I think I say this about a lot of places I have been, but J-Bay will forever hold a piece of my heart. I have said this about Australia and how I want to move there one day and I will say it about here. I could pick up all of my belongings and live here and be perfectly happy. It is such a wonderful small surf town with some amazing people. I guess I just have a heart for small surf towns and I am so happy that my last month on the race is being spent here.
This is one of the few places that I have been this year that feels like a home. I have a bed, an actual shower with warm water, a closet, a living and dining room, home cooked meals, wi-if, a church that has amazing worship, a family that loves well, a wonderful ocean view and a beach across the street from where I sleep. I have also met so many fellow Albertans. It is so cool how the Lord brings so many people into your life across the world. I mean how much better can it get?
Let’s just say month 11 has started off with a boom and it is going to be a hard good-bye. This month we are being hosted by a wonderful little family who is loving us so well. They have already taken us to see so much already and we just got here. We have had a worship night, seen whales, penguins (this involved some trespassing), giraffes, lions, tigers, zebras and so much more. I have to still remind myself I am on the race at times, but it has been so cool to work along side this family.
This past week we have helped them at the restaurant they manage. We helped them get ready to host a bridal shower. We did lots of baking, sandwich making and vegetable cutting. This month is going to look different then other months as we will have our hands in so many different areas. I will be able to get a chance to work at a horse farm, I don’t know what that looks like yet, but I am excited to be around horses again. Some of the other girls will get a chance to go to a mom and baby clinic and help out there and the others will be partnering with YWAM and be working and helping out where needed around the township.
It is going to be a crazy month with so much to see and do and also building the kingdom here, but the Lord knows what we needed and has brought us this loving family to host us. Today we got to attend a church and I almost cried during worship. It was so amazing to be back in a church setting where I can sing along to worship songs because I actually know them and where I wasn’t expected to get up and give a word or testimony. After 10 months of pouring out it is amazing to be filled up by people other than my team mates. I love my team dearly but church is something I have really missed. It is one of those things that you don’t realize how blessed you are until you leave. He has also places us on the beach, where we spend our mornings soaking up his creation.
This month is bittersweet as we prepare to say good-bye to this life and head home, but my team is so blessed to have been placed here, in this home, in this city and it is so cool to see how the Lord is at work here. J-Bay is absolutely beautiful and it is a must stop if you are ever in South Africa and it will forever hold a special place in my heart!
