We were taken for a site seeing trip and prayer walk around Delhi today!
Our base took us to see the Red fort and to two of the biggest temples in Delhi and the 2nd biggest Hindi temple in the world. Our adventure started when we got on the rented bus and my friend had a rat run over her foot. Needless to say the entire hour tour there and back I did not put my feet on the ground. Ha ha the rat we so gross I wanted to cry, once again it is one of those experiences where I can laugh about it now but in the moment it was awful. We arrived at the temple and walked around, but the feeling was so depressing and dead. We had a chance to go inside and pray, and after that I am even more sure that Jesus Christ is the one true God. While being in India I have felt and seen and experienced Buddhism, Hinduism and many other idol worship and I can say that it truly is just pieces of man made metal. It broke my heart to see so many people just going through the ritual of it all and finding out truly what the religion stands for.All the gods they worship our because they are in fear of them. In America we truly do get a watered down version of these religions but now seeing it with my own eyes, I see the disgusting lies that are involved in it and the torment some people cause on others because of it.
It was awesome to go and pray for them thought and to yet again see how good Jesus is. I also got to use my first public Indian toilet :) it was awesome haha ha although the challenge was where to put our toilet paper after we were done. Next time we will bring zip locks hahaha..... on the way home we also stopped at the Lotus temple which was again so disturbing because it is a place where every religion can worship there own God but when you walk in the tension and aggressive feeling of the place was overwhelming. The one girl named Sammy who is only 14 brought up the good point of how impossible it is for so many religions who contradicted one another worship in one room. The Lotus temple was not a peaceful place and a bit eerie, however I am glad I got to go and experience it. Our site seeing trip was soon over and we arrived back to our home sweet home.
I got to take a "bucket" when we got home which was awesome since we had to walk bare foot almost all day out of respect for the temples. We call our showers here "Buckets" because that is really what they are, we dont have running water for showers so we bath we buckets of water which we bath with in the bathroom. Its hillariouse the entire bathroom just turns into the shower since the floors have the drains right in them. I have my buckets showers now and I kinda feel cleaner after them than real showers! It is the best when you get to shower in the evening since the water then has time to warm up all day in the holding tank ontop of the roof, and if you take one the the morning than you are totally refreshed and awake afterwards lol.
wow I am totally begining to fall in love the India, I will admit at first it was such a changed and as far as higene goes I was really freaked out but now its so chill. There are certain things that still are a bit of mind over matter but for the most part I enjoy all we have to do.
Until next time I love you alll and I am having a blast thatnk you for all your prayers they have helped me get through ruff times!
TADA !
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