THURSDAY:We are spending the rest of our time in India with the Clayton team in Hyderabad. We are going to try to make the most efficient use of our time left. They would like for me to speak at the school in Bedar and then in Several congregations Sunday. Trouble is, at this point I have no voice. I have never experienced not being able to talk above a whisper but yesterday and today---nothing. My voice has always been strong so I don't know how to deal with this. My mother always said I had a STRONG VOICE, Elaine says I have a LOUD MOUTH! Oh, well. The Lord will lead us where he wants us to go. We stayed last night, and the several days we were here earlier, in the home of Kyle Clayton and his family. They have made us feel very much at home and we love them for it. Sony is native to India and Kyle is a full time USA transplant. Sony's father was B.D. Emmanuel, a great preacher here in India. (Left to right) Preethi, Sony, Sunshine, Kyle, and Jordan are in one of the pictures. They have made us feel like family. Karen and Ron (in the other picture) are going to Bangladore today and then back to the states in a day or two so we will spend our remaining time in their apartment at the church office.
FRIDAY:
Since my voice won't work, we went this morning for a little sightseeing to Golkanda Fort here in Hyderabad. Truthfully I have never seen anything like it in my life! It is a Fort they began building in 1363 and huge parts of it remain. It has two hugh walls made to repel about anything including gates elephant battering rams could not penetrate. Then the inner wall. The inner wall is over 80' high, 5' thick and 7 Km around it. I have been to many ancient ruins---the Parthenon in Athens, etc. But this Fort dwarfs anything I have ever seen. I have some good video and PIC's a couple I have posted. We leave in the morning for Bidar, 3 hours north of here. I am to teach in the school of preaching in the afternoon and Elaine will again teach the women. Then tomorrow night we will hold a gospel service there in Bidar. Sunday, I am to preach at several churches on the way back to Hyderabad. I hope my voice hold out. I am better and think it will be OK. And, to paraphrase Jesus statement: "We must work the works of Him that sent us WHILE WE ARE HERE for the airline cometh and takes us away so we can no longer work."
