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Rachel's Expectations

When asked what I expect when it comes to our trip it is hard to articulate it. At this point with not knowing what exactly what we are going to be doing, who we are going to be with, or where in the given countries we will be, I am doing the best that it can to keep my expectations to a minimum. I don't want to expect to do one kind of mission and then be disappointed when we don't end up in that group. But going in I still have a few things that I am sure of and a few things that I hope to see happen.

      What I am sure of:

  1. I will be a nervous wreck up until the time that we leave, and probably for a while once we get there.

  2. I will have my heart broken repeatedly. Every place we go on our trip I will learn to love the people, and probably fall in love with some of the children. I am sure it will break my heart to leave every month.

  3. I will eat some very strange things, and sleep in some very strange places.

  4. I will get homesick and tired of every one of my teammates…including my husband. I like my alone time, and I will probably not get as much as I am used to.

  5. God will teach me things that I don't want to learn, and I will resist…but hopefully my heart will soften and will become more open

    The hopes I have for this trip:

  1. We will help at least one person learn of the love of Christ in each country. Hopefully we will impact more than one, but I believe that if we are able to get one person to truly understand Christ's love, and they fall in low with Him, it could change a community. And it will be one more person that we get to spend eternity with

  2. I will learn what in life I truly need, and what things our society has made us feel like we need.

  3. I will grow passionately in love with Christ.

  4. We will make friends that will last a lifetime, that will teach us more about ourselves that we really wanted to know.

  5. I will see God work in ways that I couldn't have even imagined before. That I will become more open to his power.

 

All in all, I don't have much in the way of specifics, but this is what I have in mind for the world race. I am learning that the more I come to expect, the less likely it is that those expectations will become a reality. My prayer is that we both grown in ways that we never could have imagined.
 

 

Michael's Expectations
 

It is hard to figure out what my expectations will be for this trip. The unknown variables are quite extensive. Some include food, housing, what we will be doing, hygiene and privacy. It is hard to imagine that our world is going to go through somewhat of an earthquake. We will develop new standards for everyday task. Things that we take for granted are going to become very scarce, very quickly. 
 

What is there to expect? We are gutting our lives of the fat that we have become so accustomed to and stripping down to the 35 pounds of stuff that fits into a backpack. My new bed is a sleeping bag and pad. My new wheels are my feet. And my new family is going to be a group of strangers.

 

I am really not expecting much, I am planning on God case scenarios. The ones where you have to give everything up and put the situation into God’s hands. I do not even know what I will be eating, so probiotics are definitely coming. I am really hoping that this trip will pull me away from all the worldly views that have crept into my life, because even being a Christian and going to church does not fully protect your head from the garbage that can come inside.
 

The hardest part about this is the unknown answer of what it is to be broken down and humbled. I can only imagine and speculate at this point what that will entail for me. So as of right now I expect very little for I believe that God will lead us in the direction he wants.