india post four.

post four

pastor kiran is someone i am constantly thanking God for putting in my life. he's someone i look at and think, wow...my life is SO much better because i met you. i never could have imagined having the chance to work alongside him as much as i have these past three years.

tonight, i heard some of the saddest words i have ever heard in my life. after a long day at the churches and going to meetings, kiran sat in our kitchen to catch up with us as we hadn't seen him all day. i don't know how we got on the subject, but we were talking about when the team that cory, kimberly and i were all on together was here two years ago. that particular year was extremely difficult for kiran, we can all recall, as he was beginning to experience some very serious health problems. he was noticeably exhausted and in pain, that year...not like the man i had met one year before.

he mentioned the day we spent in hyderabad (the city we always fly into) the day we left to go home, and told me, "when we were taking pictures in front of the restaurant paradise, i was thinking to myself...this might be the last time i ever see aimee."

talk about heart wrenching. it's moments like that where i start to see the effects of relationship on the other side of this. i know where it stands and what it means to me in my own heart; sometimes i forget what a big deal it is that we come and do this. and this man was so sick that he wasn't sure if he would live to see me again, and that was causing him more plain. humbling...extremely humbling.

so today we begin the english class with the first and second class kids. these are the little guys. and i'm not sure how it's going to go. i've never taught english before, much less to children who don't speak any english at all.

and maybe i could learn to type with proper capitalization first, before i take on such endeavors.

yesterday was nice. we spent some time in the field behind the orphanage and got looooots of great pictures of the kids. they showed cory how to play cricket and requested photo after photo from me. it was my favorite part of the day. if any of you have been on my facebook in the last few hours, the last picture i posted is my favorite photo i took all day yesterday. it's a picture of one of the boys, kusha, and it's sort of an "as is" photo...which is why i like it so much. he would sneak up behind me and grab my hand and i think i captured it perfectly.