Dave's Birthday is this Friday, April 6th, he is turning the big "30". He is going to be teaching in a different city and so we leave tomorrow to catch a train. Since we were going to be gone, we had a special dinner for him tonight with some of his favorite Northeast foods, smoked pork with axone (fermented soybeans), rice, cucumbers, and mustard leaves. I didn't think to take any pictures so I'm posting a couple from our trip to America. We had fun tonight as we ate, sang happy birthday, and prayed for him for this upcoming year.
One of his dreams has been for a long time to go to the India-China border of Nathu La in Sikkim. Since the place he is teaching is not too far from there, we are going to try and drive there for his birthday. We have been praying and praying for the border to open up so that there will be an easy and cheap way to go to China and to help Northeasterners to go there as well. We have tried to research and make phone calls to see if it will be possible for us to go and we keep getting mixed answers. Some say that it it not possible for foreigners to go, others say it may be possible, and so we are hoping and praying that we will be able to make it. It is over 14,000 feet high and among the tallest motorable roads in the world. If we get to go, we will definitely have lots and lots of beautiful pictures to share. We know for sure that that the border will be closed to pass through, but we are hoping that we can get to the actual border and see the hills and snow-capped mountains of China with our eyes.
We will be away from home for about ten days and so we are trying to wrap up some loose ends before we go. There are so many different things going on these days. The DTS outreach teams will be going to South India and Arunachal Pradesh, very opposite corners of this nation.
Please pray for my husband that God will richly bless him on his birthday and that we will be able to make it safely to the border. I'm so thankful for his life and to be married to him. He is truly a gift of God to this world.
