It’s been over 100 days since I left the states. Here’s a few facts about the life I’m living.
I’ve spent over 400 hours traveling in busses, planes, trains, and boats.
I’ve been a groomsman in an Indonesian wedding.
I’ve used over 9 different currencies.
I’ve learned that God is actually speaking to me all the time.
I’ve learned how to bargain with taxi drivers and know when they’re trying to screw me over.
I’ve witnessed over a hundred people healed in the name of Jesus Christ.
I’ve been inside Hindu temples, Muslim Mosques, Buddhist pagodas, and witch doctors homes.
I’ve had an armed guard drive me around and make a perimeter at every stop.
I’ve eaten scorpions.
I’ve bungee jumped and lost a shoe.
I’ve dedicated an entire guest house to the Lord.
I’ve heard the voice of the enemy clear as day.
I made it almost 90 days without pooping my pants. Then I did it twice. #yolo
I don’t remember the “correct” side of the road to drive on.
I will never take for granted again the life that God has given me and the place where I was born.
I’ve fallen in love… With baby goats.
I’ve seen poverty like I’ve never been able to understand before.
I’ve camped in abandoned schools, mountain tops, and driveways.
I’ve learned how to be interruptible.
I’ve cried.
I’ve laughed.
I’ve loved.
It’s hard for me to spend more than 50cents on anything. I flip.
I’ve met more people who have been persecuted for their faith than I can count.
I’ve had to trust in God in ways I can’t even begin to explain.
I’ve lead people to Christ.
I’ve changed.
I’ve learned how to say hello in over 10 languages.
I’ve taken selfies with more strangers than people I actually know. Ever.
I drank a bottle of wine with my team that was given to us because we hitchhiked.
I’ve slept on the floor every single night. Except when I’ve been on a bus or train.
I’ve learned I don’t have to earn God’s love.
I’ve discovered passion.
I’ve lived off literally $10 a day.
I’ve stood in front of 100s of people as I’ve shared my heart.
I had a Chinese guy caress my beard once.
I’ve grabbed food off people’s tables after they’ve left and devoured it.
I almost had a dog pee on my leg and a bird almost pooped on my head. #ninjamoves
I’ve been super uncomfortable.
I’ve woken up at 2am just to pray and worship on a rooftop. For a week straight.
I’ve accidentally found myself in a zoo.
I’ve escaped death on multiple accounts.
I’ve worn the same clothes, without changing or washing them, for weeks.
I’ve seen bodies burning on the side of the road and watched bodies burn on the banks of the Ganges river.
I’ve hand washed my clothes for 4 months.
I’ve crossed a mountain pass that was over 15,000ft.
I’ve gone to foreign movie theaters and halfway through there’s an intermission. Usually when something good is happening on the screen.
I was filmed on Chinese Discovery Channel.
In Asia, just because it says no smoking on buses and planes, doesn’t mean the guy next to you wont lite up.
I’ve been kicked out of my camp site by the Indonesian military.
I’ve been offered drugs, prostitutes, and just about anything else you can imagine.
I’ve had my mind blown.
I’ve planted churches.
Loosing things on buses is becoming a very bad habit.
Peanut butter is more valuable than gold.
I haven’t been able to flush toilet paper once since I left.
I’ve held so many mangy cats and dogs.
Don’t have rabies yet.
I’ve struggled.
I’ve died to myself more times that I can count.
Hot showers are hard to come by so when the opportunity rises, take as many as possible.
God is at work.
The Spirit is alive!
