Very brief update

China was great! Hot and humid and the traffic was crazy...

Not as crazy as India though apparently. On our ride from Delhi to Jaipur we were rubbed out against the curb by a large semi-truck. Nobody was hurt but we were all shaken up a bunch. The Lord was protecting us though because if it had happened at a split second different time, the car could have been rolled over or the front end could have been crushed very badly.

So now we are in India. It's great here and we are in monsoon season thankfully. In a way... the weather is cooler (it's only about 29-32 C at night) but the mosquitoes are crazy bad! I sure hope our malaria tablets work well. We have gotten to ride elephants already which is crazy cool. Much of what we are doing here involves encouraging and strengthening the local brothers and sisters. We are also working with a puppet-making group of people (they are very poor), I will have more details on that later.

Our trip is going well, God has provided and guided us every step along the way and we are so thankful to Him for that! The team is great and we are trusting in Him every next step along the way. We are still short on finances (right now we think we wil run out of money at the start of Yemen) but there is still lots of time and opportunity for us to do things or for the Lord to provide. Unfortunately my modelling contract in China fell through (for serious, myself and another team member were asked to model for a mobile phone advertisement, they were looking for Western people, good looking Western people that is, it fell through because we didn't have any business clothes with us and they couldn't get together any at the last moment, we were leaving the next day, it would have been a nice $150 dent in the budget that's for sure, maybe here in India??)

Thanks for your support and I am apologizing in advance for my lack of contact. It is very tough to find time and Internet availability and I am blessed with so many friends that I want to keep in contact with. I guess this will have to do for now.

Thankfully yours
Jesse