Darshan, the compassionate body builder!

January 12, 2010
Darshan is one of those kids who just wants to please you. In whatever he does, he’ll look up at me with his big, dark eyes, asking for approval without a word. He’ll jump to help me with just about anything! While he’s the second youngest of all the children, he’s one of the most helpful, from sweeping the dining hall to pulling water for me!

He’s also attached to Raju at the hip, and they do most everything together! I’ll often find them playing cars together, playing Uno, or my personal favorite is when they enlist another child to hold my camera and video tape them doing short dramas. HILARIOUS! Even with them all in Nepali, their facial expressions are amazing! I was laughing so hard at one of them that tears were streaming down my face! I’ve often found myself going through pictures, and suddenly there’s a video that I didn’t take, containing them dancing around the boys room with stuffed animals (really, dancing! as in, waltzing!), practicing Karate on each other, or doing these short plays for me. When I get home, I’ll make one video of them and upload it so you can have the full experience!

Darshan’s a great student in school, and is 4th in his class. He works incredibly hard and likes to be the best at whatever he does! He’s bigger than the other kids at home in terms of his frame, and I imagine that had he grown up in America, he would have been a lineman! I’ve told him that since he’s bigger, he’s also stronger, and in just a few years will put all the other boys to shame in terms of strength!

He’s one of those kids who will walk down the street and out of the blue will ask me how big God is. Or, where God lives. Or any number of other theological questions that are hard for my mind to grasp! His heart beats for God though, and he loves singing to praise Him! He’s not afraid to sing at the top of his lungs praising his King, and he doesn’t mind giving all he has to worship his Savior! In Sunday School, he’s that kid who will catch when you leave out a detail, and as soon as you’re finished will ask you about it. You know, those hard parts of Bible stories that we skim over because we don’t really understand the why behind them, and we sure don’t know how to explain them to a bunch of children! But he’s the one who will ask, forcing you to dig deeper :).

Darshan wants to be a missionary doctor when he grows up, and I could totally see him doing that! His heart for people is so big, and tying physical health into spiritual health is perfect for him! He also has a mind that can grasp the expanse of medicine, and I hope that one day I hear that he is indeed a missionary doctor, ministering to the poor and lost in the rural areas of Nepal! I can’t think of anyone better to do that job!