Autodidact: One who is self taught.
Most everyone desires to travel the world. Some never do, others vacation here and there but there are some that seem to have really made trekking across countries look easy. My brother has a friend who finished college in Thailand and has been all over Asia ever since. A single female who learned the language of the people and their customs. Last I had heard of her, she was living in Nepal caring for 6 homeless boys who left home at ages 4-5 because their family’s couldn’t support them. They delved into drugs at about 5 or 6 years old “sniffing glue” which can be any sort of toxins. This drug is cheaper than illegal drugs and is an epidemic all over the world from Kenya, Pakistan, Nepal, and Morocco. She takes care of these boys on her own, going about various jobs, such as cutting prostitutes hair; writing and producing a Bollywood film; teaching. She’s a self taught woman helping the world.
This trip started out with Khalil inviting me to his home within the first conversation of knowing each other. Knowing how to raise money, send out support letters, figuring out what the plans would be once we got out there seemed like a mountain of anxiety. I never imagined that my first mission trip would be on my own.However, I decided, this is how I really wanted it. To be a woman that solely relied on God to open her doors and overcome her obstacles. To comfort her through the fears and uncertainties. To ultimately allow Him to cross my path with those I was to help out, get to know, listen too, eat with, sit with, pray for and love. In hopes that I may adopt someone of my own someday, however that may look because I have been adopted.
Most everyone desires to travel the world. Some never do, others vacation here and there but there are some that seem to have really made trekking across countries look easy. My brother has a friend who finished college in Thailand and has been all over Asia ever since. A single female who learned the language of the people and their customs. Last I had heard of her, she was living in Nepal caring for 6 homeless boys who left home at ages 4-5 because their family’s couldn’t support them. They delved into drugs at about 5 or 6 years old “sniffing glue” which can be any sort of toxins. This drug is cheaper than illegal drugs and is an epidemic all over the world from Kenya, Pakistan, Nepal, and Morocco. She takes care of these boys on her own, going about various jobs, such as cutting prostitutes hair; writing and producing a Bollywood film; teaching. She’s a self taught woman helping the world.
This trip started out with Khalil inviting me to his home within the first conversation of knowing each other. Knowing how to raise money, send out support letters, figuring out what the plans would be once we got out there seemed like a mountain of anxiety. I never imagined that my first mission trip would be on my own.However, I decided, this is how I really wanted it. To be a woman that solely relied on God to open her doors and overcome her obstacles. To comfort her through the fears and uncertainties. To ultimately allow Him to cross my path with those I was to help out, get to know, listen too, eat with, sit with, pray for and love. In hopes that I may adopt someone of my own someday, however that may look because I have been adopted.
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