I Want To Come Home

I want to come home.

I want to come home but not for the reasons you think. Of course I am a little bit home sick but I don’t want to come home because I don’t want to finish the race. In fact, I am excited to come home when the race is finished! I want to come home because I am so excited to share with you guys face to face all of my experiences! One blog a week does not show you nearly enough of what I have been experiencing!

Let me tell you what happened to me last week…so lately we have been doing a lot of school development projects around the school we have had ministry at. We have been building a barbed wire fence and as I was waiting for my section to begin I was sitting on a rock. All of a sudden I see a bunch of the 5th grade girls running towards the field we were in. I wasn’t sure what was happening but they had orange papers in their hands. I assumed they were doing P.E. Then, they ran right in front of me and stopped, still not sure what was happening I thought the papers were something they wanted me to fill out.

Well turns out those orange papers were actually envelopes the girls made and inside of them were the sweetest letters I could ever read! All of the letters had many drawings and all said “God loves you so much”. All of the girls referred to me as their friend! The best part was every single letter was addressed to “Anner,” the girls thought my name was spelled Anner (I didn’t have the heart to correct them). After reading every single letter I was definitely crying in case you were wondering. I told the girls thank you and that I loved all the letters and they said they felt loved and special by me. I told them it’s God’s love for them. A couple of the girls started tearing up.

This whole experience was just so precious and a total surprise! Honestly, I felt very loved and still feel loved. The crazy thing was, I had only played a couple of games with these girls and they were so impacted by that they took the time to write letters and make envelopes for me. God is so cool and this was a wonderful surprise. Moments before this I was questioning my purpose on the trip and how it feels like everyday life in a peculiar way but this happened and God reminded me that even when I feel like I am not doing anything I am still doing His work and is huge in different ways!

Thanks you all for reading this blog I hope it brings you as much joy as it brought me! We are at our last week in Lesotho and then we go to India!! I’m very nervous but excited please pray for our entire journey!