM does communal living. I asked her where she was traveling next. She said Varanasi India! What! We are going to Varanasi! She couldn't believe it. What a random "coincidence".. We told her all about the YWAM base over there and for her studies she might "check it out".. Pray for her to find Jesus in Varanasi.
We are in Lonavala India, right by Bombay. It has been amazing! I think our craziest moment yet is getting on one of the local trains during rush hour. 2 million people a day travel on these trains in Bombay and we decided to take it! OH MY GOSH.... They separate the women and the men so Luke and I had to be separated.. Luke was SMASHED in this one dirty train cart with no room to breath.. meanwhile I was smashed (not as bad) in the woman's cart. We were yelling to each other through the iron gate that separated us trying to figure which platform we had to jump off of to get to our hotel. If you don't FIGHT to get off you won't make the stop cuz it only waits for 30 seconds before it leaves again.. All our Indian friends we told this to couldn't believe we took a Local Train being a foreigner.. Well hey we want to get into the culture. I don't think we will ever forget it!
Well, tomorrow we fly out to Varanasi India. We met am amazing couple here at the YWAM base that "happened" to be from Varanasi. They were from America but had been living there for 10 years and said we could stay in their house instead of paying for a hotel. GOD STORY... yay! We are super excited. God has opened so many doors already and we are so excited to see what He will do next. There's nothing quite like following Jesus! He always takes care of us.
Bless you guys.. We LOVE YOU... Thank you for praying.. we can feel it! Talk to you soon
Luke and Bethany
We are in Lonavala India, right by Bombay. It has been amazing! I think our craziest moment yet is getting on one of the local trains during rush hour. 2 million people a day travel on these trains in Bombay and we decided to take it! OH MY GOSH.... They separate the women and the men so Luke and I had to be separated.. Luke was SMASHED in this one dirty train cart with no room to breath.. meanwhile I was smashed (not as bad) in the woman's cart. We were yelling to each other through the iron gate that separated us trying to figure which platform we had to jump off of to get to our hotel. If you don't FIGHT to get off you won't make the stop cuz it only waits for 30 seconds before it leaves again.. All our Indian friends we told this to couldn't believe we took a Local Train being a foreigner.. Well hey we want to get into the culture. I don't think we will ever forget it!
Well, tomorrow we fly out to Varanasi India. We met am amazing couple here at the YWAM base that "happened" to be from Varanasi. They were from America but had been living there for 10 years and said we could stay in their house instead of paying for a hotel. GOD STORY... yay! We are super excited. God has opened so many doors already and we are so excited to see what He will do next. There's nothing quite like following Jesus! He always takes care of us.
Bless you guys.. We LOVE YOU... Thank you for praying.. we can feel it! Talk to you soon
Luke and Bethany
Here are a few pics. We were trying to add more but the Internet is not good so this is it for now... love you all!!
We got to go to Reality London, a church plant from our Church back in California. So awesome!
Mark and Lizzie lead this church plant.
Luke got to meet up with an old friend from his missions trip in Indonesia. So cool.
Well the old bag turned 29 on March 29th so we made some yummy food and Luke took me out to see a show. You HAVE to see a show if you go to London. So we splurged!
Sitting in the Theatre waiting for it to start. We saw Wicked. It's a great story about the wicked witch of the west in OZ being not so bad. It's like her take on the story of the Wizard of OZ.
Bombay (Mumbai) India
WE LOVE YOU ALL... more to come in a few weeks!! God is good!!
2 comments:
Ahhh... Life following Jesus! :) :)
thanks for the pics! Love hearing the divine intervention and how rad how the Lord is leading y'all!!
Love you both!
xoxo,
katee :)
SO COOL! PRAYING, PRAYING, PRAYING! so glad you hooked up with Mark and Lizzie! They got the Pub we have all been praying for! The lease was up on the Gate and Mark felt the Lord was opening up another door and had us targeting on the Kensington Pub, so YAY...GOD WINS AGAIN! (Always) Was the Indian Family in the photo the Christian Taxi driver? Are you feeling better - your throat okay? Will continue to pray in that area in particular, but also along the lines we discussed of not being rushed into anything....Love you! sue
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