Disclaimer: This was supposed to be posted before trekking a few weeks ago so is REALLY late! The 200th day was July 25, 2017.
200 days. Wow. There’s not much more to say than that. I’m well over the halfway mark, and our flights home have already been purchased. Still over three months and four more countries to finish, but nearly less than 100 days until I’m back on US soil in time for the holidays with loved ones. This post is coming a little late, so without further ado, here are 50 more things the Lord has brought about during my time on the Race!
1. Pray for patients in a tiny medical clinic in Cambodia
2. Stay at a resort way out of WR budget but owner worked with us to be in budget
3. Teach English to junior high and high school students
4. Transition from teaching English to explaining the Gospel to the students
5. Pray away a storm so students can hear the Gospel
6. Do yoga workout in a tree house
7. Try and like fried lemongrass
8. Visit Sari Bari (US office is in Kokomo!)
9. Find a scorpion in our sink the first night at our resort
10. Kayak with Christie on the Mekong River
11. Camp on a small island in Stung Treng
12. Release a floating lantern while camping
13. See a shooting star
14. Be convicted that I didn’t fully believe in God’s love for me
15. Experience and come to really know and believe not just the width but the depth of God’s love for me for the first time in my life
16. God speaking to me again through music
17. Take a spiritual gifts test and have music ranked #1
18. Visit Angkor Wat
19. Cut my hair, yes again, to get all the purple out 
20. Find out I can pull off a pixie cut after wanting to try one on and off for the past 3 years!
21. Fly to India instead of traveling over land to Nepal as planned
22. Volunteer at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying and Destitute
23. Meet and “talk with” (which translates to her speaking away to me in Hindi while I smile and nod) a lady who resembles and reminds me of my Grandma Wenger which was a very welcome memory
24. LOVE volunteering at MT’s Home
25. Witness to two volunteers from China and Spain
26. Wade through knee-deep filthy water for an hour returning from MT’s Home due to heavy rain and flooding streets
27. Find JOY in the dirty water trek
28. Unexpectedly get to volunteer with two friends from another team for a day!
29. My entire team getting sick (with vomiting and diarrhea) for days
30. Learn that Indian’s have the tools necessary to reseal 5L jugs of water with tap water while we believe it is purified, distilled water (hence us all getting sick)
31. Have my heart broken by observing the caste system in India
32. Hear a 19-year-girl share how she didn’t pass 10th grade so was married off when she wants to finish school
33. Have my Indian friend tell me no one in her family has ever had a “love” marriage, they’ve all been arranged
34. Visit a Sikh temple
35. Do dishes with the staff at the resort who can’t speak English but we still communicate through laughter, smiles, and so much joy
36. Kill 3 HUGE spiders (well I killed two and Cary killed one) which was symbolic of killing fear in my life
37. Wrestle through one of the hardest decisions of my life
38. Walk through a season of some of my darkest emotions
39. Experience for myself that God IS still with me during those times and that He DOES still love me when I am unlovable
40. Be reminded that such times don’t last forever
41. Go on my second run since being on the Race
42. Stay in a country for the entire month
43. Turn 29!!
44. Be celebrated by new friends with gifts and not just one, but two birthday cakes!
45. Learn that in India, one cuts their own birthday cake which is representative of cutting into a new year, and that you eat cake before the main meal
46. Get henna for my birthday by my teammate
47. Watch my favorite “I Love Lucy” episode with my team on my birthday
48. Get sick again in the days leading up to my birthday, leading to receiving IV antibiotics and fluids in the ER the day after my birthday
49. Grow in new styles of worship with dance, song, and art
50. Meet my first blind mouse
