We went to Sikkim (a Northern State of India) for a few days before Houser was to teach in a nearby city. We were there to celebrate his birthday and to visit this State that we had never been to before. It is one of the few states of India that you need a permit to visit. We had such a lovely time there. I am posting a few blogs about our visit to this beautiful place.
This is a picture of a ropeway that flies through some of the hills of Gangtok, we saw some amazing views from this little red car in the sky. There are so many Buddhists in Sikkim and the hills are full of prayer flags. We found out that when we see groups of white prayer flags, it means that someone has died. Someone hangs 108 white prayer flags when someone passes away and the flags will stand until the material decomposes or they fly away.
Gangtok is quite clean and beautiful. It was a good time of refreshing before Houser taught this last week. We are happy to be back in our home now. He will be teaching again this week in the Discipleship School in our town. This will be the last week of the school and they will be going to two separate locations for outreach, one to a state in the Northeast of India, and another team to South India.
