I am 29 and 2 days!! I am in disbelief! If you would have asked me 10 years what I would be doing when I turned 29 I would have said….married, career, kids, living in Texas….something along those lines. The life I live now is not anything I would have ever imagined for myself as a child. And I love it!!!!
My last year in my twenties will be spent with people (i havent met yet mostly) traveling around the world being the hands and feet of Jesus. I have dreamed of doing something like this since I turned 22 7 years ago!!! It is so weird for me to think that I have been specifically preparing for this trip since February of this year. 8 months so far and I have 2.5 more to go! Besides gathering my gear, and fundraising my first real preparation starts this week!
On Tuesday I am heading to Georgia to start a storytelling seminar followed by Training Camp on Wednesday. Training camp is a 10 day outdoor (mostly) training to prepare us for things we will encounter on the field next year. They don’t give us much information about it to go along with them wanting us to keep expectaionts at bay.
We know that we will be doing weird sleeping scenarios, along with setting up and taking down our tents multiple times. We will have a 3 mile hike with our packs on to be completed in 50 mins. (most of us are worried about this, but know that we will have each other and it will be something we look back on a laugh!!) We know there will be worship and weir foods. Lots of laughter and bonding time with meeting our squad and team for the first time. (i.e. squad= everyone on our route that will travel to the same countries together. team=the 5-7 people we will be with in country).
I often have doubts if I am good enough for this oppoturnity. I know that this is a door that God has been slowly pulling me towards for a while now and I just need to continue to hold his hand as I slowly walk through it.
I am extremely excited about the fun things we will be doing! I am extremely afraid of my fears. I am afraid I won’t be liked or loved by my squad. I am afraid of what God will reveal that is ugly in my heart, I am afraid I will go through this and then the door will be shut. I am afraid that I wont be fully funded when I need to be. I am afraid I will be let down.
I am on an emotional roller coaster to say the least. I am also battling a sinus infection days before I am with out a clean shower, a nice bed, warm water, a clean place to potty, normal food. However, I know that this is a good test to how things will be next year when we get sick.
Even though I don’t really feel ready. I am so ready to be wrecked!! I want my life to change. I want to grow!!
*I won’t have my phone, facebook, social media, or email the till the end of the month. So I will write another post and let you know what God did in my life.
**Thank you to those of you who have partnered with me so far. I am at 40% funded. I still have a ways to go. But I couln’t be here without the help and prayers of you already!!
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