ALAS. My dear readers. I have missed you all. I want to start by sending a huge hug…mmmmm MMMM. Squeeze. That was from my heart. Now I want to thank you all for reading my blog today. At least this far. : ) Im sincerely impressed. We are all so jammed for time. What’s wrong with us!!? (More on that a few paragraphs below 🙂
Ahh. At this moment, I and the other Team A Racers are in Johannesburg, South
Africa!! Last time I wrote was from
LIMA, I think. Maybe I wrote from
Cusco,
Peru; nonetheless, COUNTRIES, yea even CONTINENTS have been traveled since my last blog. I can’t recount everything for you right now (sniff. sniff), but you can catch a feel of some relatively recent events by going to ‘Browse my Photos’ to the left of this blog I think. Check out my pictures; I loaded a few more while we were in
Buenos Aires, but I am still not caught up. Read the captions; they will tell you more. I do have some amazing pics though that I can share with you all someday. : ) I dont mean to be a tease; this is one of the hard facts of Racer life. Internet is weird here.
And fickle.
Sometimes it deletes your blogs and sometimes it doesn’t.
: ( Downloading pictures is really hard. Dont let the big city
Johannesburg title fool you…. we are way outside the city. Only 5 computers at this little cafe about an hour’s walk from Alabanza campus (where we are staying until Team B arrives and we can get our Visas to
Mozambique). Then we are off.
Mozambique, from what I hear, will almost certainly be Internet-free. So it will be a while before I can update you all again. Just dont forget to pray for us. : ) And I will pray for you as well.
We are doing relief work in what used to be a tourist city called Vallenquelos (check the spelling on that).
Then GoogleEarth us if you can : )
That area was hit be a hurricane about a month and a half ago, leaving thousands of families homeless.
We don’t know what to expect.
It’s going to be awesome!! Smiles.
Anyhow, life and times have been full. I suspect the same for most of you crazy (mostly) Americans back at home… we are all busy bees. It’s hard to cut the habbit, even abroad ;
)
Ahh. I feel like Im rambling. I am. But I hope you have read my title for this blog; it may explain why I am particularly loopy.
: )
Team A is actually recovering from literally hitting up 3 continents in 3 days!!
Buenos Aires on May 1st,
London on May 2nd, and finally arriving in
South Africa just yesterday, May 3rd.
Maybe I’ll make more sense when I figure out what continent I’m on.
Haha.
Smile.
Truthfully,
I cant even start to recount all that has happened. Even as I write this, there are Racers breathing down my neck to use this computer. : )
Just know that all is well here. God is continuing to do the work in me that I hoped would happen. To delicately take away my false self that is addicted to perfection and performance, so that He can free me to be the real me that loves others much more than I do currently. The Hannah He had in mind when He first thought me up. That may not make sense. I cant say it better : ) Maybe I can.
It is just that I am really quite full of myself, but its not the realest ME.
Are you following?
I want to be full of God’s Spirit; that is the genuine Hannah.
The coolest Hannah, too.
Wink. And that goes for all of you. : )
That principle is changing my life.
I feel pretty raw, guys.
But it has been fun. : ) And Ive already lost part of this blog once, so Im about out of creative faculties.
Maybe I’ll leave it at that.
Pray for my blogs.
: ) (Laughing)
One last and lighter note:
Africa is going to knock my socks off!! I can sense it.
And my family’s socks off as well — in about a month.
Woo Hoo!!
I get to see Tom (brother in law) , Emily (gorgeous older sister), Hayden, Gideon, Gracie, Lilly, and Hudson (nieces and nephews) for a month in
Swaziland after we are done in
Mozambique!!
Also my 2nd oldest sister Lisa whom I dearly love and much resemble, and numerous other family friends who are practically family (the Blacks, the Irwins, etc.)
So, anyways please please pray that my spirit is strong and that I have joy to share with many!!
Already I am full of joy here in
Africa.
This is the land of the ghetto booty.
Im
feeling quite at home!
Wink.
I love you all tremendously!! Hannah
