Update from India!

So first I just ant to say thank you for taking the time to read my blog! I wasn't sure when I decided to make a blog for the trip if anyone would read it but I thought it sounded like a good idea. It makes me so excited everytime I log on and see new comments or more views haha.

Ok anyways... So ALOT of things have changed. First I had to move back out of the cottage with the girls. There is a new law in India that people cannot stay at children's homes unless on the roster or employed. So I moved back into the new guest building (which is sooo nice but also still under construction). I was sad because I loved living with the girls but at least I got to stay! So each night I study with the boys, teaching them math (its funny because I used to wonder why I had "wasted" so many years studying through calculus, well now I know haha. There are six students whop attend an all English school so I help them with all of their studies. After dinner I go and help the girls with their math.On weekends I kind of just hang out with the kids and work with the older children and the college boys with their studies. Colleges here are all English so I am able to help them. I've been helping out by monitoring school supplies for all of the children. Twenty-eight kids can truly go through pens and pencils quickly haha. But other than that I've been working with the women making the jewelry and slowly learning more and more about the village. Its been really good! Plus on a super good note I've only gotten sick for one day and I have learned I really like Indian food haha!

So I have a lot of time to think and pray. One of the things I've been observing a lot is the power of anger. A lot of the kids fight with each other (like every group of kids I've ever seen). But then even within the adults and village and when I go shopping I see a lot of people who seem angry. Even me, when the children disobey I get angry. At first I was thinking that anger is a bad thing. But I think God has been slowly teaching me that anger itself is not necessarily bad. But I do think that anger is one of Satan's biggest tools. Just like all things it can be used for good. Like anger at inequality can cause change. Anger at people being led away from God can cause change. But I think that Satan can use anger for his purpose. For example if a child comes to me crying and angry at another kid because the other one hit him, how do you explain that anger is the wrong response. Because most of the time that people are angry, it seems justified. I think that is why it is such a powerful tool for Satan. But I also think that because it can be such a good tool for evil that it allows Jesus' power of grace and forgiveness to be even greater. For example if I can explain to that crying boy that yes even though the other boy was wrong to hit him he should still forgive because we are called to forgive. I can then ask the boy to pray for the one who hit him, Satan's "good" tool of anger has not only been overcome by the boy not being angry anymore but it actually created prayer. Obviously this is a super simple example, and the issues of anger is much larger in pretty much every country. When I look around India which is developing so rapidly and growing and catching up with the developed countries I see such deep rooted anger at the many different causes of the pain here. The need for forgiveness and light is so much greater, but I think that with prayer and trust in Christ that there is a greater hope. Yeah Satan has a "powerful" tool by using anger to bring people away from God, but honestly God is so much more powerful.

Anyways I'm not really sure that this all made sense. I am typing really really fast because the car is outside waiting for me. But that is just something I've been thinking about and I'm curious if anyone has thoughts. You can email me, I will answer. I don't know when but I really will :)

Ok I love amd miss everyone from home!! Thank you for your continued prayers!