Heading out to Gorkha

This is our last trip in Nepal from Kathmandu. Last night we stayed at Pastor Kham's orphanage near Akantakuna. It was awesome! I love being around orphans. They are so cute, smart, amazing, loving. My favorites were Dorze (a little like Ezekiel, Lima's younger brother, and he looked just like Lila from Somang House), Anna (the sweetest girl in the whole house-I could have just loved her to death, she was so sweet and kind and just radiated goodness), and Suresh was a little dancing cutie. And though Chimon was not one of my favorites, he was just the cutest little thing, and definitely the baby of the bunch. They were so encouraging when I danced hip hop and tried to do back handsprings (especially Jennifer-the pastor's daughter).

We head to Gorkha at 10 am, Monday the 23rd, and get back on Wednesday, and then we get a whole bunch of free time to just chill and shop and prepare for the long journey home. I am praying about whether to return to Boston for Christmas, but so far it isn't like I headed that way. While I miss home A LOT, I am not sure it is part of God' plan. Read The Dream Giver, and you will see why I want to stay here. I just feel like it's part of my journey to stay here. My sister wants me to come home and just stay a while, but I know how life is, and how you tend to get stuck in a place. That's why I want to stay in India, and then head over to South Korea.

I am praying about going to Business School. I think it might be a part of my dream to get my MBA and raise money to start my own environmental business.....I've had that dream for a LONG time now, about ten years. It's true, dreams are overwhelming sometimes, and they seem Impossible and Unlikely and Scary, or even Terrifying. But I do know now that God has a HUGE plan for my life. I am prepared for Great Achievements and Successes Beyond Imagination. Are YOU? I want to know what your dream is, and how I can pray for you and encourage you. Please pray for me!!!! My dream is win millions of souls to Christ through travel, business, mission work, dancing and singing. One thing I have realized here is that I have a huge passion for creativity and dance. I don't think it will be my livelihood, but I definitely feel lively and free when I am singing and dancing for God's kingdom!!!!

I am missing everyone so passionately. I am so scared because the DTS is coming to a close and I am going to have to make some hard decisions about where I head next. Good thing I have a train ticket to Punjab! At least I know where I *think* I am going next!!! Please write and comment, it would be awesome to get some feedback from you. Love, Sung Yun

Acts 2:17
"And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams."

Prayer Requests

My prayer points are:

1) God to guide me in my future plans
2) an awesome husband
3) for God to improve my character
4) my family to become Christians
5) my sister to be healed
6) better relationship with my brother
7) better communication with my family and friends


I am also praying for my brand new passport to come quickly, so we can speed up the process of getting my visa back to India.

Kathmandu and Chitwan....my first month in Nepal

The past few weeks have been absolutely amazing. I landed in Kathmandu from Kolkata (Calcutta being the name given by British colonizers) and thought it was so beautiful and clean upon landing at Tribuvhan Airport....then spent the rest of my time here getting acclimated to the dust. It is SUPER dusty, given that there is no rain. I actually think that is awesome, but do not like how the roads are so dusty. I can just imagine being in Iraq and breathing in dust and sand all the time (hats off to you, Mike!). Instead there is mist every morning and evening, so if you leave your stuff outside it gets all soggy. I LOVE our house here. It is so sweet. Like an MTV Cribs house, or the Real World with YWAM Bangalore on Outreach. We have not killed each other yet, though I think sometimes we are getting on each others nerves. It is so gorgeous...except the bed bugs. Oh yes, there are bed bugs. BED BUGS ARE HELL, FROM HELL. There was a blanket on the top shelf that we pulled out to watch a movie and I think it was infested. I can not believe they live for a year with no food! (us) After much praying and a suggestion from Cynthia (my outreach team leader from Ohio) that I put my wicker bed outside, and vacuuming like crazy, the bugs do not bite me as much. Except I think they laid eggs in my suitcase and now they are on my clothes. PLEASE PRAY FOR ME!!!! I try to put my clothes and blanket in the sun as much as possible. But they are in the wood closets, me thinks. I am SO grateful they are not as prevalent in the past few days. It is a much needed relief.
We went to Chitwan my second week here. It was SO much fun! There is a Korean couple who run two orphanages, Hope (Somang) House and Moonlight (which has a bible college in development. Their website is www.4891.co.kr. They are a very cool couple and welcomed us with open arms. Please donate to them or even pray about volunteering with them for a couple weeks or months. You will NOT be disappointed. I fell in love with these small children, especially Smirti, Lila, baby Frank (we call him that because he looks JUST like Frank Khaute from YWAM Bangalore), Bindu, Binay, and some other naughty rugrats that stole our hearts. The tragic thing about each one of these 200 orphans from Hope House is that they are woken up with praise and worship music at 4:30 am. Yeah, I have never hated worship music so much as when I was being woken up at the UNGODLY hour. Seriously, this could be the biggest deterrent for me going back there. The children of all ages, from 1 or 2 years old to 17 or 18 are all amazing. We got to teach them some action songs, like I am in the Lords Army and Mercy is Falling and Jambo, Jesus Loves You, etc. Then we did some drama skits, Everything and Set Me Free, and two hip hop dances, Shackles and Diversity. But at Moonlight (sadly we were only there for one night), they TOTALLY blew us away with breakdancing and doing 3-4 backflips in a row. Their dancing was SICK! And their coordination was amazing. They made us look so sad and weak.
Chitwan has crocodiles (which I did not think there were in Nepal, sorry Ezekiel, you were right!), rhinos and tigers, some of which come right up to their campus of 10 hectares.