I don’t have anything in particular that I want to share with you in this blog. I just want to update you: how I’m feeling, what’s going on in my life right now, etc. It’s been an emotional roller coaster!
Today is the last day that my whole family will be together for at least a full year.
Say what?!
Yup. It is. You may be wondering how that is. I’m not leaving until the beginning of October. I should have another couple months with my whole family. Nope 🙁 My brother leaves tomorrow for boarding school!
Say what again?!
Yup. My grade 9 brother is heading off tomorrow to start his new and exciting journey in Texas. I’m so proud of him. He’s going to have an amazing year, but it is so hard knowing that I don’t get to see much more of him before I leave. He leaves tomorrow and then I’m going to visit him in September for a couple days, and that’s it!
On top of that, about 10 days after I get back from training camp my sister is heading off to college! I am also so proud of her and can’t wait to see all of the awesome things that are going to happen for her this year! The same goes for her though, I’m going to miss her like crazy! Half the time I’m at home I sleep in her room just so we can hang and chat until we drift off to sleep. So – all three kids are going our own way this fall. It’s crazy.
And then it’s just going to be me and my parents for the month of September. That’s going to be strange. Being the oldest of three – I never in a million years thought that would happen.
So how do I feel about all this family stuff?
I feel a combination of things. I am so excited for both of my siblings! It’s so fun watching them head off, choosing to follow God even when it takes them far from home. But I also feel sad. I’m so close to my siblings and love to know what’s going on in their lives. It was hard enough in college to keep in contact, but now I’m going to be all around the world and they are going to be busy with their new adventures. And then there’s my parents who are going to be empty nesters years earlier than they thought they would. This is definitely a transition time for my family. It will be cool to look back a year from now and see what God has done in each of our lives.
What have I been up to?
God blessed me this summer with a great job and a new friend. So, most of the summer I was working a few days each week and spending the rest of my time hanging with family, gathering my gear for the race, and fundraising.
Unfortunately, just under two weeks ago I really hurt my back. I ended up being in the hospital overnight (it wasn’t serious, just couldn’t move/manage the pain) and have been working on recovering since. My back is much better now! I barely feel it unless I’m being too active (haven’t gotten back into working out yet). But I wanted to make sure that I took it easy so that it’s all healed up and ready to go for training camp. Which leads me to that…
Training Camp is a week from today!!!
I know! I can’t believe it either!! A week from today I’ll be flying into Georgia for 10 days of training. I am so excited to meet my squad and learn who my team will be! But I’m also nervous. I’ve heard that training camp is the best 10 days of your life that you never want to do again! So I know it’s going to be hard, I know it’s going to push us past our limits, but I also know that it is going to be a great experience and we are going to learn a lot! I can’t wait to share with you how training camp goes when I get back!
How can you pray for me?
Right now I’m in need of so much prayer! But I’ll list a few specific areas that I would really appreciate you praying for:
1. My family during this time of transition, that God uses this time in each of our lives to draw us closer to Him
2. Training Camp! Please pray that TC is a wonderful experience and that God brings my squad together in a way that will allow us faithfully serve Him this year
3. My squad mates – I have been blessed with a large support group of people that have come around me and joined me on this journey. However, there are some people on my squad who have still not met their first financial deadline that needs to be met by next Wednesday in order to attend training camp. Please pray for them 🙂
That’s it for now, but thanks for taking the time to read this! Be sure to subscribe to this blog if you haven’t already and can’t wait to talk to you all again once I get back!!
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