Last week, one of my team mates and I had the most amazing opportunity to meet two women when we were doing community outreach. We were somewhat walking around aimlessly trying to look for people to talk to. We found a few kids running around and asked them their names. Unsurprisingly, they spoke no English. We were trying to formulate simple sentences in English or Hindi, when a mother and 19 year old daughter walk out of the house we were standing next to. The spoke perfect English. They must have heard us struggling and decided to come out and help. We could only talk to them for a few minutes because they had to leave, but we asked to pray for them before they did. They got so excited that they started spouting out several things that we could pray for them for, including their neighbors who we met shortly after. We prayed for hem right there and told them we would try to visit again.
The next day, we went to the same place and looked for them. We didn't know if we could just knock on the door, so we decided to have another loud English conversation in hopes that they would hear us again. Their neighbors heard (the ones we had met the day before) and invited us in. They also spoke no English, but we found out that their was a 3 generation family living in a one room house smaller than my bedroom. The grandmother is paralyzed in one side of her body and two out of three of her daughters are mute. We learned that they have the same DAD we do, and that made us all very excited. They served us the best chi I have ever had. Just as we were about the pray for them, the daughter from the day before walked in. We asked her to translate a little bit for us. We then learned that she does not have the same DAD that we do. After we left the neighbors house, we were talking to the daughter still, and she was so excited that we came back. She was not expecting us to. By that time though, we were supposed to meet the rest of our team, so we had to leave. She invited us to come by again the next day.
As soon as we got near their house the next day, they were there to greet us. The mom said they she was going to treat us like her own daughters. We definitely felt loved like part of their family that day. Lindsey and I are so excited to visit them this coming week. I can't wait to share with them more about the hope that we have. Please pray for these two women!
I'm sorry that story was so general! Ask me about it in real life in a few weeks, and I will be able to tell you in so much more detail exactly what happened. Expect to hear more about these two women in the coming blogs!
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