Kolkata, a whirlpool

I had planned to be in Kolkata just for the weekend, and then make my way down to Hyderabad by train but due to my asthma, couldn't put myself through the 32 hour ride in the heat if I was travelling standard sleeper, and I'd cough my life away if I upgraded to travelling A/C.

So I fell into the whirlpool of the Kolkata mission life and and left just under 3 weeks later. It seemed that there was a lot going on, and Erina has just been employed by the ACBM to help out fulltime with translation and with the correspondance work which had been piling up, so I felt like it would be good to stay for a couple more days and help.

We visited Arothi one day, finally got the internet sorted another day (you wouldn't really think that it takes a whole day to do that, but it does), visited Jayanagar and had some baptism interviews there, tried our hardest to get to Canning, and then visited Jayanagar again. Throughout this period I became very familiar with the inside of the AMRI hospital with 4 visits in less than 2 weeks. We got some free consultations as well due to the fact that we a volunteer organisation and the mission was paying for the visits and not the people.
It was a relief to find out that Erina wasn't seriously ill. They haven't been able to pick anything up as yet, and her symptoms seem quite strange, swelling feet, and legs which give her a lot of pain and constant headaches. We know it's not thyroid, so that's a relief! We had started looking for a plot for her.... on the doctors requests. Indian doctors are mostly very jovial thankfully. Cause I hate going into hospitals. I've never had to do a public Indian hospital thankfully, I've heard some terror stories about what goes on inside them. So it was nice for my induction to Indian hospitals for it to be a private one with lovely a/c.
Days just ticked by... and kept ticking by!! I stayed till I knew that all the correspondance courses had mostly been completed and then booked my flight back to Hyd. While I was there things sorted themselves out with Dad's work, and he's arriving in Kolkata late next week to help out with Bro Milton Richardson from Victoria.
There are a lot of people ready for baptism interviews, so it was important that a brother could be there to interview the men. There's so much to do out there with visits to brothers and sister's, they really need a people there all the time to support the work.

The countdown to VBS was ticking by very quickly, and I wanted to be back in Hyderabad to organise my lessons and activities for that, and to have a minute more with Hann before she flies out. Besides I was asked to write a play on the 7 names of God for the Bangalore Bible week and needed some quiet time with that before the avalanche of vbs descends and takes us with it!!