100 miles from Everest and Home..... Finally!!

Well we made it back to Nepal in one piece, sorry it has taken so long to publish this blog, it has been written for a while waiting to be uploaded. 

 

The journey to our home here in Nepal has been windy to say the least, but a little over a year, six moves and three spare rooms later we have made it! Our flat is on the first floor of a two storey building, with offices underneath and the landlord’s family living in the flat above.

The landlord’s share their flat with Clifford, a very amusing black Labrador. When the stairwell of the building was being repainted a rather bright salmon pink colour last week, he decided to help out the decorators, ending up with a pink paint splatter down his black head and back and not too much paint on the walls! Sadly he didn’t stay still long enough for a photo.

We are settling in well and have found adapting back to the practicalities of filtering our water, remembering the load shedding schedule and showering in a bucket, an easier transition than expected after the relative ease of the UK.

Our time back in the UK had some real highlights, and we so loved the unexpected joy of seeing so many of you again, long before we thought we would. We were able to attend weddings of great friends we thought we would miss and share in fun and fellowship with many.

That said, recovering from para-typhoid took a lot longer than we had hoped and it was not until the beginning of August that we finally got normal blood tests back for our livers and could start the task of regaining strength.  It was a trying time, in which we reluctantly learnt even more patience and whilst people and places we longed for were tantalisingly close, we were committed to returning to Nepal healthy as soon as possible and that meant refraining from some very tempting invitations!

Returning to Nepal brought with it some anxieties, it had been a hard place for us to be during our first six months with so much uncertainty and some heavy burdens to bear in the absence of close friends and fellowship. Not to mention the idea of being that sick again was not one we cherished!  But whilst we are maybe a little more paranoid about where we eat, some of the uncertainties we encountered have thankfully been answered and although we still feel the weight of some of the issues we face, we join David’s cry to God from the dessert “My heart is steadfast oh God, My heart is steadfast.”