Nothing great or all to exciting has taken place the last few days. What I do have are a few little bits of Nathan’s life to keep you coming back for more. So here they go…

1. Yesterday I decided I would go down to the big football (soccer) field in our neighborhood and? play a game with a few guys. Man was I out matched. Thankfully I am much bigger than the average Nepali so my size and speed keeped me in the game…what little I touched the ball. Toward the end of the game two young guys (early twenties) lost their tempers and started swinging. It was broken up twice and I thought it was over, but all of a sudden one of the guys came rushing on the field with a long metal pole. I thought “man, this has to stop”. As he came running, I “gently” took him down to the ground until he could calm himself a bit. To be honest this whole thing was a shock. I have never seen a Nepali get angry before. I didn’t know what the right action to take culturally was, but since another man was about to get hit with a big metal pole I took an educated guess.

2. My dog Asha is starting to act like a really puppy. For the first week or so all she did was sleep. I could not get her to eat and I knew it didn’t look good. Finally I found some steak at a foreign market and feed her that for a few days. Now she is up and running around. She chews everything and loves to play with her master (me).

3. All of my friends are now gone and I have two more weeks until the next one comes. Please pray for two things during this time. 1) That God will draw me close to Himself? and? 2) That I can focus hard on learning the language.

That’s it for today. Please be praying for a family from my sending church- the Fridleys.? The father, David Fridley, fell and died while working on a cell phone tower. Mr. Fridley was one of the most giving men I have ever met. Though he is now in heaven, he is leaving behind a wife and son.