After you read this blog check out my teammate Jessie Pace’s blog about World Race Norms and get a little picture of our culture on the WR.
Today marks a very important date on the World Race calendar. Today is one month until (Lord willing) my feet will be in North Carolina soil! I am looking forward to lots of hugs and kisses from friends and family. My goal is to introduce the cheek to cheek kiss as a greeting – all over the world it is the acceptable greeting why not in Wilmington! I can’t wait to go back to my church and see all the familiar faces that sent me off as a missionary almost a year ago!
I am looking forward to some comforts of home as well. I am looking forward to Port City Java dates, high heels, hot showers, a car instead of walking or taking the bus, straight hair, long chats with friends that I haven’t seen in a year, coming home and not having to soak the dirt off of my feet, the beach 10 minutes away, seeing all the new babies who have been born while I have been away and all sorts of things. However, I will miss life overseas!
This is all of us in the tuk tuk on the way to English church (Ally is in front next to the driver). Technically only 3 should fit but World Race style is always the more the merrier!
We had a mud fight at the beach!
I will miss the street food (don’t worry about parasites the food is delicious!), 
everything being so cheap, being the strange looking one wherever we go, an adventure everyday of how we will get to town (free ride with a stranger that becomes a friend and takes you to their house and church on the way to town) or the bus with all the locals, slightly warm water in the shower being a really big deal, living with 6 other people and sharing life with them every day, every day is a surprise and not knowing what is going to happen, getting the opportunity to share Christ and all that He has done all over the world.
This is just the beginning right? I have lots to share of all that God has done and all that we have experienced. I am anxious to see how the Lord will use this year in my life at home but He is faithful and I know He will use it to His glory!
Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth.
Serve the LORD with gladness;
Come before Him with joyful singing.
Know that the LORD Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving
And His courts with praise
Give thanks to Him, bless His name.
For the LORD is good;
His lovingkindness is everlasting
And His faithfulness to all generations.
