No trip like this would be complete without funny moments and cultural shocks, a few being....
• The team's introduction to smelly 'long drop' toilets, and our scenic potty-stops were hilarious.
• Doing an inter-tribal powwow style dance with the people and looking over and seeing dear S. and B. doing the 'twist & shout' to the powwow song.
• I was sitting behind a bus driver and saw his head nodding like he was falling asleep. I yelled to get his attention, and my friend next to me started hitting him to wake him up, only to find that he was not falling asleep at all, and naturally he was pretty shocked.
• It was common for monks to walk the streets begging for money for their monastery and as one was holding out a $5 Yuan C. thought he was giving it away and took it and kept walking. The shock on his face was worth a thousand pictures. She did return it...
Our prayers are with those few who are working long term amongst these beautiful people who know not whom they worship. It is not an easy calling to learn two languages, suffering exposure to illnesses we are not accustomed to, and to have to always fight to stay in the country. Please keep them in prayer as well as justice for the peoples.
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