The sacrifice and surrender
Honestly I am having the best time here in Nepal.
I trekked a mountain and preached in an unreached village, flew over Mount Everest, been working in a Buddhist preschool, visited a monkey temple twice and soon will go 5 hours outside of the city to do some different kinds of ministries.
This trip has been nothing but amazing and I truly am overjoyed that this is my life for the next 9 months and maybe even more. The community I have grown to love and grown to embrace has been nothing but sweet and amazing. The sights I have been able to witness has been nothing short of breathtaking. The ministries I have been able to be apart of has been crazy crazy crazy.
But
With everything there are also bad things.
By coming on this journey I have given up absolutely everything.
I have given up almost every big scholarship opportunity, my friends, my family, my comfort, my constant access to whatever I want whenever I want, my alone time, many freedoms, and so much more.
I could come home from this trip and my friends could all be moved on or a multitude of other things… I really don’t know what could happen.
I am giving up everything I know back home to serve the Lord for a year in places I have never been before. I have already gone hungry. I have already travel miles on miles by foot. I have already preached Christs name to the least of thee. I have already done what God has called me here to do and what he called us too in the Bible.
And
Man oh man do I want to keep on going.
Everything I have given up for the time being or maybe forever cannot and will never compare to what is right in front of me and where the Lord is continually calling me.
It’s scary.
It’s hard.
It’s not easy.
But it’s good.
And the Lord is good.
I have plans for after the race and I have many people supporting me but honestly… I’m just going to give up all expectations for after the race and just pursue the Lord right now. I surrendered this time on the Race to the Lord and I am going to surrender all time after the race as well. If God calls me to college I will go. If God calls me to long term missions work I will go. If God calls me to any thing else I will go. I will pray. I will trust. I will surrender.
We all are human and as humans we try to control everything… but I have learned in my short month and a half on the race so far that it’s way better to sacrifice and surrender because the Lords plans are good.
Thank you for reading my blog and thank you for supporting my journey getting here and while I have been here. I truly am so grateful!
***Prayer requests***
– We head to a new part of Nepal soon so safe travels and blessings on that
– We have MANY injuries and sickness in my team… pray for them to PEACE OUT
– blessings and guidance on all the other teams in my squad
– unity in my team
– For God to CONTINUE TO USE ME AND MY SQUAD IN MIGHTY WAYS
LOVE YALL
SO MUCH
THANK YOU FOR READING
P.s sorry I haven’t been posting very many blogs… wifi actually is so hard to get here in Nepal and so I haven’t had a strong enough signal to post any. The next week or so I won’t have any also. It’s been hard to adjust too… but just like I said earlier… I have to sacrifice and surrender!
