Looking back on training camp in White, Georgia for the World Race.
So far, in only a week, I have:
- Taken the Marta in Atlanta, Georgia with a complete stranger, who I now call a close friend, Miss Natasha!
- Fully set up a junior boy scout tent from Walmart (I thought all tents were the same quality and size-ish?? Guess not) and spent about four nights sleeping in the fetal position…
- Watched as God completely provided over $2,000 for fellow racers in minutes
- Met the 45 people who will be family for the next year of my life
- Eaten fish head soup
- Eaten Bugali (an African "cream of corn" with NO flavor that you eat with your hands)
- Simulated crossing the border from an usafe country into a country of complete slavery
- Canoed with 45 other people across a lake to camp in freezing weather with no tents
- Helped prepare and cook dinner for 45 people over a campfire
- Eaten 3 complete meals with only my hands
- Watched people praise their Lord in tongues and prophecy (Crazy stuff!!)
- Met some AMAZING people of God
- Thought I was starving to death
- Gone a consecutive 3 days without a shower
- Slept in a 25 passenger bus with about 40 others in the middle of a forrest
- Spent a 5 hour layover in the Atlanta airport with strangers watching the Chargers LOSE!
- Praised God with tears rolling down my face
- CHANGED… already.
It was a CRAZY beginning to an even CRAZIER year. I am so excited for the new experiences, incredible changes, overwhelming brokenness, and complete faith in God's plan. All prayer and support is more than welcome!! 🙂
Thanks for bearing with me through my FIRST blog ever. I promise they will get better from here on, hopefully!! Maybe Ill eventually learn how to post pictures and other fun stuff 🙂
Love, a very technologically challenged Erica 🙂 Love you all!!
