Once again (or more like 3 more times again) my mom has told me I need to update people on where I am in preparing for the World Race. It wasn’t until someone asked me if I was still actually going that I decided I needed to heed her advice. Oops. Sorry. Sally Midgett is usually right.
So to solve the question that I know is burning in your mind: Yes, I am still going.
Training camp is 6 days away, which I can’t believe…That’s probably because it still hasn’t fully hit me that I’m actually going to be gone for 11 months. I talk about the World Race all the time, but it’s still this great unknown thing that I have no idea what to expect from. Is it weird that I’m not scared? Anyways, back to training camp.
It’s a week long and is held in Georgia. I’ll finally get to meet the people I’ll be doing life with for 11 months, I’ll get to practice pitching a tent and sleeping in a sleeping bag for a week, and the only other information I know is to leave my expectations back here in Greensboro. It makes me feel extremely excited and extremely unprepared at the same time. I keep going over a checklist of things I’ll need to bring and going over different scenarios in my head. What I need to do is just stop worrying about it. That never did anyone any good, and isn’t letting go and giving God control what this experience is all about?
Side note: shout out to Erin and Greg for being awesome and getting me a ton of camping stuff. I feel legit now.
Another side note, I have less than $2,000 left to raise! WHAT THE HECK?! PRAISE THE LORD! My heart is so full it could burst at the seams. My biggest concern at the beginning of this whole process was fundraising. I’ve never done it. I’ve always hated it. I hate feeling like I’m pushing people to donate money. And yet, God kept telling me that He had it under control. Yea…I’d say He has this under control.
For those of those of you who’d like to pray for me, read below. Ya’ll rock 🙂
Prayer requests:
- The ability and willingness to let go (of baggage, of material possessions, and of my plan for my life) and let God work
- A mind free of distractions, both for the next few months leading up to the Race and while I am gone
- Training Camp—that I will be open, vulnerable, and willing to change and grow.
- Fundraising
